TCP/IP Job Trends in the North West

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 142 131
Rank change year-on-year -15 -11 +50
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 29 63 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.46% 1.25% 1.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.51% 11.75% 12.99%
Number of salaries quoted 29 38 63
10th Percentile £28,850 £30,025 £26,400
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £31,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +12.50% -5.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,500 £74,144 £68,590
England median annual salary £37,500 £48,245 £47,250
% change year-on-year -22.27% +2.10% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,921 536 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.15% 10.61% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 362 317 457
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,300 £28,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £77,715
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 West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing TCP/IP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in the North West

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Manchester +12 16 £49,000 -10.91% 6
Merseyside -5 8 £30,000 -33.33% 4
Lancashire +1 3 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Cheshire -30 1 £38,000 +13.43% 4
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (31.03%) Azure
3 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
4 5 (17.24%) IaaS
5 3 (10.34%) AWS
5 3 (10.34%) GCP
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) dbt
6 2 (6.90%) Pulumi
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.45%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.45%) PaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.45%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 18 (62.07%) Firewall
2 15 (51.72%) VPN
3 14 (48.28%) DNS
4 13 (44.83%) DHCP
5 8 (27.59%) VLAN
6 6 (20.69%) HTTP
6 6 (20.69%) SSL
6 6 (20.69%) Wireless
7 3 (10.34%) Network Security
8 2 (6.90%) LAN
8 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
8 2 (6.90%) WAN
8 2 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (3.45%) BGP
9 1 (3.45%) Ethernet
9 1 (3.45%) FTP
9 1 (3.45%) Internet
9 1 (3.45%) OSPF
9 1 (3.45%) SMTP
9 1 (3.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.90%) Redis
2 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Retail
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Law
3 1 (3.45%) Military
3 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) 2nd Line Support
2 8 (27.59%) IT Support
2 8 (27.59%) Support Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) IT Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) IT Support Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Senior
4 6 (20.69%) Support Technician
5 5 (17.24%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (17.24%) 3rd Line Support Technician
6 4 (13.79%) C++ Developer
6 4 (13.79%) Developer
7 3 (10.34%) Senior C++ Developer
7 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (3.45%) Analyst
9 1 (3.45%) Network Manager
9 1 (3.45%) Security Engineer
9 1 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Qt
1 4 (13.79%) STL
2 3 (10.34%) QML
3 2 (6.90%) Django
4 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Driving Licence
2 6 (20.69%) Management Information System
2 6 (20.69%) Onboarding
3 4 (13.79%) Client/Server
4 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.45%) BYOD
5 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Educational Technology
5 1 (3.45%) iPad
5 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (79.31%) Windows
2 13 (44.83%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.34%) Linux
4 2 (6.90%) Unix
4 2 (6.90%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.45%) Android
5 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (37.93%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 8 (27.59%) Customer Service
4 7 (24.14%) DevOps
4 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (20.69%) Proactive Maintenance
5 6 (20.69%) Service Delivery
6 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (17.24%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
6 5 (17.24%) Information Security
6 5 (17.24%) Information Security Management
6 5 (17.24%) ISMS
6 5 (17.24%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (17.24%) Security Management
7 4 (13.79%) Agile
7 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
8 3 (10.34%) ITIL
8 3 (10.34%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) C++
2 3 (10.34%) C#
2 3 (10.34%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) Go
3 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (20.69%) CCNA
3 5 (17.24%) DBS Check
3 5 (17.24%) Degree
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.90%) CISSP
5 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.45%) CCIE
6 1 (3.45%) CCNP
6 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.45%) GCIA
6 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (3.45%) SANS
6 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (65.52%) Active Directory
2 8 (27.59%) Hyper-V
3 3 (10.34%) Docker
4 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.45%) Firmware
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (17.24%) Autotask
3 3 (10.34%) Terraform
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (3.45%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.45%) Grafana
4 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (62.07%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow