TCP/IP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 211 196
Rank change year-on-year -71 -15 -3
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 378 456 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 1.54% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.88% 8.91% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 315 326 836
10th Percentile £27,850 £26,250 £24,875
25th Percentile £29,625 £30,000 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £50,250
90th Percentile £65,750 £72,061 £57,677
UK median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% 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 5,494 5,119 9,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.24% 17.28% 12.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,116 2,638 7,113
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,087 £25,759
25th Percentile £30,250 £29,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £68,750
UK median annual salary £47,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.05% - -5.94%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing TCP/IP

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 7 June 2026.

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 7 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
South East -42 114 £37,500 - 74
North of England -11 112 £34,000 -13.38% 46
Midlands -71 54 £32,500 - 29
Yorkshire -38 53 £32,500 -10.34% 14
North West -8 42 £40,000 +1.27% 27
South West -37 35 £34,000 -34.27% 31
East of England -51 35 £40,000 -15.79% 32
East Midlands -35 31 £32,500 +8.33% 12
West Midlands -50 23 £32,875 +1.15% 17
Wales -43 19 £37,000 -43.08% 4
North East -30 17 £40,000 -42.35% 6
Scotland -18 8 £46,000 -4.17% 13
Northern Ireland -34 1 £73,801 -13.18% 5
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 57 (15.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (12.70%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.44%) IIS
4 5 (1.32%) Apache
5 3 (0.79%) SAS
6 1 (0.26%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 52 (13.76%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.26%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 178 (47.09%) Microsoft 365
2 160 (42.33%) Azure
3 77 (20.37%) Entra ID
4 60 (15.87%) AWS
5 24 (6.35%) GCP
6 17 (4.50%) IaaS
7 16 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (3.97%) GitHub
8 15 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (3.17%) PaaS
10 10 (2.65%) OneDrive
11 7 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.32%) Nutanix
14 4 (1.06%) Amazon ECR
14 4 (1.06%) AWS CodeBuild
14 4 (1.06%) dbt
14 4 (1.06%) Pulumi
14 4 (1.06%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 245 (64.81%) DNS
2 192 (50.79%) DHCP
3 171 (45.24%) Firewall
4 119 (31.48%) VPN
5 110 (29.10%) WAN
6 96 (25.40%) LAN
7 83 (21.96%) VLAN
8 43 (11.38%) HTTP
8 43 (11.38%) Wi-Fi
9 39 (10.32%) Network Security
10 27 (7.14%) VoIP
11 26 (6.88%) Wireless
12 19 (5.03%) SD-WAN
13 18 (4.76%) SMTP
14 17 (4.50%) BGP
15 15 (3.97%) OSPF
16 14 (3.70%) FTP
17 13 (3.44%) Wireshark
18 12 (3.17%) SSL
18 12 (3.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.94%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.12%) MySQL
5 4 (1.06%) Crystal Reports
5 4 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.06%) Redis
6 3 (0.79%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.53%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.53%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.26%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (4.50%) Jenkins
2 10 (2.65%) JIRA
3 7 (1.85%) Git
4 4 (1.06%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.79%) GitLab
5 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.26%) CMake
6 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.26%) Selenium
6 1 (0.26%) WebDriver
General
1 153 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 44 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (8.73%) Organisational Skills
4 25 (6.61%) Documentation Skills
4 25 (6.61%) Telecoms
5 24 (6.35%) Law
6 21 (5.56%) Aerospace
7 15 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.91%) Back Office
8 11 (2.91%) Finance
8 11 (2.91%) Retail
9 9 (2.38%) Automotive
9 9 (2.38%) Legal
9 9 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.12%) Electronics
11 7 (1.85%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.59%) Spanish Language
13 5 (1.32%) Local Government
14 4 (1.06%) Games
15 3 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 116 (30.69%) IT Support
2 64 (16.93%) Analyst
3 54 (14.29%) Support Technician
4 48 (12.70%) Support Engineer
5 45 (11.90%) IT Engineer
6 43 (11.38%) IT Support Technician
6 43 (11.38%) IT Technician
7 38 (10.05%) Senior
8 36 (9.52%) IT Support Engineer
8 36 (9.52%) Network Engineer
9 34 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 31 (8.20%) 2nd Line Support
11 26 (6.88%) Support Analyst
12 19 (5.03%) SOC Analyst
13 18 (4.76%) Lead
14 17 (4.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 17 (4.50%) Infrastructure Support
14 17 (4.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
15 15 (3.97%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
1 15 (3.97%) LDAP
2 9 (2.38%) .NET
3 8 (2.12%) Django
3 8 (2.12%) Node.js
3 8 (2.12%) React
4 7 (1.85%) gRPC
5 6 (1.59%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.32%) JSON
7 4 (1.06%) 802.1X
7 4 (1.06%) CSS
7 4 (1.06%) HTML
7 4 (1.06%) Middleware
7 4 (1.06%) Qt
7 4 (1.06%) REST
7 4 (1.06%) WebSockets
7 4 (1.06%) XML
8 2 (0.53%) COM
8 2 (0.53%) DCOM
8 2 (0.53%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 66 (17.46%) Driving Licence
2 19 (5.03%) EPoS
2 19 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (3.97%) Data Centre
3 15 (3.97%) Replication
3 15 (3.97%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (2.91%) Cyber Defence
5 11 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (2.65%) Client/Server
7 9 (2.38%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (2.12%) PKI
9 6 (1.59%) CCTV
9 6 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.06%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 253 (66.93%) Windows
2 146 (38.62%) Windows Server
3 70 (18.52%) Linux
4 59 (15.61%) Windows 10
5 26 (6.88%) Mac OS
6 22 (5.82%) Android
7 20 (5.29%) Apple iOS
8 11 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (1.59%) Unix
10 6 (1.59%) VMS
10 6 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (1.06%) CentOS
12 3 (0.79%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.79%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.53%) Debian
14 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.26%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (34.13%) Problem-Solving
2 107 (28.31%) Customer Service
3 66 (17.46%) ITIL
4 58 (15.34%) Cybersecurity
5 54 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 53 (14.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 50 (13.23%) Service Delivery
8 39 (10.32%) Mentoring
9 38 (10.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (9.79%) ITSM
11 36 (9.52%) Incident Response
12 35 (9.26%) Disaster Recovery
13 31 (8.20%) Incident Management
14 28 (7.41%) Containerisation
14 28 (7.41%) SIEM
15 27 (7.14%) DevOps
16 26 (6.88%) Project Delivery
16 26 (6.88%) Root Cause Analysis
17 25 (6.61%) CI/CD
17 25 (6.61%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (20.90%) PowerShell
2 65 (17.20%) Python
3 34 (8.99%) Bash
4 26 (6.88%) SQL
5 18 (4.76%) C++
6 15 (3.97%) Go
7 9 (2.38%) C#
8 8 (2.12%) Perl
9 7 (1.85%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.59%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (1.59%) VBA
11 5 (1.32%) Java
12 3 (0.79%) C
13 2 (0.53%) Bicep
13 2 (0.53%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.53%) PHP
14 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 51 (13.49%) Degree
3 46 (12.17%) SC Cleared
4 32 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 29 (7.67%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (6.08%) CCNA
7 16 (4.23%) CCNP
8 15 (3.97%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.97%) CREST Certified
9 14 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
10 12 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (2.91%) Network+ Certification
12 10 (2.65%) GCIA
13 9 (2.38%) A+ Certification
13 9 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (2.38%) SANS
14 8 (2.12%) CEH
14 8 (2.12%) DBS Check
15 7 (1.85%) DV Cleared
15 7 (1.85%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.26%) SLA
2 18 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (3.70%) GDPR
5 3 (0.79%) QA
6 1 (0.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.26%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.26%) GxP
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 185 (48.94%) Active Directory
2 75 (19.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (16.40%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.76%) Docker
5 11 (2.91%) Firmware
6 10 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (2.65%) vSphere
7 7 (1.85%) KVM
7 7 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.26%) QEMU
11 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.26%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.26%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 49 (12.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (8.73%) Ansible
3 29 (7.67%) Terraform
4 20 (5.29%) Grafana
5 19 (5.03%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.97%) FortiGate
7 13 (3.44%) Kubernetes
8 12 (3.17%) QRadar
9 11 (2.91%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (1.85%) Kibana
10 7 (1.85%) Nagios
10 7 (1.85%) Puppet
11 6 (1.59%) VxRail
11 6 (1.59%) WSUS
12 4 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (1.06%) Autotask
12 4 (1.06%) AWS Copilot
12 4 (1.06%) Backup Exec
12 4 (1.06%) SolarWinds Orion
12 4 (1.06%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 238 (62.96%) Microsoft
2 96 (25.40%) VMware
3 43 (11.38%) Cisco
4 30 (7.94%) Veeam
5 22 (5.82%) Citrix
5 22 (5.82%) Splunk
6 21 (5.56%) Meraki
7 16 (4.23%) Apple
8 15 (3.97%) CrowdStrike
9 13 (3.44%) Dell
9 13 (3.44%) HP
9 13 (3.44%) ServiceNow
10 11 (2.91%) Fortinet
10 11 (2.91%) SolarWinds
10 11 (2.91%) Sophos
11 10 (2.65%) SonicWALL
12 9 (2.38%) Google
13 8 (2.12%) Logitech
13 8 (2.12%) Yealink
14 7 (1.85%) Carbon Black