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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 197 215
Rank change year-on-year -4 +18 -15
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 144 123 184
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.68% 1.30% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.51% 6.68% 9.78%
Number of salaries quoted 111 91 145
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £24,400
25th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £38,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £44,375 £62,500 £48,250
90th Percentile £58,750 £74,258 £52,500
England median annual salary £37,750 £39,199 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% -7.77% -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 1,251 1,840 1,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.95% 19.49% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 868 841 1,455
10th Percentile £27,161 £25,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £43,742
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -25.70% -7.91%
75th Percentile £60,000 £48,750 £61,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £43,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +9.20% -8.42% -5.94%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +24 68 £31,875 -20.31% 12
Yorkshire -33 58 £32,500 -13.33% 21
North East -45 18 £40,000 +37.93% 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 25 (17.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (12.50%) IIS
3 13 (9.03%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.08%) Apache
Applications
1 19 (13.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 75 (52.08%) Microsoft 365
2 74 (51.39%) Azure
3 37 (25.69%) AWS
4 16 (11.11%) GCP
5 15 (10.42%) Entra ID
6 12 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (8.33%) GitHub
6 12 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.78%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.08%) IaaS
8 3 (2.08%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (1.39%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (1.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.39%) dbt
9 2 (1.39%) PaaS
9 2 (1.39%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 103 (71.53%) DNS
2 85 (59.03%) DHCP
3 80 (55.56%) Firewall
4 37 (25.69%) VPN
5 34 (23.61%) VLAN
6 29 (20.14%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (14.58%) LAN
7 21 (14.58%) WAN
8 18 (12.50%) HTTP
9 15 (10.42%) VoIP
10 14 (9.72%) Network Security
11 10 (6.94%) Wireless
12 9 (6.25%) Structured Cabling
13 8 (5.56%) SAN
14 7 (4.86%) NAS
15 5 (3.47%) BGP
15 5 (3.47%) OSPF
16 4 (2.78%) SD-WAN
16 4 (2.78%) SSL
17 2 (1.39%) IPFIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.08%) MySQL
4 2 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.39%) Redis
5 1 (0.69%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 12 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.39%) JIRA
3 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (40.97%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.97%) Law
3 18 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (10.42%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.47%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.78%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.39%) Electronics
10 1 (0.69%) Back Office
10 1 (0.69%) Games
10 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (38.89%) IT Support
2 33 (22.92%) Support Engineer
3 23 (15.97%) IT Engineer
4 19 (13.19%) 2nd Line Support
4 19 (13.19%) IT Support Technician
4 19 (13.19%) IT Technician
4 19 (13.19%) Support Technician
5 18 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
6 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (10.42%) Network Engineer
8 14 (9.72%) Analyst
8 14 (9.72%) Senior
9 12 (8.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 12 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) IT Analyst
10 8 (5.56%) IT Support Analyst
10 8 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) Support Analyst
11 7 (4.86%) Field Engineer
11 7 (4.86%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (5.56%) Middleware
3 3 (2.08%) gRPC
4 2 (1.39%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.39%) Django
5 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.69%) QML
5 1 (0.69%) Qt
5 1 (0.69%) React
5 1 (0.69%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.08%) Driving Licence
2 15 (10.42%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 10 (6.94%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (6.25%) CCTV
6 8 (5.56%) Life Science
7 6 (4.17%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.47%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.78%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.69%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.69%) EPoS
11 1 (0.69%) Online Gambling
11 1 (0.69%) SCADA
11 1 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 93 (64.58%) Windows
2 66 (45.83%) Windows Server
3 24 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 21 (14.58%) Linux
5 14 (9.72%) Android
6 13 (9.03%) Apple iOS
7 4 (2.78%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.08%) Unix
9 2 (1.39%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (1.39%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (1.39%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.39%) VMS
10 1 (0.69%) CentOS
10 1 (0.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (31.94%) Customer Service
3 31 (21.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 30 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 26 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (15.97%) Service Delivery
8 22 (15.28%) High Availability
9 21 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (11.81%) DevOps
11 16 (11.11%) CI/CD
11 16 (11.11%) Containerisation
11 16 (11.11%) Incident Management
12 15 (10.42%) ITIL
13 14 (9.72%) Continuous Delivery
13 14 (9.72%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (9.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (9.03%) Change Management
15 12 (8.33%) Mentoring
15 12 (8.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 26 (18.06%) Python
3 14 (9.72%) Bash
4 13 (9.03%) Go
5 12 (8.33%) SQL
6 3 (2.08%) Bicep
6 3 (2.08%) C++
7 2 (1.39%) C
7 2 (1.39%) Java
8 1 (0.69%) C#
8 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (9.72%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (7.64%) SC Cleared
2 11 (7.64%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.86%) Degree
4 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.39%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.39%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.39%) CCNA
6 1 (0.69%) ACSP
6 1 (0.69%) CCNP
6 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.69%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.69%) RHCE
6 1 (0.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.08%) SLA
4 1 (0.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 80 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 42 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (20.14%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.47%) Firmware
5 3 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.39%) Docker
7 1 (0.69%) KVM
Systems Management
1 28 (19.44%) Terraform
2 23 (15.97%) Ansible
3 16 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (10.42%) Grafana
5 14 (9.72%) Prometheus
6 11 (7.64%) FortiGate
7 9 (6.25%) WSUS
8 6 (4.17%) VxRail
9 3 (2.08%) Autotask
9 3 (2.08%) Nagios
10 2 (1.39%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.39%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.69%) Avamar
11 1 (0.69%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.69%) Puppet
11 1 (0.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 93 (64.58%) Microsoft
2 53 (36.81%) VMware
3 14 (9.72%) Cisco
3 14 (9.72%) Veeam
4 12 (8.33%) SonicWALL
5 11 (7.64%) Citrix
6 10 (6.94%) Dell
7 9 (6.25%) HP
7 9 (6.25%) Sophos
8 8 (5.56%) Meraki
9 7 (4.86%) Zerto
10 6 (4.17%) Commvault
10 6 (4.17%) Tenable
11 4 (2.78%) Aruba
11 4 (2.78%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.78%) Palo Alto
12 3 (2.08%) Apple
12 3 (2.08%) Google
12 3 (2.08%) NetApp
12 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow