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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 225 224
Rank change year-on-year -40 -1 -42
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 778 723 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.45% 1.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.35% 9.88% 10.17%
Number of salaries quoted 603 524 723
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 £59,375 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,215 £73,750 £72,500
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 7,517 7,318 9,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.91% 14.66% 11.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,855 4,196 6,027
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -19.50% -2.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £36,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -20.00% -

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 25 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 25 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 -32 737 £37,750 +0.67% 247
UK excluding London -54 554 £35,000 - 218
Work from Home +16 248 £41,500 -7.78% 90
London -24 214 £60,000 +9.09% 59
South East -29 171 £37,500 +2.74% 75
North of England -21 142 £32,500 -10.34% 44
Midlands -36 93 £33,250 +2.31% 32
North West +29 78 £31,500 -21.25% 20
East of England -26 71 £35,000 -26.32% 28
Yorkshire -45 52 £32,500 -11.56% 17
West Midlands -45 52 £37,500 +15.38% 22
South West -61 48 £33,500 -2.90% 34
East Midlands -24 41 £32,500 +8.33% 10
Wales -71 16 £45,000 +28.57% 3
North East -66 12 £35,000 +20.69% 10
Scotland -4 10 £63,451 +75.04% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £57,246 - 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
1 137 (17.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 102 (13.11%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.08%) IIS
4 12 (1.54%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) SAS
6 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.26%) WinCC
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 47 (6.04%) 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
1 341 (43.83%) Microsoft 365
2 316 (40.62%) Azure
3 179 (23.01%) Entra ID
4 133 (17.10%) AWS
5 34 (4.37%) GCP
6 33 (4.24%) OneDrive
7 22 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (2.31%) SaaS
9 14 (1.80%) dbt
10 13 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 13 (1.67%) OpenShift
11 12 (1.54%) Google Workspace
11 12 (1.54%) IaaS
12 11 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (1.16%) GitHub
13 9 (1.16%) PaaS
14 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (0.64%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 463 (59.51%) DNS
2 359 (46.14%) DHCP
3 356 (45.76%) Firewall
4 275 (35.35%) VPN
5 179 (23.01%) WAN
6 173 (22.24%) LAN
7 157 (20.18%) VLAN
8 97 (12.47%) Network Security
9 83 (10.67%) Wi-Fi
10 75 (9.64%) Wireless
11 70 (9.00%) VoIP
12 67 (8.61%) HTTP
13 59 (7.58%) BGP
14 48 (6.17%) OSPF
15 39 (5.01%) SD-WAN
16 25 (3.21%) SSL
17 21 (2.70%) Internet
18 20 (2.57%) SMTP
19 19 (2.44%) Ethernet
20 18 (2.31%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (7.20%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.41%) MySQL
3 8 (1.03%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.77%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.51%) InfluxDB
6 4 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.26%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.13%) KDB
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (0.13%) Redis
9 1 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 29 (3.73%) JIRA
2 19 (2.44%) Git
3 9 (1.16%) Bitbucket
4 6 (0.77%) GitLab
5 3 (0.39%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.39%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.26%) CMake
6 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.13%) GDB
7 1 (0.13%) LSMW
7 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.13%) Selenium
7 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 371 (47.69%) Social Skills
2 102 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 98 (12.60%) Finance
4 58 (7.46%) Telecoms
5 46 (5.91%) Banking
6 40 (5.14%) Law
7 38 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
9 29 (3.73%) Electronics
10 27 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (3.21%) Aerospace
11 25 (3.21%) Retail
12 18 (2.31%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.93%) Public Sector
14 13 (1.67%) Investment Banking
15 8 (1.03%) Legal
16 7 (0.90%) Digital Health
17 6 (0.77%) Games
17 6 (0.77%) Military
18 5 (0.64%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 192 (24.68%) IT Support
2 164 (21.08%) Support Engineer
3 137 (17.61%) IT Engineer
4 112 (14.40%) IT Support Engineer
5 106 (13.62%) Analyst
6 93 (11.95%) Network Engineer
7 91 (11.70%) Senior
8 77 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 61 (7.84%) 2nd Line Support
10 54 (6.94%) Support Technician
11 49 (6.30%) IT Technician
12 47 (6.04%) IT Support Technician
13 45 (5.78%) Support Analyst
14 42 (5.40%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 40 (5.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 33 (4.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 30 (3.86%) IT Analyst
18 28 (3.60%) Systems Engineer
19 27 (3.47%) Lead
20 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%) WebSockets
3 13 (1.67%) XML
4 12 (1.54%) Middleware
5 11 (1.41%) .NET
6 10 (1.29%) JSON
7 8 (1.03%) AngularJS
7 8 (1.03%) REST
8 7 (0.90%) 802.1X
8 7 (0.90%) Django
8 7 (0.90%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (0.90%) RESTful
9 6 (0.77%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.77%) CSS
9 6 (0.77%) HTML
10 5 (0.64%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 102 (13.11%) Driving Licence
2 65 (8.35%) Onboarding
3 44 (5.66%) Data Centre
4 39 (5.01%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (3.73%) Cyber Threat
6 25 (3.21%) Security Operations Centre
7 24 (3.08%) PKI
7 24 (3.08%) Security Posture
8 21 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (2.31%) CCTV
9 18 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (2.19%) Cyber Defence
10 17 (2.19%) Management Information System
11 16 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (2.06%) Replication
12 15 (1.93%) Client/Server
13 14 (1.80%) FPGA
14 13 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.67%) MPEG
15 12 (1.54%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 471 (60.54%) Windows
2 250 (32.13%) Windows Server
3 194 (24.94%) Linux
4 91 (11.70%) Windows 10
5 59 (7.58%) Mac OS
6 36 (4.63%) Unix
7 27 (3.47%) Apple iOS
8 25 (3.21%) Ubuntu
9 19 (2.44%) Android
9 19 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 18 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (1.93%) CentOS
12 13 (1.67%) 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 3 (0.39%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (38.05%) Problem-Solving
2 172 (22.11%) Customer Service
3 154 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 145 (18.64%) Cybersecurity
5 128 (16.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 116 (14.91%) ITIL
7 100 (12.85%) Disaster Recovery
8 87 (11.18%) Mentoring
9 84 (10.80%) Incident Response
10 76 (9.77%) Project Delivery
11 73 (9.38%) Service Delivery
12 72 (9.25%) Infrastructure as Code
13 67 (8.61%) Computer Science
14 65 (8.35%) ITSM
15 64 (8.23%) DevOps
16 61 (7.84%) High Availability
17 60 (7.71%) SIEM
18 58 (7.46%) CI/CD
19 57 (7.33%) Software Engineering
20 47 (6.04%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 145 (18.64%) Python
2 141 (18.12%) PowerShell
3 73 (9.38%) Bash
4 72 (9.25%) SQL
5 38 (4.88%) C++
6 27 (3.47%) C
7 22 (2.83%) Perl
8 18 (2.31%) C#
9 17 (2.19%) JavaScript
10 16 (2.06%) Java
11 14 (1.80%) VBA
12 12 (1.54%) Bicep
12 12 (1.54%) Go
13 11 (1.41%) Ruby
14 10 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (1.29%) TypeScript
15 8 (1.03%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.90%) PHP
16 7 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
17 3 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 143 (18.38%) Degree
2 98 (12.60%) Security Cleared
3 85 (10.93%) Cisco Certification
4 72 (9.25%) CCNA
5 67 (8.61%) SC Cleared
6 60 (7.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 53 (6.81%) CCNP
8 34 (4.37%) Azure Certification
9 32 (4.11%) CompTIA Security+
9 32 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (2.70%) CREST Certified
11 20 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (2.44%) CEH
12 19 (2.44%) GCIA
13 18 (2.31%) Network+ Certification
14 17 (2.19%) DV Cleared
15 16 (2.06%) HND
16 15 (1.93%) CISSP
16 15 (1.93%) OSCP
17 14 (1.80%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.10%) SLA
2 32 (4.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (3.08%) GDPR
5 16 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.16%) NIST
7 7 (0.90%) QA
8 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.64%) GRC
9 5 (0.64%) NCSC
10 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 340 (43.70%) Active Directory
2 140 (17.99%) Hyper-V
3 133 (17.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (3.73%) Docker
5 24 (3.08%) Firmware
5 24 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.41%) vSphere
7 10 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.77%) KVM
9 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.26%) QEMU
11 1 (0.13%) Ceph
11 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.13%) Samba
11 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 123 (15.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (5.27%) Ansible
3 37 (4.76%) FortiGate
4 34 (4.37%) Kubernetes
5 17 (2.19%) QRadar
6 16 (2.06%) Nagios
7 13 (1.67%) Grafana
7 13 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
7 13 (1.67%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (1.03%) Kibana
9 8 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.90%) WSUS
11 5 (0.64%) McAfee ePO
11 5 (0.64%) Puppet
11 5 (0.64%) SCCM
11 5 (0.64%) SCVMM
11 5 (0.64%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.51%) Control-M
12 4 (0.51%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 437 (56.17%) Microsoft
2 153 (19.67%) VMware
3 109 (14.01%) Cisco
4 55 (7.07%) Fortinet
5 44 (5.66%) Veeam
6 38 (4.88%) Splunk
7 32 (4.11%) Palo Alto
8 31 (3.98%) Google
8 31 (3.98%) ServiceNow
9 29 (3.73%) Meraki
10 25 (3.21%) Red Hat
10 25 (3.21%) SolarWinds
11 23 (2.96%) SonicWALL
12 21 (2.70%) HP
12 21 (2.70%) Sophos
13 18 (2.31%) Dell
14 17 (2.19%) Apple
15 16 (2.06%) Zscaler
16 15 (1.93%) CrowdStrike
16 15 (1.93%) Ubiquiti