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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 227 223
Rank change year-on-year -42 -4 -32
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 775 716 1,007
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.43% 1.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.30% 9.76% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 603 516 719
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £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 £59,375 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £72,750
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 7,524 7,336 9,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.88% 14.65% 11.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,865 4,190 5,995
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -3.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £35,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +27.06% -22.22% -

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 27 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 27 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 -34 734 £38,000 +1.33% 195
UK excluding London -48 557 £35,000 - 170
Work from Home +20 245 £40,500 -3.57% 83
London -26 208 £60,000 +9.09% 46
South East -10 172 £37,500 +4.17% 46
North of England -16 141 £32,500 -7.14% 37
Midlands -32 95 £33,250 +2.31% 26
North West +36 78 £32,000 -20.00% 18
East of England -30 72 £35,000 -22.22% 17
West Midlands -40 53 £37,500 +15.38% 14
Yorkshire -40 51 £32,500 -11.56% 12
South West -65 48 £33,500 -2.90% 34
East Midlands -20 42 £32,500 +8.33% 12
Wales -68 16 £45,000 +28.57% 5
North East -70 12 £35,000 +20.69% 10
Scotland 0 10 £63,451 +75.04% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 £57,246 - 2

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
1 135 (17.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 103 (13.29%) 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%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.26%) WinCC
Applications
1 44 (5.68%) 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%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) 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
1 341 (44.00%) Microsoft 365
2 314 (40.52%) Azure
3 182 (23.48%) Entra ID
4 133 (17.16%) AWS
5 35 (4.52%) OneDrive
6 34 (4.39%) GCP
7 22 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (2.32%) SaaS
9 14 (1.81%) dbt
10 13 (1.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 13 (1.68%) OpenShift
11 12 (1.55%) IaaS
12 11 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (1.42%) Google Workspace
13 9 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (1.16%) PaaS
14 8 (1.03%) GitHub
15 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
17 5 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 464 (59.87%) DNS
2 360 (46.45%) DHCP
3 356 (45.94%) Firewall
4 278 (35.87%) VPN
5 179 (23.10%) WAN
6 172 (22.19%) LAN
7 159 (20.52%) VLAN
8 97 (12.52%) Network Security
9 84 (10.84%) Wi-Fi
10 77 (9.94%) Wireless
11 70 (9.03%) VoIP
12 68 (8.77%) HTTP
13 59 (7.61%) BGP
14 48 (6.19%) OSPF
15 39 (5.03%) SD-WAN
16 25 (3.23%) SSL
17 21 (2.71%) Internet
18 20 (2.58%) SMTP
19 19 (2.45%) Ethernet
20 18 (2.32%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.55%) MySQL
3 10 (1.29%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.77%) 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%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.26%) Redis
8 2 (0.26%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 29 (3.74%) JIRA
2 19 (2.45%) Git
3 8 (1.03%) Bitbucket
4 7 (0.90%) GitLab
5 4 (0.52%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.39%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.26%) CMake
7 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.26%) Selenium
7 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.13%) GDB
8 1 (0.13%) LSMW
8 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 370 (47.74%) Social Skills
2 102 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 94 (12.13%) Finance
4 58 (7.48%) Telecoms
5 44 (5.68%) Banking
6 39 (5.03%) Law
7 36 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
9 29 (3.74%) Electronics
10 27 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (3.23%) Aerospace
11 25 (3.23%) Retail
12 18 (2.32%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.94%) Public Sector
14 12 (1.55%) Investment Banking
15 8 (1.03%) Legal
16 7 (0.90%) Digital Health
17 6 (0.77%) Games
17 6 (0.77%) Military
18 5 (0.65%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 191 (24.65%) IT Support
2 164 (21.16%) Support Engineer
3 138 (17.81%) IT Engineer
4 113 (14.58%) IT Support Engineer
5 106 (13.68%) Analyst
6 94 (12.13%) Network Engineer
7 92 (11.87%) Senior
8 78 (10.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 61 (7.87%) 2nd Line Support
10 53 (6.84%) Support Technician
11 48 (6.19%) IT Technician
12 46 (5.94%) IT Support Technician
12 46 (5.94%) Support Analyst
13 42 (5.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 40 (5.16%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 33 (4.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 31 (4.00%) IT Analyst
17 28 (3.61%) Systems Engineer
18 27 (3.48%) Lead
19 25 (3.23%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (8.13%) Terraform
2 21 (2.71%) LDAP
2 21 (2.71%) React
3 13 (1.68%) gRPC
3 13 (1.68%) Node.js
3 13 (1.68%) XML
4 12 (1.55%) Middleware
4 12 (1.55%) WebSockets
5 11 (1.42%) .NET
6 10 (1.29%) JSON
7 9 (1.16%) REST
7 9 (1.16%) RESTful
8 8 (1.03%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.90%) 802.1X
9 7 (0.90%) CSS
9 7 (0.90%) Django
9 7 (0.90%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (0.90%) HTML
10 6 (0.77%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 104 (13.42%) Driving Licence
2 66 (8.52%) Onboarding
3 42 (5.42%) Data Centre
4 38 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (3.61%) Cyber Threat
6 25 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
7 24 (3.10%) PKI
7 24 (3.10%) Security Posture
8 21 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (2.19%) CCTV
10 17 (2.19%) Cyber Defence
11 16 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (2.06%) Management Information System
11 16 (2.06%) Replication
12 15 (1.94%) Client/Server
13 13 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.68%) FPGA
14 12 (1.55%) MPEG
14 12 (1.55%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 468 (60.39%) Windows
2 248 (32.00%) Windows Server
3 193 (24.90%) Linux
4 90 (11.61%) Windows 10
5 58 (7.48%) Mac OS
6 35 (4.52%) Unix
7 26 (3.35%) Apple iOS
8 25 (3.23%) Ubuntu
9 19 (2.45%) Android
10 18 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 15 (1.94%) CentOS
13 12 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
14 11 (1.42%) Rocky
15 7 (0.90%) Debian
15 7 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
16 5 (0.65%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.52%) Solaris
18 3 (0.39%) Kali Linux
19 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (38.06%) Problem-Solving
2 174 (22.45%) Customer Service
3 154 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 147 (18.97%) Cybersecurity
5 128 (16.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 116 (14.97%) ITIL
7 99 (12.77%) Disaster Recovery
8 86 (11.10%) Mentoring
9 84 (10.84%) Incident Response
10 76 (9.81%) Project Delivery
11 72 (9.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 72 (9.29%) Service Delivery
12 66 (8.52%) Computer Science
13 65 (8.39%) ITSM
14 62 (8.00%) DevOps
15 61 (7.87%) High Availability
16 59 (7.61%) SIEM
17 58 (7.48%) Software Engineering
18 57 (7.35%) CI/CD
19 47 (6.06%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 144 (18.58%) Python
2 140 (18.06%) PowerShell
3 73 (9.42%) SQL
4 72 (9.29%) Bash
5 37 (4.77%) C++
6 26 (3.35%) C
7 22 (2.84%) Perl
8 18 (2.32%) C#
8 18 (2.32%) JavaScript
9 15 (1.94%) Java
10 14 (1.81%) VBA
11 13 (1.68%) Go
12 11 (1.42%) Bicep
12 11 (1.42%) Ruby
13 10 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.29%) TypeScript
14 9 (1.16%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.90%) PHP
15 7 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
16 3 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 139 (17.94%) Degree
2 98 (12.65%) Security Cleared
3 85 (10.97%) Cisco Certification
4 72 (9.29%) CCNA
5 67 (8.65%) SC Cleared
6 59 (7.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 53 (6.84%) CCNP
8 33 (4.26%) Azure Certification
9 32 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 21 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (2.71%) CREST Certified
12 19 (2.45%) CEH
12 19 (2.45%) GCIA
13 18 (2.32%) Network+ Certification
14 17 (2.19%) DV Cleared
15 16 (2.06%) HND
16 15 (1.94%) CISSP
17 14 (1.81%) GIAC
17 14 (1.81%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.13%) SLA
2 34 (4.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (3.10%) GDPR
5 15 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.16%) NIST
7 8 (1.03%) QA
8 6 (0.77%) 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
1 339 (43.74%) Active Directory
2 141 (18.19%) Hyper-V
3 132 (17.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (3.87%) Docker
5 25 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (3.10%) Firmware
7 11 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (1.29%) vSphere
9 9 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.77%) KVM
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.26%) QEMU
13 1 (0.13%) Ceph
13 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.13%) Samba
13 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 126 (16.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 40 (5.16%) Ansible
3 36 (4.65%) FortiGate
4 33 (4.26%) Kubernetes
5 17 (2.19%) QRadar
6 15 (1.94%) Nagios
7 14 (1.81%) Grafana
7 14 (1.81%) Prometheus
8 12 (1.55%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (1.03%) Kibana
9 8 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.90%) WSUS
11 5 (0.65%) McAfee ePO
11 5 (0.65%) Puppet
11 5 (0.65%) SCCM
11 5 (0.65%) SCVMM
11 5 (0.65%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.52%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 435 (56.13%) Microsoft
2 150 (19.35%) VMware
3 109 (14.06%) Cisco
4 57 (7.35%) Fortinet
5 44 (5.68%) Veeam
6 38 (4.90%) Splunk
7 33 (4.26%) ServiceNow
8 32 (4.13%) Palo Alto
9 30 (3.87%) Google
9 30 (3.87%) Meraki
10 24 (3.10%) Red Hat
10 24 (3.10%) SolarWinds
11 23 (2.97%) SonicWALL
12 20 (2.58%) HP
12 20 (2.58%) Sophos
13 17 (2.19%) Dell
14 16 (2.06%) Apple
14 16 (2.06%) Zscaler
15 15 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (1.94%) Ubiquiti