TCP/IP Job Trends in Surrey

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 87 110
Rank change year-on-year +7 +23 -30
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 49 11 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.97% 0.95% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.19% 6.92% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 39 9 7
10th Percentile £26,250 - £44,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £37,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% -34.78% +64.29%
75th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £58,500 £52,250 £73,250
South East median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -11.76% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 285 159 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 11.45% 13.75% 22.68%
Number of salaries quoted 192 128 121
10th Percentile £30,050 £25,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,875 £30,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £36,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -33.33% +2.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £45,938 £61,000
90th Percentile £82,375 £66,800 £65,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.43% -15.50% -

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Surrey

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in Surrey

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Surrey over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in Surrey

TCP/IP
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 24 September 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
Redhill +19 20 £32,000 -26.86% 5
Guildford -21 10 £32,500 -38.10% 9
Camberley - 8 £27,500 - 5
Godalming - 5 £30,000 -
Chertsey - 2 £47,500 -
Woking - 1 £81,000 -
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.12%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (51.02%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (32.65%) Entra ID
3 9 (18.37%) Azure
4 3 (6.12%) AWS
4 3 (6.12%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (42.86%) Firewall
2 12 (24.49%) DNS
3 11 (22.45%) LTE
4 10 (20.41%) VoIP
5 7 (14.29%) VSAT
6 5 (10.20%) Asterisk PBX
6 5 (10.20%) LAN
6 5 (10.20%) VPN
6 5 (10.20%) WAN
7 4 (8.16%) Network Security
8 3 (6.12%) DHCP
8 3 (6.12%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (4.08%) SAN
10 1 (2.04%) BGP
10 1 (2.04%) Ethernet
10 1 (2.04%) IPsec
10 1 (2.04%) RS-232
10 1 (2.04%) SNMP
10 1 (2.04%) SSL
10 1 (2.04%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) JIRA
2 4 (8.16%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.08%) Cypress.io
General
1 27 (55.10%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Electronics
3 5 (10.20%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) 1st Line Support
2 9 (18.37%) 1st Line Support Analyst
2 9 (18.37%) Analyst
2 9 (18.37%) Support Analyst
3 8 (16.33%) IT Support
3 8 (16.33%) Service Desk Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Network Technician
5 6 (12.24%) IT Analyst
5 6 (12.24%) IT Support Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Communications Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Graduate
7 3 (6.12%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Support Consultant
8 2 (4.08%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) Node.js
1 4 (8.16%) React
2 3 (6.12%) LAMP
3 2 (4.08%) Jest
3 2 (4.08%) pytest
3 2 (4.08%) Terraform
4 1 (2.04%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.08%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.04%) FPGA
3 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) PKI
3 1 (2.04%) Replication
3 1 (2.04%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 31 (63.27%) Windows
2 20 (40.82%) Windows Server
3 14 (28.57%) Linux
4 5 (10.20%) Ubuntu
5 4 (8.16%) Debian
6 2 (4.08%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.04%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.94%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (38.78%) Customer Service
3 14 (28.57%) ITSM
4 12 (24.49%) ITIL
5 9 (18.37%) High Availability
6 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (10.20%) Computer Science
7 5 (10.20%) Kalman Filter
7 5 (10.20%) Project Delivery
7 5 (10.20%) Web Filtering
8 4 (8.16%) Agile
8 4 (8.16%) CI/CD
8 4 (8.16%) Collaborative Engineering
8 4 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (8.16%) Scrum
9 3 (6.12%) Incident Response
9 3 (6.12%) Mentoring
9 3 (6.12%) SIEM
9 3 (6.12%) Vulnerability Management
10 2 (4.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.29%) Bash
1 7 (14.29%) Python
2 5 (10.20%) Perl
3 4 (8.16%) PHP
4 2 (4.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (44.90%) Degree
2 20 (40.82%) Security Cleared
3 18 (36.73%) SC Cleared
4 9 (18.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (14.29%) HNC
5 7 (14.29%) HND
6 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.08%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.04%) CCNP
8 1 (2.04%) CCSP
8 1 (2.04%) CISSP
8 1 (2.04%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.04%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) SLA
2 5 (10.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (8.16%) GDPR
4 3 (6.12%) NIST
5 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (26.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.08%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.04%) Firmware
3 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (36.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.08%) Ansible
2 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 26 (53.06%) Microsoft
2 14 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 5 (10.20%) Cisco
4 2 (4.08%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.08%) Veeam
5 1 (2.04%) Google
5 1 (2.04%) Lattice Semiconductor
5 1 (2.04%) VMware
5 1 (2.04%) Xilinx