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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 181 130
Rank change year-on-year +27 -51 +86
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 118 126 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.21% 1.14% 2.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.61% 11.53% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 96 79 134
10th Percentile £26,875 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £29,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £74,144 £69,940
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 2,104 1,093 1,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.62% 9.92% 15.20%
Number of salaries quoted 853 601 917
10th Percentile - £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £33,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% - -
75th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £74,145 £77,542
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -25.93% +4.85% -1.90%

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 6 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 6 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 +7 52 £32,000 -25.58% 22
North East +38 36 £29,000 -58.16% 6
North West +3 30 £40,500 -10.00% 31
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 43 (36.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (9.32%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.08%) IIS
4 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 77 (65.25%) Microsoft 365
2 64 (54.24%) Azure
3 17 (14.41%) IaaS
4 15 (12.71%) PaaS
5 13 (11.02%) SaaS
6 12 (10.17%) Entra ID
7 9 (7.63%) AWS
8 8 (6.78%) GCP
9 5 (4.24%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.24%) dbt
9 5 (4.24%) OneDrive
9 5 (4.24%) Pulumi
10 3 (2.54%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (2.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.54%) GitHub
10 3 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.54%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 65 (55.08%) DNS
2 57 (48.31%) Firewall
3 52 (44.07%) DHCP
4 50 (42.37%) VPN
5 36 (30.51%) VLAN
6 31 (26.27%) LAN
7 30 (25.42%) WAN
8 27 (22.88%) Wireless
9 16 (13.56%) Network Security
10 14 (11.86%) VoIP
11 13 (11.02%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (9.32%) Internet
13 10 (8.47%) SSL
14 9 (7.63%) Remote Desktop
15 7 (5.93%) HTTP
16 6 (5.08%) BGP
16 6 (5.08%) OSPF
16 6 (5.08%) SD-WAN
17 5 (4.24%) SAN
17 5 (4.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.25%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (11.86%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.24%) Redis
3 5 (4.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (4.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
1 3 (2.54%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.85%) JIRA
2 1 (0.85%) Snyk
General
1 61 (51.69%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.17%) Documentation Skills
2 12 (10.17%) Telecoms
3 8 (6.78%) Manufacturing
3 8 (6.78%) Marketing
4 5 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.39%) Retail
6 3 (2.54%) Law
7 1 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (32.20%) Support Engineer
2 31 (26.27%) Technical Support
3 27 (22.88%) Technical Engineer
3 27 (22.88%) Technical Support Engineer
4 23 (19.49%) IT Support
5 19 (16.10%) Support Technician
6 18 (15.25%) Senior
7 14 (11.86%) 2nd Line Support
8 13 (11.02%) 3rd Line Support
8 13 (11.02%) IT Support Technician
8 13 (11.02%) IT Technician
9 8 (6.78%) Coordinator
9 8 (6.78%) IT Engineer
9 8 (6.78%) IT Support Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Analyst
10 6 (5.08%) Network Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) 3rd Line Support Technician
11 5 (4.24%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.08%) .NET
2 5 (4.24%) Django
3 3 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.54%) QML
3 3 (2.54%) Qt
3 3 (2.54%) STL
4 1 (0.85%) JSON
4 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.10%) Driving Licence
2 13 (11.02%) Data Centre
3 10 (8.47%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.78%) LIMS
5 7 (5.93%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.24%) Clustering
6 5 (4.24%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (3.39%) NHS
7 4 (3.39%) Replication
8 3 (2.54%) Client/Server
8 3 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.85%) BYOD
10 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.85%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.85%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 72 (61.02%) Windows
2 51 (43.22%) Windows Server
3 27 (22.88%) Linux
4 9 (7.63%) Mac OS
5 8 (6.78%) Windows 10
6 7 (5.93%) Unix
7 5 (4.24%) Android
8 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.85%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (38.14%) Customer Service
2 27 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (20.34%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (11.02%) Collaborative Working
4 13 (11.02%) Customer-Centricity
4 13 (11.02%) Network Management
5 12 (10.17%) Incident Management
5 12 (10.17%) Virtual Environments
6 11 (9.32%) DevOps
6 11 (9.32%) ITIL
7 10 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (8.47%) Information Security
7 10 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (8.47%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 9 (7.63%) CI/CD
8 9 (7.63%) Computer Science
8 9 (7.63%) Service Delivery
9 8 (6.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (6.78%) Mentoring
9 8 (6.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.71%) PowerShell
2 9 (7.63%) Python
2 9 (7.63%) SQL
3 4 (3.39%) Bash
4 3 (2.54%) C#
4 3 (2.54%) C++
4 3 (2.54%) Go
5 2 (1.69%) Java
5 2 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (17.80%) Degree
2 17 (14.41%) SC Cleared
2 17 (14.41%) Security Cleared
3 12 (10.17%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (6.78%) HNC
5 8 (6.78%) HND
5 8 (6.78%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (5.93%) CCNA
7 5 (4.24%) CISSP
7 5 (4.24%) DBS Check
8 4 (3.39%) CCIE
8 4 (3.39%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (3.39%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.69%) CCNP
10 1 (0.85%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.85%) CCSA
10 1 (0.85%) CCSE
10 1 (0.85%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.54%) QA
2 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.69%) SLA
3 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.85%) GRC
3 1 (0.85%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 87 (73.73%) Active Directory
2 54 (45.76%) Hyper-V
3 40 (33.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (22.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (14.41%) FortiGate
3 8 (6.78%) Terraform
4 5 (4.24%) Autotask
4 5 (4.24%) SCCM
5 3 (2.54%) Ansible
5 3 (2.54%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (2.54%) Grafana
5 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.69%) Plesk
Vendors
1 85 (72.03%) Microsoft
2 42 (35.59%) VMware
3 23 (19.49%) Cisco
4 22 (18.64%) SonicWALL
4 22 (18.64%) Veeam
5 13 (11.02%) WatchGuard
6 9 (7.63%) Apple
6 9 (7.63%) Sage
7 5 (4.24%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.24%) Google
8 4 (3.39%) Adobe
8 4 (3.39%) Avaya
8 4 (3.39%) Mitel
9 2 (1.69%) Draytek
9 2 (1.69%) Meraki
9 2 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.85%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.85%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.85%) Qualys
10 1 (0.85%) Salesforce