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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 140 136
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 50 23 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.74% 0.85% 1.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.73% 6.89% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 39 19 93
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,375 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,500 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +25.76% -30.71%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,125 £52,500
90th Percentile £74,500 £78,250 £57,500
England median annual salary £37,500 £47,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.21% +10.59% -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 573 334 1,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.48% 12.28% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 340 254 922
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £48,750 £66,943 £57,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,550 £70,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -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 1 April 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 1 April 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
Gloucestershire +3 15 £55,000 +66.67% 8
Wiltshire -8 11 £67,500 +170.00%
Devon -5 9 £40,000 - 4
Somerset -20 7 £28,000 -32.53% 4
Bristol -15 4 £52,209 -18.10% 4
Cornwall -15 4 £32,500 -5.80% 2
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 (26.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (14.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (38.00%) Azure
3 10 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (14.00%) AWS
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (4.00%) IaaS
6 2 (4.00%) OCI
6 2 (4.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.00%) PaaS
6 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.00%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.00%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 39 (78.00%) DNS
2 32 (64.00%) DHCP
3 20 (40.00%) Firewall
4 16 (32.00%) VLAN
5 13 (26.00%) WAN
6 12 (24.00%) LAN
7 10 (20.00%) Network Security
7 10 (20.00%) VPN
8 8 (16.00%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (12.00%) HTTP
10 5 (10.00%) SD-WAN
11 4 (8.00%) BGP
11 4 (8.00%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (8.00%) SMTP
12 3 (6.00%) DMZ
12 3 (6.00%) ICMP
12 3 (6.00%) MPLS
12 3 (6.00%) OSPF
12 3 (6.00%) SSL
13 2 (4.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.00%) GitLab
2 2 (4.00%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 22 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Electronics
3 3 (6.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (6.00%) Marketing
3 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Advertising
5 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.00%) Military
5 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (32.00%) IT Support
2 12 (24.00%) IT Engineer
3 11 (22.00%) Support Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 7 (14.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (14.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 6 (12.00%) IT Support Technician
7 6 (12.00%) IT Technician
7 6 (12.00%) Support Technician
8 5 (10.00%) Analyst
8 5 (10.00%) Support Analyst
9 4 (8.00%) C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Python Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
10 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Support
10 3 (6.00%) IT Analyst
10 3 (6.00%) Network Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Driving Licence
2 4 (8.00%) Digital Signage
2 4 (8.00%) Educational Technology
2 4 (8.00%) GNSS
2 4 (8.00%) Satnav
2 4 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.00%) Arduino
4 2 (4.00%) e-Learning
4 2 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.00%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (2.00%) BYOD
5 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (64.00%) Windows
2 20 (40.00%) Linux
3 16 (32.00%) Windows Server
4 7 (14.00%) Windows 10
5 5 (10.00%) Mac OS
6 3 (6.00%) CentOS
7 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.00%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (18.00%) Customer Service
4 8 (16.00%) Cloud Security
5 7 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (14.00%) Penetration Testing
6 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (12.00%) Kalman Filter
6 6 (12.00%) Time Management
7 5 (10.00%) ITIL
7 5 (10.00%) Mathematics
7 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (10.00%) Open Source
7 5 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (10.00%) Validation
8 4 (8.00%) B2B
8 4 (8.00%) Computer Science
8 4 (8.00%) Identity Management
8 4 (8.00%) Network Architecture
8 4 (8.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.00%) Python
2 15 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 11 (22.00%) Bash
4 6 (12.00%) C++
5 2 (4.00%) C
5 2 (4.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Degree
1 10 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) CCNP
2 6 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (12.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.00%) CCNA
5 3 (6.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.00%) A+ Certification
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (46.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (22.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (2.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) Ansible
2 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (10.00%) Terraform
4 3 (6.00%) FortiGate
4 3 (6.00%) NetBackup
5 2 (4.00%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (4.00%) SCVMM
6 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (58.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.00%) VMware
3 8 (16.00%) Cisco
3 8 (16.00%) Veeam
4 6 (12.00%) Dell
5 5 (10.00%) Fortinet
6 4 (8.00%) Apple
6 4 (8.00%) HP
6 4 (8.00%) Juniper
7 3 (6.00%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (6.00%) Palo Alto
7 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
7 3 (6.00%) SAP
8 2 (4.00%) McAfee
8 2 (4.00%) SonicWALL
9 1 (2.00%) Aruba
9 1 (2.00%) Oracle