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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 186 200
Rank change year-on-year -69 +14 0
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 452 1,106 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.14% 1.46% 1.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.30% 11.18% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 324 847 679
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,900 £25,120
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £30,632
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -2.44%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,125 £53,750
90th Percentile £72,237 £58,212 £68,750
UK median annual salary £44,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.53% -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 7,176 9,894 10,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.04% 13.02% 19.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,386 7,118 4,590
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,756 £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 £55,594 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £41,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -12.63% -5.94% -3.81%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +12 143 £37,250 -0.67% 605
Midlands -17 90 £32,500 -10.96% 456
North of England -78 85 £38,500 -3.75% 558
East of England -19 69 £47,500 +31.03% 399
West Midlands +6 52 £32,500 -5.80% 236
Yorkshire +1 47 £35,000 -11.39% 261
East Midlands -11 38 £30,000 -25.00% 191
Scotland +78 33 £50,000 +25.00% 112
North West -71 33 £39,500 -1.25% 235
Wales +31 20 £65,000 +136.36% 69
South West -10 17 £51,729 +56.75% 325
North East +44 5 £69,384 +193.69% 65
Northern Ireland +8 1 £85,000 +161.54% 28
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 - 3
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 37 (8.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.87%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.65%) IIS
4 8 (1.77%) Apache Solr
4 8 (1.77%) nginx
5 5 (1.11%) Apache
6 2 (0.44%) CMS
6 2 (0.44%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.44%) WordPress
7 1 (0.22%) CICS
7 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 80 (17.70%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.55%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (1.33%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (1.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 130 (28.76%) Microsoft 365
2 124 (27.43%) Azure
3 63 (13.94%) AWS
4 30 (6.64%) GCP
5 16 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
6 13 (2.88%) Entra ID
6 13 (2.88%) Google Workspace
7 12 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (2.65%) SaaS
8 9 (1.99%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.77%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.77%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 8 (1.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (1.77%) AWS CodeBuild
9 8 (1.77%) dbt
9 8 (1.77%) Pulumi
10 7 (1.55%) Mimecast
11 6 (1.33%) OCI
11 6 (1.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 199 (44.03%) DNS
2 192 (42.48%) VPN
3 174 (38.50%) DHCP
4 171 (37.83%) Firewall
5 84 (18.58%) VLAN
6 82 (18.14%) WAN
7 80 (17.70%) LAN
8 64 (14.16%) BGP
9 62 (13.72%) Network Security
10 59 (13.05%) OSPF
11 34 (7.52%) Wireless
12 29 (6.42%) VoIP
13 25 (5.53%) Wi-Fi
14 23 (5.09%) Internet
15 22 (4.87%) HTTP
15 22 (4.87%) MPLS
16 21 (4.65%) IPsec
17 18 (3.98%) Modbus
18 17 (3.76%) SMTP
18 17 (3.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.76%) Relational Database
1 17 (3.76%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (2.43%) MySQL
4 9 (1.99%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.77%) Couchbase
5 8 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.77%) Redis
6 4 (0.88%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.44%) Power BI
8 1 (0.22%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 62 (13.72%) Cucumber
1 62 (13.72%) Robot Framework
2 6 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (0.88%) Git
4 3 (0.66%) JIRA
5 2 (0.44%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.44%) JMeter
5 2 (0.44%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.44%) Subversion
6 1 (0.22%) GitLab
6 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 235 (51.99%) Social Skills
2 90 (19.91%) Telecoms
3 84 (18.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.09%) Finance
6 14 (3.10%) Retail
7 12 (2.65%) Automotive
7 12 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.43%) Local Government
9 10 (2.21%) Public Sector
10 9 (1.99%) Electronics
11 8 (1.77%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.77%) Law
12 7 (1.55%) Aviation
12 7 (1.55%) Legal
13 5 (1.11%) Back Office
13 5 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.66%) Banking
15 3 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (14.60%) Network Engineer
2 65 (14.38%) IT Support
3 62 (13.72%) Test Automation Engineer
3 62 (13.72%) Test Engineer
4 60 (13.27%) Analyst
5 56 (12.39%) Senior
6 49 (10.84%) Lead
7 44 (9.73%) Support Engineer
8 42 (9.29%) IT Engineer
9 30 (6.64%) Support Analyst
10 26 (5.75%) Technical Support
11 22 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (4.87%) IT Support Engineer
12 20 (4.42%) Systems Engineer
13 16 (3.54%) Developer
13 16 (3.54%) Embedded Engineer
14 15 (3.32%) 3rd Line Support
14 15 (3.32%) IT Analyst
14 15 (3.32%) Software Engineer
14 15 (3.32%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.10%) .NET
2 12 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (2.43%) Django
3 11 (2.43%) LDAP
4 7 (1.55%) REST
5 5 (1.11%) .NET Core
5 5 (1.11%) .NET Framework
5 5 (1.11%) Entity Framework
5 5 (1.11%) JSON
6 4 (0.88%) HTML
6 4 (0.88%) Kafka
6 4 (0.88%) YAML
7 3 (0.66%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.66%) CSS
7 3 (0.66%) Node.js
7 3 (0.66%) React
7 3 (0.66%) RESTful
8 2 (0.44%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.44%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 63 (13.94%) Linux Command Line
2 39 (8.63%) Data Centre
3 38 (8.41%) Management Information System
4 33 (7.30%) Driving Licence
5 22 (4.87%) Security Operations Centre
6 18 (3.98%) Device Driver
7 17 (3.76%) Client/Server
8 14 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.65%) Smartphone
10 10 (2.21%) IoT
10 10 (2.21%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.77%) Embedded Systems
11 8 (1.77%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.55%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.55%) Robotics
13 6 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
14 4 (0.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 258 (57.08%) Windows
2 136 (30.09%) Linux
3 87 (19.25%) Windows Server
4 33 (7.30%) Windows 10
5 29 (6.42%) Mac OS
6 26 (5.75%) Unix
7 23 (5.09%) Apple iOS
7 23 (5.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (3.10%) Android
9 14 (3.10%) Mac OS X
10 13 (2.88%) Ubuntu
11 8 (1.77%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (1.55%) VMS
13 3 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.44%) Debian
14 2 (0.44%) SUSE
14 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.44%) zOS
15 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (43.58%) Problem-Solving
2 97 (21.46%) Mentoring
3 86 (19.03%) DevOps
4 70 (15.49%) Test Automation
5 68 (15.04%) Coaching
6 67 (14.82%) Customer Service
7 62 (13.72%) System Testing
7 62 (13.72%) Test Management
8 61 (13.50%) Cybersecurity
9 49 (10.84%) Computer Science
10 39 (8.63%) CI/CD
11 35 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (7.52%) ITIL
12 34 (7.52%) SIEM
13 32 (7.08%) Agile
14 29 (6.42%) Incident Response
14 29 (6.42%) Software Engineering
15 27 (5.97%) Technical Leadership
16 26 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 26 (5.75%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 121 (26.77%) Python
2 119 (26.33%) PowerShell
3 77 (17.04%) Bash
4 69 (15.27%) JavaScript
5 35 (7.74%) SQL
6 33 (7.30%) C++
7 32 (7.08%) C
8 19 (4.20%) C#
9 11 (2.43%) PHP
10 9 (1.99%) Perl
11 8 (1.77%) Java
12 5 (1.11%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.88%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.88%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.66%) Bicep
14 3 (0.66%) JCL
15 1 (0.22%) R
15 1 (0.22%) Scala
15 1 (0.22%) VBA
15 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 152 (33.63%) Degree
2 68 (15.04%) Security Cleared
3 39 (8.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 39 (8.63%) SC Cleared
4 36 (7.96%) Cisco Certification
5 35 (7.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (5.75%) DV Cleared
7 24 (5.31%) CCNA
8 23 (5.09%) CCNP
9 19 (4.20%) A+ Certification
10 13 (2.88%) HNC
10 13 (2.88%) HND
10 13 (2.88%) Network+ Certification
11 11 (2.43%) JNCIA
11 11 (2.43%) MCSE
12 10 (2.21%) MCP
13 8 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (1.77%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.33%) Azure Certification
14 6 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (14.60%) QA
2 18 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (2.88%) SLA
4 9 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.88%) NIST
7 3 (0.66%) GDPR
8 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.44%) NCSC
8 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 120 (26.55%) Active Directory
2 58 (12.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (10.62%) Hyper-V
4 25 (5.53%) Firmware
5 23 (5.09%) Docker
6 8 (1.77%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (1.33%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.66%) vSphere
9 2 (0.44%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.22%) NFS
10 1 (0.22%) RHEV
10 1 (0.22%) vCloud
10 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 35 (7.74%) Ansible
2 34 (7.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (5.97%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.97%) Terraform
4 16 (3.54%) QRadar
5 13 (2.88%) FortiGate
6 12 (2.65%) SCCM
7 8 (1.77%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (1.33%) ArcSight ESM
8 6 (1.33%) WSUS
9 5 (1.11%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.88%) SCOM
11 3 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.44%) Iperf
12 2 (0.44%) Nmap
12 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.44%) Puppet
12 2 (0.44%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.44%) SCSM
12 2 (0.44%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 190 (42.04%) Microsoft
2 77 (17.04%) VMware
3 71 (15.71%) Cisco
4 40 (8.85%) Google
5 26 (5.75%) Fortinet
6 25 (5.53%) Splunk
7 22 (4.87%) Apple
8 18 (3.98%) Ubiquiti
9 17 (3.76%) Dell
10 12 (2.65%) Citrix
11 10 (2.21%) HP
12 9 (1.99%) Juniper
12 9 (1.99%) SAP
13 8 (1.77%) ArcSight
13 8 (1.77%) Veeam
14 7 (1.55%) Sophos
15 6 (1.33%) Arista
15 6 (1.33%) LogLogic
15 6 (1.33%) McAfee
15 6 (1.33%) WatchGuard