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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 174 153
Rank change year-on-year +11 -21 +31
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 101 102 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.89% 1.13% 1.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.82% 10.57% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 85 62 154
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,425 £23,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £28,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +12.50% -5.33%
75th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,360 £74,144 £69,800
England median annual salary £37,500 £47,745 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.46% +6.10% -

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 2,643 965 1,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.23% 10.71% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 793 543 1,135
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £34,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £60,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -3.91%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -10 45 £32,500 -27.78% 23
North West -7 31 £40,000 -11.11% 16
North East +18 25 £29,000 -58.16% 12
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 28 (27.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (11.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.98%) IIS
4 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (19.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.98%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 67 (66.34%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (56.44%) Azure
3 14 (13.86%) AWS
4 13 (12.87%) GCP
5 11 (10.89%) Entra ID
6 9 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (7.92%) GitHub
7 8 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.93%) IaaS
9 5 (4.95%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.95%) dbt
9 5 (4.95%) PaaS
9 5 (4.95%) Pulumi
10 3 (2.97%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (2.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.97%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.97%) SaaS
10 3 (2.97%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 60 (59.41%) DNS
2 50 (49.50%) Firewall
3 43 (42.57%) DHCP
4 42 (41.58%) VPN
5 24 (23.76%) VLAN
6 22 (21.78%) Wi-Fi
7 20 (19.80%) LAN
7 20 (19.80%) WAN
8 18 (17.82%) Wireless
9 14 (13.86%) HTTP
10 13 (12.87%) Network Security
11 7 (6.93%) SSL
12 6 (5.94%) Internet
13 5 (4.95%) VoIP
14 4 (3.96%) NGN
14 4 (3.96%) Remote Desktop
14 4 (3.96%) Unified Communications
14 4 (3.96%) WLAN
15 3 (2.97%) SD-WAN
16 2 (1.98%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.86%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.87%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.95%) MySQL
4 5 (4.95%) Redis
5 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (7.92%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.96%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.99%) Git
3 1 (0.99%) Snyk
General
1 39 (38.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.88%) Documentation Skills
2 12 (11.88%) Telecoms
3 8 (7.92%) Law
3 8 (7.92%) Marketing
4 5 (4.95%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.96%) Retail
6 3 (2.97%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Finance
8 1 (0.99%) Military
8 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (34.65%) IT Support
2 26 (25.74%) Support Engineer
3 20 (19.80%) Senior
3 20 (19.80%) Support Technician
4 15 (14.85%) 2nd Line Support
4 15 (14.85%) Technical Support
5 14 (13.86%) IT Support Technician
5 14 (13.86%) IT Technician
6 13 (12.87%) Technical Engineer
6 13 (12.87%) Technical Support Engineer
7 10 (9.90%) IT Engineer
7 10 (9.90%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (9.90%) Senior IT Support
7 10 (9.90%) Senior IT Technician
7 10 (9.90%) Senior Support Technician
7 10 (9.90%) Senior Technician
8 8 (7.92%) Coordinator
8 8 (7.92%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.92%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (4.95%) Django
3 4 (3.96%) Qt
3 4 (3.96%) STL
4 3 (2.97%) QML
5 2 (1.98%) .NET
6 1 (0.99%) JSON
6 1 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.73%) Driving Licence
2 13 (12.87%) Data Centre
3 10 (9.90%) Management Information System
4 8 (7.92%) LIMS
4 8 (7.92%) Onboarding
5 7 (6.93%) Replication
6 4 (3.96%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.96%) NHS
6 4 (3.96%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.99%) BYOD
9 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.99%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.99%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.99%) iPad
9 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (65.35%) Windows
2 45 (44.55%) Windows Server
3 24 (23.76%) Linux
4 11 (10.89%) Android
5 9 (8.91%) Mac OS
5 9 (8.91%) Windows 10
6 5 (4.95%) Unix
7 3 (2.97%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.99%) CentOS
8 1 (0.99%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (34.65%) Customer Service
2 33 (32.67%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (17.82%) ITIL
4 17 (16.83%) DevOps
5 16 (15.84%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (14.85%) Service Delivery
7 14 (13.86%) CI/CD
8 13 (12.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (12.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 11 (10.89%) Incident Management
9 11 (10.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (10.89%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 10 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (8.91%) Computer Science
11 9 (8.91%) Containerisation
11 9 (8.91%) DevSecOps
12 8 (7.92%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (7.92%) Customer-Centricity
12 8 (7.92%) High Availability
12 8 (7.92%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.86%) Python
2 9 (8.91%) Bash
2 9 (8.91%) PowerShell
2 9 (8.91%) SQL
3 8 (7.92%) Go
4 4 (3.96%) C++
5 3 (2.97%) C#
6 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.99%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (17.82%) Degree
2 16 (15.84%) SC Cleared
2 16 (15.84%) Security Cleared
3 11 (10.89%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (7.92%) HNC
4 8 (7.92%) HND
4 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.94%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.95%) CCNA
6 5 (4.95%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.99%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.99%) CCNP
7 1 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.99%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.96%) QA
2 3 (2.97%) GDPR
3 2 (1.98%) SLA
4 1 (0.99%) GRC
4 1 (0.99%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 75 (74.26%) Active Directory
2 39 (38.61%) Hyper-V
3 26 (25.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.94%) Docker
5 1 (0.99%) Firmware
5 1 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (15.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (12.87%) Terraform
3 10 (9.90%) FortiGate
4 8 (7.92%) Ansible
4 8 (7.92%) Grafana
4 8 (7.92%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.95%) Autotask
6 3 (2.97%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (1.98%) Plesk
8 1 (0.99%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.99%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.99%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (71.29%) Microsoft
2 37 (36.63%) VMware
3 15 (14.85%) Veeam
4 12 (11.88%) SonicWALL
5 10 (9.90%) Cisco
6 9 (8.91%) Citrix
7 8 (7.92%) WatchGuard
8 5 (4.95%) Google
9 4 (3.96%) Adobe
9 4 (3.96%) Apple
9 4 (3.96%) Avaya
9 4 (3.96%) Mitel
9 4 (3.96%) Sage
10 3 (2.97%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.98%) Draytek
11 2 (1.98%) Meraki
11 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.99%) Huawei
12 1 (0.99%) Qualys
12 1 (0.99%) Salesforce