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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 215 229
Rank change year-on-year -55 +14 -37
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 773 729 981
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.46% 1.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.31% 9.94% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 599 525 722
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year - -10.26% -8.24%

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 7,496 7,335 9,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.96% 14.71% 11.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,831 4,215 6,082
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -18.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £36,026 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.75% -19.94% -

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -33 730 £38,000 +1.33% 233
UK excluding London -61 549 £35,000 - 201
Work from Home +14 246 £42,000 -6.67% 79
London -26 214 £60,000 +9.09% 56
South East -14 169 £37,500 +4.17% 76
North of England -18 138 £32,500 -13.33% 43
Midlands -42 93 £33,250 +2.31% 30
North West +23 77 £31,750 -20.63% 20
East of England -21 70 £35,000 -26.32% 25
West Midlands -46 50 £37,500 +15.38% 21
Yorkshire -48 50 £32,500 -11.56% 16
South West -62 48 £33,500 -2.90% 24
East Midlands -18 43 £32,500 +8.33% 9
Wales -59 18 £45,000 +28.57% 3
North East -66 11 £35,000 +20.69% 10
Scotland +5 10 £63,451 +75.04% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 £57,246 -

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
1 138 (17.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 101 (13.07%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.10%) IIS
4 12 (1.55%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) SAS
6 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.13%) WinCC
Applications
1 49 (6.34%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Houdini
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 6 (0.78%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.26%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.13%) Eikon
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 336 (43.47%) Microsoft 365
2 317 (41.01%) Azure
3 175 (22.64%) Entra ID
4 135 (17.46%) AWS
5 35 (4.53%) GCP
6 33 (4.27%) OneDrive
7 22 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (2.33%) SaaS
9 14 (1.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 14 (1.81%) dbt
10 13 (1.68%) IaaS
10 13 (1.68%) OpenShift
11 11 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.16%) GitHub
12 9 (1.16%) Google Workspace
12 9 (1.16%) PaaS
13 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 455 (58.86%) DNS
2 356 (46.05%) Firewall
3 353 (45.67%) DHCP
4 271 (35.06%) VPN
5 182 (23.54%) WAN
6 175 (22.64%) LAN
7 154 (19.92%) VLAN
8 95 (12.29%) Network Security
9 83 (10.74%) Wi-Fi
10 72 (9.31%) Wireless
11 71 (9.18%) VoIP
12 67 (8.67%) HTTP
13 57 (7.37%) BGP
14 46 (5.95%) OSPF
15 40 (5.17%) SD-WAN
16 24 (3.10%) SSL
17 21 (2.72%) Multicast
18 20 (2.59%) Internet
18 20 (2.59%) SMTP
19 19 (2.46%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (7.24%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.42%) MySQL
3 8 (1.03%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.52%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.39%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.13%) KDB
9 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.13%) Redis
9 1 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 30 (3.88%) JIRA
2 19 (2.46%) Git
3 9 (1.16%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.65%) GitLab
5 3 (0.39%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.39%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.26%) CMake
6 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.13%) GDB
7 1 (0.13%) LSMW
7 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 367 (47.48%) Social Skills
2 99 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
3 97 (12.55%) Finance
4 59 (7.63%) Telecoms
5 46 (5.95%) Banking
6 42 (5.43%) Law
7 39 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
9 28 (3.62%) Electronics
10 25 (3.23%) Aerospace
10 25 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (3.23%) Retail
11 18 (2.33%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.94%) Public Sector
13 13 (1.68%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.16%) Legal
15 7 (0.91%) Digital Health
16 6 (0.78%) Games
16 6 (0.78%) Military
17 5 (0.65%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 192 (24.84%) IT Support
2 159 (20.57%) Support Engineer
3 134 (17.34%) IT Engineer
4 109 (14.10%) IT Support Engineer
5 105 (13.58%) Analyst
6 92 (11.90%) Network Engineer
7 91 (11.77%) Senior
8 74 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 61 (7.89%) 2nd Line Support
10 53 (6.86%) Support Technician
11 48 (6.21%) IT Technician
12 46 (5.95%) IT Support Technician
13 44 (5.69%) Support Analyst
14 42 (5.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 40 (5.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 33 (4.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 31 (4.01%) IT Analyst
18 28 (3.62%) Lead
18 28 (3.62%) Systems Engineer
19 25 (3.23%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (8.41%) Terraform
2 21 (2.72%) LDAP
2 21 (2.72%) React
3 13 (1.68%) gRPC
3 13 (1.68%) Node.js
3 13 (1.68%) WebSockets
4 12 (1.55%) Middleware
4 12 (1.55%) XML
5 11 (1.42%) .NET
6 10 (1.29%) JSON
7 8 (1.03%) AngularJS
7 8 (1.03%) REST
8 7 (0.91%) 802.1X
8 7 (0.91%) Django
8 7 (0.91%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (0.91%) RESTful
9 6 (0.78%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.78%) CSS
9 6 (0.78%) HTML
10 5 (0.65%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 105 (13.58%) Driving Licence
2 62 (8.02%) Onboarding
3 45 (5.82%) Data Centre
4 38 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (3.75%) Cyber Threat
6 25 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
7 24 (3.10%) Security Posture
8 23 (2.98%) PKI
9 21 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (2.46%) CCTV
11 18 (2.33%) Management Information System
12 17 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
12 17 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.94%) MPEG
14 15 (1.94%) Replication
15 14 (1.81%) Client/Server
15 14 (1.81%) FPGA
16 13 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
17 12 (1.55%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 467 (60.41%) Windows
2 251 (32.47%) Windows Server
3 192 (24.84%) Linux
4 91 (11.77%) Windows 10
5 57 (7.37%) Mac OS
6 35 (4.53%) Unix
7 27 (3.49%) Apple iOS
8 24 (3.10%) Ubuntu
9 21 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (2.46%) Android
11 18 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 15 (1.94%) CentOS
13 13 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
14 10 (1.29%) Rocky
15 7 (0.91%) Debian
15 7 (0.91%) Embedded Linux
16 5 (0.65%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.52%) Solaris
18 3 (0.39%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (37.65%) Problem-Solving
2 169 (21.86%) Customer Service
3 156 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 140 (18.11%) Cybersecurity
5 124 (16.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 116 (15.01%) ITIL
7 99 (12.81%) Disaster Recovery
8 87 (11.25%) Mentoring
9 84 (10.87%) Incident Response
10 76 (9.83%) Project Delivery
11 73 (9.44%) Service Delivery
12 72 (9.31%) Infrastructure as Code
13 67 (8.67%) ITSM
14 65 (8.41%) Computer Science
15 63 (8.15%) DevOps
16 61 (7.89%) High Availability
17 60 (7.76%) SIEM
18 57 (7.37%) CI/CD
18 57 (7.37%) Software Engineering
19 47 (6.08%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 143 (18.50%) Python
2 142 (18.37%) PowerShell
3 73 (9.44%) Bash
4 71 (9.18%) SQL
5 38 (4.92%) C++
6 27 (3.49%) C
7 22 (2.85%) Perl
8 18 (2.33%) C#
9 17 (2.20%) JavaScript
10 16 (2.07%) Java
11 14 (1.81%) VBA
12 12 (1.55%) Bicep
12 12 (1.55%) Go
13 11 (1.42%) Ruby
14 10 (1.29%) TypeScript
15 9 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (1.03%) PHP
17 7 (0.91%) Search Processing Language
17 7 (0.91%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 143 (18.50%) Degree
2 98 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 86 (11.13%) Cisco Certification
4 73 (9.44%) CCNA
5 67 (8.67%) SC Cleared
6 59 (7.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 53 (6.86%) CCNP
8 33 (4.27%) Azure Certification
9 31 (4.01%) CompTIA Security+
10 30 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (2.72%) CREST Certified
12 20 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (2.33%) CEH
13 18 (2.33%) GCIA
13 18 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
14 17 (2.20%) DV Cleared
15 16 (2.07%) HND
16 14 (1.81%) CISSP
16 14 (1.81%) HNC
16 14 (1.81%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.15%) SLA
2 32 (4.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.85%) GDPR
5 18 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.16%) NIST
7 7 (0.91%) QA
8 6 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.65%) GRC
9 5 (0.65%) NCSC
10 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 333 (43.08%) Active Directory
2 140 (18.11%) Hyper-V
3 134 (17.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (3.88%) Docker
5 24 (3.10%) Firmware
6 23 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (1.55%) vSphere
8 10 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.91%) KVM
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.26%) QEMU
12 1 (0.13%) Ceph
12 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.13%) Samba
12 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 120 (15.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (5.43%) Ansible
3 36 (4.66%) FortiGate
3 36 (4.66%) Kubernetes
4 17 (2.20%) QRadar
5 16 (2.07%) Nagios
6 14 (1.81%) Jamf Pro
7 13 (1.68%) Grafana
7 13 (1.68%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (1.03%) Kibana
9 8 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.91%) WSUS
11 6 (0.78%) Puppet
12 5 (0.65%) McAfee ePO
12 5 (0.65%) SCCM
12 5 (0.65%) SCVMM
12 5 (0.65%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.52%) Control-M
13 4 (0.52%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 434 (56.14%) Microsoft
2 154 (19.92%) VMware
3 108 (13.97%) Cisco
4 54 (6.99%) Fortinet
5 43 (5.56%) Veeam
6 38 (4.92%) Splunk
7 32 (4.14%) Palo Alto
8 30 (3.88%) Meraki
8 30 (3.88%) ServiceNow
9 28 (3.62%) Google
10 26 (3.36%) Red Hat
11 25 (3.23%) SolarWinds
12 23 (2.98%) SonicWALL
13 22 (2.85%) Sophos
14 21 (2.72%) HP
15 18 (2.33%) Apple
16 17 (2.20%) Dell
17 16 (2.07%) Zscaler
18 15 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
18 15 (1.94%) Ubiquiti