TCP/IP Job Trends in Scotland

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 103 161
Rank change year-on-year -29 +58 +10
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 10 41 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.37% 1.60% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.23% 12.93% 6.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9 33 28
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -22.76% +53.46%
75th Percentile £78,790 £52,500 £70,458
90th Percentile - £62,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £37,875 £48,507 £47,500
% change year-on-year -21.92% +2.12% +5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 310 317 546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.33% 12.35% 17.49%
Number of salaries quoted 190 127 472
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 -
25th Percentile £25,375 £33,750 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -44.00%
75th Percentile £48,188 £66,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £64,975
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.68% +9.50% -4.76%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Scotland

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in Scotland

TCP/IP
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 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
Edinburgh -24 4 £73,801 +55.37% 1
Glasgow +16 3 £30,000 -28.99% 6
Highlands -6 1 £31,000 +3.33% 1
Banffshire - 1 - -
South Ayrshire - 1 £65,000 -
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (40.00%) dbt
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) Pulumi
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (30.00%) PaaS
3 3 (30.00%) Sentry
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DHCP
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
2 3 (30.00%) Firewall
3 2 (20.00%) Softphone
3 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (10.00%) ATM
4 1 (10.00%) IMAP
4 1 (10.00%) Multicast
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (10.00%) tcpdump
4 1 (10.00%) VLAN
4 1 (10.00%) VoIP
4 1 (10.00%) WAN
4 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (40.00%) Redis
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Advertising
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Automotive
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) IT Support
2 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Officer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (20.00%) CCTV
2 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (10.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Unix
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Observability
2 4 (40.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Open Source
3 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Prototyping
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) HND
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (10.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Copilot
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Google
3 3 (30.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) Dell
4 2 (20.00%) HP
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco
5 1 (10.00%) Datto
5 1 (10.00%) Pegasus
5 1 (10.00%) Sage
5 1 (10.00%) Veeam
5 1 (10.00%) Xero