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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 113 163
Rank change year-on-year -21 +50 -27
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 40 70 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.71% 2.06% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.97% 12.96% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 25 34 77
10th Percentile - £25,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £30,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.50% -24.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £37,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £40,000 £56,250
South East median annual salary £37,500 £37,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year +0.67% -0.67% +1.35%

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 446 540 938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.88% 15.91% 13.58%
Number of salaries quoted 297 234 684
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £70,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +18 16 £70,000 +133.33% 10
Oxfordshire -18 13 £34,000 +11.48% 4
Buckinghamshire -25 11 £42,500 -5.56% 3
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 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) IIS
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) Entra ID
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (15.00%) AWS
4 5 (12.50%) Google Workspace
5 4 (10.00%) GCP
5 4 (10.00%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 27 (67.50%) DNS
1 27 (67.50%) Firewall
2 16 (40.00%) VPN
3 12 (30.00%) HTTP
4 9 (22.50%) DHCP
4 9 (22.50%) LAN
4 9 (22.50%) WAN
5 5 (12.50%) Network Security
6 3 (7.50%) MQTT
6 3 (7.50%) OSPF
6 3 (7.50%) VLAN
6 3 (7.50%) Wireless
7 2 (5.00%) FTP
7 2 (5.00%) Internet
7 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
7 2 (5.00%) SMTP
7 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (5.00%) WLAN
8 1 (2.50%) BGP
8 1 (2.50%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.50%) Retail
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.50%) Automotive
6 1 (2.50%) Aviation
6 1 (2.50%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.50%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Analyst
2 10 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (17.50%) IT Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) IT Support
3 7 (17.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Support Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) Senior
5 5 (12.50%) Support Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) Technical Support
5 5 (12.50%) Technical Support Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Network Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Security Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Security Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) REST
2 2 (5.00%) gRPC
2 2 (5.00%) LDAP
2 2 (5.00%) Middleware
2 2 (5.00%) SOAP
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (2.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
3 7 (17.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (15.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (10.00%) Security Posture
7 2 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (5.00%) Life Science
7 2 (5.00%) LIMS
7 2 (5.00%) Operational Technology
7 2 (5.00%) Replication
8 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.50%) Clustering
8 1 (2.50%) CSOC
8 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
8 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (52.50%) Windows
2 14 (35.00%) Linux
3 11 (27.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (15.00%) Mac OS
5 5 (12.50%) Android
5 5 (12.50%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Cybersecurity
1 17 (42.50%) Problem-Solving
1 17 (42.50%) SIEM
2 12 (30.00%) Incident Response
3 10 (25.00%) ITIL
3 10 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 10 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 9 (22.50%) Use Case
5 8 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 7 (17.50%) Computer Science
6 7 (17.50%) Validation
7 6 (15.00%) Blue Team
7 6 (15.00%) Customer Service
7 6 (15.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 6 (15.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 6 (15.00%) Security Monitoring
7 6 (15.00%) Threat Intelligence
7 6 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
8 5 (12.50%) Offensive Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) Python
2 8 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (12.50%) Search Processing Language
4 3 (7.50%) SQL
5 1 (2.50%) Bash
5 1 (2.50%) C#
5 1 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.00%) Degree
3 9 (22.50%) GCIA
3 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
4 8 (20.00%) SANS
5 6 (15.00%) CCNA
5 6 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (15.00%) CREST Certified
5 6 (15.00%) GCIH
5 6 (15.00%) GIAC
6 5 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (12.50%) GCED
6 5 (12.50%) OSCP
7 4 (10.00%) CCNP
8 3 (7.50%) CISSP
8 3 (7.50%) Master's Degree
8 3 (7.50%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (5.00%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (5.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (5.00%) GxP
3 2 (5.00%) QA
4 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.00%) Docker
4 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Kibana
2 3 (7.50%) QRadar
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.50%) Autotask
4 1 (2.50%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.50%) Graylog
4 1 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (27.50%) CrowdStrike
3 10 (25.00%) Splunk
4 6 (15.00%) Carbon Black
5 5 (12.50%) Google
5 5 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 5 (12.50%) VMware
6 4 (10.00%) CheckPoint
6 4 (10.00%) Cisco
7 2 (5.00%) Agilent
7 2 (5.00%) ArcSight
7 2 (5.00%) Aruba
7 2 (5.00%) ConnectWise
7 2 (5.00%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.00%) Ruckus Wireless
7 2 (5.00%) WatchGuard
8 1 (2.50%) Apple
8 1 (2.50%) F5
8 1 (2.50%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (2.50%) Meraki