TCP/IP Jobs in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring TCP/IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited TCP/IP over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 177 188
Rank change year-on-year -70 +11 +32
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 34 121 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.42% 1.23% 1.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.48% 10.48% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 25 101 76
10th Percentile £33,100 £23,500 £25,420
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year - -14.89% +17.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £48,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £73,204 £52,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £44,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.53% -5.56% +1.12%

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 1,370 1,155 1,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.06% 11.71% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 460 876 676
10th Percentile - £26,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% -5.26% +1.06%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,639 £73,125 £73,088
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the North West.

Salary trend for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the North West over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

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 13 May 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
Manchester +11 15 £55,021 +37.55% 23
Cheshire -3 10 £37,500 - 9
Lancashire -78 5 £65,000 +68.83% 14
Merseyside +20 4 £57,500 +139.58% 1
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.88%) CMS
2 2 (5.88%) IIS
2 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.88%) WordPress
3 1 (2.94%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.94%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (29.41%) AWS
3 9 (26.47%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (20.59%) GCP
5 5 (14.71%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (8.82%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (8.82%) dbt
6 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.82%) NuGet
6 3 (8.82%) Pulumi
7 2 (5.88%) Google Analytics
7 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.94%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (2.94%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 21 (61.76%) DNS
2 15 (44.12%) Firewall
3 12 (35.29%) DHCP
3 12 (35.29%) LAN
3 12 (35.29%) WAN
4 11 (32.35%) VPN
5 4 (11.76%) Internet
5 4 (11.76%) VLAN
6 3 (8.82%) VoIP
7 2 (5.88%) DMZ
7 2 (5.88%) HTTP
7 2 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (5.88%) Network Security
7 2 (5.88%) SMTP
7 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (5.88%) Wireless
8 1 (2.94%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (2.94%) IPsec
8 1 (2.94%) MPLS
8 1 (2.94%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.82%) MySQL
2 3 (8.82%) Redis
3 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.88%) Power BI
3 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.94%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Cucumber
1 4 (11.76%) Robot Framework
2 2 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Subversion
3 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (17.65%) Telecoms
4 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Legal
5 2 (5.88%) Local Government
5 2 (5.88%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.94%) Electronics
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Senior
2 6 (17.65%) Senior Technical Support
2 6 (17.65%) Technical Support
3 5 (14.71%) Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Test Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Architect
5 3 (8.82%) C# Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Security Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Senior C# Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Security Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) Django
2 4 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (8.82%) .NET
3 3 (8.82%) .NET Core
3 3 (8.82%) .NET Framework
3 3 (8.82%) Entity Framework
3 3 (8.82%) Kafka
4 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.88%) CSS
4 2 (5.88%) HTML
4 2 (5.88%) Node.js
4 2 (5.88%) React
4 2 (5.88%) REST
5 1 (2.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Management Information System
2 4 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (8.82%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.88%) Cyberattack
4 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) CCTV
5 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Windows
2 9 (26.47%) Linux
3 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.82%) Mac OS
4 3 (8.82%) Unix
5 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) DevOps
2 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
3 7 (20.59%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (14.71%) Agile
4 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (11.76%) Coaching
5 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
5 4 (11.76%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (11.76%) Information Security
5 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 4 (11.76%) Open Source
5 4 (11.76%) System Testing
5 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
5 4 (11.76%) Test Management
6 3 (8.82%) Application Performance Monitoring
6 3 (8.82%) Clean Code
6 3 (8.82%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (8.82%) Microservices
6 3 (8.82%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 5 (14.71%) Bash
4 5 (14.71%) C#
5 3 (8.82%) C++
5 3 (8.82%) PHP
6 2 (5.88%) Java
6 2 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) CISM
2 4 (11.76%) CISSP
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) CEH
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.94%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CCIE
5 1 (2.94%) CCNA
5 1 (2.94%) CCNP
5 1 (2.94%) JNCIA
5 1 (2.94%) JNCIE
5 1 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (11.76%) NIST
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.88%) NCSC
2 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
1 6 (17.65%) Docker
2 5 (14.71%) Hyper-V
2 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.94%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Terraform
2 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (5.88%) Ansible
5 1 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Google
3 5 (14.71%) VMware
4 3 (8.82%) Apple
4 3 (8.82%) Cisco
5 2 (5.88%) ConnectWise
5 2 (5.88%) Juniper
5 2 (5.88%) Kaseya
6 1 (2.94%) Aruba
6 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.94%) IBM
6 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.94%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (2.94%) Veeam