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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 199 194
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 143 124 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.68% 1.31% 1.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.50% 6.70% 9.95%
Number of salaries quoted 109 92 139
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £24,800
25th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £38,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% - -16.02%
75th Percentile £45,000 £62,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £74,258 £53,750
England median annual salary £37,750 £39,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.21% -8.24% -6.08%

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 1,243 1,850 1,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.90% 19.58% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 855 844 1,368
10th Percentile £27,197 £25,000 £25,963
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -26.14% -7.37%
75th Percentile £61,250 £48,750 £61,145
90th Percentile £75,000 £69,625 £70,650
England median annual salary £47,500 £43,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.47% -9.47% -6.85%

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 23 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 23 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 +30 69 £31,875 -20.31% 19
Yorkshire -42 56 £32,500 -13.33% 19
North East -54 18 £40,000 +25.00% 5
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 25 (17.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (12.59%) IIS
3 13 (9.09%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.10%) Apache
Applications
1 17 (11.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 73 (51.05%) Azure
1 73 (51.05%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (26.57%) AWS
3 16 (11.19%) GCP
4 15 (10.49%) Entra ID
5 12 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (8.39%) GitHub
5 12 (8.39%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.80%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.10%) IaaS
7 3 (2.10%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.40%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (1.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.40%) dbt
8 2 (1.40%) PaaS
8 2 (1.40%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 102 (71.33%) DNS
2 84 (58.74%) DHCP
3 80 (55.94%) Firewall
4 37 (25.87%) VPN
5 34 (23.78%) VLAN
6 29 (20.28%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (15.38%) LAN
7 22 (15.38%) WAN
8 18 (12.59%) HTTP
9 15 (10.49%) VoIP
10 14 (9.79%) Network Security
11 10 (6.99%) Wireless
12 9 (6.29%) Structured Cabling
13 8 (5.59%) SAN
14 7 (4.90%) NAS
15 5 (3.50%) BGP
15 5 (3.50%) OSPF
16 4 (2.80%) SD-WAN
16 4 (2.80%) SSL
17 2 (1.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.39%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.10%) MySQL
4 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.40%) Redis
5 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 12 (8.39%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.40%) JIRA
3 1 (0.70%) Git
3 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.08%) Law
3 17 (11.89%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (10.49%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.50%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.80%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.40%) Electronics
11 1 (0.70%) Back Office
11 1 (0.70%) Games
11 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (37.76%) IT Support
2 33 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 23 (16.08%) IT Engineer
4 19 (13.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 19 (13.29%) IT Support Technician
4 19 (13.29%) IT Technician
4 19 (13.29%) Support Technician
5 18 (12.59%) IT Support Engineer
6 16 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (10.49%) Network Engineer
8 14 (9.79%) Analyst
8 14 (9.79%) Senior
9 12 (8.39%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 12 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) IT Analyst
10 8 (5.59%) IT Support Analyst
10 8 (5.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) Support Analyst
11 7 (4.90%) Field Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.39%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (5.59%) Middleware
3 3 (2.10%) gRPC
4 2 (1.40%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.40%) Django
5 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.70%) QML
5 1 (0.70%) Qt
5 1 (0.70%) React
5 1 (0.70%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.27%) Driving Licence
2 15 (10.49%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (8.39%) Onboarding
4 10 (6.99%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (6.29%) CCTV
6 8 (5.59%) Life Science
7 6 (4.20%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.50%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.80%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.70%) Online Gambling
11 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.70%) SCADA
11 1 (0.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 92 (64.34%) Windows
2 65 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 24 (16.78%) Windows 10
4 22 (15.38%) Linux
5 14 (9.79%) Android
6 13 (9.09%) Apple iOS
7 5 (3.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (2.80%) Ubuntu
9 3 (2.10%) Unix
10 2 (1.40%) CentOS
10 2 (1.40%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (1.40%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (1.40%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.40%) VMS
11 1 (0.70%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.70%) Solaris
11 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (41.96%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (32.17%) Customer Service
3 31 (21.68%) Disaster Recovery
4 29 (20.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (16.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (16.08%) Service Delivery
8 22 (15.38%) High Availability
9 21 (14.69%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (11.89%) DevOps
11 16 (11.19%) CI/CD
11 16 (11.19%) Containerisation
11 16 (11.19%) ITIL
12 14 (9.79%) Continuous Delivery
12 14 (9.79%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (9.79%) Incident Management
12 14 (9.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (9.09%) Change Management
14 12 (8.39%) Static Code Analysis
14 12 (8.39%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 28 (19.58%) PowerShell
2 27 (18.88%) Python
3 15 (10.49%) Bash
4 13 (9.09%) Go
5 12 (8.39%) SQL
6 3 (2.10%) Bicep
6 3 (2.10%) C++
7 2 (1.40%) C
7 2 (1.40%) Java
8 1 (0.70%) C#
8 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (9.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (6.29%) SC Cleared
2 9 (6.29%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.90%) Degree
4 3 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.40%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.40%) CCNA
6 1 (0.70%) ACSP
6 1 (0.70%) CCNP
6 1 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.70%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.70%) RHCE
6 1 (0.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.10%) SLA
4 1 (0.70%) GDPR
4 1 (0.70%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 79 (55.24%) Active Directory
2 42 (29.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (20.98%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.50%) Firmware
5 3 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.40%) Docker
7 1 (0.70%) KVM
7 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (19.58%) Terraform
2 23 (16.08%) Ansible
3 16 (11.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (10.49%) Grafana
5 14 (9.79%) Prometheus
6 11 (7.69%) FortiGate
7 9 (6.29%) WSUS
8 6 (4.20%) VxRail
9 3 (2.10%) Autotask
9 3 (2.10%) Nagios
10 2 (1.40%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.40%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.70%) Avamar
11 1 (0.70%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.70%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.70%) Puppet
11 1 (0.70%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 91 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 51 (35.66%) VMware
3 14 (9.79%) Cisco
3 14 (9.79%) Veeam
4 12 (8.39%) SonicWALL
5 10 (6.99%) Dell
6 9 (6.29%) Citrix
6 9 (6.29%) HP
6 9 (6.29%) Sophos
7 8 (5.59%) Meraki
8 7 (4.90%) Zerto
9 6 (4.20%) Commvault
9 6 (4.20%) Tenable
10 4 (2.80%) Aruba
10 4 (2.80%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.80%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.10%) Apple
11 3 (2.10%) Google
11 3 (2.10%) NetApp
11 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow