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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 217 204
Rank change year-on-year -27 -13 -32
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 900 718 965
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.44% 1.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.40% 10.02% 11.09%
Number of salaries quoted 671 510 537
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,000 £28,750
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 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,075 £76,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £34,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -18.82% -1.16%

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 7,896 7,168 8,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.70% 14.40% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,845 3,965 4,338
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £28,742 £37,500
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 £78,790 £83,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £34,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +32.35% -31.31% +10.00%

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 9 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 9 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 -14 844 £40,000 +6.67% 705
UK excluding London -45 628 £37,500 +8.70% 405
Work from Home +33 265 £40,000 -1.23% 224
London +5 253 £55,000 - 322
South East -18 185 £38,500 +2.67% 107
North of England -39 147 £33,500 -4.29% 88
Midlands -27 126 £36,750 +13.08% 56
East of England -13 92 £35,000 +7.69% 49
North West +33 82 £32,250 -20.37% 45
West Midlands -25 76 £37,500 +15.38% 27
Yorkshire -38 54 £33,500 - 32
East Midlands -38 50 £36,000 +10.77% 29
South West -80 43 £32,500 -5.80% 54
Wales -87 15 £45,000 +28.57% 12
Scotland +9 14 £63,451 +111.50% 31
North East -86 11 £40,000 +37.93% 14
Northern Ireland -74 6 £40,250 -45.46% 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 (16.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 119 (13.22%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.78%) IIS
4 17 (1.89%) Apache
5 7 (0.78%) Confluence
6 5 (0.56%) WinCC
7 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.33%) SAS
8 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.11%) Houdini
5 1 (0.11%) NUKE
5 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.11%) Simulink
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
1 413 (45.89%) Microsoft 365
2 342 (38.00%) Azure
3 244 (27.11%) Entra ID
4 141 (15.67%) AWS
5 52 (5.78%) GCP
6 49 (5.44%) OneDrive
7 35 (3.89%) SaaS
8 22 (2.44%) Google Workspace
9 21 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (1.56%) dbt
10 14 (1.56%) OpenShift
11 12 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (1.33%) Google Compute Engine
11 12 (1.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 12 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (1.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (1.11%) IaaS
14 9 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 559 (62.11%) DNS
2 445 (49.44%) DHCP
3 413 (45.89%) Firewall
4 393 (43.67%) VPN
5 215 (23.89%) VLAN
6 211 (23.44%) WAN
7 208 (23.11%) LAN
8 140 (15.56%) Wi-Fi
9 115 (12.78%) Wireless
10 112 (12.44%) Network Security
11 79 (8.78%) BGP
12 77 (8.56%) HTTP
13 69 (7.67%) VoIP
14 58 (6.44%) OSPF
15 43 (4.78%) SD-WAN
16 40 (4.44%) SSL
17 32 (3.56%) Ethernet
18 28 (3.11%) Internet
19 23 (2.56%) FTP
20 22 (2.44%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (2.22%) MySQL
4 18 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.00%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.67%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (0.67%) Redis
7 5 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.56%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.44%) KDB
8 4 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.33%) InfluxDB
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.11%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.11%) Db2
10 1 (0.11%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 34 (3.78%) JIRA
2 24 (2.67%) Git
3 13 (1.44%) GitLab
4 12 (1.33%) TeamCity
5 6 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.56%) Selenium
7 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.44%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.33%) 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
1 426 (47.33%) Social Skills
2 117 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
3 103 (11.44%) Finance
4 67 (7.44%) Telecoms
5 48 (5.33%) Banking
6 42 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (4.67%) Law
7 38 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (4.22%) Retail
8 36 (4.00%) Aerospace
8 36 (4.00%) Electronics
9 33 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.22%) Public Sector
12 15 (1.67%) Back Office
13 14 (1.56%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.11%) Automotive
15 8 (0.89%) Marketing
16 7 (0.78%) Digital Health
16 7 (0.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 244 (27.11%) IT Support
2 208 (23.11%) Support Engineer
3 181 (20.11%) IT Engineer
4 151 (16.78%) IT Support Engineer
5 123 (13.67%) Analyst
6 117 (13.00%) Senior
7 112 (12.44%) Network Engineer
8 93 (10.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 73 (8.11%) 2nd Line Support
10 67 (7.44%) Support Analyst
11 58 (6.44%) IT Technician
11 58 (6.44%) Support Technician
12 53 (5.89%) IT Support Technician
13 46 (5.11%) Lead
14 44 (4.89%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 42 (4.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 35 (3.89%) IT Analyst
17 34 (3.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 33 (3.67%) Infrastructure Support
19 31 (3.44%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (8.22%) Terraform
2 25 (2.78%) LDAP
3 22 (2.44%) React
4 18 (2.00%) XML
5 17 (1.89%) RESTful
6 15 (1.67%) Node.js
7 13 (1.44%) JSON
8 12 (1.33%) Middleware
8 12 (1.33%) WebSockets
9 10 (1.11%) CSS
9 10 (1.11%) Django
9 10 (1.11%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (1.11%) HTML
10 9 (1.00%) .NET
10 9 (1.00%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (1.00%) REST
11 8 (0.89%) gRPC
12 6 (0.67%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.56%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 125 (13.89%) Driving Licence
2 104 (11.56%) Onboarding
3 46 (5.11%) Data Centre
4 35 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (3.44%) Security Posture
6 28 (3.11%) Cyber Threat
6 28 (3.11%) Security Operations Centre
7 26 (2.89%) Management Information System
8 24 (2.67%) PKI
9 22 (2.44%) Cloud Native
9 22 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
10 21 (2.33%) Client/Server
11 19 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (2.11%) Replication
12 18 (2.00%) CCTV
12 18 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
13 13 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.33%) Blog
14 12 (1.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 544 (60.44%) Windows
2 270 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 220 (24.44%) Linux
4 116 (12.89%) Windows 10
5 55 (6.11%) Mac OS
6 41 (4.56%) Unix
7 33 (3.67%) Ubuntu
8 25 (2.78%) Apple iOS
9 20 (2.22%) Android
10 19 (2.11%) Rocky
10 19 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 18 (2.00%) CentOS
12 16 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.78%) Debian
15 6 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
15 6 (0.67%) Solaris
16 5 (0.56%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.44%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (35.22%) Problem-Solving
2 220 (24.44%) Customer Service
3 205 (22.78%) Cybersecurity
4 193 (21.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 164 (18.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 133 (14.78%) ITIL
7 129 (14.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 100 (11.11%) Incident Response
9 97 (10.78%) Mentoring
10 86 (9.56%) Service Delivery
11 85 (9.44%) Project Delivery
12 81 (9.00%) ITSM
13 71 (7.89%) CI/CD
13 71 (7.89%) SIEM
14 70 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
15 67 (7.44%) Computer Science
16 62 (6.89%) Software Engineering
17 61 (6.78%) DevOps
17 61 (6.78%) High Availability
18 56 (6.22%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 179 (19.89%) Python
2 156 (17.33%) PowerShell
3 93 (10.33%) SQL
4 90 (10.00%) Bash
5 46 (5.11%) C++
6 27 (3.00%) Java
6 27 (3.00%) Perl
7 23 (2.56%) Go
7 23 (2.56%) JavaScript
8 21 (2.33%) C
9 17 (1.89%) C#
10 14 (1.56%) VBA
11 13 (1.44%) Ruby
12 10 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (1.11%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.11%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.00%) Bicep
14 7 (0.78%) PHP
14 7 (0.78%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 149 (16.56%) Degree
2 114 (12.67%) Security Cleared
3 98 (10.89%) Cisco Certification
4 75 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 74 (8.22%) CCNA
6 64 (7.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 58 (6.44%) CCNP
8 35 (3.89%) CompTIA Security+
9 31 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (3.11%) Azure Certification
11 26 (2.89%) CREST Certified
12 24 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (2.56%) CISSP
13 23 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
14 22 (2.44%) DV Cleared
15 20 (2.22%) A+ Certification
15 20 (2.22%) CEH
16 18 (2.00%) GCIA
17 16 (1.78%) HND
18 15 (1.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.56%) SLA
2 45 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (4.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 35 (3.89%) GDPR
5 21 (2.33%) NIST
6 20 (2.22%) QA
7 17 (1.89%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.44%) SOC 2
9 11 (1.22%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.67%) GRC
11 6 (0.67%) NCSC
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.11%) DO-178B
13 1 (0.11%) ECSS
13 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 401 (44.56%) Active Directory
2 157 (17.44%) Hyper-V
3 138 (15.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.22%) Docker
5 33 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (3.44%) Firmware
7 14 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (1.56%) vSphere
8 13 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.33%) 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%) NFS
12 1 (0.11%) Samba
12 1 (0.11%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 153 (17.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 40 (4.44%) Ansible
2 40 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 31 (3.44%) FortiGate
4 24 (2.67%) Grafana
5 21 (2.33%) QRadar
6 19 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 14 (1.56%) Nagios
9 10 (1.11%) WSUS
10 9 (1.00%) Kibana
11 8 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.67%) Cilium
12 6 (0.67%) SCCM
13 5 (0.56%) Autotask
13 5 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
13 5 (0.56%) SCVMM
14 4 (0.44%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.44%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 510 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 163 (18.11%) VMware
3 129 (14.33%) Cisco
4 77 (8.56%) Fortinet
5 56 (6.22%) Google
6 54 (6.00%) Veeam
7 45 (5.00%) Splunk
8 42 (4.67%) ServiceNow
9 38 (4.22%) Palo Alto
10 29 (3.22%) Meraki
11 28 (3.11%) Dell
11 28 (3.11%) SonicWALL
12 26 (2.89%) Red Hat
13 24 (2.67%) SolarWinds
14 20 (2.22%) Sophos
15 19 (2.11%) WatchGuard
16 18 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
17 17 (1.89%) Apple
17 17 (1.89%) Ubiquiti
18 16 (1.78%) HP