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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 223 208
Rank change year-on-year -61 -15 +35
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 609 690 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.55% 1.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.94% 10.30% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 478 483 1,141
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,762 £77,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -9.33% - -6.83%

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 6,810 6,698 13,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.34% 15.08% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,374 3,758 9,431
10th Percentile £27,694 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -10.11% -1.11%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -56 568 £40,000 - 209
UK excluding London -78 393 £34,000 -9.33% 195
London -10 204 £57,500 +11.65% 41
Work from Home -1 174 £42,000 -16.00% 69
South East -28 123 £37,500 +1.35% 65
North of England -16 114 £34,000 -9.33% 41
Midlands -52 55 £32,500 - 30
Yorkshire -35 54 £32,500 -5.11% 11
North West +16 43 £37,500 -3.85% 25
East of England -43 37 £37,500 -21.05% 27
South West -41 35 £40,000 -17.29% 25
East Midlands -28 32 £32,500 +4.84% 11
West Midlands -51 23 £32,875 +1.15% 19
Wales -48 20 £37,000 -38.33% 4
North East -29 17 £40,000 -18.69% 8
Scotland -7 8 £46,000 -4.17% 9
Northern Ireland -30 1 £73,801 -13.18% 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
1 107 (17.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 76 (12.48%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.63%) IIS
4 5 (0.82%) Apache
5 4 (0.66%) Confluence
6 3 (0.49%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 71 (11.66%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.16%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
1 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 262 (43.02%) Azure
2 254 (41.71%) Microsoft 365
3 118 (19.38%) AWS
3 118 (19.38%) Entra ID
4 32 (5.25%) GCP
5 20 (3.28%) GitHub
5 20 (3.28%) OneDrive
6 18 (2.96%) Google Workspace
6 18 (2.96%) IaaS
7 15 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (2.30%) PaaS
9 13 (2.13%) SaaS
10 10 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (1.15%) OpenShift
13 6 (0.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (0.99%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 364 (59.77%) DNS
2 279 (45.81%) DHCP
3 242 (39.74%) Firewall
4 199 (32.68%) VPN
5 175 (28.74%) WAN
6 164 (26.93%) LAN
7 125 (20.53%) VLAN
8 73 (11.99%) Wi-Fi
9 63 (10.34%) Network Security
10 62 (10.18%) HTTP
11 43 (7.06%) BGP
12 42 (6.90%) VoIP
13 39 (6.40%) SD-WAN
14 32 (5.25%) OSPF
15 29 (4.76%) Wireless
16 21 (3.45%) Multicast
17 16 (2.63%) SMTP
18 15 (2.46%) Wireshark
18 15 (2.46%) WLAN
19 14 (2.30%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.24%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.64%) MySQL
5 6 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.99%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.82%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.82%) Redis
7 4 (0.66%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (0.66%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.49%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.16%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.16%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.16%) KDB
9 1 (0.16%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (0.16%) Power BI
9 1 (0.16%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 17 (2.79%) JIRA
2 16 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.46%) Git
4 12 (1.97%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.99%) GitLab
6 4 (0.66%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.33%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.16%) CMake
9 1 (0.16%) LSMW
General
1 263 (43.19%) Social Skills
2 95 (15.60%) Finance
3 78 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (7.55%) Banking
4 46 (7.55%) Law
5 45 (7.39%) Telecoms
6 40 (6.57%) Organisational Skills
7 31 (5.09%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.28%) Aerospace
9 20 (3.28%) Retail
10 19 (3.12%) Investment Banking
11 14 (2.30%) Back Office
12 11 (1.81%) Legal
12 11 (1.81%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.64%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.48%) Electronics
15 8 (1.31%) Automotive
16 6 (0.99%) Spanish Language
17 5 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 160 (26.27%) IT Support
2 95 (15.60%) Support Engineer
3 90 (14.78%) Analyst
4 75 (12.32%) IT Engineer
5 69 (11.33%) Senior
6 63 (10.34%) Network Engineer
7 62 (10.18%) IT Support Engineer
8 60 (9.85%) Support Technician
9 56 (9.20%) 2nd Line Support
10 52 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 51 (8.37%) IT Support Technician
11 51 (8.37%) IT Technician
12 37 (6.08%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 33 (5.42%) Developer
13 33 (5.42%) Support Analyst
14 32 (5.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 30 (4.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (4.11%) C++ Developer
16 25 (4.11%) Lead
17 23 (3.78%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.63%) LDAP
2 15 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (2.30%) WebSockets
4 13 (2.13%) .NET
5 12 (1.97%) gRPC
6 11 (1.81%) React
7 10 (1.64%) Node.js
8 9 (1.48%) Django
9 7 (1.15%) 802.1X
9 7 (1.15%) REST
10 6 (0.99%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.99%) Middleware
10 6 (0.99%) RESTful
11 5 (0.82%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.82%) JSON
12 4 (0.66%) ADO
12 4 (0.66%) CSS
12 4 (0.66%) HTML
12 4 (0.66%) Qt
12 4 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 76 (12.48%) Driving Licence
2 40 (6.57%) Data Centre
3 24 (3.94%) Cyber Threat
4 23 (3.78%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (3.28%) Security Posture
7 19 (3.12%) EPoS
7 19 (3.12%) FPGA
8 17 (2.79%) Cyber Defence
8 17 (2.79%) Security Operations Centre
9 15 (2.46%) Replication
10 13 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.97%) MPEG
12 10 (1.64%) CCTV
12 10 (1.64%) Client/Server
12 10 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.64%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.64%) PKI
13 9 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 368 (60.43%) Windows
2 204 (33.50%) Windows Server
3 136 (22.33%) Linux
4 92 (15.11%) Windows 10
5 47 (7.72%) Mac OS
6 33 (5.42%) Apple iOS
7 26 (4.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (3.61%) Android
10 20 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (3.12%) Unix
12 13 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (1.31%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.99%) CentOS
14 6 (0.99%) VMS
14 6 (0.99%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.66%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.66%) Debian
15 4 (0.66%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.33%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (35.63%) Problem-Solving
2 120 (19.70%) Customer Service
3 93 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 88 (14.45%) ITIL
5 87 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 77 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 76 (12.48%) Service Delivery
8 73 (11.99%) Disaster Recovery
9 68 (11.17%) Incident Response
10 67 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 58 (9.52%) DevOps
12 52 (8.54%) Incident Management
13 50 (8.21%) Mentoring
14 49 (8.05%) ITSM
15 48 (7.88%) CI/CD
16 47 (7.72%) High Availability
16 47 (7.72%) Root Cause Analysis
17 46 (7.55%) SIEM
18 42 (6.90%) Project Delivery
19 38 (6.24%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 112 (18.39%) PowerShell
2 106 (17.41%) Python
3 59 (9.69%) Bash
4 51 (8.37%) SQL
5 42 (6.90%) C++
6 27 (4.43%) Java
7 24 (3.94%) C
8 19 (3.12%) Go
9 16 (2.63%) C#
10 8 (1.31%) Perl
10 8 (1.31%) PHP
10 8 (1.31%) VBA
11 7 (1.15%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.15%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (0.99%) Bicep
13 4 (0.66%) Delphi
13 4 (0.66%) Pascal
14 3 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.49%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 92 (15.11%) Degree
2 69 (11.33%) Security Cleared
3 53 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 51 (8.37%) Cisco Certification
5 44 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (6.57%) CCNA
7 32 (5.25%) CCNP
8 27 (4.43%) Azure Certification
9 22 (3.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 20 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.79%) Network+ Certification
12 16 (2.63%) CREST Certified
13 15 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (1.97%) GCIA
15 11 (1.81%) CEH
15 11 (1.81%) RHCSA
16 10 (1.64%) GIAC
16 10 (1.64%) OSCP
16 10 (1.64%) SANS
17 9 (1.48%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.03%) SLA
2 25 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.12%) GDPR
4 15 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.97%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.82%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.66%) DICOM
7 4 (0.66%) HL7
7 4 (0.66%) NIST
7 4 (0.66%) QA
8 3 (0.49%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 263 (43.19%) Active Directory
2 109 (17.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 92 (15.11%) Hyper-V
4 21 (3.45%) Docker
5 14 (2.30%) vSphere
6 12 (1.97%) Firmware
7 9 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (1.31%) KVM
9 7 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.16%) QEMU
11 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.16%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 81 (13.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (8.37%) Terraform
3 48 (7.88%) Ansible
4 34 (5.58%) Kubernetes
5 26 (4.27%) FortiGate
6 24 (3.94%) Grafana
6 24 (3.94%) Prometheus
7 20 (3.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (3.28%) Nagios
8 16 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
9 14 (2.30%) QRadar
10 8 (1.31%) Kibana
10 8 (1.31%) Puppet
11 6 (0.99%) SCCM
11 6 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.99%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.99%) VxRail
11 6 (0.99%) WSUS
12 5 (0.82%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.82%) Control-M
Vendors
1 337 (55.34%) Microsoft
2 138 (22.66%) VMware
3 72 (11.82%) Cisco
4 31 (5.09%) Meraki
4 31 (5.09%) SolarWinds
5 30 (4.93%) Veeam
6 27 (4.43%) Splunk
7 25 (4.11%) Apple
7 25 (4.11%) Fortinet
8 24 (3.94%) Google
8 24 (3.94%) ServiceNow
9 23 (3.78%) Palo Alto
10 22 (3.61%) Citrix
10 22 (3.61%) Red Hat
11 18 (2.96%) CrowdStrike
11 18 (2.96%) HP
12 17 (2.79%) Dell
13 12 (1.97%) Zscaler
14 11 (1.81%) Sophos
15 10 (1.64%) SonicWALL