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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring TCP/IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited TCP/IP over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 201 238
Rank change year-on-year -31 +37 +31
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 678 1,487 1,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.30% 1.51% 1.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.78% 10.92% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 490 1,177 1,122
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,650 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £77,715
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,700 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +19.20% -6.25% -

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 6,936 13,623 16,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 13.85% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,252 9,516 8,186
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 -36 605 £45,000 +5.88% 433
UK excluding London -42 458 £44,700 +19.20% 343
London +12 198 £52,500 -17.01% 138
Work from Home -26 196 £55,000 +4.76% 200
South East +26 146 £37,500 -2.60% 88
Midlands -22 89 £35,000 -6.67% 59
North of England -48 82 £44,700 +11.75% 67
East of England +2 69 £47,500 +35.71% 55
West Midlands -7 49 £35,000 - 36
Yorkshire +16 41 £44,700 +15.35% 26
East Midlands +3 40 £31,250 -23.78% 21
North West -52 37 £42,500 +6.25% 29
Scotland +103 36 £50,000 +17.65% 22
South West -20 23 £51,729 +56.75% 35
Wales +22 18 £65,000 +136.36% 25
North East +47 4 £69,384 +189.10% 15
Northern Ireland +8 2 £85,000 +161.54% 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 90 (13.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 60 (8.85%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.36%) IIS
4 12 (1.77%) Apache Solr
4 12 (1.77%) nginx
5 6 (0.88%) Apache
6 2 (0.29%) CMS
6 2 (0.29%) SAS
6 2 (0.29%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.29%) WordPress
7 1 (0.15%) CICS
7 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 90 (13.27%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (1.62%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.74%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 221 (32.60%) Azure
2 183 (26.99%) Microsoft 365
3 115 (16.96%) AWS
4 47 (6.93%) Entra ID
5 34 (5.01%) GCP
5 34 (5.01%) OneDrive
6 33 (4.87%) Cloud Computing
7 22 (3.24%) SaaS
8 21 (3.10%) Google Workspace
9 15 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (2.21%) Power Automate
10 14 (2.06%) Mimecast
11 13 (1.92%) GitHub
12 11 (1.62%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (1.62%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 11 (1.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 11 (1.62%) AWS CodeBuild
12 11 (1.62%) dbt
12 11 (1.62%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 297 (43.81%) DNS
2 244 (35.99%) Firewall
3 239 (35.25%) DHCP
4 227 (33.48%) VPN
5 143 (21.09%) LAN
5 143 (21.09%) WAN
6 105 (15.49%) VLAN
7 91 (13.42%) BGP
8 78 (11.50%) OSPF
9 75 (11.06%) Network Security
10 47 (6.93%) Wireless
11 42 (6.19%) MPLS
12 39 (5.75%) HTTP
13 35 (5.16%) VoIP
14 33 (4.87%) IPsec
15 32 (4.72%) Wi-Fi
16 28 (4.13%) Internet
17 23 (3.39%) WLAN
18 22 (3.24%) SD-WAN
18 22 (3.24%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.49%) SQL Server
2 21 (3.10%) MySQL
3 20 (2.95%) Relational Database
4 19 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (1.92%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.77%) Couchbase
8 11 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (1.62%) Redis
9 6 (0.88%) Power BI
10 5 (0.74%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.29%) MS Access
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.15%) JasperReports
12 1 (0.15%) Metadata
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.15%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 64 (9.44%) Cucumber
1 64 (9.44%) Robot Framework
2 18 (2.65%) Git
3 12 (1.77%) JIRA
4 6 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (0.88%) Subversion
5 4 (0.59%) Spinnaker
6 2 (0.29%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.29%) JMeter
6 2 (0.29%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.15%) GitLab
7 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 302 (44.54%) Social Skills
2 115 (16.96%) Finance
3 103 (15.19%) Telecoms
4 100 (14.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 76 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (7.96%) Banking
7 31 (4.57%) Retail
8 22 (3.24%) Law
8 22 (3.24%) Legal
9 18 (2.65%) Automotive
10 15 (2.21%) Investment Banking
11 14 (2.06%) Electronics
11 14 (2.06%) Public Sector
12 13 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.47%) Back Office
15 10 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.33%) Local Government
17 7 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 96 (14.16%) Senior
2 88 (12.98%) Analyst
3 74 (10.91%) IT Support
3 74 (10.91%) Network Engineer
4 64 (9.44%) Support Engineer
4 64 (9.44%) Test Automation Engineer
4 64 (9.44%) Test Engineer
5 61 (9.00%) Lead
6 56 (8.26%) IT Engineer
7 47 (6.93%) Developer
8 40 (5.90%) Support Analyst
9 33 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 30 (4.42%) Systems Engineer
11 29 (4.28%) IT Support Engineer
12 25 (3.69%) Embedded Engineer
12 25 (3.69%) Junior
13 24 (3.54%) Security Engineer
14 23 (3.39%) Software Engineer
15 21 (3.10%) C++ Developer
16 20 (2.95%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.80%) Django
2 15 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
3 14 (2.06%) .NET
4 11 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
4 11 (1.62%) HTML
4 11 (1.62%) XML
5 9 (1.33%) REST
6 8 (1.18%) LDAP
7 6 (0.88%) JSON
8 5 (0.74%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.59%) React
9 4 (0.59%) SOAP
9 4 (0.59%) XSLT
9 4 (0.59%) YAML
10 3 (0.44%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.44%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.44%) Entity Framework
10 3 (0.44%) Kafka
10 3 (0.44%) Node.js
10 3 (0.44%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.59%) Linux Command Line
2 63 (9.29%) Management Information System
3 49 (7.23%) Data Centre
4 35 (5.16%) Driving Licence
5 31 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (3.69%) FPGA
7 21 (3.10%) Device Driver
8 19 (2.80%) Cyber Threat
9 18 (2.65%) Smartphone
10 15 (2.21%) Public Cloud
11 14 (2.06%) Clustering
11 14 (2.06%) IoT
12 13 (1.92%) Client/Server
12 13 (1.92%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
13 12 (1.77%) Product Ownership
13 12 (1.77%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.62%) Embedded Systems
14 11 (1.62%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 375 (55.31%) Windows
2 233 (34.37%) Linux
3 160 (23.60%) Windows Server
4 53 (7.82%) Unix
5 47 (6.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 46 (6.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 45 (6.64%) Mac OS
8 43 (6.34%) Windows 10
9 25 (3.69%) Apple iOS
9 25 (3.69%) Mac OS X
10 22 (3.24%) Ubuntu
11 18 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
12 17 (2.51%) Android
13 14 (2.06%) CentOS
14 12 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 9 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
16 6 (0.88%) Rocky
17 5 (0.74%) VMS
17 5 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.59%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (36.43%) Problem-Solving
2 113 (16.67%) DevOps
3 104 (15.34%) Mentoring
4 103 (15.19%) ITIL
5 96 (14.16%) Cybersecurity
6 78 (11.50%) Customer Service
6 78 (11.50%) Test Automation
7 67 (9.88%) Coaching
7 67 (9.88%) Computer Science
8 64 (9.44%) System Testing
8 64 (9.44%) Test Management
9 56 (8.26%) Disaster Recovery
10 52 (7.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (7.37%) CI/CD
12 46 (6.78%) Information Security
13 44 (6.49%) Agile
14 42 (6.19%) Incident Management
15 40 (5.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 39 (5.75%) Collaborative Working
17 37 (5.46%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 171 (25.22%) PowerShell
2 170 (25.07%) Python
3 99 (14.60%) Bash
4 80 (11.80%) JavaScript
4 80 (11.80%) SQL
5 77 (11.36%) C
6 65 (9.59%) C++
7 30 (4.42%) Java
8 26 (3.83%) C#
9 23 (3.39%) Perl
10 15 (2.21%) PHP
11 8 (1.18%) R
11 8 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.03%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.59%) Jython
13 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.59%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.59%) Ruby
14 3 (0.44%) JCL
15 2 (0.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 200 (29.50%) Degree
2 80 (11.80%) Cisco Certification
3 77 (11.36%) Security Cleared
4 68 (10.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 62 (9.14%) CCNA
6 45 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (6.34%) CCNP
7 43 (6.34%) SC Cleared
8 27 (3.98%) MCSE
9 25 (3.69%) Azure Certification
10 24 (3.54%) DV Cleared
11 21 (3.10%) CompTIA Security+
12 20 (2.95%) HND
13 19 (2.80%) A+ Certification
13 19 (2.80%) HNC
14 13 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 13 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 12 (1.77%) CISSP
15 12 (1.77%) MCSA
16 11 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (10.03%) QA
2 49 (7.23%) SLA
3 37 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.47%) NIST
6 7 (1.03%) GDPR
6 7 (1.03%) MIL-STD-1553
6 7 (1.03%) NCSC
7 5 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.44%) PMO
10 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.15%) COBIT
11 1 (0.15%) FISMA
11 1 (0.15%) GLBA
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 190 (28.02%) Active Directory
2 91 (13.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (11.21%) Hyper-V
4 36 (5.31%) Firmware
5 25 (3.69%) Docker
6 20 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (2.06%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (1.33%) VMware NSX
10 7 (1.03%) vSphere
11 6 (0.88%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 4 (0.59%) XenApp
13 2 (0.29%) PowerHA
13 2 (0.29%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.15%) NFS
14 1 (0.15%) RHEV
14 1 (0.15%) vCloud
14 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 71 (10.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 57 (8.41%) Ansible
3 41 (6.05%) SCCM
4 38 (5.60%) Terraform
5 33 (4.87%) Kubernetes
6 14 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.92%) SCOM
8 11 (1.62%) AWS Copilot
8 11 (1.62%) FortiGate
8 11 (1.62%) QRadar
9 9 (1.33%) NetBackup
10 8 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (1.18%) Grafana
10 8 (1.18%) Puppet
11 7 (1.03%) WSUS
12 6 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.74%) ArcSight ESM
13 5 (0.74%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.74%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 260 (38.35%) Microsoft
2 118 (17.40%) VMware
3 109 (16.08%) Cisco
4 56 (8.26%) Google
5 38 (5.60%) Fortinet
6 30 (4.42%) Apple
7 29 (4.28%) Dell
7 29 (4.28%) Red Hat
8 25 (3.69%) SolarWinds
9 23 (3.39%) Juniper
9 23 (3.39%) ServiceNow
10 22 (3.24%) Citrix
10 22 (3.24%) Ubiquiti
11 21 (3.10%) Oracle
12 19 (2.80%) Splunk
12 19 (2.80%) Veeam
13 13 (1.92%) CheckPoint
14 12 (1.77%) Bloomberg
14 12 (1.77%) Reuters
15 11 (1.62%) CQG