Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 239 277
Rank change year-on-year +39 +38 -77
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 1,486 1,621 2,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 1.55% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.94% 10.10% 11.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,177 1,126 1,363
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.12% -1.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

TCP/IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP.

Salary trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +45 1,325 £42,500 -5.56% 340
UK excluding London +18 1,131 £37,500 -6.25% 276
Work from Home +28 534 £52,500 +5.00% 139
London +63 322 £62,882 +9.36% 77
South East -40 251 £38,500 +13.24% 63
North of England +14 232 £40,000 -11.11% 65
Midlands +63 200 £37,500 - 60
South West +35 183 £33,000 -26.67% 33
East of England +44 138 £32,500 -23.53% 36
North West +25 123 £40,000 -14.89% 46
West Midlands +59 112 £35,000 -9.77% 32
Yorkshire +28 100 £38,750 -13.89% 17
East Midlands +25 88 £41,000 +12.33% 28
Scotland -50 61 £42,500 +6.25% 12
Wales +17 36 £27,500 -22.90% 9
Northern Ireland +45 30 £32,500 -3.70% 5
North East -7 9 £24,000 -29.93% 4

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 185 (12.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 149 (10.03%) SharePoint
3 46 (3.10%) WebLogic
4 34 (2.29%) IIS
5 14 (0.94%) Apache
5 14 (0.94%) nginx
6 12 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2010
7 11 (0.74%) Confluence
7 11 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2013
8 10 (0.67%) Skype for Business
9 9 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2007
10 7 (0.47%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2003
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.13%) Moodle
12 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.067%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 201 (13.53%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.27%) Trello
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 46 (3.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (1.08%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.27%) Epicor Tropos
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 537 (36.14%) Azure
2 440 (29.61%) Microsoft 365
3 261 (17.56%) AWS
4 140 (9.42%) Entra ID
5 49 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
5 49 (3.30%) SaaS
6 48 (3.23%) GCP
7 46 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
8 39 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
9 37 (2.49%) OneDrive
9 37 (2.49%) OpenShift
10 32 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 31 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (1.75%) Mimecast
13 24 (1.62%) Azure Sentinel
14 20 (1.35%) IaaS
15 18 (1.21%) WhatsApp
16 15 (1.01%) GitHub
17 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
18 13 (0.87%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 716 (48.18%) DNS
2 538 (36.20%) DHCP
3 529 (35.60%) Firewall
4 362 (24.36%) WAN
5 350 (23.55%) LAN
6 264 (17.77%) VPN
7 176 (11.84%) Wireless
8 168 (11.31%) VLAN
9 145 (9.76%) BGP
10 143 (9.62%) Wi-Fi
11 133 (8.95%) HTTP
12 121 (8.14%) Network Security
13 118 (7.94%) SSL
14 111 (7.47%) Internet
15 109 (7.34%) OSPF
16 99 (6.66%) VoIP
17 87 (5.85%) MPLS
18 83 (5.59%) Ethernet
19 60 (4.04%) SD-WAN
20 54 (3.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (6.39%) SQL Server
2 67 (4.51%) Relational Database
3 62 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 48 (3.23%) RDBMS
5 47 (3.16%) MySQL
6 46 (3.10%) Oracle Database
7 22 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (1.35%) NoSQL
9 12 (0.81%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.67%) Power BI
11 8 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.47%) Redis
13 4 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
13 4 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.20%) InfluxDB
15 2 (0.13%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.13%) Couchbase
15 2 (0.13%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 51 (3.43%) JIRA
2 41 (2.76%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.41%) Git
3 21 (1.41%) GitLab
4 20 (1.35%) Visual Studio
5 13 (0.87%) Eclipse
6 11 (0.74%) Subversion
7 5 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.34%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.27%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.27%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.13%) Hudson
9 2 (0.13%) Selenium
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.067%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.067%) Postman
10 1 (0.067%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 447 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 203 (13.66%) Finance
3 179 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.13%) Telecoms
5 69 (4.64%) Electronics
6 58 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (3.50%) Law
8 38 (2.56%) Banking
9 35 (2.36%) Manufacturing
10 33 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (1.82%) Legal
11 27 (1.82%) Retail
12 24 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.35%) Public Sector
14 16 (1.08%) Aerospace
15 15 (1.01%) Military
16 14 (0.94%) Marketing
17 13 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (0.67%) Automotive
19 9 (0.61%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 267 (17.97%) Senior
2 189 (12.72%) Analyst
3 177 (11.91%) Support Engineer
4 157 (10.57%) IT Support
5 149 (10.03%) Network Engineer
6 148 (9.96%) IT Engineer
7 132 (8.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 120 (8.08%) Lead
9 111 (7.47%) Software Engineer
10 84 (5.65%) Architect
11 76 (5.11%) IT Support Engineer
12 74 (4.98%) IT Technician
13 62 (4.17%) Support Technician
14 60 (4.04%) IT Analyst
14 60 (4.04%) Support Analyst
15 59 (3.97%) Developer
16 55 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
17 52 (3.50%) 2nd Line Support
18 51 (3.43%) Administrator
19 49 (3.30%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (6.46%) HTML
2 66 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
3 62 (4.17%) .NET
4 56 (3.77%) CSS
5 48 (3.23%) REST
6 46 (3.10%) Spring Boot
7 44 (2.96%) AngularJS
8 42 (2.83%) Web Services
9 37 (2.49%) SAML
10 33 (2.22%) WPF
11 30 (2.02%) React
12 29 (1.95%) OpenID
13 27 (1.82%) XML
14 25 (1.68%) LDAP
15 23 (1.55%) FIX Protocol
16 20 (1.35%) 802.1X
16 20 (1.35%) ASP.NET
17 19 (1.28%) ASP.NET MVC
17 19 (1.28%) jQuery
17 19 (1.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 105 (7.07%) Data Centre
2 88 (5.92%) Management Information System
3 75 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
4 74 (4.98%) Driving Licence
5 61 (4.10%) Public Cloud
6 55 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (3.63%) IoT
8 51 (3.43%) Cyberattack
9 44 (2.96%) Replication
10 43 (2.89%) Onboarding
11 34 (2.29%) Cloud Native
12 31 (2.09%) Clustering
13 28 (1.88%) CCTV
14 26 (1.75%) PKI
15 25 (1.68%) Video Conferencing
16 24 (1.62%) Client/Server
17 23 (1.55%) Security Operations Centre
18 20 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
19 18 (1.21%) FPGA
20 16 (1.08%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 830 (55.85%) Windows
2 418 (28.13%) Linux
3 394 (26.51%) Windows Server
4 217 (14.60%) Windows 10
5 97 (6.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 93 (6.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 91 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 80 (5.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 68 (4.58%) Android
10 64 (4.31%) Apple iOS
10 64 (4.31%) Unix
11 42 (2.83%) Windows Server 2008
12 35 (2.36%) Ubuntu
13 30 (2.02%) Mac OS
13 30 (2.02%) Windows 7
14 25 (1.68%) CentOS
15 21 (1.41%) Mac OS X
16 19 (1.28%) Debian
16 19 (1.28%) Embedded Linux
16 19 (1.28%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
2 255 (17.16%) ITIL
3 240 (16.15%) Customer Service
4 227 (15.28%) Cybersecurity
5 221 (14.87%) Agile
6 153 (10.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 145 (9.76%) Software Engineering
8 134 (9.02%) DevOps
9 114 (7.67%) Migration
10 112 (7.54%) Actionable Insight
11 107 (7.20%) Computer Science
12 87 (5.85%) SDLC
13 86 (5.79%) Project Management
14 81 (5.45%) Collaborative Working
14 81 (5.45%) Load Balancing
15 80 (5.38%) Disaster Recovery
15 80 (5.38%) Open Source
16 79 (5.32%) ITSM
16 79 (5.32%) Mentoring
17 78 (5.25%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 249 (16.76%) PowerShell
2 230 (15.48%) Python
3 133 (8.95%) Bash
4 123 (8.28%) SQL
5 99 (6.66%) Java
6 96 (6.46%) C
7 75 (5.05%) C++
8 74 (4.98%) C#
9 54 (3.63%) Perl
10 53 (3.57%) JavaScript
11 20 (1.35%) Ruby
12 19 (1.28%) XAML
13 11 (0.74%) Embedded C
14 7 (0.47%) Go
15 6 (0.40%) PHP
15 6 (0.40%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.34%) Ladder Logic
17 4 (0.27%) Bicep
17 4 (0.27%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.20%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 256 (17.23%) Degree
2 214 (14.40%) Security Cleared
3 188 (12.65%) Cisco Certification
4 139 (9.35%) CCNA
5 117 (7.87%) SC Cleared
6 101 (6.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 89 (5.99%) DV Cleared
8 84 (5.65%) AWS Certification
9 76 (5.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 66 (4.44%) Azure Certification
11 58 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 56 (3.77%) CISSP
13 52 (3.50%) CCNP
14 47 (3.16%) DBS Check
15 41 (2.76%) MCSA
16 38 (2.56%) JNCIA
17 32 (2.15%) CEH
18 29 (1.95%) MCSE
19 27 (1.82%) Master's Degree
20 22 (1.48%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (6.33%) SLA
2 47 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (1.95%) NIST
4 28 (1.88%) QA
5 24 (1.62%) NCSC
6 20 (1.35%) GDPR
7 19 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.14%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.47%) JTAG
11 5 (0.34%) MISRA
11 5 (0.34%) PMO
12 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.27%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.20%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.067%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 516 (34.72%) Active Directory
2 246 (16.55%) Hyper-V
3 241 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 84 (5.65%) Docker
5 38 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
6 36 (2.42%) Firmware
7 27 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (1.35%) vSphere
9 19 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.94%) Terminal Services
11 12 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
12 10 (0.67%) pfSense
12 10 (0.67%) XenApp
13 9 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
14 8 (0.54%) NFS
15 5 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.27%) vCloud
16 4 (0.27%) VMware Server
16 4 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 126 (8.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 84 (5.65%) Ansible
3 78 (5.25%) Terraform
4 70 (4.71%) Kubernetes
5 57 (3.84%) Puppet
6 55 (3.70%) SCCM
7 33 (2.22%) Grafana
8 29 (1.95%) WSUS
9 21 (1.41%) vCenter Server
10 20 (1.35%) Nmap
11 18 (1.21%) FortiGate
11 18 (1.21%) Prometheus
12 15 (1.01%) Nagios
13 13 (0.87%) HAProxy
13 13 (0.87%) WMI
14 12 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
14 12 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.74%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.67%) Graphite
Vendors
1 567 (38.16%) Microsoft
2 346 (23.28%) VMware
3 233 (15.68%) Cisco
4 102 (6.86%) Oracle
5 81 (5.45%) Juniper
6 75 (5.05%) Red Hat
7 66 (4.44%) Citrix
8 61 (4.10%) Meraki
9 57 (3.84%) Fortinet
10 54 (3.63%) Splunk
11 51 (3.43%) Veeam
12 46 (3.10%) Sparx
13 40 (2.69%) Bloomberg
14 36 (2.42%) SolarWinds
15 35 (2.36%) Palo Alto
16 34 (2.29%) Apple
17 31 (2.09%) CheckPoint
17 31 (2.09%) HP
17 31 (2.09%) Sophos
18 30 (2.02%) Google