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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 180 192
Rank change year-on-year -30 +12 -9
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 137 124 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.62% 1.28% 1.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.68% 6.65% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 100 94 124
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £25,725
25th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -20.21%
75th Percentile £42,500 £54,308 £48,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £73,375 £55,500
England median annual salary £38,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.67% -11.76% -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 1,283 1,866 1,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.79% 19.32% 9.76%
Number of salaries quoted 852 858 1,046
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,000 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.72% -6.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £46,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,375 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -2.91%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +33 74 £31,500 -21.25% 28
Yorkshire -49 50 £32,500 -16.13% 16
North East -71 13 £35,000 +20.69% 13
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 30 (21.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (12.41%) IIS
3 16 (11.68%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.73%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (8.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 72 (52.55%) Microsoft 365
2 66 (48.18%) Azure
3 32 (23.36%) AWS
4 18 (13.14%) Entra ID
5 12 (8.76%) GCP
6 7 (5.11%) OneDrive
7 5 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.92%) GitHub
8 4 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.92%) Nutanix
9 3 (2.19%) dbt
9 3 (2.19%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.46%) IaaS
11 1 (0.73%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.73%) Datadog
11 1 (0.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (67.88%) DNS
2 83 (60.58%) DHCP
3 74 (54.01%) Firewall
4 43 (31.39%) VPN
5 36 (26.28%) VLAN
6 28 (20.44%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (16.06%) LAN
7 22 (16.06%) WAN
8 19 (13.87%) VoIP
9 14 (10.22%) Wireless
10 13 (9.49%) Network Security
11 11 (8.03%) HTTP
12 10 (7.30%) Structured Cabling
13 6 (4.38%) SAN
14 5 (3.65%) BGP
14 5 (3.65%) NAS
14 5 (3.65%) OSPF
14 5 (3.65%) SSL
15 4 (2.92%) SD-WAN
15 4 (2.92%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.19%) MySQL
4 1 (0.73%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (2.92%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.19%) Git
3 2 (1.46%) JIRA
4 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (47.45%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.95%) Law
3 14 (10.22%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.57%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.11%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.38%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.92%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.46%) Electronics
9 2 (1.46%) Games
10 1 (0.73%) Back Office
10 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (37.96%) IT Support
2 37 (27.01%) Support Engineer
3 26 (18.98%) IT Engineer
4 21 (15.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 20 (14.60%) IT Support Technician
5 20 (14.60%) IT Technician
5 20 (14.60%) Support Technician
6 18 (13.14%) 2nd Line Support
7 16 (11.68%) Analyst
7 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (10.95%) Network Engineer
8 15 (10.95%) Senior
9 11 (8.03%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 10 (7.30%) Support Analyst
11 8 (5.84%) IT Analyst
11 8 (5.84%) IT Support Analyst
12 7 (5.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) Field Engineer
13 6 (4.38%) Service Analyst
13 6 (4.38%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.84%) Middleware
2 4 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.92%) React
3 3 (2.19%) gRPC
4 2 (1.46%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.73%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.73%) JSON
5 1 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.73%) QML
5 1 (0.73%) Qt
5 1 (0.73%) STL
5 1 (0.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (29.93%) Driving Licence
2 15 (10.95%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (10.22%) Onboarding
4 9 (6.57%) CCTV
5 8 (5.84%) Life Science
5 8 (5.84%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.65%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.92%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.92%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.19%) Social Media
9 2 (1.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.73%) Clustering
10 1 (0.73%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.73%) Replication
10 1 (0.73%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 93 (67.88%) Windows
2 63 (45.99%) Windows Server
3 28 (20.44%) Linux
4 24 (17.52%) Windows 10
5 11 (8.03%) Android
6 10 (7.30%) Apple iOS
7 7 (5.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (3.65%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.92%) CentOS
9 4 (2.92%) Mac OS
9 4 (2.92%) Unix
10 3 (2.19%) CoreOS
10 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (1.46%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (1.46%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (1.46%) VMS
12 1 (0.73%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (47.45%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (33.58%) Customer Service
3 29 (21.17%) Disaster Recovery
3 29 (21.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (16.06%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (16.06%) ITIL
6 20 (14.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (13.14%) Service Delivery
8 15 (10.95%) High Availability
9 13 (9.49%) Time Management
10 12 (8.76%) Change Management
10 12 (8.76%) Mentoring
10 12 (8.76%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 11 (8.03%) DevOps
12 10 (7.30%) Business Continuity
12 10 (7.30%) Collaborative Culture
12 10 (7.30%) ERP
13 9 (6.57%) CI/CD
13 9 (6.57%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (22.63%) PowerShell
2 25 (18.25%) Python
3 13 (9.49%) SQL
4 10 (7.30%) Bash
5 8 (5.84%) Go
6 4 (2.92%) Bicep
6 4 (2.92%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.19%) C++
8 2 (1.46%) C
9 1 (0.73%) C#
9 1 (0.73%) Java
9 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (13.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (8.03%) Degree
3 5 (3.65%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.65%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.46%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.46%) CCNA
5 2 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.73%) CCNP
6 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.73%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.73%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.73%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.73%) RHCE
6 1 (0.73%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.65%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.19%) SLA
4 1 (0.73%) GDPR
System Software
1 78 (56.93%) Active Directory
2 42 (30.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (24.09%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.65%) Firmware
5 3 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.73%) Ceph
6 1 (0.73%) Docker
6 1 (0.73%) KVM
Systems Management
1 21 (15.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 21 (15.33%) Terraform
2 15 (10.95%) Ansible
3 11 (8.03%) FortiGate
4 7 (5.11%) Grafana
4 7 (5.11%) WSUS
5 6 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.92%) VxRail
7 3 (2.19%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.19%) Nagios
7 3 (2.19%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.46%) Autotask
8 2 (1.46%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.73%) Avamar
9 1 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.73%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.73%) Puppet
9 1 (0.73%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 86 (62.77%) Microsoft
2 45 (32.85%) VMware
3 14 (10.22%) Cisco
4 13 (9.49%) SonicWALL
5 12 (8.76%) Veeam
6 9 (6.57%) Sophos
7 8 (5.84%) Dell
8 7 (5.11%) HP
9 5 (3.65%) Meraki
9 5 (3.65%) Zerto
10 4 (2.92%) Aruba
10 4 (2.92%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.92%) Commvault
10 4 (2.92%) Google
10 4 (2.92%) New Relic
10 4 (2.92%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.92%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.92%) SAP
10 4 (2.92%) Splunk
10 4 (2.92%) Tenable