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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 224 226
Rank change year-on-year -36 +2 -40
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 778 712 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.42% 1.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.32% 9.70% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 606 511 719
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year - -10.26% -8.24%

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 7,537 7,338 9,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.89% 14.68% 11.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,878 4,169 5,972
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £35,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +25.27% -21.11% -

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -41 737 £38,000 +1.33% 542
UK excluding London -42 561 £35,000 - 347
Work from Home +26 249 £40,000 -5.88% 172
London -22 207 £60,000 +9.09% 262
South East -24 171 £37,500 +4.17% 106
North of England -14 144 £32,500 -7.14% 75
Midlands -30 97 £33,250 +2.31% 43
North West +26 79 £32,000 -20.00% 40
East of England -25 72 £35,000 -22.22% 39
West Midlands -34 55 £37,500 +15.38% 24
Yorkshire -43 53 £32,500 -11.56% 21
South West -65 48 £33,500 -2.90% 47
East Midlands -29 42 £32,500 +4.00% 19
Wales -76 16 £45,000 +28.57% 9
North East -64 12 £35,000 +20.69% 16
Scotland 0 10 £63,451 +75.04% 21
Northern Ireland - 3 £57,246 - 9

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
1 136 (17.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 102 (13.11%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.21%) IIS
4 13 (1.67%) Apache
5 4 (0.51%) Confluence
6 3 (0.39%) SAS
7 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.26%) WinCC
Applications
1 44 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Houdini
4 1 (0.13%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.26%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.13%) Eikon
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 343 (44.09%) Microsoft 365
2 315 (40.49%) Azure
3 186 (23.91%) Entra ID
4 133 (17.10%) AWS
5 35 (4.50%) GCP
5 35 (4.50%) OneDrive
6 22 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (2.31%) SaaS
8 14 (1.80%) dbt
9 13 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 13 (1.67%) OpenShift
10 12 (1.54%) IaaS
11 11 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (1.41%) Google Workspace
12 9 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.16%) PaaS
13 8 (1.03%) GitHub
14 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 468 (60.15%) DNS
2 364 (46.79%) DHCP
3 356 (45.76%) Firewall
4 284 (36.50%) VPN
5 179 (23.01%) WAN
6 172 (22.11%) LAN
7 162 (20.82%) VLAN
8 97 (12.47%) Network Security
9 85 (10.93%) Wi-Fi
10 76 (9.77%) Wireless
11 71 (9.13%) VoIP
12 68 (8.74%) HTTP
13 60 (7.71%) BGP
14 49 (6.30%) OSPF
15 39 (5.01%) SD-WAN
16 26 (3.34%) SSL
17 22 (2.83%) Internet
18 20 (2.57%) SMTP
19 19 (2.44%) Ethernet
20 18 (2.31%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (7.46%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.67%) MySQL
3 10 (1.29%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.77%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.51%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.39%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.26%) Redis
8 2 (0.26%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 30 (3.86%) JIRA
2 19 (2.44%) Git
3 7 (0.90%) Bitbucket
3 7 (0.90%) GitLab
4 4 (0.51%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.26%) CMake
5 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.26%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.26%) Selenium
5 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.13%) GDB
6 1 (0.13%) LSMW
6 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
General
1 371 (47.69%) Social Skills
2 101 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
3 94 (12.08%) Finance
4 58 (7.46%) Telecoms
5 46 (5.91%) Banking
6 40 (5.14%) Law
7 36 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
9 29 (3.73%) Electronics
10 27 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (3.34%) Retail
12 25 (3.21%) Aerospace
13 18 (2.31%) Manufacturing
14 16 (2.06%) Public Sector
15 12 (1.54%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.03%) Legal
17 7 (0.90%) Digital Health
18 6 (0.77%) Games
18 6 (0.77%) Military
19 5 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 190 (24.42%) IT Support
2 167 (21.47%) Support Engineer
3 139 (17.87%) IT Engineer
4 114 (14.65%) IT Support Engineer
5 107 (13.75%) Analyst
6 95 (12.21%) Network Engineer
7 93 (11.95%) Senior
8 79 (10.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 64 (8.23%) 2nd Line Support
10 51 (6.56%) Support Technician
11 47 (6.04%) Support Analyst
12 46 (5.91%) IT Technician
13 44 (5.66%) IT Support Technician
14 43 (5.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 41 (5.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 33 (4.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 31 (3.98%) IT Analyst
18 28 (3.60%) Lead
18 28 (3.60%) Systems Engineer
19 25 (3.21%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.23%) Terraform
2 21 (2.70%) LDAP
2 21 (2.70%) React
3 13 (1.67%) gRPC
3 13 (1.67%) Node.js
3 13 (1.67%) XML
4 12 (1.54%) Middleware
4 12 (1.54%) WebSockets
5 11 (1.41%) .NET
6 10 (1.29%) JSON
7 9 (1.16%) REST
7 9 (1.16%) RESTful
8 8 (1.03%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.90%) 802.1X
9 7 (0.90%) CSS
9 7 (0.90%) Django
9 7 (0.90%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (0.90%) HTML
10 6 (0.77%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 102 (13.11%) Driving Licence
2 67 (8.61%) Onboarding
3 43 (5.53%) Data Centre
4 37 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (3.47%) Cyber Threat
6 25 (3.21%) Security Operations Centre
6 25 (3.21%) Security Posture
7 24 (3.08%) PKI
8 21 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (2.19%) CCTV
10 17 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (2.06%) Cyber Defence
11 16 (2.06%) Management Information System
11 16 (2.06%) Replication
12 15 (1.93%) Client/Server
13 13 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.67%) FPGA
14 12 (1.54%) MPEG
14 12 (1.54%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 472 (60.67%) Windows
2 250 (32.13%) Windows Server
3 194 (24.94%) Linux
4 91 (11.70%) Windows 10
5 57 (7.33%) Mac OS
6 35 (4.50%) Unix
7 26 (3.34%) Apple iOS
8 25 (3.21%) Ubuntu
9 18 (2.31%) Android
9 18 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (1.80%) CentOS
12 12 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (1.41%) Rocky
14 7 (0.90%) Debian
14 7 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
15 5 (0.64%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.51%) Solaris
17 2 (0.26%) VMS
17 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (37.40%) Problem-Solving
2 177 (22.75%) Customer Service
3 153 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 150 (19.28%) Cybersecurity
5 129 (16.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 117 (15.04%) ITIL
7 99 (12.72%) Disaster Recovery
8 87 (11.18%) Mentoring
9 82 (10.54%) Incident Response
10 76 (9.77%) Project Delivery
11 72 (9.25%) Infrastructure as Code
11 72 (9.25%) Service Delivery
12 68 (8.74%) ITSM
13 66 (8.48%) Computer Science
14 61 (7.84%) DevOps
15 60 (7.71%) High Availability
15 60 (7.71%) SIEM
16 58 (7.46%) Software Engineering
17 56 (7.20%) CI/CD
18 46 (5.91%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 144 (18.51%) Python
2 139 (17.87%) PowerShell
3 73 (9.38%) SQL
4 71 (9.13%) Bash
5 37 (4.76%) C++
6 26 (3.34%) C
7 22 (2.83%) Perl
8 18 (2.31%) C#
8 18 (2.31%) JavaScript
9 15 (1.93%) Java
10 14 (1.80%) VBA
11 13 (1.67%) Go
12 11 (1.41%) Bicep
12 11 (1.41%) Ruby
13 10 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.29%) TypeScript
14 8 (1.03%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.90%) PHP
15 7 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
16 3 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 139 (17.87%) Degree
2 98 (12.60%) Security Cleared
3 85 (10.93%) Cisco Certification
4 72 (9.25%) CCNA
5 68 (8.74%) SC Cleared
6 60 (7.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 53 (6.81%) CCNP
8 33 (4.24%) Azure Certification
9 32 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (3.98%) CompTIA Security+
11 22 (2.83%) CREST Certified
12 21 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (2.44%) CEH
13 19 (2.44%) GCIA
13 19 (2.44%) Network+ Certification
14 16 (2.06%) DV Cleared
14 16 (2.06%) HND
15 15 (1.93%) CISSP
16 14 (1.80%) GIAC
16 14 (1.80%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.23%) SLA
2 35 (4.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (3.08%) GDPR
5 15 (1.93%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.16%) NIST
6 9 (1.16%) QA
7 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.64%) GRC
8 5 (0.64%) NCSC
9 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 343 (44.09%) Active Directory
2 141 (18.12%) Hyper-V
3 132 (16.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (3.73%) Docker
5 25 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (2.96%) Firmware
7 11 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.29%) vSphere
9 5 (0.64%) KVM
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.26%) QEMU
12 1 (0.13%) Ceph
12 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.13%) Samba
12 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 126 (16.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (5.01%) Ansible
3 36 (4.63%) FortiGate
4 31 (3.98%) Kubernetes
5 17 (2.19%) QRadar
6 14 (1.80%) Grafana
6 14 (1.80%) Nagios
7 13 (1.67%) Prometheus
8 12 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (1.03%) Kibana
9 8 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.03%) WSUS
10 5 (0.64%) McAfee ePO
10 5 (0.64%) SCVMM
11 4 (0.51%) Control-M
11 4 (0.51%) Puppet
11 4 (0.51%) SCCM
11 4 (0.51%) VxRail
11 4 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 439 (56.43%) Microsoft
2 150 (19.28%) VMware
3 110 (14.14%) Cisco
4 57 (7.33%) Fortinet
5 45 (5.78%) Veeam
6 38 (4.88%) Splunk
7 33 (4.24%) Palo Alto
7 33 (4.24%) ServiceNow
8 31 (3.98%) Google
9 30 (3.86%) Meraki
10 24 (3.08%) Red Hat
10 24 (3.08%) SolarWinds
10 24 (3.08%) SonicWALL
11 21 (2.70%) HP
12 20 (2.57%) Sophos
13 18 (2.31%) Dell
14 16 (2.06%) Zscaler
15 15 (1.93%) Apple
15 15 (1.93%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (1.93%) Ubiquiti