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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 167 145
Rank change year-on-year 0 -22 +49
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 96 111 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.90% 1.22% 1.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.70% 11.57% 13.21%
Number of salaries quoted 80 68 139
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £26,200
25th Percentile £28,500 £32,938 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £48,750 £61,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £74,144 £69,800
England median annual salary £37,500 £49,250 £46,000
% change year-on-year -23.86% +7.07% +2.22%

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 2,598 959 1,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.41% 10.55% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 745 530 968
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,483 £27,000
25th Percentile £25,500 £33,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% - -
75th Percentile £42,915 £60,000 £61,612
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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 12 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 12 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 -9 41 £32,000 -28.89% 15
North West 0 29 £40,500 -10.00% 22
North East +23 26 £29,000 -58.16% 7
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 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.17%) IIS
4 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (14.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 63 (65.63%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (53.13%) Azure
3 10 (10.42%) Entra ID
4 9 (9.38%) AWS
4 9 (9.38%) GCP
5 8 (8.33%) IaaS
6 6 (6.25%) PaaS
7 5 (5.21%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.21%) dbt
7 5 (5.21%) Pulumi
8 4 (4.17%) GitHub
8 4 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.17%) SaaS
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (3.13%) OneDrive
9 3 (3.13%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 52 (54.17%) DNS
2 48 (50.00%) Firewall
3 41 (42.71%) VPN
4 39 (40.63%) DHCP
5 25 (26.04%) VLAN
6 24 (25.00%) LAN
6 24 (25.00%) WAN
7 21 (21.88%) Wireless
8 19 (19.79%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (14.58%) Network Security
10 10 (10.42%) HTTP
11 9 (9.38%) SSL
11 9 (9.38%) VoIP
12 8 (8.33%) Internet
13 6 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
14 4 (4.17%) NGN
14 4 (4.17%) SD-WAN
14 4 (4.17%) Unified Communications
14 4 (4.17%) WLAN
15 3 (3.13%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 14 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.21%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (5.21%) Redis
5 4 (4.17%) MySQL
6 3 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 4 (4.17%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.04%) Snyk
General
1 40 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.42%) Documentation Skills
2 10 (10.42%) Telecoms
3 8 (8.33%) Marketing
4 4 (4.17%) Law
4 4 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.17%) Retail
5 2 (2.08%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Finance
6 1 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (31.25%) Support Engineer
2 29 (30.21%) IT Support
3 21 (21.88%) Technical Support
4 20 (20.83%) Senior
5 19 (19.79%) Support Technician
6 18 (18.75%) Technical Engineer
6 18 (18.75%) Technical Support Engineer
7 13 (13.54%) 2nd Line Support
7 13 (13.54%) IT Support Technician
7 13 (13.54%) IT Technician
8 9 (9.38%) IT Engineer
8 9 (9.38%) IT Support Engineer
8 9 (9.38%) Senior IT Support
8 9 (9.38%) Senior IT Technician
8 9 (9.38%) Senior Support Technician
8 9 (9.38%) Senior Technician
9 8 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
9 8 (8.33%) Coordinator
10 7 (7.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.21%) Django
2 4 (4.17%) .NET
2 4 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.17%) Qt
2 4 (4.17%) STL
3 3 (3.13%) QML
4 1 (1.04%) JSON
4 1 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 14 (14.58%) Data Centre
3 10 (10.42%) Management Information System
4 8 (8.33%) LIMS
4 8 (8.33%) Onboarding
5 7 (7.29%) Replication
6 4 (4.17%) Client/Server
6 4 (4.17%) NHS
6 4 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (3.13%) Clustering
7 3 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (1.04%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.04%) Educational Technology
9 1 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 62 (64.58%) Windows
2 44 (45.83%) Windows Server
3 24 (25.00%) Linux
4 9 (9.38%) Android
4 9 (9.38%) Mac OS
5 6 (6.25%) Windows 10
6 5 (5.21%) Unix
7 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 29 (30.21%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (19.79%) Cybersecurity
4 17 (17.71%) ITIL
5 13 (13.54%) DevOps
5 13 (13.54%) Service Delivery
6 11 (11.46%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 10 (10.42%) CI/CD
8 9 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (9.38%) Computer Science
8 9 (9.38%) Customer-Centricity
8 9 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (8.33%) Incident Management
9 8 (8.33%) Information Security
10 7 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (7.29%) Knowledge Transfer
10 7 (7.29%) Network Management
11 6 (6.25%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.38%) Python
1 9 (9.38%) SQL
2 8 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.17%) Bash
3 4 (4.17%) C++
3 4 (4.17%) Go
4 3 (3.13%) C#
5 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.04%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (18.75%) Degree
2 13 (13.54%) SC Cleared
2 13 (13.54%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.46%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (8.33%) HNC
4 8 (8.33%) HND
5 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (6.25%) CCNA
7 5 (5.21%) DBS Check
8 2 (2.08%) CCNP
8 2 (2.08%) CISSP
9 1 (1.04%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.04%) CCIE
9 1 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.04%) SANS
9 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.17%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.04%) GRC
3 1 (1.04%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 72 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 41 (42.71%) Hyper-V
3 27 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (6.25%) Docker
5 1 (1.04%) Firmware
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (11.46%) FortiGate
3 9 (9.38%) Terraform
4 5 (5.21%) Autotask
5 4 (4.17%) Ansible
5 4 (4.17%) Grafana
5 4 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.13%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (2.08%) Plesk
8 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 70 (72.92%) Microsoft
2 34 (35.42%) VMware
3 16 (16.67%) Veeam
4 15 (15.63%) SonicWALL
5 11 (11.46%) Cisco
6 9 (9.38%) WatchGuard
7 6 (6.25%) Apple
7 6 (6.25%) Sage
8 5 (5.21%) Citrix
8 5 (5.21%) Google
9 4 (4.17%) Adobe
9 4 (4.17%) Avaya
9 4 (4.17%) Mitel
10 3 (3.13%) Fortinet
11 2 (2.08%) Draytek
11 2 (2.08%) Meraki
12 1 (1.04%) Checkmarx
12 1 (1.04%) Huawei
12 1 (1.04%) Qualys
12 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow