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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 225 203
Rank change year-on-year -69 -22 +43
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 550 649 1,387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 1.49% 1.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.23% 9.97% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 413 462 1,164
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,788 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +10.59% -5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,782 £77,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% +13.33% -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 8,826 6,508 12,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 14.99% 13.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,020 3,739 9,383
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,715
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -63 506 £40,000 -10.51% 224
UK excluding London -89 337 £35,000 -17.65% 182
London -11 195 £57,500 +11.65% 65
Work from Home -17 156 £42,500 -22.73% 82
North of England +12 111 £34,000 -30.04% 36
South East -61 91 £35,000 -6.67% 66
Yorkshire -49 52 £32,500 -27.29% 15
Midlands -77 44 £32,500 - 22
North West +13 42 £43,750 -7.89% 18
South West -27 37 £38,000 -26.54% 29
East Midlands -33 29 £32,500 +8.33% 6
East of England -55 28 £43,750 -5.41% 27
North East -21 17 £45,000 -35.14% 4
Wales -32 17 £29,500 -54.62% 5
West Midlands -60 15 £35,375 +4.81% 16
Scotland -27 8 £46,000 -8.00% 5
Northern Ireland -36 1 £73,801 -13.18%

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
1 105 (19.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 70 (12.73%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.36%) IIS
4 5 (0.91%) Confluence
5 2 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 72 (13.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 244 (44.36%) Azure
2 226 (41.09%) Microsoft 365
3 111 (20.18%) AWS
4 107 (19.45%) Entra ID
5 35 (6.36%) GCP
6 26 (4.73%) Google Workspace
7 22 (4.00%) GitHub
8 21 (3.82%) OneDrive
9 19 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (3.27%) IaaS
11 14 (2.55%) PaaS
12 11 (2.00%) SaaS
13 10 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (1.09%) Route 53
15 6 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 337 (61.27%) DNS
2 261 (47.45%) DHCP
3 208 (37.82%) Firewall
4 168 (30.55%) VPN
5 152 (27.64%) WAN
6 134 (24.36%) LAN
7 104 (18.91%) VLAN
8 64 (11.64%) Wi-Fi
9 57 (10.36%) HTTP
10 52 (9.45%) Network Security
11 39 (7.09%) SD-WAN
12 37 (6.73%) VoIP
13 36 (6.55%) Wireless
14 35 (6.36%) BGP
15 28 (5.09%) OSPF
16 19 (3.45%) Multicast
16 19 (3.45%) SMTP
17 15 (2.73%) Wireshark
18 14 (2.55%) SAN
19 11 (2.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.91%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.27%) MySQL
5 6 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.91%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.91%) Redis
6 5 (0.91%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.73%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.36%) Power BI
10 1 (0.18%) KDB
10 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.18%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 20 (3.64%) Jenkins
2 16 (2.91%) Git
3 10 (1.82%) Bitbucket
3 10 (1.82%) JIRA
4 8 (1.45%) GitLab
4 8 (1.45%) Metasploit
5 4 (0.73%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.18%) CMake
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 221 (40.18%) Social Skills
2 95 (17.27%) Finance
3 70 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.18%) Law
5 42 (7.64%) Banking
6 41 (7.45%) Telecoms
7 31 (5.64%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.45%) Investment Banking
11 17 (3.09%) Retail
12 16 (2.91%) Aerospace
13 14 (2.55%) Back Office
14 13 (2.36%) Legal
14 13 (2.36%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.36%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.64%) Automotive
16 7 (1.27%) Electronics
17 6 (1.09%) Spanish Language
18 5 (0.91%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 141 (25.64%) IT Support
2 82 (14.91%) Support Engineer
3 76 (13.82%) Analyst
4 67 (12.18%) Senior
5 58 (10.55%) IT Engineer
6 55 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 53 (9.64%) IT Support Engineer
8 52 (9.45%) 2nd Line Support
8 52 (9.45%) Support Technician
9 47 (8.55%) Network Engineer
10 41 (7.45%) IT Support Technician
10 41 (7.45%) IT Technician
11 36 (6.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 33 (6.00%) Developer
12 33 (6.00%) Support Analyst
13 31 (5.64%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 29 (5.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 27 (4.91%) C++ Developer
16 22 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
16 22 (4.00%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (2.00%) gRPC
2 11 (2.00%) LDAP
2 11 (2.00%) WebSockets
3 8 (1.45%) .NET
3 8 (1.45%) REST
4 6 (1.09%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.09%) Django
5 5 (0.91%) ARM Templates
5 5 (0.91%) React
5 5 (0.91%) RESTful
6 4 (0.73%) ADO
6 4 (0.73%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (0.73%) Middleware
6 4 (0.73%) Qt
7 3 (0.55%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.55%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.55%) Node.js
7 3 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.55%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 69 (12.55%) Driving Licence
2 34 (6.18%) Data Centre
3 29 (5.27%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.82%) Cyber Threat
5 20 (3.64%) FPGA
6 19 (3.45%) EPoS
6 19 (3.45%) Security Posture
6 19 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
7 18 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.36%) Replication
9 12 (2.18%) Cyber Defence
10 11 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (2.00%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.82%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.82%) MPEG
11 10 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
12 9 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.64%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 331 (60.18%) Windows
2 186 (33.82%) Windows Server
3 126 (22.91%) Linux
4 96 (17.45%) Windows 10
5 41 (7.45%) Mac OS
6 38 (6.91%) Apple iOS
7 27 (4.91%) Android
8 24 (4.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (4.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (3.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (3.09%) Unix
11 14 (2.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (1.27%) Windows 7
13 6 (1.09%) CentOS
13 6 (1.09%) VMS
14 4 (0.73%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.73%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.55%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.36%) Rocky
16 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (35.27%) Problem-Solving
2 104 (18.91%) Customer Service
3 86 (15.64%) ITIL
4 79 (14.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 70 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (11.64%) Cybersecurity
7 63 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 62 (11.27%) Service Delivery
9 61 (11.09%) DevOps
10 60 (10.91%) Disaster Recovery
11 55 (10.00%) Incident Response
12 49 (8.91%) CI/CD
13 47 (8.55%) Incident Management
14 44 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
15 40 (7.27%) SIEM
16 39 (7.09%) High Availability
17 38 (6.91%) ITSM
18 37 (6.73%) Mentoring
19 35 (6.36%) Computer Science
20 34 (6.18%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 106 (19.27%) Python
2 102 (18.55%) PowerShell
3 59 (10.73%) Bash
4 40 (7.27%) C++
5 36 (6.55%) SQL
6 29 (5.27%) Java
7 22 (4.00%) C
7 22 (4.00%) Go
8 14 (2.55%) C#
9 6 (1.09%) Bicep
9 6 (1.09%) Perl
10 4 (0.73%) Delphi
10 4 (0.73%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.73%) Pascal
10 4 (0.73%) PHP
11 3 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.36%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.18%) Korn
Qualifications
1 81 (14.73%) Degree
2 50 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 42 (7.64%) SC Cleared
4 41 (7.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 36 (6.55%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (5.09%) CCNA
7 23 (4.18%) Azure Certification
7 23 (4.18%) CCNP
8 20 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (3.09%) CompTIA Security+
10 15 (2.73%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (2.36%) CREST Certified
12 11 (2.00%) DBS Check
12 11 (2.00%) RHCSA
13 9 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (1.64%) MCDST
13 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (1.45%) GIAC
15 7 (1.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.91%) SLA
2 27 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.64%) GDPR
4 13 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.82%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.09%) QA
6 6 (1.09%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.73%) DICOM
7 4 (0.73%) HL7
8 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.36%) GxP
9 2 (0.36%) NIST
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 241 (43.82%) Active Directory
2 101 (18.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (13.64%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.27%) Docker
5 13 (2.36%) Firmware
5 13 (2.36%) vSphere
6 11 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.45%) KVM
8 6 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.55%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.18%) QEMU
11 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 74 (13.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 55 (10.00%) Terraform
3 54 (9.82%) Ansible
4 31 (5.64%) Kubernetes
5 27 (4.91%) Grafana
5 27 (4.91%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (3.64%) Nagios
8 18 (3.27%) FortiGate
9 15 (2.73%) Jamf Pro
10 10 (1.82%) QRadar
11 9 (1.64%) SCCM
12 8 (1.45%) Puppet
13 6 (1.09%) vCenter Server
13 6 (1.09%) VxRail
13 6 (1.09%) WSUS
14 5 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
15 4 (0.73%) Kibana
Vendors
1 298 (54.18%) Microsoft
2 127 (23.09%) VMware
3 61 (11.09%) Cisco
4 31 (5.64%) SolarWinds
5 29 (5.27%) Google
5 29 (5.27%) Meraki
6 25 (4.55%) Veeam
7 24 (4.36%) Citrix
8 23 (4.18%) Palo Alto
8 23 (4.18%) Red Hat
9 20 (3.64%) Apple
9 20 (3.64%) Dell
10 19 (3.45%) HP
11 18 (3.27%) Splunk
12 16 (2.91%) Fortinet
13 15 (2.73%) CrowdStrike
14 12 (2.18%) ServiceNow
15 10 (1.82%) Zscaler
16 8 (1.45%) Sophos
16 8 (1.45%) Yealink