Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 204 214
Rank change year-on-year -63 +10 +13
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 731 768 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.56% 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.96% 10.69% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 572 545 978
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £39,500 £42,072
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -6.11% -6.51%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% -11.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,338 7,184 12,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.36% 14.59% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,722 4,154 8,323
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -7.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,094 £44,886
% change year-on-year +11.57% -15.13% -0.25%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in the UK

TCP/IP
Salary Trend

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

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

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
England -42 688 £38,000 -2.56% 239
UK excluding London -56 509 £35,000 -5.41% 202
Work from Home +21 224 £40,000 -15.79% 90
London -41 210 £60,000 +15.38% 70
South East -26 154 £37,500 +4.17% 77
North of England -9 144 £32,500 -14.47% 37
Midlands -49 78 £32,500 - 25
North West +22 69 £32,250 -19.38% 13
East of England -28 59 £36,250 -23.68% 26
Yorkshire -42 57 £32,500 -8.45% 21
South West -60 43 £33,500 -12.30% 31
East Midlands -14 42 £32,500 +0.78% 10
West Midlands -43 36 £33,250 +2.31% 15
Wales -59 21 £40,000 +14.29% 5
North East -47 18 £40,000 +37.93% 7
Scotland +1 8 £46,000 -3.16% 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £58,151 - 3

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 130 (17.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 94 (12.86%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.42%) IIS
4 11 (1.50%) Apache
5 4 (0.55%) Confluence
6 3 (0.41%) SAS
7 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 62 (8.48%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.14%) Houdini
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 324 (44.32%) Microsoft 365
2 310 (42.41%) Azure
3 157 (21.48%) Entra ID
4 134 (18.33%) AWS
5 33 (4.51%) GCP
6 21 (2.87%) IaaS
6 21 (2.87%) OneDrive
7 18 (2.46%) GitHub
8 17 (2.33%) PaaS
8 17 (2.33%) SaaS
9 12 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (1.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 9 (1.23%) Google Workspace
11 9 (1.23%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 435 (59.51%) DNS
2 337 (46.10%) DHCP
3 325 (44.46%) Firewall
4 243 (33.24%) VPN
5 183 (25.03%) WAN
6 176 (24.08%) LAN
7 157 (21.48%) VLAN
8 85 (11.63%) Wi-Fi
9 81 (11.08%) Network Security
10 71 (9.71%) HTTP
11 63 (8.62%) VoIP
12 60 (8.21%) BGP
13 59 (8.07%) Wireless
14 41 (5.61%) OSPF
14 41 (5.61%) SD-WAN
15 24 (3.28%) Multicast
16 20 (2.74%) Ethernet
17 19 (2.60%) SSL
18 18 (2.46%) WLAN
19 17 (2.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.20%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.50%) MySQL
5 6 (0.82%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.82%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.68%) Redis
7 4 (0.55%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.41%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.27%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.14%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.14%) KDB
10 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.14%) Power BI
10 1 (0.14%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 29 (3.97%) JIRA
2 15 (2.05%) Git
3 13 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.68%) GitLab
5 5 (0.68%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.14%) CMake
7 1 (0.14%) LSMW
General
1 331 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 95 (13.00%) Finance
3 87 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.07%) Telecoms
5 51 (6.98%) Law
6 43 (5.88%) Banking
6 43 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
7 35 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (3.42%) Retail
10 20 (2.74%) Aerospace
10 20 (2.74%) Electronics
11 16 (2.19%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.92%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.92%) Public Sector
13 9 (1.23%) Back Office
13 9 (1.23%) Legal
14 8 (1.09%) Automotive
15 6 (0.82%) Spanish Language
16 5 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 196 (26.81%) IT Support
2 139 (19.02%) Support Engineer
3 116 (15.87%) IT Engineer
4 99 (13.54%) Analyst
5 92 (12.59%) IT Support Engineer
6 84 (11.49%) Network Engineer
7 73 (9.99%) Senior
8 63 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 59 (8.07%) Support Technician
10 56 (7.66%) 2nd Line Support
11 54 (7.39%) IT Technician
12 52 (7.11%) IT Support Technician
13 39 (5.34%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 39 (5.34%) Support Analyst
14 36 (4.92%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 33 (4.51%) IT Analyst
16 32 (4.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 30 (4.10%) Lead
18 27 (3.69%) IT Support Analyst
19 25 (3.42%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.60%) LDAP
2 14 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (1.92%) Middleware
2 14 (1.92%) React
2 14 (1.92%) WebSockets
3 13 (1.78%) gRPC
4 12 (1.64%) Node.js
5 11 (1.50%) .NET
6 10 (1.37%) Django
7 8 (1.09%) XML
8 7 (0.96%) 802.1X
8 7 (0.96%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.96%) JSON
8 7 (0.96%) RESTful
9 6 (0.82%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.82%) REST
10 5 (0.68%) CSS
10 5 (0.68%) HTML
11 4 (0.55%) ADO
11 4 (0.55%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 105 (14.36%) Driving Licence
2 47 (6.43%) Data Centre
2 47 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 31 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (3.97%) Cyber Threat
5 25 (3.42%) Security Posture
6 20 (2.74%) Security Operations Centre
7 17 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (2.19%) CCTV
8 16 (2.19%) Cyber Defence
8 16 (2.19%) FPGA
9 15 (2.05%) MPEG
10 14 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.92%) PKI
11 13 (1.78%) Client/Server
11 13 (1.78%) Replication
12 12 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.50%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.37%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 449 (61.42%) Windows
2 244 (33.38%) Windows Server
3 162 (22.16%) Linux
4 97 (13.27%) Windows 10
5 54 (7.39%) Mac OS
6 35 (4.79%) Apple iOS
7 24 (3.28%) Android
8 22 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (3.01%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (2.33%) Unix
10 14 (1.92%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (1.09%) CentOS
13 7 (0.96%) Debian
14 6 (0.82%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.68%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.68%) VMS
16 4 (0.55%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (36.80%) Problem-Solving
2 157 (21.48%) Customer Service
3 127 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 123 (16.83%) Cybersecurity
5 106 (14.50%) ITIL
6 104 (14.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 92 (12.59%) Disaster Recovery
8 88 (12.04%) Service Delivery
9 75 (10.26%) Incident Response
10 72 (9.85%) ITSM
11 70 (9.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 68 (9.30%) Project Delivery
13 63 (8.62%) DevOps
14 62 (8.48%) Mentoring
15 59 (8.07%) High Availability
16 55 (7.52%) SIEM
17 51 (6.98%) CI/CD
17 51 (6.98%) Incident Management
18 47 (6.43%) Computer Science
18 47 (6.43%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 126 (17.24%) PowerShell
2 119 (16.28%) Python
3 64 (8.76%) Bash
4 60 (8.21%) SQL
5 37 (5.06%) C++
6 26 (3.56%) Java
7 23 (3.15%) C
8 17 (2.33%) Go
9 15 (2.05%) C#
10 14 (1.92%) VBA
11 11 (1.50%) Perl
11 11 (1.50%) PHP
12 8 (1.09%) JavaScript
13 7 (0.96%) Bicep
13 7 (0.96%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.55%) Delphi
15 4 (0.55%) Pascal
15 4 (0.55%) Ruby
15 4 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 120 (16.42%) Degree
2 79 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 74 (10.12%) Cisco Certification
4 60 (8.21%) CCNA
5 59 (8.07%) SC Cleared
6 57 (7.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 50 (6.84%) CCNP
8 29 (3.97%) Azure Certification
9 26 (3.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 22 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.33%) CREST Certified
11 17 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
12 14 (1.92%) CEH
12 14 (1.92%) GCIA
13 13 (1.78%) HND
14 12 (1.64%) GIAC
15 11 (1.50%) HNC
15 11 (1.50%) RHCSA
16 10 (1.37%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.48%) SLA
2 25 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
2 25 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.05%) GDPR
4 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.68%) NIST
5 5 (0.68%) QA
6 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.55%) DICOM
6 4 (0.55%) HL7
7 3 (0.41%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 322 (44.05%) Active Directory
2 132 (18.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 128 (17.51%) Hyper-V
4 25 (3.42%) Docker
5 15 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.05%) vSphere
6 14 (1.92%) Firmware
7 9 (1.23%) KVM
7 9 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.41%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.14%) QEMU
10 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 109 (14.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 57 (7.80%) Terraform
3 55 (7.52%) Ansible
4 38 (5.20%) Kubernetes
5 34 (4.65%) FortiGate
6 23 (3.15%) Grafana
6 23 (3.15%) Prometheus
7 18 (2.46%) Nagios
8 16 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (2.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (1.92%) QRadar
11 9 (1.23%) Puppet
11 9 (1.23%) WSUS
12 8 (1.09%) Kibana
12 8 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.96%) SCCM
14 6 (0.82%) VxRail
15 5 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.68%) Control-M
15 5 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 418 (57.18%) Microsoft
2 158 (21.61%) VMware
3 93 (12.72%) Cisco
4 41 (5.61%) Fortinet
5 39 (5.34%) Veeam
6 38 (5.20%) Meraki
7 35 (4.79%) ServiceNow
8 30 (4.10%) Palo Alto
8 30 (4.10%) Splunk
9 29 (3.97%) SolarWinds
10 24 (3.28%) Apple
11 20 (2.74%) Citrix
11 20 (2.74%) Dell
11 20 (2.74%) HP
12 18 (2.46%) Google
12 18 (2.46%) Red Hat
12 18 (2.46%) Sophos
13 17 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
13 17 (2.33%) SonicWALL
14 15 (2.05%) Zscaler