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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 207 206
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 127 101 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.63% 1.19% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.31% 5.87% 9.77%
Number of salaries quoted 103 71 162
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,500 £29,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £39,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +1.30% -14.44%
75th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £48,063
90th Percentile £58,750 £74,258 £53,750
England median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -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 1,232 1,722 2,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.08% 20.33% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 864 746 1,660
10th Percentile £26,375 £24,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,500 £26,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £33,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.42% -24.14% -5.69%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -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 24 June 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 June 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 +18 55 £31,500 -20.25% 25
Yorkshire -45 54 £32,500 -16.13% 14
North East -34 18 £40,000 +37.93% 8
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 21 (16.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (9.45%) IIS
3 10 (7.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (21.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 67 (52.76%) Microsoft 365
2 66 (51.97%) Azure
3 35 (27.56%) AWS
4 16 (12.60%) GCP
5 14 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (11.02%) GitHub
5 14 (11.02%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (8.66%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.15%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.36%) IaaS
9 2 (1.57%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (1.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (1.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.57%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.57%) PaaS
9 2 (1.57%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 99 (77.95%) DNS
2 79 (62.20%) DHCP
3 68 (53.54%) Firewall
4 34 (26.77%) VPN
5 33 (25.98%) VLAN
6 28 (22.05%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (17.32%) LAN
8 21 (16.54%) WAN
9 19 (14.96%) HTTP
10 16 (12.60%) Network Security
11 10 (7.87%) VoIP
12 9 (7.09%) Structured Cabling
13 7 (5.51%) SAN
14 6 (4.72%) NAS
15 5 (3.94%) BGP
15 5 (3.94%) OSPF
16 3 (2.36%) SD-WAN
16 3 (2.36%) SSL
17 2 (1.57%) IPFIX
17 2 (1.57%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.09%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.36%) MySQL
5 2 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.57%) Redis
6 1 (0.79%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 14 (11.02%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.57%) JIRA
3 1 (0.79%) Git
3 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (40.94%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.54%) Law
3 18 (14.17%) Documentation Skills
4 17 (13.39%) Telecoms
5 10 (7.87%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.51%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.72%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.15%) Retail
9 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.79%) Back Office
10 1 (0.79%) Games
Job Titles
1 50 (39.37%) IT Support
2 22 (17.32%) IT Support Technician
2 22 (17.32%) IT Technician
2 22 (17.32%) Support Technician
3 20 (15.75%) Support Engineer
4 16 (12.60%) 2nd Line Support
5 15 (11.81%) Senior
6 14 (11.02%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (9.45%) IT Engineer
9 11 (8.66%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 11 (8.66%) Analyst
10 10 (7.87%) Network Engineer
11 8 (6.30%) Infrastructure Support
11 8 (6.30%) IT Support Engineer
12 7 (5.51%) Field Engineer
12 7 (5.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (4.72%) Field Service Engineer
13 6 (4.72%) Service Analyst
13 6 (4.72%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.02%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (3.94%) Middleware
3 3 (2.36%) gRPC
4 2 (1.57%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.57%) Django
5 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.79%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.79%) QML
5 1 (0.79%) Qt
5 1 (0.79%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (30.71%) Driving Licence
2 15 (11.81%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (7.09%) CCTV
4 8 (6.30%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.72%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.15%) Life Science
6 4 (3.15%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.15%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.79%) EPoS
8 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.79%) Replication
8 1 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 83 (65.35%) Windows
2 58 (45.67%) Windows Server
3 23 (18.11%) Windows 10
4 15 (11.81%) Android
5 14 (11.02%) Apple iOS
5 14 (11.02%) Linux
6 2 (1.57%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.57%) Unix
6 2 (1.57%) VMS
6 2 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.79%) CentOS
7 1 (0.79%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (43.31%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (30.71%) Customer Service
3 27 (21.26%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (18.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (18.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (18.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (16.54%) Service Delivery
7 20 (15.75%) High Availability
8 17 (13.39%) Incident Management
9 16 (12.60%) CI/CD
9 16 (12.60%) Containerisation
9 16 (12.60%) Continuous Delivery
9 16 (12.60%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (12.60%) DevOps
9 16 (12.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (11.02%) DevSecOps
10 14 (11.02%) ITIL
10 14 (11.02%) Static Code Analysis
10 14 (11.02%) Time Management
10 14 (11.02%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.47%) PowerShell
2 21 (16.54%) Python
3 16 (12.60%) Bash
4 14 (11.02%) Go
5 9 (7.09%) SQL
6 2 (1.57%) Bicep
6 2 (1.57%) Java
7 1 (0.79%) C#
7 1 (0.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (11.02%) SC Cleared
1 14 (11.02%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.15%) Degree
4 3 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.57%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.57%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.57%) CCNA
6 1 (0.79%) ACSP
6 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.79%) CCNP
6 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.15%) SLA
3 3 (2.36%) GDPR
4 2 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.79%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 75 (59.06%) Active Directory
2 33 (25.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (15.75%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.15%) Firmware
5 2 (1.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (19.69%) Terraform
2 20 (15.75%) Ansible
3 17 (13.39%) Grafana
4 16 (12.60%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.87%) FortiGate
6 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (4.72%) VxRail
7 6 (4.72%) WSUS
8 3 (2.36%) Autotask
8 3 (2.36%) Nagios
9 2 (1.57%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.57%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.79%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.79%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 81 (63.78%) Microsoft
2 48 (37.80%) VMware
3 15 (11.81%) Citrix
4 12 (9.45%) Cisco
5 9 (7.09%) SonicWALL
5 9 (7.09%) Sophos
5 9 (7.09%) Veeam
6 8 (6.30%) Meraki
7 6 (4.72%) Commvault
7 6 (4.72%) Dell
7 6 (4.72%) HP
7 6 (4.72%) Tenable
7 6 (4.72%) Zerto
8 4 (3.15%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.36%) Apple
9 3 (2.36%) Google
9 3 (2.36%) SAP
10 2 (1.57%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.79%) Aruba
11 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto