TCP/IP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring TCP/IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited TCP/IP over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 187 203
Rank change year-on-year -66 +16 0
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 440 1,091 1,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.13% 1.47% 1.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.37% 11.11% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 315 846 689
10th Percentile £26,750 £24,750 £25,230
25th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,265
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -6.25% -1.42%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £72,149 £57,677 £67,575
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,902 9,823 10,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.70% 13.27% 18.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,211 7,114 4,631
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
South East +12 140 £37,500 - 75
Midlands -28 88 £32,500 -10.96% 51
North of England -79 78 £39,500 -1.25% 96
East of England -17 69 £47,500 +26.67% 58
West Midlands +1 50 £32,500 -5.80% 24
Yorkshire +2 44 £36,250 -5.84% 49
East Midlands -15 38 £30,000 -25.00% 26
Scotland +94 34 £50,000 +25.00% 19
North West -78 30 £39,500 -1.25% 38
Wales +34 19 £65,000 +136.36% 16
South West -14 17 £51,729 +57.95% 66
North East +42 4 £69,384 +193.69% 13
Northern Ireland +11 1 £85,000 +161.54% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 -
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 39 (8.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (4.77%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.95%) IIS
4 7 (1.59%) Apache Solr
4 7 (1.59%) nginx
5 5 (1.14%) Apache
6 2 (0.45%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.45%) WordPress
7 1 (0.23%) CICS
7 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 78 (17.73%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (1.36%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (1.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 125 (28.41%) Microsoft 365
2 117 (26.59%) Azure
3 63 (14.32%) AWS
4 29 (6.59%) GCP
5 16 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
6 13 (2.95%) Google Workspace
7 12 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (2.73%) SaaS
8 11 (2.50%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.82%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 8 (1.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (1.82%) AWS CodeBuild
9 8 (1.82%) dbt
9 8 (1.82%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.82%) Pulumi
10 7 (1.59%) Mimecast
11 6 (1.36%) OCI
11 6 (1.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 188 (42.73%) DNS
2 182 (41.36%) VPN
3 165 (37.50%) DHCP
4 161 (36.59%) Firewall
5 79 (17.95%) VLAN
5 79 (17.95%) WAN
6 77 (17.50%) LAN
7 63 (14.32%) BGP
8 60 (13.64%) Network Security
9 58 (13.18%) OSPF
10 30 (6.82%) Wireless
11 28 (6.36%) VoIP
12 24 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
13 22 (5.00%) HTTP
14 21 (4.77%) Internet
14 21 (4.77%) MPLS
15 20 (4.55%) IPsec
16 18 (4.09%) Modbus
17 17 (3.86%) SD-WAN
17 17 (3.86%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.32%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.86%) Relational Database
3 15 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.50%) MySQL
5 10 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (1.82%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.82%) Redis
7 7 (1.59%) Couchbase
8 4 (0.91%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.45%) Power BI
10 1 (0.23%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 62 (14.09%) Cucumber
1 62 (14.09%) Robot Framework
2 6 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (0.68%) Git
3 3 (0.68%) JIRA
4 2 (0.45%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.45%) JMeter
4 2 (0.45%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.45%) Subversion
5 1 (0.23%) GitLab
5 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 228 (51.82%) Social Skills
2 89 (20.23%) Telecoms
3 85 (19.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.23%) Finance
6 14 (3.18%) Retail
7 12 (2.73%) Automotive
8 11 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.50%) Local Government
9 10 (2.27%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.05%) Electronics
11 8 (1.82%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.82%) Law
12 7 (1.59%) Aviation
12 7 (1.59%) Legal
13 5 (1.14%) Back Office
13 5 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.68%) Banking
15 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (14.77%) IT Support
2 62 (14.09%) Test Automation Engineer
2 62 (14.09%) Test Engineer
3 61 (13.86%) Network Engineer
4 55 (12.50%) Analyst
5 53 (12.05%) Senior
6 48 (10.91%) Lead
7 43 (9.77%) Support Engineer
8 42 (9.55%) IT Engineer
9 28 (6.36%) Support Analyst
10 23 (5.23%) Technical Support
11 22 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
12 20 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
13 16 (3.64%) Developer
13 16 (3.64%) Embedded Engineer
13 16 (3.64%) Support Technician
14 15 (3.41%) Software Engineer
15 14 (3.18%) 3rd Line Support
15 14 (3.18%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.95%) .NET
2 12 (2.73%) Django
3 11 (2.50%) LDAP
3 11 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (1.59%) REST
5 5 (1.14%) JSON
6 4 (0.91%) .NET Core
6 4 (0.91%) .NET Framework
6 4 (0.91%) Entity Framework
6 4 (0.91%) HTML
6 4 (0.91%) Kafka
6 4 (0.91%) YAML
7 3 (0.68%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.68%) CSS
7 3 (0.68%) Node.js
7 3 (0.68%) React
7 3 (0.68%) RESTful
7 3 (0.68%) XML
8 2 (0.45%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 63 (14.32%) Linux Command Line
2 39 (8.86%) Data Centre
3 38 (8.64%) Management Information System
4 32 (7.27%) Driving Licence
5 21 (4.77%) Security Operations Centre
6 18 (4.09%) Device Driver
7 17 (3.86%) Client/Server
8 14 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.73%) Smartphone
10 10 (2.27%) IoT
10 10 (2.27%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
11 8 (1.82%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.82%) Robotics
12 7 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (1.59%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.36%) Security Posture
14 5 (1.14%) Replication
15 4 (0.91%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 255 (57.95%) Windows
2 133 (30.23%) Linux
3 86 (19.55%) Windows Server
4 32 (7.27%) Windows 10
5 30 (6.82%) Mac OS
6 24 (5.45%) Unix
7 23 (5.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (5.00%) Apple iOS
9 21 (4.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (3.18%) Mac OS X
11 13 (2.95%) Android
11 13 (2.95%) Ubuntu
12 8 (1.82%) Embedded Linux
13 7 (1.59%) VMS
14 3 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.45%) Debian
15 2 (0.45%) SUSE
15 2 (0.45%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (42.73%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (21.59%) Mentoring
3 84 (19.09%) DevOps
4 70 (15.91%) Test Automation
5 68 (15.45%) Coaching
6 62 (14.09%) Customer Service
6 62 (14.09%) System Testing
6 62 (14.09%) Test Management
7 59 (13.41%) Cybersecurity
8 49 (11.14%) Computer Science
9 37 (8.41%) CI/CD
10 34 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (7.50%) ITIL
11 33 (7.50%) SIEM
12 31 (7.05%) Agile
13 29 (6.59%) Software Engineering
14 28 (6.36%) Incident Response
15 27 (6.14%) Technical Leadership
16 25 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 25 (5.68%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 122 (27.73%) Python
2 120 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 77 (17.50%) Bash
4 69 (15.68%) JavaScript
5 35 (7.95%) SQL
6 33 (7.50%) C++
7 32 (7.27%) C
8 19 (4.32%) C#
9 10 (2.27%) PHP
10 9 (2.05%) Perl
11 8 (1.82%) Java
12 5 (1.14%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.91%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.91%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.68%) Bicep
14 3 (0.68%) JCL
15 1 (0.23%) R
15 1 (0.23%) Scala
15 1 (0.23%) VBA
15 1 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 150 (34.09%) Degree
2 66 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 37 (8.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 37 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (7.73%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (5.68%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.23%) CCNP
8 22 (5.00%) CCNA
9 18 (4.09%) A+ Certification
10 13 (2.95%) HNC
10 13 (2.95%) HND
11 11 (2.50%) MCSE
12 9 (2.05%) JNCIA
12 9 (2.05%) MCP
12 9 (2.05%) Network+ Certification
13 8 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (1.82%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.36%) Azure Certification
14 6 (1.36%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (15.00%) QA
2 18 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (3.18%) SLA
4 9 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.91%) NIST
7 3 (0.68%) GDPR
8 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.45%) NCSC
8 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 118 (26.82%) Active Directory
2 56 (12.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (10.91%) Hyper-V
4 25 (5.68%) Firmware
5 23 (5.23%) Docker
6 8 (1.82%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (1.36%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.68%) vSphere
9 2 (0.45%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.23%) NFS
10 1 (0.23%) RHEV
10 1 (0.23%) vCloud
10 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (7.73%) Ansible
2 28 (6.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (5.91%) Terraform
4 25 (5.68%) Kubernetes
5 16 (3.64%) QRadar
6 12 (2.73%) SCCM
7 10 (2.27%) FortiGate
8 8 (1.82%) AWS Copilot
9 6 (1.36%) ArcSight ESM
9 6 (1.36%) WSUS
10 5 (1.14%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.91%) SCOM
12 3 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.45%) Iperf
13 2 (0.45%) Nmap
13 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.45%) Puppet
13 2 (0.45%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.45%) SCSM
Vendors
1 183 (41.59%) Microsoft
2 76 (17.27%) VMware
3 67 (15.23%) Cisco
4 39 (8.86%) Google
5 24 (5.45%) Splunk
6 23 (5.23%) Fortinet
7 22 (5.00%) Apple
8 17 (3.86%) Dell
8 17 (3.86%) Ubiquiti
9 11 (2.50%) Citrix
10 9 (2.05%) HP
10 9 (2.05%) SAP
11 8 (1.82%) ArcSight
12 7 (1.59%) Juniper
12 7 (1.59%) Veeam
13 6 (1.36%) Arista
13 6 (1.36%) LogLogic
13 6 (1.36%) McAfee
14 5 (1.14%) Draytek
14 5 (1.14%) Meraki