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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 172 136
Rank change year-on-year +19 -36 +61
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 111 121 146
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.06% 1.24% 2.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.15% 11.98% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 92 79 132
10th Percentile £27,550 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +9.09% -0.64%
75th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £64,840 £74,144 £69,800
England median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -

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 2,676 1,010 1,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.66% 10.37% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 828 568 891
10th Percentile - £29,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £34,375 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% - -
75th Percentile £42,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £74,401 £77,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.93% +8.00% -4.76%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 -5 48 £32,000 -25.15% 40
North East +28 32 £29,000 -58.16% 9
North West -4 31 £40,500 -14.74% 41
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 40 (36.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (11.71%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.41%) IIS
4 1 (0.90%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 72 (64.86%) Microsoft 365
2 59 (53.15%) Azure
3 13 (11.71%) IaaS
4 11 (9.91%) Entra ID
4 11 (9.91%) PaaS
5 9 (8.11%) AWS
5 9 (8.11%) SaaS
6 8 (7.21%) GCP
7 5 (4.50%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (4.50%) dbt
7 5 (4.50%) Pulumi
8 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.60%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (2.70%) GitHub
9 3 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.70%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 60 (54.05%) DNS
2 54 (48.65%) Firewall
3 47 (42.34%) DHCP
3 47 (42.34%) VPN
4 32 (28.83%) LAN
4 32 (28.83%) VLAN
4 32 (28.83%) WAN
5 26 (23.42%) Wireless
6 16 (14.41%) Network Security
6 16 (14.41%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (12.61%) VoIP
8 11 (9.91%) SSL
9 10 (9.01%) Internet
10 9 (8.11%) HTTP
10 9 (8.11%) Remote Desktop
11 7 (6.31%) SD-WAN
12 6 (5.41%) BGP
12 6 (5.41%) OSPF
13 5 (4.50%) SAN
14 4 (3.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.41%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (13.51%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.50%) Redis
3 5 (4.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (4.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.80%) MySQL
5 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) JIRA
3 1 (0.90%) Snyk
General
1 54 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.81%) Telecoms
3 10 (9.01%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (7.21%) Marketing
5 5 (4.50%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.50%) Retail
6 3 (2.70%) Law
6 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Finance
8 1 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 29 (26.13%) Technical Support
3 27 (24.32%) IT Support
4 25 (22.52%) Technical Engineer
4 25 (22.52%) Technical Support Engineer
5 20 (18.02%) Senior
5 20 (18.02%) Support Technician
6 14 (12.61%) IT Support Technician
6 14 (12.61%) IT Technician
7 13 (11.71%) 2nd Line Support
8 11 (9.91%) 3rd Line Support
9 9 (8.11%) IT Engineer
9 9 (8.11%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (7.21%) Coordinator
11 7 (6.31%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 7 (6.31%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 7 (6.31%) Senior IT Support
11 7 (6.31%) Senior IT Technician
11 7 (6.31%) Senior Support Technician
11 7 (6.31%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.41%) .NET
2 5 (4.50%) Django
3 4 (3.60%) Qt
3 4 (3.60%) STL
4 3 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.70%) QML
5 1 (0.90%) JSON
5 1 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.92%) Driving Licence
2 17 (15.32%) Data Centre
3 10 (9.01%) Management Information System
4 8 (7.21%) LIMS
4 8 (7.21%) Onboarding
5 7 (6.31%) Replication
6 5 (4.50%) Clustering
7 4 (3.60%) Client/Server
7 4 (3.60%) NHS
7 4 (3.60%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.90%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.90%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.90%) iPad
10 1 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 70 (63.06%) Windows
2 50 (45.05%) Windows Server
3 25 (22.52%) Linux
4 9 (8.11%) Mac OS
5 8 (7.21%) Android
6 6 (5.41%) Windows 10
7 5 (4.50%) Unix
8 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.90%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (38.74%) Customer Service
2 28 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (20.72%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (14.41%) ITIL
5 13 (11.71%) Network Management
6 12 (10.81%) DevOps
6 12 (10.81%) Service Delivery
7 11 (9.91%) Collaborative Working
7 11 (9.91%) Customer-Centricity
7 11 (9.91%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 10 (9.01%) Incident Management
9 9 (8.11%) CI/CD
9 9 (8.11%) Computer Science
9 9 (8.11%) Information Security
9 9 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (8.11%) Mentoring
10 8 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (7.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (7.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (7.21%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.91%) PowerShell
2 9 (8.11%) Python
2 9 (8.11%) SQL
3 4 (3.60%) Bash
3 4 (3.60%) C++
4 3 (2.70%) C#
4 3 (2.70%) Go
5 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.90%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (17.12%) Degree
2 15 (13.51%) SC Cleared
2 15 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 12 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (9.91%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (7.21%) HNC
5 8 (7.21%) HND
5 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (6.31%) CCNA
7 5 (4.50%) CISSP
7 5 (4.50%) DBS Check
8 4 (3.60%) CCIE
8 4 (3.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.80%) CCNP
9 2 (1.80%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.90%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.90%) CCSA
10 1 (0.90%) CCSE
10 1 (0.90%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.60%) QA
2 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.80%) SLA
3 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.90%) GRC
3 1 (0.90%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 83 (74.77%) Active Directory
2 50 (45.05%) Hyper-V
3 35 (31.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.41%) Docker
5 1 (0.90%) Firmware
5 1 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (18.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (12.61%) FortiGate
3 8 (7.21%) Terraform
4 5 (4.50%) Autotask
5 3 (2.70%) Ansible
5 3 (2.70%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (2.70%) Grafana
5 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.70%) SCCM
6 2 (1.80%) Plesk
7 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 80 (72.07%) Microsoft
2 39 (35.14%) VMware
3 21 (18.92%) Veeam
4 20 (18.02%) SonicWALL
5 17 (15.32%) Cisco
6 11 (9.91%) WatchGuard
7 9 (8.11%) Apple
7 9 (8.11%) Sage
8 5 (4.50%) Google
9 4 (3.60%) Adobe
9 4 (3.60%) Avaya
9 4 (3.60%) Fortinet
9 4 (3.60%) Mitel
10 2 (1.80%) Citrix
10 2 (1.80%) Draytek
10 2 (1.80%) Meraki
10 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.90%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.90%) Huawei
11 1 (0.90%) Salesforce