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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 222 189
Rank change year-on-year +1 -33 -6
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 109 75 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.57% 0.95% 1.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.02% 4.91% 10.57%
Number of salaries quoted 93 49 179
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,850 £23,175
25th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £28,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £44,700 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.94% +11.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £71,622 £48,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £74,407 £56,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -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 2,173 1,526 2,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.28% 19.27% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 816 642 1,653
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,087 £25,875
25th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,239 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -30 52 £32,500 -23.26% 15
North West +17 40 £43,750 -7.41% 24
North East -25 17 £40,000 -42.35% 5
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 18 (16.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (10.09%) SharePoint
3 7 (6.42%) IIS
Applications
1 28 (25.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.83%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 62 (56.88%) Azure
2 55 (50.46%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (28.44%) AWS
4 17 (15.60%) GCP
5 16 (14.68%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (13.76%) GitHub
6 15 (13.76%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.34%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.67%) Nutanix
9 3 (2.75%) IaaS
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (1.83%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.83%) dbt
10 2 (1.83%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.83%) PaaS
10 2 (1.83%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 81 (74.31%) DNS
2 60 (55.05%) DHCP
3 51 (46.79%) Firewall
4 26 (23.85%) VPN
5 22 (20.18%) LAN
5 22 (20.18%) VLAN
5 22 (20.18%) WAN
6 20 (18.35%) HTTP
7 19 (17.43%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (11.01%) Network Security
9 7 (6.42%) SAN
10 6 (5.50%) NAS
11 5 (4.59%) BGP
11 5 (4.59%) OSPF
12 4 (3.67%) SD-WAN
12 4 (3.67%) Structured Cabling
12 4 (3.67%) VoIP
12 4 (3.67%) Wireless
13 3 (2.75%) Ethernet
13 3 (2.75%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.34%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.59%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.75%) MySQL
4 2 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.83%) Redis
5 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.92%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 15 (13.76%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.75%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.92%) Git
3 1 (0.92%) JIRA
General
1 33 (30.28%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.35%) Law
3 18 (16.51%) Telecoms
4 13 (11.93%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.59%) Retail
6 3 (2.75%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.75%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Back Office
8 1 (0.92%) Finance
8 1 (0.92%) Games
Job Titles
1 45 (41.28%) IT Support
2 20 (18.35%) IT Support Technician
2 20 (18.35%) IT Technician
2 20 (18.35%) Senior
2 20 (18.35%) Support Technician
3 15 (13.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (11.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (10.09%) Support Engineer
6 10 (9.17%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (7.34%) Infrastructure Support
7 8 (7.34%) IT Engineer
7 8 (7.34%) Network Engineer
7 8 (7.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.34%) Senior IT Support
8 7 (6.42%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (5.50%) Senior IT Technician
9 6 (5.50%) Senior Support Technician
9 6 (5.50%) Senior Technician
10 5 (4.59%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.76%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.75%) gRPC
2 3 (2.75%) Qt
2 3 (2.75%) STL
3 2 (1.83%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.83%) Django
3 2 (1.83%) QML
4 1 (0.92%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.92%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.85%) Driving Licence
2 10 (9.17%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.26%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.67%) CCTV
4 4 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.67%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.67%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.67%) Replication
5 3 (2.75%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Life Science
6 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.92%) EPoS
7 1 (0.92%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.92%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 65 (59.63%) Windows
2 49 (44.95%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.93%) Android
4 12 (11.01%) Linux
5 11 (10.09%) Windows 10
6 9 (8.26%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.83%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.83%) Unix
7 2 (1.83%) VMS
7 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.92%) CentOS
8 1 (0.92%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.94%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (22.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (22.02%) Customer Service
4 22 (20.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (18.35%) Incident Management
6 19 (17.43%) DevOps
7 18 (16.51%) Containerisation
7 18 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (15.60%) CI/CD
8 17 (15.60%) Continuous Delivery
8 17 (15.60%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (15.60%) Service Delivery
8 17 (15.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 16 (14.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (14.68%) High Availability
10 15 (13.76%) DevSecOps
10 15 (13.76%) Static Code Analysis
10 15 (13.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 14 (12.84%) ITIL
11 14 (12.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.27%) PowerShell
2 20 (18.35%) Python
3 17 (15.60%) Bash
4 15 (13.76%) Go
5 5 (4.59%) SQL
6 3 (2.75%) C++
7 2 (1.83%) Bicep
7 2 (1.83%) C#
7 2 (1.83%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (15.60%) SC Cleared
1 17 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.67%) Degree
4 3 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.75%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.83%) CCNA
6 1 (0.92%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.92%) ACSP
6 1 (0.92%) CCNP
6 1 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (4.59%) SLA
2 3 (2.75%) GDPR
3 2 (1.83%) QA
4 1 (0.92%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 63 (57.80%) Active Directory
2 22 (20.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (16.51%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.59%) Firmware
5 3 (2.75%) Docker
6 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (22.02%) Terraform
2 19 (17.43%) Ansible
3 18 (16.51%) Grafana
4 17 (15.60%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.50%) FortiGate
5 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (5.50%) VxRail
5 6 (5.50%) WSUS
6 3 (2.75%) Autotask
6 3 (2.75%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.75%) Nagios
7 2 (1.83%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.92%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.92%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (59.63%) Microsoft
2 40 (36.70%) VMware
3 18 (16.51%) Citrix
4 10 (9.17%) Cisco
4 10 (9.17%) Veeam
5 8 (7.34%) Meraki
6 6 (5.50%) Commvault
6 6 (5.50%) Dell
6 6 (5.50%) HP
6 6 (5.50%) Tenable
6 6 (5.50%) Zerto
7 5 (4.59%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.67%) SonicWALL
8 4 (3.67%) Sophos
9 2 (1.83%) Apple
9 2 (1.83%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.83%) Google
9 2 (1.83%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.92%) Aruba
10 1 (0.92%) WatchGuard