TCP/IP Job Trends in the North of England

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 196 195
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 144 126 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.68% 1.33% 1.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.54% 6.82% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 108 93 136
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,500 £37,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -0.66% -18.38%
75th Percentile £43,750 £62,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £74,258 £53,750
England median annual salary £38,000 £38,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -0.65% -10.00% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

TCP/IP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,248 1,848 1,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.91% 19.52% 10.71%
Number of salaries quoted 846 842 1,308
10th Percentile £27,375 £25,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -26.59% -6.79%
75th Percentile £62,500 £48,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -12.37% -4.87%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing TCP/IP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in the North of England

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 25 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +20 69 £32,250 -19.38% 20
Yorkshire -47 58 £32,500 -13.33% 18
North East -52 17 £37,500 +29.31% 7
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 26 (18.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (12.50%) IIS
3 13 (9.03%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.08%) Apache
Applications
1 18 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.39%) Azure
1 74 (51.39%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (25.69%) AWS
3 15 (10.42%) Entra ID
4 14 (9.72%) GCP
5 10 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (6.94%) GitHub
5 10 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.78%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.08%) IaaS
7 3 (2.08%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.39%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (1.39%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (1.39%) dbt
8 2 (1.39%) Pulumi
8 2 (1.39%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 102 (70.83%) DNS
2 86 (59.72%) DHCP
3 78 (54.17%) Firewall
4 37 (25.69%) VPN
5 33 (22.92%) VLAN
6 28 (19.44%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (16.67%) LAN
7 24 (16.67%) WAN
8 17 (11.81%) HTTP
9 16 (11.11%) VoIP
10 14 (9.72%) Network Security
11 12 (8.33%) Wireless
12 9 (6.25%) Structured Cabling
13 8 (5.56%) SAN
14 7 (4.86%) NAS
15 5 (3.47%) BGP
15 5 (3.47%) OSPF
15 5 (3.47%) SSL
16 4 (2.78%) SD-WAN
17 2 (1.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.08%) MySQL
4 2 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.39%) Redis
5 1 (0.69%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 10 (6.94%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.39%) Git
2 2 (1.39%) JIRA
3 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (40.97%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.58%) Law
3 17 (11.81%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (9.03%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.47%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.78%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.39%) Electronics
11 1 (0.69%) Back Office
11 1 (0.69%) Games
11 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (38.19%) IT Support
2 35 (24.31%) Support Engineer
3 24 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 19 (13.19%) IT Support Engineer
4 19 (13.19%) IT Support Technician
4 19 (13.19%) IT Technician
4 19 (13.19%) Support Technician
5 18 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
6 17 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (10.42%) Analyst
7 15 (10.42%) Network Engineer
8 14 (9.72%) Senior
9 11 (7.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 10 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (5.56%) IT Analyst
11 8 (5.56%) IT Support Analyst
11 8 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.56%) Support Analyst
12 7 (4.86%) Service Analyst
12 7 (4.86%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.94%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (5.56%) Middleware
3 3 (2.08%) gRPC
4 2 (1.39%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.39%) Django
5 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.69%) QML
5 1 (0.69%) Qt
5 1 (0.69%) React
5 1 (0.69%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.08%) Driving Licence
2 15 (10.42%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 10 (6.94%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (6.25%) CCTV
6 8 (5.56%) Life Science
7 6 (4.17%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.47%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.78%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.39%) Social Media
10 2 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.69%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.69%) EPoS
11 1 (0.69%) Online Gambling
11 1 (0.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 95 (65.97%) Windows
2 69 (47.92%) Windows Server
3 23 (15.97%) Linux
3 23 (15.97%) Windows 10
4 13 (9.03%) Android
5 12 (8.33%) Apple iOS
6 6 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.78%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.08%) CentOS
8 3 (2.08%) Unix
9 2 (1.39%) CoreOS
9 2 (1.39%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (1.39%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (1.39%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.39%) VMS
9 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (31.25%) Customer Service
3 31 (21.53%) Disaster Recovery
3 31 (21.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (15.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (15.28%) Service Delivery
7 21 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
8 20 (13.89%) High Availability
9 19 (13.19%) ITIL
10 15 (10.42%) DevOps
11 14 (9.72%) CI/CD
11 14 (9.72%) Containerisation
11 14 (9.72%) Incident Management
12 13 (9.03%) Change Management
13 12 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
13 12 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (8.33%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 12 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (8.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (20.83%) PowerShell
2 26 (18.06%) Python
3 14 (9.72%) Bash
4 12 (8.33%) SQL
5 11 (7.64%) Go
6 4 (2.78%) Bicep
7 3 (2.08%) C++
8 2 (1.39%) C
8 2 (1.39%) Java
9 1 (0.69%) C#
9 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (9.72%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 9 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.86%) Degree
4 3 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.39%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.39%) CCNA
6 1 (0.69%) ACSP
6 1 (0.69%) CCNP
6 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.69%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.69%) RHCE
6 1 (0.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.08%) SLA
4 1 (0.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 82 (56.94%) Active Directory
2 43 (29.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (22.92%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.47%) Firmware
5 3 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.39%) Docker
6 2 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.69%) KVM
Systems Management
1 27 (18.75%) Terraform
2 21 (14.58%) Ansible
3 17 (11.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (9.03%) Grafana
5 12 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 11 (7.64%) FortiGate
7 9 (6.25%) WSUS
8 6 (4.17%) VxRail
9 3 (2.08%) Autotask
9 3 (2.08%) Nagios
10 2 (1.39%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.39%) Kubernetes
10 2 (1.39%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.39%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.69%) Avamar
11 1 (0.69%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.69%) Puppet
11 1 (0.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 92 (63.89%) Microsoft
2 52 (36.11%) VMware
3 14 (9.72%) Cisco
3 14 (9.72%) Veeam
4 12 (8.33%) SonicWALL
5 10 (6.94%) Dell
6 9 (6.25%) Citrix
6 9 (6.25%) HP
6 9 (6.25%) Sophos
7 8 (5.56%) Meraki
8 7 (4.86%) Zerto
9 6 (4.17%) Commvault
9 6 (4.17%) Tenable
10 4 (2.78%) Aruba
10 4 (2.78%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.78%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.78%) SAP
11 3 (2.08%) Google
11 3 (2.08%) NetApp
11 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow