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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 190 146
Rank change year-on-year +14 -44 +70
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 127 125 154
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.34% 1.00% 1.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.83% 11.04% 12.31%
Number of salaries quoted 102 69 135
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,125 £31,250 £30,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% -11.11% +20.57%
75th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £58,000
90th Percentile £74,250 £74,144 £69,800
England median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £47,250
% change year-on-year -21.05% +0.53% +5.00%

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 1,439 1,132 1,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.18% 9.08% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 866 589 972
10th Percentile - £29,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,375 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% - -
75th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,250 £77,542
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,500 £52,400
% change year-on-year -25.23% +2.10% -0.19%

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 2025. 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 +32 64 £32,500 -7.14% 16
North East +38 37 £29,000 -58.16% 4
North West -34 26 £40,500 +1.25% 25
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 44 (34.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (9.45%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.72%) IIS
4 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (10.24%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 81 (63.78%) Microsoft 365
2 79 (62.20%) Azure
3 17 (13.39%) IaaS
4 15 (11.81%) PaaS
5 14 (11.02%) AWS
6 13 (10.24%) Entra ID
6 13 (10.24%) GCP
6 13 (10.24%) SaaS
7 6 (4.72%) OCI
7 6 (4.72%) OneDrive
8 5 (3.94%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (3.94%) dbt
8 5 (3.94%) Pulumi
9 3 (2.36%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (2.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (2.36%) Sentry
10 2 (1.57%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 67 (52.76%) DNS
2 58 (45.67%) Firewall
3 57 (44.88%) DHCP
4 56 (44.09%) VPN
5 49 (38.58%) VLAN
6 35 (27.56%) LAN
7 34 (26.77%) WAN
8 25 (19.69%) Wireless
9 23 (18.11%) Network Security
10 14 (11.02%) VoIP
10 14 (11.02%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (9.45%) BGP
11 12 (9.45%) OSPF
12 11 (8.66%) Internet
13 10 (7.87%) SSL
14 9 (7.09%) Remote Desktop
15 6 (4.72%) NGN
15 6 (4.72%) SD-WAN
15 6 (4.72%) Unified Communications
15 6 (4.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.75%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (11.02%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.94%) Redis
3 5 (3.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (3.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Git
1 1 (0.79%) JIRA
1 1 (0.79%) Snyk
1 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (53.54%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.60%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (7.09%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.30%) Marketing
5 7 (5.51%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.15%) Retail
8 1 (0.79%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (25.98%) Support Engineer
1 33 (25.98%) Technical Support
2 29 (22.83%) Technical Engineer
2 29 (22.83%) Technical Support Engineer
3 20 (15.75%) IT Support
4 19 (14.96%) Support Technician
5 18 (14.17%) Senior
6 16 (12.60%) Network Engineer
7 13 (10.24%) 3rd Line Support
7 13 (10.24%) IT Support Technician
7 13 (10.24%) IT Technician
8 10 (7.87%) 2nd Line Support
9 8 (6.30%) Coordinator
10 6 (4.72%) Analyst
10 6 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.72%) Unified Communications Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) 3rd Line Support Technician
12 4 (3.15%) 3rd Line Technical Support
12 4 (3.15%) Senior IT Support
12 4 (3.15%) Senior IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.30%) .NET
2 5 (3.94%) Django
3 2 (1.57%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.57%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.79%) JSON
4 1 (0.79%) Kafka
4 1 (0.79%) QML
4 1 (0.79%) Qt
4 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.79%) RESTful
4 1 (0.79%) STL
4 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.60%) Driving Licence
2 12 (9.45%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.30%) LIMS
3 8 (6.30%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.72%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (3.94%) Clustering
6 4 (3.15%) NHS
6 4 (3.15%) Replication
7 3 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.79%) BYOD
9 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.79%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.79%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.79%) iPad
9 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 71 (55.91%) Windows
2 52 (40.94%) Windows Server
3 29 (22.83%) Linux
4 9 (7.09%) Mac OS
4 9 (7.09%) Unix
4 9 (7.09%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.94%) Android
6 2 (1.57%) VMS
6 2 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.79%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (39.37%) Customer Service
2 33 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (18.90%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (12.60%) Incident Management
5 15 (11.81%) Collaborative Working
5 15 (11.81%) Customer-Centricity
6 13 (10.24%) Network Design
6 13 (10.24%) Network Management
7 12 (9.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (9.45%) Virtual Environments
8 11 (8.66%) Information Security
9 10 (7.87%) ITIL
10 9 (7.09%) Computer Science
10 9 (7.09%) Service Delivery
11 8 (6.30%) CI/CD
11 8 (6.30%) DevOps
12 7 (5.51%) Mentoring
13 6 (4.72%) Load Balancing
13 6 (4.72%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.60%) PowerShell
2 12 (9.45%) Python
3 10 (7.87%) SQL
4 3 (2.36%) C#
5 2 (1.57%) Java
5 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.79%) Bash
6 1 (0.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 23 (18.11%) Degree
2 21 (16.54%) SC Cleared
2 21 (16.54%) Security Cleared
3 13 (10.24%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (7.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (6.30%) CCNA
5 8 (6.30%) HNC
5 8 (6.30%) HND
6 7 (5.51%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (5.51%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (3.94%) CISSP
7 5 (3.94%) DBS Check
8 4 (3.15%) CCIE
8 4 (3.15%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.57%) CCNP
10 1 (0.79%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.79%) CCSA
10 1 (0.79%) CCSE
10 1 (0.79%) GCIA
10 1 (0.79%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.79%) GRC
2 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.79%) QA
2 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 88 (69.29%) Active Directory
2 52 (40.94%) Hyper-V
3 41 (32.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (25.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (16.54%) FortiGate
3 6 (4.72%) Ansible
4 5 (3.94%) Autotask
4 5 (3.94%) SCCM
4 5 (3.94%) Terraform
5 3 (2.36%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (1.57%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.57%) Plesk
Vendors
1 90 (70.87%) Microsoft
2 47 (37.01%) VMware
3 28 (22.05%) Cisco
4 24 (18.90%) SonicWALL
4 24 (18.90%) Veeam
5 15 (11.81%) WatchGuard
6 9 (7.09%) Apple
6 9 (7.09%) Sage
7 7 (5.51%) Fortinet
7 7 (5.51%) Google
8 4 (3.15%) Avaya
8 4 (3.15%) Citrix
8 4 (3.15%) Mitel
9 3 (2.36%) Adobe
10 2 (1.57%) Draytek
10 2 (1.57%) Meraki
11 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.79%) Qualys
11 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.79%) Ubiquiti