TCP/IP Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 36 40
Rank change year-on-year -34 +4 +44
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 3 4 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.35% 1.34% 3.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.10% 16.00% 28.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +113.25% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,790 £80,822 £37,500
90th Percentile - £84,829 £40,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £48,245 £42,500
% change year-on-year -17.09% +13.52% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 143 25 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 16.51% 8.39% 13.81%
Number of salaries quoted 29 6 36
10th Percentile - £24,952 £29,375
25th Percentile £30,750 £33,550 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,654 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% +84.73% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,144 £62,813
90th Percentile £71,758 £80,822 £78,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +8.25% -6.73%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 25 March 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
County Antrim -25 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Sentry
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
2 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google