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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 207 227
Rank change year-on-year -61 +20 -7
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 737 767 1,167
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.56% 1.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.08% 10.71% 10.18%
Number of salaries quoted 577 545 917
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £39,500 £42,072
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -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 7,308 7,162 11,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.30% 14.56% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4,710 4,135 7,838
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £32,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -11.46% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,880 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.84% -15.56% -

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 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 21 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 -37 693 £37,750 -3.21% 271
UK excluding London -47 515 £35,000 -5.41% 221
Work from Home +6 231 £40,000 -15.79% 97
London -13 210 £60,000 +14.29% 80
South East -27 159 £37,500 +4.90% 81
North of England 0 144 £32,500 -14.47% 41
Midlands -51 80 £32,500 - 25
North West +26 68 £31,875 -20.31% 18
East of England -20 59 £36,250 -23.68% 31
Yorkshire -45 58 £32,500 -13.33% 20
East Midlands -20 43 £32,500 +0.78% 10
South West -56 41 £33,500 -12.30% 37
West Midlands -44 37 £33,250 +2.31% 15
Wales -61 21 £40,000 +14.29% 5
North East -48 18 £40,000 +25.00% 6
Scotland -3 9 £51,750 +8.95% 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £58,151 - 4

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 (17.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 96 (13.03%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.26%) IIS
4 11 (1.49%) Apache
5 4 (0.54%) Confluence
6 3 (0.41%) SAS
7 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 61 (8.28%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
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
1 328 (44.50%) Microsoft 365
2 313 (42.47%) Azure
3 160 (21.71%) Entra ID
4 134 (18.18%) AWS
5 35 (4.75%) GCP
6 22 (2.99%) OneDrive
7 21 (2.85%) IaaS
8 18 (2.44%) GitHub
9 17 (2.31%) PaaS
9 17 (2.31%) SaaS
10 14 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (1.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 9 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (1.22%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (1.09%) Google Workspace
14 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 436 (59.16%) DNS
2 336 (45.59%) DHCP
3 331 (44.91%) Firewall
4 245 (33.24%) VPN
5 180 (24.42%) WAN
6 172 (23.34%) LAN
7 158 (21.44%) VLAN
8 84 (11.40%) Wi-Fi
9 82 (11.13%) Network Security
10 71 (9.63%) HTTP
11 63 (8.55%) VoIP
12 60 (8.14%) BGP
12 60 (8.14%) Wireless
13 42 (5.70%) SD-WAN
14 41 (5.56%) OSPF
15 24 (3.26%) Multicast
16 19 (2.58%) Ethernet
16 19 (2.58%) SSL
17 18 (2.44%) WLAN
18 17 (2.31%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.49%) MySQL
5 6 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.81%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.68%) Redis
7 4 (0.54%) 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 30 (4.07%) JIRA
2 13 (1.76%) Git
2 13 (1.76%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.63%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.68%) GitLab
4 5 (0.68%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.14%) CMake
6 1 (0.14%) LSMW
General
1 338 (45.86%) Social Skills
2 96 (13.03%) Finance
3 87 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (8.28%) Telecoms
5 52 (7.06%) Law
6 43 (5.83%) Banking
7 41 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
8 35 (4.75%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (3.39%) Retail
11 21 (2.85%) Electronics
12 20 (2.71%) Aerospace
13 16 (2.17%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.90%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.90%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.22%) Legal
16 8 (1.09%) Automotive
16 8 (1.09%) Back Office
17 6 (0.81%) Spanish Language
18 5 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 196 (26.59%) IT Support
2 137 (18.59%) Support Engineer
3 114 (15.47%) IT Engineer
4 98 (13.30%) Analyst
5 91 (12.35%) IT Support Engineer
6 86 (11.67%) Network Engineer
7 77 (10.45%) Senior
8 65 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 59 (8.01%) Support Technician
10 54 (7.33%) 2nd Line Support
10 54 (7.33%) IT Technician
11 52 (7.06%) IT Support Technician
12 38 (5.16%) Support Analyst
13 37 (5.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 34 (4.61%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 34 (4.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 33 (4.48%) IT Analyst
16 30 (4.07%) Lead
17 27 (3.66%) IT Support Analyst
18 25 (3.39%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.58%) LDAP
2 14 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (1.90%) Middleware
2 14 (1.90%) React
2 14 (1.90%) WebSockets
3 13 (1.76%) gRPC
4 12 (1.63%) Node.js
5 11 (1.49%) .NET
6 10 (1.36%) Django
7 8 (1.09%) XML
8 7 (0.95%) 802.1X
8 7 (0.95%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.95%) JSON
8 7 (0.95%) RESTful
9 6 (0.81%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.81%) REST
10 5 (0.68%) CSS
10 5 (0.68%) HTML
11 4 (0.54%) ADO
11 4 (0.54%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 106 (14.38%) Driving Licence
2 47 (6.38%) Data Centre
2 47 (6.38%) Onboarding
3 31 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (3.93%) Cyber Threat
5 24 (3.26%) Security Posture
6 21 (2.85%) Security Operations Centre
7 18 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (2.17%) CCTV
8 16 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
8 16 (2.17%) FPGA
9 15 (2.04%) MPEG
10 14 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.90%) PKI
11 13 (1.76%) Client/Server
11 13 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.76%) Replication
12 12 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.49%) Life Science
13 11 (1.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 449 (60.92%) Windows
2 243 (32.97%) Windows Server
3 164 (22.25%) Linux
4 95 (12.89%) Windows 10
5 53 (7.19%) Mac OS
6 36 (4.88%) Apple iOS
7 25 (3.39%) Android
8 19 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (2.58%) Unix
9 18 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (1.90%) Ubuntu
11 10 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.95%) Debian
12 7 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.68%) CentOS
13 5 (0.68%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.68%) VMS
13 5 (0.68%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.27%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (36.77%) Problem-Solving
2 155 (21.03%) Customer Service
3 132 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 123 (16.69%) Cybersecurity
5 107 (14.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 106 (14.38%) ITIL
7 93 (12.62%) Disaster Recovery
8 88 (11.94%) Service Delivery
9 77 (10.45%) Incident Response
10 73 (9.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 72 (9.77%) ITSM
12 70 (9.50%) Project Delivery
13 66 (8.96%) DevOps
14 63 (8.55%) Mentoring
15 61 (8.28%) High Availability
16 56 (7.60%) SIEM
17 54 (7.33%) CI/CD
18 52 (7.06%) Incident Management
19 47 (6.38%) Computer Science
20 46 (6.24%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 126 (17.10%) PowerShell
2 120 (16.28%) Python
3 63 (8.55%) Bash
4 60 (8.14%) SQL
5 37 (5.02%) C++
6 26 (3.53%) Java
7 23 (3.12%) C
8 17 (2.31%) Go
9 15 (2.04%) C#
10 14 (1.90%) VBA
11 12 (1.63%) Perl
12 11 (1.49%) PHP
13 8 (1.09%) Bicep
13 8 (1.09%) JavaScript
14 7 (0.95%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.54%) Delphi
16 4 (0.54%) Pascal
16 4 (0.54%) Ruby
16 4 (0.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 124 (16.82%) Degree
2 84 (11.40%) Security Cleared
3 75 (10.18%) Cisco Certification
4 64 (8.68%) SC Cleared
5 61 (8.28%) CCNA
6 59 (8.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 49 (6.65%) CCNP
8 30 (4.07%) Azure Certification
9 27 (3.66%) CompTIA Security+
10 22 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.31%) CREST Certified
11 17 (2.31%) Network+ Certification
12 15 (2.04%) CEH
12 15 (2.04%) GCIA
13 14 (1.90%) HND
14 13 (1.76%) GIAC
15 12 (1.63%) HNC
16 11 (1.49%) RHCSA
17 10 (1.36%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.28%) SLA
2 27 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.04%) GDPR
5 6 (0.81%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.68%) NIST
6 5 (0.68%) QA
7 4 (0.54%) DICOM
7 4 (0.54%) HL7
8 3 (0.41%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 320 (43.42%) Active Directory
2 131 (17.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (16.82%) Hyper-V
4 25 (3.39%) Docker
5 16 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (2.04%) Firmware
6 15 (2.04%) vSphere
7 9 (1.22%) KVM
7 9 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.41%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.14%) QEMU
11 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.14%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 112 (15.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 61 (8.28%) Terraform
3 56 (7.60%) Ansible
4 38 (5.16%) Kubernetes
5 34 (4.61%) FortiGate
6 23 (3.12%) Grafana
6 23 (3.12%) Prometheus
7 18 (2.44%) Nagios
8 16 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
9 14 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 14 (1.90%) QRadar
10 9 (1.22%) Puppet
10 9 (1.22%) WSUS
11 8 (1.09%) Kibana
12 7 (0.95%) SCCM
12 7 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.81%) VxRail
14 5 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.68%) Control-M
14 5 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 422 (57.26%) Microsoft
2 157 (21.30%) VMware
3 96 (13.03%) Cisco
4 43 (5.83%) Fortinet
5 39 (5.29%) Veeam
6 38 (5.16%) Meraki
7 34 (4.61%) ServiceNow
8 30 (4.07%) Palo Alto
8 30 (4.07%) Splunk
9 28 (3.80%) SolarWinds
10 24 (3.26%) Apple
11 21 (2.85%) HP
12 20 (2.71%) Citrix
13 19 (2.58%) Dell
13 19 (2.58%) Google
14 18 (2.44%) Sophos
15 17 (2.31%) SonicWALL
16 16 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
16 16 (2.17%) Zscaler
17 15 (2.04%) Red Hat