Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 24 January 2022

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 24 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > South East
6 months to
24 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 197 122 108
Rank change year-on-year -75 -14 +24
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 285 241 691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.60% 2.42% 2.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.20% 13.40% 17.47%
Number of salaries quoted 225 220 583
10th Percentile £24,200 £26,475 £23,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £30,875 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,250 £65,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +3.45% +2.35%

TCP/IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,544 1,798 3,955
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.26% 18.08% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,678 1,434 3,119
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,980 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,750 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the South East.

Salary trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the South East over the 6 months to 24 January 2022.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 January 2022. 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
Thames Valley -62 112 £37,890 -24.22% 21
Berkshire -22 71 £50,000 -4.76% 10
Hampshire -56 64 £31,250 -21.88% 13
Surrey -63 42 £45,000 - 8
Kent -33 35 £32,000 -22.89% 5
Oxfordshire -8 25 £28,750 -52.08% 3
West Sussex -5 21 £31,500 - 1
Buckinghamshire -71 16 £43,000 -14.00% 8
East Sussex -27 2 £24,500 -16.95% 3
Middlesex - 1 £39,000 -
TCP/IP
England

For the 6 months to 24 January 2022, IT jobs citing TCP/IP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region with a requirement for TCP/IP.

1 129 (45.26%) Firewall
2 128 (44.91%) Windows
3 120 (42.11%) Active Directory
4 112 (39.30%) Microsoft
5 88 (30.88%) Microsoft 365
6 85 (29.82%) DNS
7 79 (27.72%) LAN
8 78 (27.37%) Social Skills
9 73 (25.61%) WAN
10 67 (23.51%) Linux
11 62 (21.75%) DHCP
12 61 (21.40%) VPN
13 57 (20.00%) VLAN
14 56 (19.65%) Windows Server
15 55 (19.30%) Azure
16 47 (16.49%) Windows 10
17 46 (16.14%) Cisco
18 45 (15.79%) Python
19 42 (14.74%) VMware
20 40 (14.04%) Wireless
20 40 (14.04%) AWS
20 40 (14.04%) Software Engineering
21 38 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
22 37 (12.98%) Microsoft Office
22 37 (12.98%) Data Centre
22 37 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
23 35 (12.28%) Agile Software Development
24 34 (11.93%) C
25 33 (11.58%) Finance
26 32 (11.23%) Service Delivery

TCP/IP
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 16 (5.61%) Exchange Server 2013
2 12 (4.21%) IIS
2 12 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.81%) Confluence
3 8 (2.81%) MS Exchange
4 7 (2.46%) Apache
4 7 (2.46%) WordPress
5 6 (2.11%) CMS
5 6 (2.11%) Sitecore CMS
5 6 (2.11%) Umbraco
6 4 (1.40%) JBoss
6 4 (1.40%) Skype for Business
6 4 (1.40%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.40%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.05%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.35%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 37 (12.98%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.46%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.05%) AutoCAD
3 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.70%) Sentinel
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 88 (30.88%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (19.30%) Azure
3 40 (14.04%) AWS
4 24 (8.42%) SaaS
5 11 (3.86%) GCP
6 10 (3.51%) GitHub
6 10 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (2.81%) Azure Active Directory
8 8 (2.81%) IaaS
9 7 (2.46%) OneDrive
9 7 (2.46%) PaaS
10 6 (2.11%) Mimecast
10 6 (2.11%) Slack
11 4 (1.40%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.40%) Serverless
12 2 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.70%) BlazeMeter
13 1 (0.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 129 (45.26%) Firewall
2 85 (29.82%) DNS
3 79 (27.72%) LAN
4 73 (25.61%) WAN
5 62 (21.75%) DHCP
6 61 (21.40%) VPN
7 57 (20.00%) VLAN
8 40 (14.04%) Wireless
9 29 (10.18%) HTTP
10 27 (9.47%) Internet
11 25 (8.77%) VoIP
12 23 (8.07%) WLAN
13 21 (7.37%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (6.67%) SSL
15 16 (5.61%) BGP
16 15 (5.26%) SMTP
17 14 (4.91%) Network Security
17 14 (4.91%) OSPF
18 12 (4.21%) Cisco ASA
19 10 (3.51%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.82%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.56%) MySQL
3 10 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.16%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.46%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.11%) DB2
7 5 (1.75%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.75%) SQL Server 2019
8 3 (1.05%) MS Access
8 3 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.05%) SQL Server 2008
8 3 (1.05%) SQL Server 2014
8 3 (1.05%) SQL Server 2016
9 2 (0.70%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.70%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.70%) Redis
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (8.77%) JIRA
2 11 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.81%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.11%) Travis CI
5 5 (1.75%) Git (software)
6 4 (1.40%) JMeter
7 3 (1.05%) SoapUI
7 3 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.05%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.70%) Selenium
8 2 (0.70%) Subversion
8 2 (0.70%) TestLink
9 1 (0.35%) GitLab
9 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 78 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 33 (11.58%) Finance
3 24 (8.42%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.37%) Telecoms
5 12 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (2.11%) Retail
8 5 (1.75%) Advertising
9 4 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.05%) Legal
11 2 (0.70%) Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Billing
11 2 (0.70%) Electronics
11 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.70%) Local Government
11 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 55 (19.30%) Support Engineer
2 47 (16.49%) IT Engineer
3 40 (14.04%) IT Support
4 36 (12.63%) Analyst
4 36 (12.63%) Network Engineer
5 33 (11.58%) 2nd Line Support
6 27 (9.47%) IT Support Engineer
7 26 (9.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 23 (8.07%) Software Engineer
9 20 (7.02%) Support Analyst
10 19 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 19 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 19 (6.67%) IT Analyst
11 18 (6.32%) Technical Engineer
12 17 (5.96%) 3rd Line Support
12 17 (5.96%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 17 (5.96%) C++ Software Engineer
12 17 (5.96%) Developer
13 16 (5.61%) Service Desk Engineer
14 14 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.86%) HTML
2 10 (3.51%) CSS
3 8 (2.81%) Node.js
3 8 (2.81%) WebSockets
4 7 (2.46%) .NET
5 6 (2.11%) .NET Core
5 6 (2.11%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.11%) Middleware
5 6 (2.11%) OpenAPI
5 6 (2.11%) SignalR
5 6 (2.11%) Swagger
6 5 (1.75%) LDAP
6 5 (1.75%) Web Services
7 4 (1.40%) 802.1X
7 4 (1.40%) REST
7 4 (1.40%) RESTful
7 4 (1.40%) Velocity
8 3 (1.05%) LAMP
8 3 (1.05%) SAML
8 3 (1.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.98%) Data Centre
2 17 (5.96%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.81%) PKI
5 7 (2.46%) EPoS
5 7 (2.46%) User Experience
6 6 (2.11%) Clustering
6 6 (2.11%) DataPower
6 6 (2.11%) iSeries
7 5 (1.75%) Cyberattack
7 5 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.40%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.40%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.40%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.40%) Cybercrime
8 4 (1.40%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.05%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.05%) Robotics
9 3 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 128 (44.91%) Windows
2 67 (23.51%) Linux
3 56 (19.65%) Windows Server
4 47 (16.49%) Windows 10
5 19 (6.67%) Unix
6 13 (4.56%) Android
7 11 (3.86%) Apple iOS
7 11 (3.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (3.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (3.16%) CentOS
9 8 (2.81%) Solaris
10 6 (2.11%) VMS
10 6 (2.11%) Windows 7
11 5 (1.75%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (1.05%) AIX
12 3 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (1.05%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.05%) Robot Operating System
12 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.05%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (14.04%) Software Engineering
2 38 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (12.28%) Agile Software Development
5 32 (11.23%) Service Delivery
6 30 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 29 (10.18%) DevOps
8 26 (9.12%) Computer Science
9 20 (7.02%) Project Management
10 19 (6.67%) Business Continuity
11 18 (6.32%) Network Design
12 16 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (5.61%) ITIL
12 16 (5.61%) Mentoring
13 15 (5.26%) SIEM
14 13 (4.56%) Ethical Hacking
15 12 (4.21%) Disaster Recovery
15 12 (4.21%) Load Balancing
15 12 (4.21%) OO
15 12 (4.21%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (15.79%) Python
2 34 (11.93%) C
3 30 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 27 (9.47%) PowerShell
5 25 (8.77%) C++
6 23 (8.07%) SQL
7 13 (4.56%) PHP
7 13 (4.56%) Ruby
8 12 (4.21%) C#
9 11 (3.86%) Bash
9 11 (3.86%) Go
10 8 (2.81%) Java
11 7 (2.46%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.40%) C-shell
12 4 (1.40%) R
13 2 (0.70%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (9.82%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (8.07%) CCNA
3 21 (7.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (4.91%) MCP
5 13 (4.56%) Degree
5 13 (4.56%) Security Cleared
6 11 (3.86%) CCNP
6 11 (3.86%) SC Cleared
7 10 (3.51%) MCSA
8 6 (2.11%) MCSE
9 5 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.05%) CISM
11 3 (1.05%) CISSP
11 3 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (1.05%) SANS
12 2 (0.70%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.70%) GIAC
12 2 (0.70%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.70%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.91%) QA
2 13 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.16%) SLA
4 5 (1.75%) GDPR
4 5 (1.75%) NIST
5 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.05%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.70%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.35%) MISRA
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) PA-DSS
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 120 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 30 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.26%) vSphere
4 12 (4.21%) Docker
5 11 (3.86%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (3.51%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.75%) Firmware
8 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (1.05%) OpenAM
9 3 (1.05%) OpenIDM
9 3 (1.05%) RACF
9 3 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.05%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.70%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.35%) Snort
11 1 (0.35%) Varnish
11 1 (0.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.35%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 11 (3.86%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (2.81%) SCCM
3 6 (2.11%) Ansible
3 6 (2.11%) Terraform
4 5 (1.75%) QRadar
4 5 (1.75%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.05%) Backup Exec
5 3 (1.05%) CA Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (1.05%) Grafana
5 3 (1.05%) Oracle Identity Management
5 3 (1.05%) SCOM
5 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.70%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.70%) Nessus
7 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.35%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 112 (39.30%) Microsoft
2 46 (16.14%) Cisco
3 42 (14.74%) VMware
4 19 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 11 (3.86%) Citrix
6 10 (3.51%) Google
6 10 (3.51%) Mitel
6 10 (3.51%) Oracle
7 9 (3.16%) Dell
7 9 (3.16%) IBM
7 9 (3.16%) Sophos
8 8 (2.81%) Apple
8 8 (2.81%) EMC
8 8 (2.81%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.46%) Aruba
9 7 (2.46%) Intel
9 7 (2.46%) Meraki
9 7 (2.46%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.11%) Sitecore
10 6 (2.11%) Veeam