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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 214 237
Rank change year-on-year -54 +23 -24
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 773 760 978
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.53% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.41% 10.40% 9.82%
Number of salaries quoted 603 537 744
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £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 £78,750 £74,258 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £36,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -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 7,422 7,311 9,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.09% 14.75% 11.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,777 4,192 6,404
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £29,913 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% -

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 6 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 6 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 -47 723 £38,500 +2.67% 318
UK excluding London -51 552 £35,000 -3.45% 224
Work from Home +13 246 £42,000 -9.19% 113
London -38 210 £60,000 +14.29% 123
South East -22 170 £37,500 +5.63% 76
North of England -20 146 £32,500 -13.33% 50
Midlands -41 91 £33,000 +1.54% 26
North West +35 75 £32,250 -19.38% 27
East of England -32 61 £35,000 -26.32% 24
Yorkshire -39 55 £32,500 -18.75% 15
South West -57 47 £33,500 -6.29% 33
West Midlands -43 46 £37,500 +15.38% 17
East Midlands -11 45 £32,500 +4.00% 9
Wales -56 23 £40,000 +14.29% 5
North East -60 16 £40,000 +37.93% 10
Scotland +13 11 £63,451 +33.58% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 £71,991 - 5

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 98 (12.68%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.98%) IIS
4 12 (1.55%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) SAS
6 1 (0.13%) Confluence
6 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 57 (7.37%) 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 2 (0.26%) Fidessa
1 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.26%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 335 (43.34%) Microsoft 365
2 330 (42.69%) Azure
3 167 (21.60%) Entra ID
4 148 (19.15%) AWS
5 44 (5.69%) GCP
6 29 (3.75%) OneDrive
7 26 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (2.46%) dbt
9 17 (2.20%) IaaS
10 16 (2.07%) SaaS
11 14 (1.81%) GitHub
11 14 (1.81%) PaaS
12 13 (1.68%) OpenShift
13 12 (1.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 10 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (1.29%) Google Workspace
15 9 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 446 (57.70%) DNS
2 345 (44.63%) Firewall
3 343 (44.37%) DHCP
4 256 (33.12%) VPN
5 190 (24.58%) WAN
6 183 (23.67%) LAN
7 150 (19.40%) VLAN
8 92 (11.90%) Network Security
9 85 (11.00%) Wi-Fi
10 69 (8.93%) HTTP
10 69 (8.93%) VoIP
11 68 (8.80%) Wireless
12 58 (7.50%) BGP
13 45 (5.82%) OSPF
14 43 (5.56%) SD-WAN
15 24 (3.10%) Multicast
16 21 (2.72%) SSL
17 19 (2.46%) Ethernet
18 18 (2.33%) SMTP
18 18 (2.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (6.08%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.42%) MySQL
4 7 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.78%) Redis
6 5 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.52%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.13%) KDB
10 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 28 (3.62%) JIRA
2 20 (2.59%) Git
3 12 (1.55%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.65%) GitLab
5 5 (0.65%) 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
General
1 355 (45.92%) Social Skills
2 98 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
3 95 (12.29%) Finance
4 62 (8.02%) Telecoms
5 47 (6.08%) Law
6 42 (5.43%) Banking
6 42 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
7 32 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 26 (3.36%) Electronics
10 24 (3.10%) Aerospace
11 22 (2.85%) Retail
12 17 (2.20%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.94%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.81%) Public Sector
15 10 (1.29%) Legal
16 7 (0.91%) Digital Health
16 7 (0.91%) Military
17 6 (0.78%) Automotive
18 5 (0.65%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 200 (25.87%) IT Support
2 152 (19.66%) Support Engineer
3 126 (16.30%) IT Engineer
4 103 (13.32%) IT Support Engineer
5 96 (12.42%) Analyst
6 94 (12.16%) Network Engineer
7 93 (12.03%) Senior
8 67 (8.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 60 (7.76%) 2nd Line Support
10 58 (7.50%) Support Technician
11 53 (6.86%) IT Technician
12 51 (6.60%) IT Support Technician
13 40 (5.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 38 (4.92%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 37 (4.79%) Support Analyst
16 33 (4.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 32 (4.14%) IT Analyst
18 29 (3.75%) Lead
19 26 (3.36%) IT Support Analyst
20 25 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.46%) LDAP
2 17 (2.20%) React
3 15 (1.94%) WebSockets
4 13 (1.68%) gRPC
4 13 (1.68%) Node.js
5 12 (1.55%) Django
5 12 (1.55%) Middleware
6 11 (1.42%) .NET
7 9 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (1.16%) XML
8 8 (1.03%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.03%) JSON
9 7 (0.91%) 802.1X
9 7 (0.91%) REST
10 6 (0.78%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.78%) CSS
10 6 (0.78%) HTML
11 4 (0.52%) ADO
11 4 (0.52%) COM
11 4 (0.52%) DCOM
Miscellaneous
1 109 (14.10%) Driving Licence
2 54 (6.99%) Onboarding
3 47 (6.08%) Data Centre
4 35 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (3.88%) Cyber Threat
6 23 (2.98%) Security Posture
7 22 (2.85%) Security Operations Centre
8 20 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
10 18 (2.33%) CCTV
10 18 (2.33%) PKI
11 17 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
12 16 (2.07%) FPGA
12 16 (2.07%) MPEG
13 15 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
14 14 (1.81%) Management Information System
15 13 (1.68%) Client/Server
15 13 (1.68%) Replication
16 12 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (1.55%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 465 (60.16%) Windows
2 254 (32.86%) Windows Server
3 191 (24.71%) Linux
4 96 (12.42%) Windows 10
5 58 (7.50%) Mac OS
6 36 (4.66%) Unix
7 31 (4.01%) Apple iOS
8 24 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (2.85%) Android
10 20 (2.59%) Ubuntu
11 19 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 14 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (1.42%) CentOS
14 7 (0.91%) Debian
15 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.65%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
16 5 (0.65%) Kali Linux
16 5 (0.65%) Rocky
16 5 (0.65%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (36.87%) Problem-Solving
2 162 (20.96%) Customer Service
3 160 (20.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (16.17%) Cybersecurity
5 112 (14.49%) ITIL
6 111 (14.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 93 (12.03%) Disaster Recovery
8 91 (11.77%) Incident Response
9 81 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 81 (10.48%) Mentoring
10 79 (10.22%) Service Delivery
11 75 (9.70%) DevOps
11 75 (9.70%) Project Delivery
12 71 (9.18%) ITSM
13 67 (8.67%) High Availability
14 64 (8.28%) CI/CD
15 57 (7.37%) SIEM
16 54 (6.99%) Computer Science
17 51 (6.60%) Software Engineering
18 48 (6.21%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 143 (18.50%) Python
2 138 (17.85%) PowerShell
3 71 (9.18%) Bash
4 63 (8.15%) SQL
5 39 (5.05%) C++
6 25 (3.23%) C
7 21 (2.72%) Java
8 17 (2.20%) Perl
9 15 (1.94%) C#
10 14 (1.81%) VBA
11 13 (1.68%) JavaScript
12 12 (1.55%) Go
13 10 (1.29%) Bicep
13 10 (1.29%) PHP
14 7 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.91%) Ruby
14 7 (0.91%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.78%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.39%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 135 (17.46%) Degree
2 98 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 83 (10.74%) Cisco Certification
4 76 (9.83%) SC Cleared
5 70 (9.06%) CCNA
6 59 (7.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 52 (6.73%) CCNP
8 30 (3.88%) Azure Certification
9 29 (3.75%) CompTIA Security+
10 27 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (2.46%) CREST Certified
13 16 (2.07%) CEH
13 16 (2.07%) GCIA
13 16 (2.07%) HND
14 14 (1.81%) HNC
15 13 (1.68%) AWS Certification
15 13 (1.68%) DV Cleared
15 13 (1.68%) GIAC
15 13 (1.68%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.41%) SLA
2 26 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.07%) GDPR
6 8 (1.03%) NIST
7 6 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.52%) QA
9 3 (0.39%) GRC
9 3 (0.39%) NCSC
9 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) DICOM
10 2 (0.26%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 327 (42.30%) Active Directory
2 139 (17.98%) Hyper-V
3 135 (17.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (3.75%) Docker
5 21 (2.72%) Firmware
6 20 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (1.55%) vSphere
8 10 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (1.16%) KVM
9 9 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.13%) Ceph
12 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.13%) QEMU
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 70 (9.06%) Terraform
3 51 (6.60%) Ansible
4 39 (5.05%) Kubernetes
5 34 (4.40%) FortiGate
6 18 (2.33%) Grafana
6 18 (2.33%) Nagios
6 18 (2.33%) Prometheus
7 17 (2.20%) Jamf Pro
8 15 (1.94%) QRadar
9 11 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (1.03%) Kibana
10 8 (1.03%) Puppet
10 8 (1.03%) WSUS
11 7 (0.91%) SCCM
12 6 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.65%) McAfee ePO
13 5 (0.65%) SCVMM
13 5 (0.65%) VxRail
13 5 (0.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 429 (55.50%) Microsoft
2 159 (20.57%) VMware
3 107 (13.84%) Cisco
4 49 (6.34%) Fortinet
5 41 (5.30%) Veeam
6 36 (4.66%) Meraki
7 34 (4.40%) Splunk
8 33 (4.27%) Google
8 33 (4.27%) Palo Alto
9 30 (3.88%) ServiceNow
10 28 (3.62%) SolarWinds
11 24 (3.10%) Apple
11 24 (3.10%) HP
11 24 (3.10%) Red Hat
12 21 (2.72%) Sophos
13 19 (2.46%) SonicWALL
14 18 (2.33%) Dell
14 18 (2.33%) Zscaler
15 15 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
16 14 (1.81%) Ubiquiti