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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 181 187
Rank change year-on-year -54 +6 +44
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 612 832 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.66% 1.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.26% 12.21% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 472 482 1,038
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £33,200 £31,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +18.75% -

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 9,773 6,815 10,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.88% 13.63% 13.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,902 3,556 8,433
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +12.24% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £50,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -32.00% +16.28% -4.44%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -11 563 £38,250 -20.29% 248
UK excluding London -65 395 £37,500 -21.05% 226
London +15 193 £45,000 -18.18% 64
Work from Home -32 167 £42,500 -26.09% 93
South East -38 108 £37,500 -25.00% 62
North of England +5 103 £32,500 -29.73% 46
Midlands -17 61 £35,000 - 22
East of England +9 58 £32,500 -16.67% 45
Yorkshire -21 49 £32,500 -27.78% 15
South West -34 41 £40,000 -38.46% 32
East Midlands -13 40 £32,500 -40.91% 6
North West 0 32 £40,250 -19.50% 25
North East +12 22 £45,000 -35.07% 8
West Midlands -14 21 £52,500 +50.00% 16
Wales -12 13 £50,500 -5.68% 8
Scotland -46 10 £65,000 +36.84% 18
Northern Ireland -31 2 £73,801 +6.48% 1

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
1 143 (23.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 86 (14.05%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.80%) IIS
4 4 (0.65%) Confluence
4 4 (0.65%) nginx
5 2 (0.33%) Apache
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.33%) CMS
5 2 (0.33%) WordPress
6 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 92 (15.03%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.31%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.65%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 303 (49.51%) Microsoft 365
2 295 (48.20%) Azure
3 125 (20.42%) Entra ID
4 98 (16.01%) AWS
5 50 (8.17%) GCP
6 34 (5.56%) Google Workspace
7 32 (5.23%) OneDrive
8 28 (4.58%) SaaS
9 26 (4.25%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (3.27%) Amazon ECR
10 20 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (3.27%) dbt
10 20 (3.27%) PaaS
10 20 (3.27%) Pulumi
11 16 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (2.61%) IaaS
12 14 (2.29%) GitHub
13 12 (1.96%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 12 (1.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (1.96%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 359 (58.66%) DNS
2 306 (50.00%) DHCP
3 225 (36.76%) Firewall
4 207 (33.82%) VPN
5 148 (24.18%) VLAN
6 135 (22.06%) WAN
7 117 (19.12%) LAN
8 86 (14.05%) Wi-Fi
9 60 (9.80%) Wireless
10 58 (9.48%) Network Security
11 48 (7.84%) VoIP
12 36 (5.88%) HTTP
13 34 (5.56%) SD-WAN
14 25 (4.08%) BGP
15 23 (3.76%) SSL
16 20 (3.27%) OSPF
17 17 (2.78%) SAN
18 14 (2.29%) MPLS
18 14 (2.29%) SMTP
18 14 (2.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.86%) Amazon RDS
1 42 (6.86%) SQL Server
2 28 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (3.27%) Redis
4 10 (1.63%) Power BI
5 8 (1.31%) MySQL
5 8 (1.31%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.49%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.33%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.33%) JasperReports
7 2 (0.33%) Metadata
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.16%) FileMaker
8 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.16%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 18 (2.94%) Git
2 17 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 16 (2.61%) JIRA
4 11 (1.80%) Burp Suite
4 11 (1.80%) Metasploit
5 5 (0.82%) GitLab
5 5 (0.82%) Snyk
5 5 (0.82%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.33%) IDA Disassembler
6 2 (0.33%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.33%) MLflow
6 2 (0.33%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 280 (45.75%) Social Skills
2 82 (13.40%) Finance
3 54 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (6.37%) Law
5 37 (6.05%) Banking
6 32 (5.23%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (4.08%) Telecoms
8 24 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (3.59%) Manufacturing
10 21 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (3.27%) Retail
12 17 (2.78%) Investment Banking
12 17 (2.78%) Legal
13 15 (2.45%) Public Sector
14 13 (2.12%) Marketing
15 12 (1.96%) Back Office
16 11 (1.80%) Aerospace
17 7 (1.14%) Electronics
17 7 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 189 (30.88%) IT Support
2 131 (21.41%) Support Engineer
3 97 (15.85%) IT Engineer
4 86 (14.05%) IT Support Engineer
5 78 (12.75%) Senior
6 75 (12.25%) 2nd Line Support
7 61 (9.97%) Support Technician
8 57 (9.31%) Analyst
9 55 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 51 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 47 (7.68%) IT Support Technician
11 47 (7.68%) IT Technician
12 43 (7.03%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 43 (7.03%) Support Analyst
13 35 (5.72%) Developer
14 29 (4.74%) Network Engineer
15 26 (4.25%) 3rd Line Support
15 26 (4.25%) C++ Developer
15 26 (4.25%) Technical Support
16 24 (3.92%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.27%) Django
2 12 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (1.14%) .NET
3 7 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (0.98%) RESTful
5 5 (0.82%) LDAP
5 5 (0.82%) Middleware
6 4 (0.65%) Qt
6 4 (0.65%) REST
6 4 (0.65%) Sass
6 4 (0.65%) STL
6 4 (0.65%) ZeroMQ
7 3 (0.49%) OAuth
7 3 (0.49%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.49%) QML
7 3 (0.49%) SOAP
7 3 (0.49%) Web Services
7 3 (0.49%) WebSockets
8 2 (0.33%) Kafka
8 2 (0.33%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.62%) Driving Licence
2 59 (9.64%) Onboarding
3 32 (5.23%) Data Centre
4 23 (3.76%) Video Conferencing
5 22 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (3.43%) Linux Command Line
6 21 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (3.10%) FPGA
8 18 (2.94%) Replication
9 17 (2.78%) Cloud Native
9 17 (2.78%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.29%) CCTV
11 13 (2.12%) NHS
12 12 (1.96%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.80%) Clustering
13 11 (1.80%) iPhone
14 10 (1.63%) EPoS
14 10 (1.63%) IoT
14 10 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 393 (64.22%) Windows
2 228 (37.25%) Windows Server
3 159 (25.98%) Linux
4 120 (19.61%) Windows 10
5 54 (8.82%) Mac OS
6 34 (5.56%) Apple iOS
6 34 (5.56%) Unix
7 33 (5.39%) Android
8 32 (5.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (3.92%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (3.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (1.63%) CentOS
13 9 (1.47%) Ubuntu
14 8 (1.31%) Mac OS X
15 7 (1.14%) VMS
16 4 (0.65%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
16 4 (0.65%) FreeRTOS
16 4 (0.65%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (35.95%) Problem-Solving
2 131 (21.41%) Customer Service
3 108 (17.65%) ITIL
4 99 (16.18%) Cybersecurity
5 90 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 72 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
7 58 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 58 (9.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 54 (8.82%) DevOps
9 53 (8.66%) CI/CD
10 51 (8.33%) Service Delivery
11 50 (8.17%) Root Cause Analysis
12 45 (7.35%) Computer Science
13 40 (6.54%) Mentoring
14 37 (6.05%) Agile
15 34 (5.56%) Incident Response
16 33 (5.39%) ITSM
17 32 (5.23%) High Availability
17 32 (5.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 30 (4.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 116 (18.95%) Python
2 102 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 52 (8.50%) C++
4 40 (6.54%) Bash
5 39 (6.37%) SQL
6 37 (6.05%) Java
7 34 (5.56%) C
8 18 (2.94%) Go
9 13 (2.12%) C#
10 6 (0.98%) VBScript
11 5 (0.82%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.65%) R
12 4 (0.65%) Rust
13 2 (0.33%) Delphi
13 2 (0.33%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.33%) Pascal
13 2 (0.33%) Perl
13 2 (0.33%) PHP
13 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 94 (15.36%) Degree
2 66 (10.78%) Security Cleared
3 57 (9.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 54 (8.82%) SC Cleared
5 42 (6.86%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (5.39%) CCNA
7 27 (4.41%) CCNP
8 26 (4.25%) A+ Certification
8 26 (4.25%) Azure Certification
9 24 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (3.43%) Network+ Certification
11 17 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
12 15 (2.45%) DBS Check
12 15 (2.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 13 (2.12%) MCSA
14 12 (1.96%) DV Cleared
15 11 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
15 11 (1.80%) Master's Degree
16 10 (1.63%) MCSE
17 9 (1.47%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (4.08%) GDPR
3 21 (3.43%) SLA
4 14 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.47%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.31%) QA
7 7 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.98%) NIST
9 4 (0.65%) GRC
9 4 (0.65%) GxP
9 4 (0.65%) MISRA
10 3 (0.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.49%) DICOM
10 3 (0.49%) HL7
11 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.33%) NCSC
11 2 (0.33%) PMO
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 325 (53.10%) Active Directory
2 121 (19.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 114 (18.63%) Hyper-V
4 29 (4.74%) Docker
5 16 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (2.29%) vSphere
7 13 (2.12%) Firmware
8 6 (0.98%) KVM
9 5 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.65%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.65%) NFS
10 4 (0.65%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.33%) RHEV
11 2 (0.33%) Xen
11 2 (0.33%) XenApp
12 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 100 (16.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 53 (8.66%) Terraform
3 34 (5.56%) Ansible
4 20 (3.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 14 (2.29%) Grafana
5 14 (2.29%) Nagios
5 14 (2.29%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.12%) FortiGate
6 13 (2.12%) Nessus
7 12 (1.96%) AWS Copilot
7 12 (1.96%) SCCM
8 11 (1.80%) Nmap
9 10 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (1.31%) Kubernetes
11 6 (0.98%) McAfee ePO
11 6 (0.98%) SCVMM
11 6 (0.98%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.82%) Autotask
Vendors
1 348 (56.86%) Microsoft
2 141 (23.04%) VMware
3 79 (12.91%) Cisco
4 61 (9.97%) Google
5 29 (4.74%) Veeam
6 28 (4.58%) Palo Alto
7 25 (4.08%) Citrix
7 25 (4.08%) Red Hat
8 23 (3.76%) Fortinet
8 23 (3.76%) SolarWinds
9 17 (2.78%) Meraki
10 16 (2.61%) Dell
11 15 (2.45%) Apple
12 14 (2.29%) CheckPoint
12 14 (2.29%) Mitel
13 13 (2.12%) Juniper
13 13 (2.12%) SonicWALL
14 11 (1.80%) ServiceNow
15 10 (1.63%) Bloomberg
15 10 (1.63%) Reuters