TCP/IP Job Trends in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 125 140
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 -73
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 63 74 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.84% 1.93% 1.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.65% 13.03% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 53 37 34
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,850 £25,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £46,250
90th Percentile £64,250 £67,500 £57,750
South East median annual salary £38,500 £37,500 £45,750
% change year-on-year +2.67% -18.03% -1.61%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 498 568 660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.62% 14.78% 14.13%
Number of salaries quoted 367 258 294
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £66,875
90th Percentile £72,500 £71,325 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +5.00%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the Thames Valley

TCP/IP
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
Buckinghamshire -20 23 £42,500 -23.42% 14
Berkshire +10 22 £47,500 -17.39% 16
Oxfordshire -33 18 £52,500 +72.13% 16
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (20.63%) SharePoint
2 12 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Lightworks
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.59%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 35 (55.56%) Azure
2 28 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 10 (15.87%) AWS
5 6 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (9.52%) Google Workspace
6 5 (7.94%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (7.94%) GCP
7 4 (6.35%) Power Automate
7 4 (6.35%) Sumo Logic
8 3 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.59%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.59%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (79.37%) DNS
2 39 (61.90%) Firewall
3 34 (53.97%) VPN
4 30 (47.62%) DHCP
5 25 (39.68%) VLAN
6 18 (28.57%) WAN
6 18 (28.57%) Wireless
7 16 (25.40%) LAN
8 14 (22.22%) HTTP
9 12 (19.05%) Network Security
10 11 (17.46%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (11.11%) SD-WAN
12 6 (9.52%) OSPF
13 4 (6.35%) BGP
14 3 (4.76%) WLAN
15 2 (3.17%) IPsec
15 2 (3.17%) MQTT
15 2 (3.17%) Remote Desktop
15 2 (3.17%) SSL
16 1 (1.59%) DNSSEC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) JIRA
General
1 28 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Retail
4 5 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Automotive
5 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.59%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.59%) Electronics
6 1 (1.59%) Finance
6 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) IT Engineer
1 17 (26.98%) IT Support
2 15 (23.81%) Analyst
3 14 (22.22%) IT Support Engineer
3 14 (22.22%) Support Engineer
4 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (15.87%) SOC Analyst
6 9 (14.29%) Network Engineer
7 7 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure Support
8 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 6 (9.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (9.52%) Senior
8 6 (9.52%) SOC Engineer
9 5 (7.94%) 1st Line Support
9 5 (7.94%) 3rd Line Support
10 4 (6.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (6.35%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 3 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 3 (4.76%) SIEM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) Terraform
2 2 (3.17%) gRPC
2 2 (3.17%) JSON
2 2 (3.17%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (3.17%) RESTful
3 1 (1.59%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Security Operations Centre
2 10 (15.87%) Cyber Threat
2 10 (15.87%) Driving Licence
3 9 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
4 7 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (11.11%) CSOC
5 6 (9.52%) Onboarding
5 6 (9.52%) Replication
6 3 (4.76%) Security Posture
7 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.59%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.59%) Robotics
8 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (65.08%) Windows
2 22 (34.92%) Linux
3 7 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 6 (9.52%) Rocky
4 6 (9.52%) Ubuntu
5 5 (7.94%) Android
6 4 (6.35%) Apple iOS
7 3 (4.76%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.59%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (38.10%) SIEM
3 19 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (26.98%) Security Operations
5 15 (23.81%) Incident Response
5 15 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (22.22%) Customer Service
7 13 (20.63%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 13 (20.63%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 13 (20.63%) Security Monitoring
7 13 (20.63%) Threat Detection
7 13 (20.63%) Threat Intelligence
8 11 (17.46%) Use Case
8 11 (17.46%) Vulnerability Management
9 10 (15.87%) Mentoring
10 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (14.29%) Incident Management
10 9 (14.29%) ITIL
11 8 (12.70%) Root Cause Analysis
12 7 (11.11%) Tradecraft
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.68%) PowerShell
2 14 (22.22%) Python
3 7 (11.11%) Bash
3 7 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
3 7 (11.11%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 17 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.40%) GCIA
3 15 (23.81%) CCNA
3 15 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (23.81%) Degree
4 14 (22.22%) GIAC
4 14 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 11 (17.46%) CompTIA Security+
6 10 (15.87%) SANS
7 8 (12.70%) CCNP
7 8 (12.70%) CISSP
7 8 (12.70%) CompTIA CySA+
7 8 (12.70%) CREST Certified
7 8 (12.70%) GCIH
8 7 (11.11%) GCED
8 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (9.52%) OSCP
10 5 (7.94%) CCNA CyberOps
10 5 (7.94%) CEH
11 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (36.51%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.94%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.76%) Firmware
5 2 (3.17%) Docker
5 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (12.70%) Kibana
3 4 (6.35%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.17%) QRadar
5 1 (1.59%) Graylog
5 1 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (73.02%) Microsoft
2 17 (26.98%) Cisco
2 17 (26.98%) Fortinet
3 13 (20.63%) CrowdStrike
4 12 (19.05%) Splunk
5 8 (12.70%) VMware
6 7 (11.11%) Carbon Black
6 7 (11.11%) Google
7 6 (9.52%) Dell
7 6 (9.52%) Veeam
8 5 (7.94%) Apple
8 5 (7.94%) Meraki
9 4 (6.35%) Ruckus Wireless
10 2 (3.17%) Aruba
10 2 (3.17%) Brocade
10 2 (3.17%) Juniper
10 2 (3.17%) WatchGuard
11 1 (1.59%) ArcSight
11 1 (1.59%) Infoblox