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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 127 159
Rank change year-on-year -6 +32 -79
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 50 71 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.80% 1.96% 1.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.94% 12.24% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 39 34 60
10th Percentile £27,700 £26,500 £29,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £31,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.79% -25.88% -2.30%
75th Percentile £56,250 £38,188 £51,563
90th Percentile £73,750 £62,350 £56,375
South East median annual salary £37,500 £35,750 £38,500
% change year-on-year +4.90% -7.14% -9.41%

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 457 580 823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.29% 16.04% 13.72%
Number of salaries quoted 338 279 564
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £29,855
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,125
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +2.15%

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 21 July 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 21 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
Berkshire +25 22 £52,500 +40.00% 9
Buckinghamshire -21 18 £42,500 -5.56% 8
Oxfordshire -31 10 £34,000 +11.48% 6
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 9 (18.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Lightworks
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (56.00%) Azure
2 18 (36.00%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (26.00%) Entra ID
4 11 (22.00%) AWS
5 6 (12.00%) GCP
6 5 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (8.00%) Power Automate
7 4 (8.00%) Sumo Logic
8 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Stack
9 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (2.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 39 (78.00%) DNS
2 34 (68.00%) Firewall
3 23 (46.00%) VPN
4 15 (30.00%) DHCP
4 15 (30.00%) HTTP
5 11 (22.00%) LAN
5 11 (22.00%) WAN
6 10 (20.00%) VLAN
7 8 (16.00%) Wireless
8 6 (12.00%) Network Security
9 4 (8.00%) OSPF
9 4 (8.00%) SD-WAN
9 4 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (4.00%) BGP
10 2 (4.00%) FTP
10 2 (4.00%) Internet
10 2 (4.00%) MQTT
10 2 (4.00%) SMTP
10 2 (4.00%) WLAN
11 1 (2.00%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 24 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Retail
5 2 (4.00%) Finance
5 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Aviation
6 1 (2.00%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 16 (32.00%) Analyst
2 12 (24.00%) IT Support
3 11 (22.00%) IT Engineer
3 11 (22.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 11 (22.00%) SOC Analyst
3 11 (22.00%) Support Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Senior
5 5 (10.00%) SOC Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) 1st Line Support
7 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Security Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Security Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) SIEM Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Help Desk Support
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) gRPC
2 2 (4.00%) JSON
2 2 (4.00%) LDAP
2 2 (4.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (4.00%) RESTful
3 1 (2.00%) .NET
3 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Cyber Threat
1 11 (22.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 10 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
3 8 (16.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (12.00%) CSOC
5 4 (8.00%) Driving Licence
5 4 (8.00%) Security Posture
6 2 (4.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.00%) Replication
7 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.00%) Clustering
7 1 (2.00%) Cyberattack
7 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (62.00%) Windows
2 20 (40.00%) Linux
3 10 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (10.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.00%) Android
5 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.00%) Cybersecurity
1 24 (48.00%) SIEM
2 16 (32.00%) Security Operations
3 15 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (26.00%) Threat Detection
6 12 (24.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 12 (24.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 12 (24.00%) Security Monitoring
6 12 (24.00%) Threat Intelligence
7 11 (22.00%) Incident Management
7 11 (22.00%) Use Case
8 10 (20.00%) ITIL
8 10 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 9 (18.00%) Mentoring
10 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (16.00%) Customer Service
11 7 (14.00%) Blue Team
11 7 (14.00%) SOAR
11 7 (14.00%) Tradecraft
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.00%) PowerShell
2 13 (26.00%) Python
3 7 (14.00%) Search Processing Language
4 6 (12.00%) Bash
4 6 (12.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.00%) C#
5 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (30.00%) GCIA
3 14 (28.00%) Degree
4 13 (26.00%) CCNA
4 13 (26.00%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (26.00%) GIAC
4 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
5 10 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 10 (20.00%) SANS
6 8 (16.00%) CREST Certified
6 8 (16.00%) GCIH
7 7 (14.00%) CISSP
7 7 (14.00%) CompTIA CySA+
7 7 (14.00%) GCED
8 6 (12.00%) CCNP
8 6 (12.00%) OSCP
9 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (8.00%) CCNA CyberOps
10 4 (8.00%) CEH
10 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.00%) Docker
4 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Kibana
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.00%) FortiGate
3 3 (6.00%) QRadar
3 3 (6.00%) Terraform
4 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.00%) Autotask
5 1 (2.00%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.00%) Graylog
5 1 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (68.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (26.00%) CrowdStrike
2 13 (26.00%) Splunk
3 9 (18.00%) Cisco
4 8 (16.00%) Fortinet
5 7 (14.00%) Carbon Black
6 2 (4.00%) ArcSight
6 2 (4.00%) Aruba
6 2 (4.00%) ConnectWise
6 2 (4.00%) Ruckus Wireless
6 2 (4.00%) WatchGuard
7 1 (2.00%) Apple
7 1 (2.00%) Datto
7 1 (2.00%) Google
7 1 (2.00%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.00%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.00%) Meraki
7 1 (2.00%) Sophos