TCP/IP Job Trends

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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 191 159
Rank change year-on-year -13 -32 +89
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 698 964 1,072
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 1.42% 2.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.42% 12.00% 13.30%
Number of salaries quoted 542 545 824
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £27,738
25th Percentile £29,750 £33,200 £33,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £45,575
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +4.22% +1.28%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £65,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £43,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% +10.47% +7.50%

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 7,411 8,033 8,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.95% 11.87% 15.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,132 4,133 6,488
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.62% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £49,252 £45,000
% change year-on-year -30.97% +9.45% -5.26%

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 24 November 2025.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Top 18 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 24 November 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 -8 636 £37,500 -21.05% 258
UK excluding London -14 487 £35,000 -26.32% 251
London +34 190 £50,000 -1.86% 62
Work from Home -4 182 £42,500 -19.85% 91
North of England +33 128 £32,500 -27.78% 25
South East -26 125 £37,500 -21.05% 95
Midlands +37 79 £35,000 - 28
South West -4 59 £34,500 -44.80% 42
Yorkshire +22 58 £32,000 -25.58% 8
East of England +6 54 £32,500 -18.75% 41
East Midlands +23 42 £32,000 -41.82% 10
North East +47 38 £29,000 -58.16% 3
West Midlands +32 37 £38,750 +10.71% 17
North West +6 32 £40,500 -10.00% 14
Wales +12 22 £50,500 +5.21% 2
Scotland -7 17 £34,250 -12.18% 24
Northern Ireland -10 2 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Channel Islands - 2 £55,000 -

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
1 174 (24.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 99 (14.18%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.15%) IIS
4 7 (1.00%) nginx
5 3 (0.43%) Traefik
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.29%) CMS
6 2 (0.29%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) Confluence
7 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 66 (9.46%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.72%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.00%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.14%) OmniGraffle
6 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.14%) Eikon
3 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.14%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 366 (52.44%) Microsoft 365
2 338 (48.42%) Azure
3 135 (19.34%) Entra ID
4 94 (13.47%) AWS
5 43 (6.16%) SaaS
6 42 (6.02%) GCP
7 32 (4.58%) PaaS
8 27 (3.87%) IaaS
9 25 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (3.58%) OneDrive
10 20 (2.87%) Amazon ECR
10 20 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (2.87%) dbt
10 20 (2.87%) Pulumi
11 16 (2.29%) Google Workspace
12 14 (2.01%) GitHub
13 12 (1.72%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 12 (1.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (1.72%) Sentry
14 10 (1.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 401 (57.45%) DNS
2 348 (49.86%) DHCP
3 286 (40.97%) Firewall
4 226 (32.38%) VPN
5 192 (27.51%) VLAN
6 154 (22.06%) WAN
7 149 (21.35%) LAN
8 92 (13.18%) Wi-Fi
9 76 (10.89%) VoIP
10 70 (10.03%) Network Security
11 68 (9.74%) Wireless
12 40 (5.73%) OSPF
12 40 (5.73%) SD-WAN
13 38 (5.44%) BGP
14 29 (4.15%) Internet
15 25 (3.58%) SSL
16 24 (3.44%) HTTP
16 24 (3.44%) SAN
17 22 (3.15%) MPLS
18 20 (2.87%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (6.88%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (5.87%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (2.87%) Redis
5 10 (1.43%) MySQL
6 9 (1.29%) Power BI
7 6 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.29%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.29%) JasperReports
9 2 (0.29%) Metadata
9 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.14%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.14%) FileMaker
10 1 (0.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (2.44%) Git
2 13 (1.86%) JIRA
3 9 (1.29%) Burp Suite
3 9 (1.29%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.29%) Metasploit
4 6 (0.86%) Snyk
5 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.29%) GitLab
6 2 (0.29%) IDA Disassembler
6 2 (0.29%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.29%) MLflow
6 2 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
General
1 341 (48.85%) Social Skills
2 76 (10.89%) Finance
3 48 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (5.73%) Banking
5 37 (5.30%) Manufacturing
6 32 (4.58%) Telecoms
7 30 (4.30%) Law
8 26 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (2.72%) Investment Banking
11 19 (2.72%) Legal
11 19 (2.72%) Retail
12 17 (2.44%) Advertising
13 14 (2.01%) Public Sector
14 13 (1.86%) Marketing
15 9 (1.29%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.15%) Games
17 7 (1.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 185 (26.50%) IT Support
2 156 (22.35%) Support Engineer
3 100 (14.33%) IT Engineer
4 85 (12.18%) IT Support Engineer
5 81 (11.60%) 2nd Line Support
6 71 (10.17%) Senior
7 70 (10.03%) Analyst
8 62 (8.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 57 (8.17%) Support Technician
10 54 (7.74%) Technical Support
11 47 (6.73%) IT Technician
12 45 (6.45%) Network Engineer
12 45 (6.45%) Support Analyst
13 43 (6.16%) IT Support Technician
14 42 (6.02%) Technical Engineer
15 40 (5.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 39 (5.59%) Technical Support Engineer
17 35 (5.01%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 32 (4.58%) 3rd Line Support
19 30 (4.30%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.87%) Django
2 13 (1.86%) .NET
3 10 (1.43%) 802.1X
4 6 (0.86%) Kafka
5 5 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (0.72%) LDAP
5 5 (0.72%) Middleware
6 4 (0.57%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (0.57%) OAuth
6 4 (0.57%) RESTful
7 3 (0.43%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.43%) EDI
7 3 (0.43%) FreeSWITCH
7 3 (0.43%) Node.js
7 3 (0.43%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.43%) Web Services
8 2 (0.29%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.29%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.29%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.29%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 66 (9.46%) Driving Licence
2 64 (9.17%) Onboarding
3 43 (6.16%) Data Centre
4 27 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (3.58%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.87%) FPGA
8 19 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
9 18 (2.58%) iPad
10 17 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
10 17 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
11 15 (2.15%) Cloud Native
11 15 (2.15%) Clustering
11 15 (2.15%) iPhone
12 14 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
13 13 (1.86%) Hedge funds
13 13 (1.86%) IoT
13 13 (1.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 411 (58.88%) Windows
2 239 (34.24%) Windows Server
3 154 (22.06%) Linux
4 120 (17.19%) Windows 10
5 50 (7.16%) Mac OS
6 43 (6.16%) Unix
7 23 (3.30%) Android
7 23 (3.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (2.72%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (2.58%) Windows Server 2019
10 14 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (1.15%) Apple iOS
11 8 (1.15%) Mac OS X
11 8 (1.15%) Ubuntu
12 7 (1.00%) VMS
13 6 (0.86%) CentOS
14 5 (0.72%) FreeRTOS
14 5 (0.72%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
15 4 (0.57%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (30.80%) Problem-Solving
2 142 (20.34%) Customer Service
3 133 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
4 108 (15.47%) ITIL
5 95 (13.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 64 (9.17%) DevOps
7 63 (9.03%) Disaster Recovery
8 61 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (7.74%) Infrastructure as Code
10 51 (7.31%) Mentoring
11 47 (6.73%) CI/CD
12 46 (6.59%) Agile
13 41 (5.87%) Collaborative Working
14 38 (5.44%) Migration
14 38 (5.44%) Root Cause Analysis
15 35 (5.01%) Computer Science
15 35 (5.01%) Incident Response
16 33 (4.73%) Service Delivery
17 32 (4.58%) High Availability
18 31 (4.44%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (16.48%) PowerShell
2 96 (13.75%) Python
3 48 (6.88%) C++
4 39 (5.59%) C
5 38 (5.44%) Java
5 38 (5.44%) SQL
6 30 (4.30%) Bash
7 11 (1.58%) C#
8 9 (1.29%) Go
9 7 (1.00%) VBScript
10 6 (0.86%) R
11 5 (0.72%) Bicep
11 5 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.57%) Rust
13 2 (0.29%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.29%) Perl
13 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.14%) Bourne shell
14 1 (0.14%) PHP
14 1 (0.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 102 (14.61%) Degree
2 75 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 62 (8.88%) Cisco Certification
4 58 (8.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 58 (8.31%) SC Cleared
5 40 (5.73%) CCNA
6 34 (4.87%) CCNP
7 29 (4.15%) Azure Certification
8 28 (4.01%) A+ Certification
9 25 (3.58%) Network+ Certification
10 22 (3.15%) MCP
11 19 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (2.15%) CISSP
12 15 (2.15%) CompTIA Security+
12 15 (2.15%) MCSA
13 14 (2.01%) DBS Check
13 14 (2.01%) DV Cleared
13 14 (2.01%) HND
14 13 (1.86%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.86%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (3.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (2.58%) GDPR
3 18 (2.58%) SLA
4 6 (0.86%) NIST
5 5 (0.72%) GRC
6 4 (0.57%) MISRA
6 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.57%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.43%) QA
8 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.29%) GxP
8 2 (0.29%) NCSC
8 2 (0.29%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.29%) PMO
9 1 (0.14%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) JTAG
System Software
1 373 (53.44%) Active Directory
2 158 (22.64%) Hyper-V
3 140 (20.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (5.01%) Docker
5 20 (2.87%) vSphere
6 18 (2.58%) Firmware
7 11 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (1.43%) NFS
9 5 (0.72%) KVM
10 4 (0.57%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.43%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.43%) XenApp
12 2 (0.29%) pfSense
12 2 (0.29%) RHEV
12 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.29%) Xen
13 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 143 (20.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 54 (7.74%) Terraform
3 32 (4.58%) Ansible
3 32 (4.58%) SCCM
4 26 (3.72%) FortiGate
5 23 (3.30%) Kubernetes
6 16 (2.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.72%) AWS Copilot
8 11 (1.58%) Autotask
8 11 (1.58%) Nessus
9 9 (1.29%) Nagios
9 9 (1.29%) Nmap
10 8 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (1.00%) Grafana
11 7 (1.00%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.72%) MaaS360
12 5 (0.72%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.43%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 405 (58.02%) Microsoft
2 146 (20.92%) VMware
3 134 (19.20%) Cisco
4 46 (6.59%) Google
5 42 (6.02%) Veeam
6 30 (4.30%) Fortinet
6 30 (4.30%) SonicWALL
7 28 (4.01%) Meraki
8 25 (3.58%) Palo Alto
9 23 (3.30%) Apple
9 23 (3.30%) Red Hat
10 21 (3.01%) WatchGuard
11 18 (2.58%) Citrix
12 17 (2.44%) Bloomberg
12 17 (2.44%) Juniper
12 17 (2.44%) Reuters
13 16 (2.29%) SolarWinds
14 15 (2.15%) HP
15 14 (2.01%) Mitel
15 14 (2.01%) Sophos