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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 168 175
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 +7
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 120 103 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.91% 1.36% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.45% 10.95% 10.84%
Number of salaries quoted 103 60 154
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,475 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.49% +15.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £48,750 £68,531 £48,750
90th Percentile £64,680 £74,258 £59,881
England median annual salary £38,000 £47,500 £43,750
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.57% -2.78%

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 2,695 941 1,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 20.34% 12.47% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 786 582 1,371
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,525 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £45,000 £43,461
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% +3.54% -3.42%
75th Percentile £50,395 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -23.64% +11.11% -4.81%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -16 57 £32,500 -27.78% 18
North West -15 38 £40,500 -26.36% 29
North East +8 25 £45,000 -35.11% 11
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 24 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (10.83%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (24.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.67%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 72 (60.00%) Azure
2 71 (59.17%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (20.83%) AWS
4 23 (19.17%) GCP
5 17 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (13.33%) GitHub
6 16 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (12.50%) Entra ID
8 8 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (5.83%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (5.83%) dbt
9 7 (5.83%) IaaS
9 7 (5.83%) Pulumi
10 5 (4.17%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 5 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (4.17%) PaaS
10 5 (4.17%) Sentry
11 3 (2.50%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 77 (64.17%) DNS
2 59 (49.17%) Firewall
3 54 (45.00%) DHCP
4 40 (33.33%) VPN
5 24 (20.00%) VLAN
6 22 (18.33%) HTTP
6 22 (18.33%) LAN
6 22 (18.33%) WAN
6 22 (18.33%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (12.50%) Wireless
8 14 (11.67%) Network Security
9 6 (5.00%) SSL
10 5 (4.17%) Internet
10 5 (4.17%) Unified Communications
10 5 (4.17%) VoIP
10 5 (4.17%) WLAN
11 4 (3.33%) NGN
11 4 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (2.50%) SD-WAN
13 2 (1.67%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.67%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (5.83%) Redis
4 5 (4.17%) MySQL
5 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.83%) Git
3 1 (0.83%) Snyk
General
1 38 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.50%) Telecoms
3 16 (13.33%) Law
4 13 (10.83%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.17%) Marketing
6 4 (3.33%) Retail
7 3 (2.50%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Finance
9 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 47 (39.17%) IT Support
2 25 (20.83%) Senior
3 23 (19.17%) Support Engineer
4 22 (18.33%) Support Technician
5 18 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 17 (14.17%) IT Support Technician
6 17 (14.17%) IT Technician
7 16 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (9.17%) IT Engineer
8 11 (9.17%) IT Support Engineer
8 11 (9.17%) Senior IT Support
9 10 (8.33%) Senior IT Technician
9 10 (8.33%) Senior Support Technician
9 10 (8.33%) Senior Technician
10 9 (7.50%) Technical Engineer
10 9 (7.50%) Technical Support
10 9 (7.50%) Technical Support Engineer
11 7 (5.83%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 7 (5.83%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 7 (5.83%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (5.83%) Django
3 4 (3.33%) Qt
3 4 (3.33%) STL
4 3 (2.50%) QML
5 1 (0.83%) .NET
5 1 (0.83%) JSON
5 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (26.67%) Driving Licence
2 14 (11.67%) Data Centre
3 10 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.83%) Replication
6 5 (4.17%) LIMS
6 5 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (3.33%) Client/Server
7 4 (3.33%) NHS
8 3 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.83%) CCTV
10 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.83%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.83%) iPad
10 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 74 (61.67%) Windows
2 56 (46.67%) Windows Server
3 25 (20.83%) Linux
4 15 (12.50%) Android
5 12 (10.00%) Windows 10
6 7 (5.83%) Mac OS
6 7 (5.83%) Unix
7 6 (5.00%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.83%) CentOS
9 1 (0.83%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (29.17%) Customer Service
3 27 (22.50%) DevOps
4 24 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 24 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (18.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 20 (16.67%) Service Delivery
7 19 (15.83%) Containerisation
7 19 (15.83%) ITIL
8 18 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 18 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (15.00%) Incident Management
8 18 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (14.17%) DevSecOps
9 17 (14.17%) High Availability
10 16 (13.33%) Static Code Analysis
10 16 (13.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 15 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.00%) Python
2 17 (14.17%) Bash
3 16 (13.33%) Go
4 11 (9.17%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.00%) SQL
6 4 (3.33%) C++
7 3 (2.50%) C#
7 3 (2.50%) Java
8 2 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (17.50%) SC Cleared
1 21 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.17%) Degree
3 11 (9.17%) ITIL Certification
4 9 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.17%) CCNA
6 5 (4.17%) DBS Check
6 5 (4.17%) HNC
6 5 (4.17%) HND
7 2 (1.67%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.83%) ACSP
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.83%) CCNP
8 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.33%) QA
3 3 (2.50%) GDPR
4 2 (1.67%) SLA
5 1 (0.83%) GRC
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 77 (64.17%) Active Directory
2 36 (30.00%) Hyper-V
3 24 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.67%) Docker
5 2 (1.67%) Firmware
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (20.00%) Terraform
2 16 (13.33%) Ansible
2 16 (13.33%) Grafana
2 16 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 14 (11.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (6.67%) FortiGate
5 7 (5.83%) Autotask
6 5 (4.17%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (1.67%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.67%) Plesk
7 2 (1.67%) VxRail
7 2 (1.67%) WSUS
8 1 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.83%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.83%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 43 (35.83%) VMware
3 17 (14.17%) Citrix
4 14 (11.67%) Veeam
5 10 (8.33%) SonicWALL
6 9 (7.50%) Cisco
7 7 (5.83%) Google
8 6 (5.00%) Apple
9 5 (4.17%) Meraki
9 5 (4.17%) WatchGuard
10 4 (3.33%) Adobe
10 4 (3.33%) Avaya
10 4 (3.33%) Mitel
10 4 (3.33%) Sage
11 3 (2.50%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.67%) Commvault
12 2 (1.67%) Dell
12 2 (1.67%) HP
12 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.67%) Zerto