TCP/IP Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 133 154
Rank change year-on-year -53 +21 -9
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 40 32 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.49% 1.05% 1.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.54% 6.78% 11.63%
Number of salaries quoted 38 23 98
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £41,500 £36,875
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +12.54% -13.24%
75th Percentile £55,625 £56,581 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £68,500 £64,125
England median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 612 472 1,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.57% 15.49% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 364 327 927
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £41,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.43% +7.78%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £59,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in the South West

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the South West over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Devon -24 12 £32,500 -21.43% 4
Bristol -19 7 £50,000 -23.08% 4
Gloucestershire -30 7 £56,250 +2.27% 12
Wiltshire -24 5 £43,750 +26.81% 2
Somerset -34 5 £28,000 -32.53% 12
Cornwall - 3 £32,500 - 2
Dorset +2 1 £62,500 - 1
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 13 (32.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (45.00%) Azure
3 15 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 6 (15.00%) AWS
5 4 (10.00%) IaaS
5 4 (10.00%) PaaS
6 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (7.50%) Serverless
7 2 (5.00%) GitHub
7 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 2 (5.00%) Rubrik
7 2 (5.00%) SaaS
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 29 (72.50%) DHCP
1 29 (72.50%) DNS
2 19 (47.50%) Firewall
3 18 (45.00%) VLAN
4 11 (27.50%) WAN
5 10 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (22.50%) LAN
6 9 (22.50%) Network Security
7 6 (15.00%) VPN
8 5 (12.50%) VoIP
9 3 (7.50%) DMZ
9 3 (7.50%) SD-WAN
9 3 (7.50%) SSL
10 2 (5.00%) Internet
10 2 (5.00%) VSAN
10 2 (5.00%) Wireless
11 1 (2.50%) DKIM
11 1 (2.50%) RS-232
11 1 (2.50%) RS-485
11 1 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.50%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.50%) MySQL
2 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.50%) GitLab
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Finance
2 3 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Electronics
3 2 (5.00%) Military
3 2 (5.00%) Retail
4 1 (2.50%) Advertising
4 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) IT Support
2 13 (32.50%) IT Engineer
3 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (22.50%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (22.50%) Support Engineer
5 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Support
6 5 (12.50%) Analyst
6 5 (12.50%) Support Analyst
7 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 4 (10.00%) IT Support Technician
7 4 (10.00%) IT Technician
7 4 (10.00%) Support Technician
8 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) IT Analyst
8 3 (7.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Educational Technology
2 4 (10.00%) Digital Signage
2 4 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 3 (7.50%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.00%) Analogue Electronics
4 2 (5.00%) BYOD
4 2 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (67.50%) Windows
2 20 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 15 (37.50%) Linux
4 5 (12.50%) Mac OS
5 4 (10.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (7.50%) CentOS
6 3 (7.50%) Ubuntu
6 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (5.00%) CoreOS
7 2 (5.00%) Debian
7 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (5.00%) Unix
8 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (17.50%) Preventative Maintenance
4 7 (17.50%) Time Management
5 6 (15.00%) Customer Service
5 6 (15.00%) DevOps
5 6 (15.00%) Kalman Filter
6 5 (12.50%) Incident Response
7 4 (10.00%) Cloud Security
7 4 (10.00%) Compliance Management
7 4 (10.00%) Email Filtering
7 4 (10.00%) ITIL
7 4 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 4 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (10.00%) Server Management
7 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (10.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (25.00%) Python
3 9 (22.50%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) C
4 2 (5.00%) C++
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) MATLAB
4 2 (5.00%) PHP
4 2 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) CCNA
3 3 (7.50%) CCNP
3 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.00%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) HND
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) DO-178B
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (7.50%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (2.50%) Docker
5 1 (2.50%) Firmware
5 1 (2.50%) KVM
5 1 (2.50%) QEMU
5 1 (2.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Ansible
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (7.50%) FortiGate
3 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.00%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (5.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (5.00%) SCVMM
4 1 (2.50%) Puppet
4 1 (2.50%) SCCM
4 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (30.00%) Veeam
3 9 (22.50%) VMware
4 5 (12.50%) Apple
4 5 (12.50%) Cisco
4 5 (12.50%) Dell
5 4 (10.00%) HP
5 4 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.50%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (7.50%) Juniper
7 2 (5.00%) Aruba
7 2 (5.00%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.00%) McAfee
8 1 (2.50%) Citrix
8 1 (2.50%) Google
8 1 (2.50%) Meraki
8 1 (2.50%) Oracle
8 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow