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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 216 203
Rank change year-on-year -27 -13 -31
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 894 704 986
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.42% 1.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.35% 9.85% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 671 498 547
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,000 £28,650
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,075 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £34,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +10.29% -20.00% -0.58%

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 7,875 7,147 8,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.69% 14.39% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,852 3,943 4,398
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £28,742 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £39,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -25.71% +1.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £34,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +32.35% -29.90% +7.78%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -14 838 £40,000 +6.67% 693
UK excluding London -36 623 £37,500 +10.29% 402
Work from Home +32 260 £40,000 -1.23% 224
London +1 252 £55,000 - 311
South East -27 184 £39,250 +4.67% 107
North of England -33 147 £33,500 -4.29% 88
Midlands -23 124 £36,000 +10.77% 55
East of England -9 89 £35,000 +7.69% 49
North West +35 82 £32,250 -20.37% 45
West Midlands -25 74 £37,500 +15.38% 25
Yorkshire -37 54 £33,500 - 32
East Midlands -31 50 £36,000 +10.77% 30
South West -73 44 £32,500 -5.80% 55
Wales -85 15 £45,000 +28.57% 12
Scotland -1 14 £63,451 +111.50% 29
North East -80 11 £40,000 +37.93% 14
Northern Ireland - 6 £40,250 - 12

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
1 149 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 119 (13.31%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.80%) IIS
4 17 (1.90%) Apache
5 7 (0.78%) Confluence
6 5 (0.56%) WinCC
7 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.34%) SAS
8 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.22%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.11%) Houdini
4 1 (0.11%) NUKE
4 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (0.89%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.22%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.22%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.11%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.11%) Eikon
3 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 411 (45.97%) Microsoft 365
2 341 (38.14%) Azure
3 242 (27.07%) Entra ID
4 139 (15.55%) AWS
5 50 (5.59%) GCP
6 49 (5.48%) OneDrive
7 33 (3.69%) SaaS
8 21 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (2.35%) Google Workspace
9 14 (1.57%) dbt
9 14 (1.57%) OpenShift
10 11 (1.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 10 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (1.12%) Google Compute Engine
11 10 (1.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (1.12%) IaaS
11 10 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 555 (62.08%) DNS
2 441 (49.33%) DHCP
3 411 (45.97%) Firewall
4 389 (43.51%) VPN
5 212 (23.71%) VLAN
6 209 (23.38%) WAN
7 206 (23.04%) LAN
8 137 (15.32%) Wi-Fi
9 113 (12.64%) Wireless
10 109 (12.19%) Network Security
11 76 (8.50%) BGP
12 75 (8.39%) HTTP
13 69 (7.72%) VoIP
14 57 (6.38%) OSPF
15 41 (4.59%) SD-WAN
16 39 (4.36%) SSL
17 32 (3.58%) Ethernet
18 28 (3.13%) Internet
19 23 (2.57%) FTP
20 22 (2.46%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (6.60%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.24%) MySQL
3 19 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.01%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.67%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (0.67%) Redis
7 5 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.56%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.45%) KDB
8 4 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.34%) InfluxDB
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.11%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.11%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 34 (3.80%) JIRA
2 24 (2.68%) Git
3 13 (1.45%) GitLab
4 10 (1.12%) TeamCity
5 6 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.56%) Selenium
7 4 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.22%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.22%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.11%) CMake
10 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.11%) GDB
10 1 (0.11%) LSMW
10 1 (0.11%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 422 (47.20%) Social Skills
2 117 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
3 101 (11.30%) Finance
4 67 (7.49%) Telecoms
5 47 (5.26%) Banking
6 42 (4.70%) Law
7 40 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (4.25%) Retail
9 35 (3.91%) Electronics
10 34 (3.80%) Aerospace
11 33 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (2.57%) Manufacturing
13 20 (2.24%) Public Sector
14 13 (1.45%) Back Office
15 12 (1.34%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.12%) Automotive
17 8 (0.89%) Marketing
18 7 (0.78%) Digital Health
18 7 (0.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 242 (27.07%) IT Support
2 208 (23.27%) Support Engineer
3 181 (20.25%) IT Engineer
4 151 (16.89%) IT Support Engineer
5 122 (13.65%) Analyst
6 115 (12.86%) Senior
7 109 (12.19%) Network Engineer
8 92 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 73 (8.17%) 2nd Line Support
10 66 (7.38%) Support Analyst
11 57 (6.38%) IT Technician
11 57 (6.38%) Support Technician
12 52 (5.82%) IT Support Technician
13 45 (5.03%) Lead
14 44 (4.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 42 (4.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 34 (3.80%) IT Analyst
17 33 (3.69%) Infrastructure Support
17 33 (3.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 31 (3.47%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (8.05%) Terraform
2 25 (2.80%) LDAP
3 22 (2.46%) React
4 17 (1.90%) XML
5 16 (1.79%) RESTful
6 15 (1.68%) Node.js
7 12 (1.34%) JSON
7 12 (1.34%) Middleware
7 12 (1.34%) WebSockets
8 10 (1.12%) CSS
8 10 (1.12%) Django
8 10 (1.12%) FIX Protocol
8 10 (1.12%) HTML
9 9 (1.01%) .NET
9 9 (1.01%) AngularJS
9 9 (1.01%) REST
10 8 (0.89%) gRPC
10 8 (0.89%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (0.67%) GraphQL
12 5 (0.56%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 125 (13.98%) Driving Licence
2 104 (11.63%) Onboarding
3 44 (4.92%) Data Centre
4 33 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (3.36%) Security Posture
7 28 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
7 28 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
8 25 (2.80%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.68%) PKI
10 22 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (2.24%) Client/Server
11 20 (2.24%) Cloud Native
12 19 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (2.13%) Replication
13 18 (2.01%) CCTV
13 18 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
14 13 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.34%) Social Media
16 11 (1.23%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 541 (60.51%) Windows
2 269 (30.09%) Windows Server
3 219 (24.50%) Linux
4 114 (12.75%) Windows 10
5 55 (6.15%) Mac OS
6 41 (4.59%) Unix
7 33 (3.69%) Ubuntu
8 24 (2.68%) Apple iOS
9 19 (2.13%) Android
9 19 (2.13%) Rocky
9 19 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (2.01%) CentOS
11 15 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.78%) Debian
14 6 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.67%) Solaris
15 5 (0.56%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.45%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.22%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (35.12%) Problem-Solving
2 219 (24.50%) Customer Service
3 203 (22.71%) Cybersecurity
4 191 (21.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 162 (18.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 131 (14.65%) ITIL
7 128 (14.32%) Disaster Recovery
8 99 (11.07%) Incident Response
9 97 (10.85%) Mentoring
10 86 (9.62%) Service Delivery
11 82 (9.17%) Project Delivery
12 81 (9.06%) ITSM
13 72 (8.05%) SIEM
14 69 (7.72%) CI/CD
14 69 (7.72%) Infrastructure as Code
15 68 (7.61%) Computer Science
16 62 (6.94%) Software Engineering
17 61 (6.82%) DevOps
18 59 (6.60%) High Availability
19 54 (6.04%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 176 (19.69%) Python
2 157 (17.56%) PowerShell
3 91 (10.18%) SQL
4 89 (9.96%) Bash
5 46 (5.15%) C++
6 27 (3.02%) Perl
7 25 (2.80%) Java
8 24 (2.68%) JavaScript
9 21 (2.35%) C
9 21 (2.35%) Go
10 17 (1.90%) C#
11 14 (1.57%) VBA
12 13 (1.45%) Ruby
13 10 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.12%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.12%) TypeScript
14 9 (1.01%) Bicep
15 7 (0.78%) PHP
15 7 (0.78%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 148 (16.55%) Degree
2 113 (12.64%) Security Cleared
3 95 (10.63%) Cisco Certification
4 75 (8.39%) SC Cleared
5 72 (8.05%) CCNA
6 63 (7.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 56 (6.26%) CCNP
8 36 (4.03%) CompTIA Security+
9 32 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (3.13%) Azure Certification
11 26 (2.91%) CREST Certified
12 24 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (2.57%) CISSP
13 23 (2.57%) Network+ Certification
14 22 (2.46%) DV Cleared
15 20 (2.24%) A+ Certification
15 20 (2.24%) CEH
16 19 (2.13%) GCIA
17 16 (1.79%) HND
18 15 (1.68%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.61%) SLA
2 44 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 44 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (3.91%) GDPR
4 20 (2.24%) NIST
4 20 (2.24%) QA
5 15 (1.68%) PCI DSS
6 12 (1.34%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.23%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.67%) GRC
9 6 (0.67%) NCSC
10 2 (0.22%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.11%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.11%) IASME
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 398 (44.52%) Active Directory
2 157 (17.56%) Hyper-V
3 138 (15.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.25%) Docker
5 33 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (3.47%) Firmware
7 14 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (1.45%) vSphere
9 10 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.22%) KVM
11 2 (0.22%) Snort
11 2 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.22%) XenApp
11 2 (0.22%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.11%) Ceph
12 1 (0.11%) QEMU
12 1 (0.11%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 152 (17.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 40 (4.47%) Ansible
3 38 (4.25%) Kubernetes
4 31 (3.47%) FortiGate
5 22 (2.46%) Grafana
6 21 (2.35%) QRadar
7 18 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.90%) Prometheus
9 13 (1.45%) Nagios
10 10 (1.12%) WSUS
11 9 (1.01%) Kibana
12 8 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.67%) SCCM
14 5 (0.56%) Autotask
14 5 (0.56%) Cilium
14 5 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
14 5 (0.56%) SCVMM
15 4 (0.45%) Proxmox
15 4 (0.45%) ZABBIX
16 3 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 508 (56.82%) Microsoft
2 162 (18.12%) VMware
3 126 (14.09%) Cisco
4 75 (8.39%) Fortinet
5 54 (6.04%) Google
5 54 (6.04%) Veeam
6 45 (5.03%) Splunk
7 41 (4.59%) ServiceNow
8 38 (4.25%) Palo Alto
9 29 (3.24%) Meraki
10 28 (3.13%) Dell
10 28 (3.13%) SonicWALL
11 26 (2.91%) Red Hat
12 23 (2.57%) SolarWinds
13 20 (2.24%) Sophos
14 19 (2.13%) WatchGuard
15 18 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
16 17 (1.90%) Apple
16 17 (1.90%) Ubiquiti
17 16 (1.79%) HP