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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 91 80
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +10
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 20 14 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.21% 1.15% 1.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.06% 8.59% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 10
10th Percentile - £43,000 £26,150
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £29,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +42.86% +12.90%
75th Percentile £38,750 £67,500 £58,125
90th Percentile £46,250 £70,500 £75,125
South East median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +46.15%

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 493 163 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 29.82% 13.40% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 127 63 146
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,290 £28,375
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +8.37% -7.73%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,500 £67,500 £68,125
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

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 6 January 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 6 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
Reigate - 9 £37,500 - 3
Guildford -3 2 £52,500 +5.00% 2
Redhill - 2 £38,750 -
Woking - 1 £37,500 - 1
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:

Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (65.00%) DNS
2 12 (60.00%) DHCP
3 8 (40.00%) Firewall
4 5 (25.00%) Wireless
5 2 (10.00%) iSCSI
5 2 (10.00%) NAS
5 2 (10.00%) SAN
6 1 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (5.00%) VLAN
6 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) FileMaker
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Law
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Local Government
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (75.00%) IT Support
2 6 (30.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (30.00%) Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) IT Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) IT Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Support Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Support Technician
6 1 (5.00%) 1st Line Support Technician
6 1 (5.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 1 (5.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 1 (5.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician
6 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (90.00%) Windows
2 13 (65.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (50.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (30.00%) Process Improvement
4 5 (25.00%) Asset Management
5 2 (10.00%) Change Management
5 2 (10.00%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 1 (5.00%) Capacity Management
6 1 (5.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (5.00%) Information Management
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 1 (5.00%) ITIL
6 1 (5.00%) Preventative Maintenance
6 1 (5.00%) Project Delivery
6 1 (5.00%) Project Management
6 1 (5.00%) Security Patching
6 1 (5.00%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) CCNA
1 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) MCSE
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.00%) Docker
4 1 (5.00%) Firmware
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Podman
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (5.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) NetApp
3 2 (10.00%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat