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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 232 213
Rank change year-on-year -63 -19 +31
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 587 672 1,381
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.53% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.04% 10.19% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 455 468 1,141
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -9.33% - -7.41%

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 8,343 6,594 13,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.00% 15.05% 12.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,281 3,678 9,375
10th Percentile £27,694 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - -5.94%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year +1.19% -4.55% -2.22%

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 5 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 5 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 -52 547 £40,000 -3.61% 261
UK excluding London -68 374 £34,000 -9.33% 219
London -10 201 £55,000 +6.80% 72
Work from Home -2 168 £42,000 -16.00% 85
South East -53 113 £37,500 +0.67% 78
North of England -23 109 £34,000 -12.26% 42
Yorkshire -34 54 £32,500 -5.11% 11
Midlands -66 54 £32,500 - 30
North West -1 38 £43,750 +10.76% 26
South West -34 35 £34,000 -34.27% 33
East of England -52 35 £40,000 -15.79% 26
East Midlands -35 31 £32,500 +8.33% 14
West Midlands -63 23 £32,875 +1.15% 16
Wales -41 19 £37,000 -43.08% 4
North East -35 17 £40,000 -42.35% 6
Scotland -14 8 £46,000 -4.17% 12
Northern Ireland -36 1 £73,801 -13.18% 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
1 108 (18.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 77 (13.12%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.39%) IIS
4 5 (0.85%) Apache
5 4 (0.68%) Confluence
6 3 (0.51%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 71 (12.10%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.17%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
1 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 257 (43.78%) Azure
2 246 (41.91%) Microsoft 365
3 113 (19.25%) AWS
3 113 (19.25%) Entra ID
4 34 (5.79%) GCP
5 21 (3.58%) Google Workspace
5 21 (3.58%) OneDrive
6 19 (3.24%) GitHub
7 17 (2.90%) IaaS
8 16 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (2.21%) PaaS
10 13 (2.21%) SaaS
11 10 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 6 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 351 (59.80%) DNS
2 271 (46.17%) DHCP
3 231 (39.35%) Firewall
4 184 (31.35%) VPN
5 167 (28.45%) WAN
6 154 (26.24%) LAN
7 116 (19.76%) VLAN
8 69 (11.75%) Wi-Fi
9 60 (10.22%) Network Security
10 58 (9.88%) HTTP
11 39 (6.64%) VoIP
12 38 (6.47%) BGP
13 36 (6.13%) SD-WAN
14 31 (5.28%) OSPF
15 30 (5.11%) Wireless
16 21 (3.58%) Multicast
17 18 (3.07%) SMTP
18 15 (2.56%) FTP
18 15 (2.56%) Wireshark
19 13 (2.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.30%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.53%) MySQL
5 6 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.02%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.85%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.85%) Redis
7 4 (0.68%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (0.68%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.51%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.17%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.17%) Power BI
10 1 (0.17%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (2.90%) Jenkins
2 16 (2.73%) JIRA
3 15 (2.56%) Git
4 12 (2.04%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.36%) GitLab
6 4 (0.68%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.17%) CMake
9 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.17%) LSMW
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 248 (42.25%) Social Skills
2 98 (16.70%) Finance
3 76 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (7.84%) Banking
5 45 (7.67%) Law
6 42 (7.16%) Telecoms
7 39 (6.64%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (4.77%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (3.41%) Aerospace
10 20 (3.41%) Investment Banking
11 18 (3.07%) Retail
12 14 (2.39%) Back Office
13 11 (1.87%) Legal
13 11 (1.87%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.70%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.53%) Automotive
15 9 (1.53%) Electronics
16 6 (1.02%) Spanish Language
17 5 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 156 (26.58%) IT Support
2 88 (14.99%) Support Engineer
3 86 (14.65%) Analyst
4 71 (12.10%) Senior
5 68 (11.58%) IT Engineer
6 62 (10.56%) Support Technician
7 59 (10.05%) IT Support Engineer
8 57 (9.71%) Network Engineer
9 55 (9.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 52 (8.86%) 2nd Line Support
11 51 (8.69%) IT Support Technician
11 51 (8.69%) IT Technician
12 36 (6.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 34 (5.79%) Developer
14 33 (5.62%) Support Analyst
15 31 (5.28%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 31 (5.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 26 (4.43%) C++ Developer
17 23 (3.92%) Lead
18 21 (3.58%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
1 15 (2.56%) LDAP
2 14 (2.39%) WebSockets
3 13 (2.21%) .NET
4 12 (2.04%) gRPC
5 10 (1.70%) React
6 9 (1.53%) Django
7 8 (1.36%) Node.js
7 8 (1.36%) REST
8 6 (1.02%) 802.1X
8 6 (1.02%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.02%) RESTful
9 5 (0.85%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.85%) JSON
9 5 (0.85%) Middleware
10 4 (0.68%) ADO
10 4 (0.68%) CSS
10 4 (0.68%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (0.68%) Qt
10 4 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (11.58%) Driving Licence
2 39 (6.64%) Data Centre
3 24 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.75%) Cyber Threat
5 20 (3.41%) FPGA
6 19 (3.24%) EPoS
6 19 (3.24%) Security Posture
7 18 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.90%) Replication
9 15 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
9 15 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
10 12 (2.04%) MPEG
10 12 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
11 10 (1.70%) Client/Server
11 10 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.70%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.53%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 357 (60.82%) Windows
2 199 (33.90%) Windows Server
3 134 (22.83%) Linux
4 91 (15.50%) Windows 10
5 46 (7.84%) Mac OS
6 33 (5.62%) Apple iOS
7 26 (4.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 23 (3.92%) Android
10 20 (3.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (3.24%) Unix
12 13 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (1.02%) CentOS
13 6 (1.02%) Ubuntu
13 6 (1.02%) VMS
13 6 (1.02%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.68%) CoreOS
14 4 (0.68%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.34%) Rocky
15 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (35.09%) Problem-Solving
2 113 (19.25%) Customer Service
3 89 (15.16%) ITIL
4 83 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 77 (13.12%) Cybersecurity
5 77 (13.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 71 (12.10%) Service Delivery
7 67 (11.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 66 (11.24%) Disaster Recovery
9 65 (11.07%) Incident Response
10 58 (9.88%) DevOps
11 49 (8.35%) Incident Management
12 48 (8.18%) CI/CD
13 46 (7.84%) Mentoring
14 45 (7.67%) ITSM
14 45 (7.67%) Root Cause Analysis
15 43 (7.33%) SIEM
16 41 (6.98%) High Availability
17 39 (6.64%) Project Delivery
18 37 (6.30%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 111 (18.91%) PowerShell
2 109 (18.57%) Python
3 58 (9.88%) Bash
4 49 (8.35%) SQL
5 44 (7.50%) C++
6 29 (4.94%) Java
7 26 (4.43%) C
8 19 (3.24%) Go
9 17 (2.90%) C#
10 8 (1.36%) Perl
11 7 (1.19%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.02%) Bicep
12 6 (1.02%) PHP
12 6 (1.02%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (1.02%) VBA
13 4 (0.68%) Delphi
13 4 (0.68%) Pascal
14 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.51%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 87 (14.82%) Degree
2 66 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 51 (8.69%) SC Cleared
4 44 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 43 (7.33%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (5.79%) CCNA
7 26 (4.43%) Azure Certification
8 25 (4.26%) CCNP
9 21 (3.58%) CompTIA Security+
9 21 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.90%) Network+ Certification
11 15 (2.56%) CREST Certified
12 12 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.87%) RHCSA
14 10 (1.70%) A+ Certification
14 10 (1.70%) CEH
14 10 (1.70%) GCIA
14 10 (1.70%) OSCP
15 9 (1.53%) MCDST
15 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.18%) SLA
2 24 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.07%) GDPR
4 15 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.85%) QA
7 4 (0.68%) DICOM
7 4 (0.68%) HL7
7 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.51%) NIST
8 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) GxP
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 259 (44.12%) Active Directory
2 108 (18.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (14.82%) Hyper-V
4 22 (3.75%) Docker
5 14 (2.39%) Firmware
5 14 (2.39%) vSphere
6 10 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.36%) KVM
8 7 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.17%) QEMU
10 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 79 (13.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (8.69%) Terraform
3 47 (8.01%) Ansible
4 34 (5.79%) Kubernetes
5 25 (4.26%) FortiGate
6 24 (4.09%) Grafana
6 24 (4.09%) Prometheus
7 20 (3.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (3.41%) Nagios
8 16 (2.73%) Jamf Pro
9 13 (2.21%) QRadar
10 8 (1.36%) Puppet
11 7 (1.19%) Kibana
12 6 (1.02%) SCCM
12 6 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.02%) vCenter Server
12 6 (1.02%) VxRail
12 6 (1.02%) WSUS
13 5 (0.85%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.68%) Autotask
Vendors
1 328 (55.88%) Microsoft
2 137 (23.34%) VMware
3 69 (11.75%) Cisco
4 32 (5.45%) Veeam
5 31 (5.28%) Meraki
5 31 (5.28%) SolarWinds
6 26 (4.43%) Google
7 24 (4.09%) Apple
7 24 (4.09%) Fortinet
7 24 (4.09%) Splunk
8 23 (3.92%) Citrix
9 22 (3.75%) Red Hat
10 21 (3.58%) ServiceNow
11 20 (3.41%) Palo Alto
12 19 (3.24%) CrowdStrike
12 19 (3.24%) Dell
12 19 (3.24%) HP
13 11 (1.87%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.70%) Sophos
15 9 (1.53%) SonicWALL