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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 197 183
Rank change year-on-year -21 -14 -12
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 142 112 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.63% 1.17% 1.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.55% 5.99% 11.53%
Number of salaries quoted 103 88 122
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -3.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £42,500 £50,603 £48,750
90th Percentile £61,750 £71,885 £53,750
England median annual salary £37,750 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +0.67% -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 1,346 1,869 1,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.92% 19.57% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 881 867 993
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £31,000 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -29.98% -6.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £44,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.10% -16.00% -2.63%

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 August 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 August 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 +29 78 £31,500 -21.25% 20
Yorkshire -45 52 £32,500 -11.56% 17
North East -66 12 £35,000 +20.69% 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 33 (23.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (13.38%) SharePoint
3 17 (11.97%) IIS
4 3 (2.11%) Apache
5 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 78 (54.93%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (47.18%) Azure
3 30 (21.13%) AWS
4 23 (16.20%) Entra ID
5 10 (7.04%) GCP
5 10 (7.04%) OneDrive
6 5 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.82%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.11%) dbt
8 3 (2.11%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.41%) GitHub
9 2 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.70%) IaaS
10 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (68.31%) DNS
2 88 (61.97%) DHCP
3 74 (52.11%) Firewall
4 49 (34.51%) VPN
5 41 (28.87%) VLAN
6 31 (21.83%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (16.20%) LAN
7 23 (16.20%) VoIP
7 23 (16.20%) WAN
8 16 (11.27%) Wireless
9 13 (9.15%) Network Security
10 12 (8.45%) Structured Cabling
11 9 (6.34%) HTTP
12 6 (4.23%) SAN
12 6 (4.23%) SSL
13 5 (3.52%) BGP
13 5 (3.52%) Internet
13 5 (3.52%) NAS
13 5 (3.52%) OSPF
13 5 (3.52%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.11%) MySQL
4 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Git
2 2 (1.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.41%) JIRA
3 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (48.59%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (9.86%) Documentation Skills
3 14 (9.86%) Law
4 9 (6.34%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.23%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.52%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.82%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.11%) Games
9 2 (1.41%) Electronics
9 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.41%) Retail
10 1 (0.70%) Back Office
10 1 (0.70%) German Language
10 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 55 (38.73%) IT Support
2 40 (28.17%) Support Engineer
3 28 (19.72%) IT Engineer
4 23 (16.20%) IT Support Engineer
5 21 (14.79%) IT Support Technician
5 21 (14.79%) IT Technician
5 21 (14.79%) Support Technician
6 20 (14.08%) Analyst
7 19 (13.38%) 2nd Line Support
8 16 (11.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (10.56%) Network Engineer
9 15 (10.56%) Senior
10 14 (9.86%) Support Analyst
11 11 (7.75%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 9 (6.34%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 9 (6.34%) IT Analyst
12 9 (6.34%) IT Support Analyst
13 8 (5.63%) Field Engineer
14 7 (4.93%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 6 (4.23%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.38%) Terraform
2 8 (5.63%) Middleware
3 4 (2.82%) React
4 3 (2.11%) gRPC
5 2 (1.41%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.70%) JSON
6 1 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.70%) QML
6 1 (0.70%) Qt
6 1 (0.70%) STL
6 1 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (30.99%) Driving Licence
2 18 (12.68%) Onboarding
3 15 (10.56%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (6.34%) CCTV
5 8 (5.63%) Life Science
5 8 (5.63%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.23%) Security Posture
7 5 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.82%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.82%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.11%) Social Media
10 2 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.70%) CUDA
11 1 (0.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.70%) Online Gambling
11 1 (0.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 99 (69.72%) Windows
2 64 (45.07%) Windows Server
3 29 (20.42%) Linux
4 26 (18.31%) Windows 10
5 11 (7.75%) Android
6 10 (7.04%) Apple iOS
7 8 (5.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (4.23%) Mac OS
9 5 (3.52%) Ubuntu
10 4 (2.82%) CentOS
10 4 (2.82%) Unix
10 4 (2.82%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (2.11%) CoreOS
11 3 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (1.41%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (1.41%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (1.41%) VMS
13 1 (0.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (47.89%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (35.21%) Customer Service
3 33 (23.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 29 (20.42%) Disaster Recovery
5 26 (18.31%) ITIL
6 25 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (17.61%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (12.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (12.68%) Service Delivery
8 13 (9.15%) High Availability
8 13 (9.15%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 13 (9.15%) Time Management
9 12 (8.45%) Change Management
9 12 (8.45%) Mentoring
10 11 (7.75%) DevOps
11 10 (7.04%) Business Continuity
11 10 (7.04%) Collaborative Culture
11 10 (7.04%) ERP
11 10 (7.04%) ITSM
12 9 (6.34%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 34 (23.94%) PowerShell
2 23 (16.20%) Python
3 15 (10.56%) SQL
4 8 (5.63%) Bash
5 6 (4.23%) Go
6 4 (2.82%) Bicep
6 4 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.11%) C++
8 2 (1.41%) C
9 1 (0.70%) C#
9 1 (0.70%) Java
9 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (14.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (8.45%) Degree
3 6 (4.23%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.23%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (2.11%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.41%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.41%) CCNA
6 2 (1.41%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.70%) CCNP
7 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.70%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.70%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.70%) RHCE
7 1 (0.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.11%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) GDPR
5 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 83 (58.45%) Active Directory
2 42 (29.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (23.94%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.52%) Firmware
5 3 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.70%) Ceph
6 1 (0.70%) Docker
6 1 (0.70%) KVM
Systems Management
1 26 (18.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (9.15%) Ansible
3 11 (7.75%) FortiGate
4 7 (4.93%) WSUS
5 5 (3.52%) Grafana
6 4 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.82%) VxRail
7 3 (2.11%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.11%) Nagios
7 3 (2.11%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.41%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.70%) Autotask
9 1 (0.70%) Avamar
9 1 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.70%) Puppet
9 1 (0.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 90 (63.38%) Microsoft
2 44 (30.99%) VMware
3 16 (11.27%) Cisco
4 15 (10.56%) SonicWALL
5 12 (8.45%) Veeam
6 9 (6.34%) Sophos
7 8 (5.63%) Dell
8 7 (4.93%) HP
9 5 (3.52%) Fortinet
9 5 (3.52%) Meraki
9 5 (3.52%) Zerto
10 4 (2.82%) Aruba
10 4 (2.82%) Commvault
10 4 (2.82%) Google
10 4 (2.82%) New Relic
10 4 (2.82%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.82%) SAP
10 4 (2.82%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.82%) Splunk
10 4 (2.82%) Tenable