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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 159 171
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +18
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 124 101 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.89% 1.46% 1.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.65% 11.30% 11.19%
Number of salaries quoted 106 65 178
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,400 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +12.50% -10.13%
75th Percentile £48,750 £67,500 £49,688
90th Percentile £64,200 £74,258 £57,250
England median annual salary £38,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.76% -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 2,667 894 1,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 19.05% 12.92% 12.69%
Number of salaries quoted 747 620 1,532
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,225 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £43,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +1.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £50,125 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £76,375 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £53,250 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.19% +9.79% -4.90%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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
Yorkshire -32 58 £32,500 -27.29% 15
North West -20 39 £40,000 -20.00% 20
North East -4 27 £45,000 -35.11% 10
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 23 (18.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (10.48%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.42%) IIS
4 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
Applications
1 31 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.61%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 73 (58.87%) Azure
2 71 (57.26%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (21.77%) AWS
4 25 (20.16%) GCP
5 19 (15.32%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (14.52%) GitHub
6 18 (14.52%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (11.29%) Entra ID
8 8 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (5.65%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (5.65%) dbt
9 7 (5.65%) Pulumi
10 6 (4.84%) IaaS
11 5 (4.03%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (4.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (4.03%) PaaS
11 5 (4.03%) Sentry
12 3 (2.42%) OneDrive
13 2 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 81 (65.32%) DNS
2 63 (50.81%) Firewall
3 57 (45.97%) DHCP
4 37 (29.84%) VPN
5 24 (19.35%) HTTP
5 24 (19.35%) VLAN
6 23 (18.55%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (17.74%) LAN
7 22 (17.74%) WAN
8 16 (12.90%) Wireless
9 14 (11.29%) Network Security
10 6 (4.84%) VoIP
11 4 (3.23%) Internet
11 4 (3.23%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (3.23%) SSL
11 4 (3.23%) Unified Communications
11 4 (3.23%) WLAN
12 3 (2.42%) NGN
12 3 (2.42%) SD-WAN
13 2 (1.61%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.29%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.65%) Redis
5 5 (4.03%) MySQL
6 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (14.52%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.23%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.81%) Git
3 1 (0.81%) Snyk
General
1 39 (31.45%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.55%) Telecoms
3 19 (15.32%) Law
4 13 (10.48%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.03%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.23%) Marketing
6 4 (3.23%) Retail
7 3 (2.42%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.81%) Finance
9 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (40.32%) IT Support
2 25 (20.16%) Senior
3 23 (18.55%) Support Engineer
4 22 (17.74%) Support Technician
5 19 (15.32%) 2nd Line Support
5 19 (15.32%) IT Support Technician
5 19 (15.32%) IT Technician
6 18 (14.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.87%) IT Engineer
7 11 (8.87%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (8.87%) Senior IT Support
8 10 (8.06%) Senior IT Technician
8 10 (8.06%) Senior Support Technician
8 10 (8.06%) Senior Technician
9 9 (7.26%) Technical Engineer
9 9 (7.26%) Technical Support
9 9 (7.26%) Technical Support Engineer
10 8 (6.45%) Infrastructure Support
11 7 (5.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) 2nd Line Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.52%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (5.65%) Django
3 4 (3.23%) Qt
3 4 (3.23%) STL
4 3 (2.42%) QML
5 1 (0.81%) .NET
5 1 (0.81%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.81%) JSON
5 1 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (26.61%) Driving Licence
2 14 (11.29%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 8 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.65%) Replication
5 6 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.23%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.23%) LIMS
6 4 (3.23%) NHS
6 4 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.61%) CCTV
8 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.81%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.81%) iPad
9 1 (0.81%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 74 (59.68%) Windows
2 57 (45.97%) Windows Server
3 26 (20.97%) Linux
4 16 (12.90%) Android
5 13 (10.48%) Windows 10
6 7 (5.65%) Apple iOS
6 7 (5.65%) Unix
7 6 (4.84%) Mac OS
8 3 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.81%) CentOS
9 1 (0.81%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (29.03%) Customer Service
3 29 (23.39%) DevOps
4 26 (20.97%) CI/CD
4 26 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 21 (16.94%) Containerisation
7 20 (16.13%) Continuous Delivery
7 20 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (15.32%) DevSecOps
8 19 (15.32%) High Availability
8 19 (15.32%) Incident Management
8 19 (15.32%) ITIL
8 19 (15.32%) Service Delivery
9 18 (14.52%) Static Code Analysis
9 18 (14.52%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 17 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (13.71%) Mentoring
11 16 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.97%) Python
2 19 (15.32%) Bash
3 18 (14.52%) Go
4 11 (8.87%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.03%) SQL
6 4 (3.23%) C++
7 3 (2.42%) C#
7 3 (2.42%) Java
8 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (17.74%) SC Cleared
1 22 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.90%) Degree
3 11 (8.87%) ITIL Certification
4 10 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.23%) CCNA
6 4 (3.23%) HNC
6 4 (3.23%) HND
7 3 (2.42%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.61%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.61%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.81%) ACSP
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.81%) CCNP
9 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.23%) QA
3 3 (2.42%) GDPR
4 2 (1.61%) SLA
5 1 (0.81%) GRC
5 1 (0.81%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.81%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 77 (62.10%) Active Directory
2 36 (29.03%) Hyper-V
3 25 (20.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.45%) Docker
5 2 (1.61%) Firmware
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (20.97%) Terraform
2 18 (14.52%) Ansible
2 18 (14.52%) Grafana
2 18 (14.52%) Prometheus
3 13 (10.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (7.26%) FortiGate
5 6 (4.84%) Autotask
6 5 (4.03%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (1.61%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.61%) Plesk
7 2 (1.61%) VxRail
7 2 (1.61%) WSUS
8 1 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.81%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.81%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (63.71%) Microsoft
2 45 (36.29%) VMware
3 18 (14.52%) Citrix
4 14 (11.29%) Veeam
5 11 (8.87%) SonicWALL
6 9 (7.26%) Cisco
7 7 (5.65%) Google
8 6 (4.84%) Apple
9 5 (4.03%) Meraki
9 5 (4.03%) WatchGuard
10 4 (3.23%) Adobe
10 4 (3.23%) Sage
11 3 (2.42%) Avaya
11 3 (2.42%) Fortinet
11 3 (2.42%) Mitel
12 2 (1.61%) Draytek
12 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.61%) Sophos
12 2 (1.61%) Tenable
12 2 (1.61%) Zerto