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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 193 206
Rank change year-on-year -99 +13 +38
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 574 683 1,410
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.61% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.52% 11.65% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 429 494 1,174
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,758 £78,750 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -24.44% +20.00% -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 10,401 5,861 12,997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.61% 13.85% 13.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,039 3,795 9,473
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,563 £34,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £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 28 April 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 April 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 -76 527 £40,000 -11.11% 185
UK excluding London -112 338 £34,000 -24.44% 161
London +15 214 £50,000 -2.91% 53
Work from Home -29 169 £42,500 -22.73% 124
North of England -28 109 £34,000 -24.19% 38
South East -92 81 £35,000 -6.67% 51
Yorkshire -54 49 £32,500 -27.29% 14
Midlands -76 46 £32,500 -7.14% 10
North West -19 45 £40,000 -5.88% 17
South West -32 44 £40,000 -21.36% 28
East of England -58 33 £40,000 -15.79% 25
East Midlands -54 32 £32,500 +6.56% 2
North East -30 15 £46,250 -33.34% 8
Wales -32 15 £29,500 -54.62% 9
West Midlands -52 14 £41,250 +17.86% 8
Scotland -48 9 £46,000 -8.00% 6
Northern Ireland -38 1 £73,801 -13.18% 4

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
1 116 (20.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 77 (13.41%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.92%) IIS
4 4 (0.70%) Confluence
5 2 (0.35%) Apache
5 2 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 74 (12.89%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.35%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 260 (45.30%) Azure
2 241 (41.99%) Microsoft 365
3 118 (20.56%) Entra ID
4 112 (19.51%) AWS
5 36 (6.27%) GCP
6 33 (5.75%) Google Workspace
7 26 (4.53%) OneDrive
8 22 (3.83%) GitHub
9 20 (3.48%) IaaS
10 19 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (2.96%) SaaS
13 15 (2.61%) PaaS
14 11 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
17 7 (1.22%) Route 53
17 7 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 6 (1.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 356 (62.02%) DNS
2 282 (49.13%) DHCP
3 213 (37.11%) Firewall
4 171 (29.79%) VPN
5 152 (26.48%) WAN
6 135 (23.52%) LAN
7 112 (19.51%) VLAN
8 76 (13.24%) Wi-Fi
9 53 (9.23%) Network Security
10 52 (9.06%) HTTP
11 46 (8.01%) Wireless
12 44 (7.67%) VoIP
13 41 (7.14%) SD-WAN
14 28 (4.88%) BGP
15 22 (3.83%) OSPF
16 19 (3.31%) SMTP
17 18 (3.14%) Multicast
17 18 (3.14%) Wireshark
18 14 (2.44%) SAN
19 12 (2.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.97%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.05%) Power BI
5 5 (0.87%) MySQL
5 5 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.87%) Redis
5 5 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.17%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.17%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.17%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 20 (3.48%) Jenkins
2 17 (2.96%) Git
3 12 (2.09%) Metasploit
4 10 (1.74%) Bitbucket
4 10 (1.74%) JIRA
5 8 (1.39%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.87%) GitLab
7 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.35%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.17%) CMake
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 243 (42.33%) Social Skills
2 99 (17.25%) Finance
3 72 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (7.14%) Banking
4 41 (7.14%) Law
5 35 (6.10%) Telecoms
6 31 (5.40%) Organisational Skills
7 28 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (3.31%) Investment Banking
10 18 (3.14%) Retail
11 17 (2.96%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.96%) Public Sector
12 15 (2.61%) Aerospace
13 14 (2.44%) Back Office
14 13 (2.26%) Legal
15 10 (1.74%) Automotive
16 8 (1.39%) Electronics
17 6 (1.05%) Spanish Language
18 5 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 156 (27.18%) IT Support
2 105 (18.29%) Support Engineer
3 71 (12.37%) IT Engineer
4 68 (11.85%) 2nd Line Support
4 68 (11.85%) Analyst
5 67 (11.67%) IT Support Engineer
6 66 (11.50%) Senior
7 52 (9.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 52 (9.06%) Support Technician
8 47 (8.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 44 (7.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 41 (7.14%) IT Support Technician
10 41 (7.14%) IT Technician
11 39 (6.79%) Network Engineer
12 36 (6.27%) Developer
13 34 (5.92%) Support Analyst
14 28 (4.88%) C++ Developer
15 26 (4.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (4.18%) Infrastructure Support
17 22 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (1.39%) LDAP
3 7 (1.22%) WebSockets
4 6 (1.05%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.05%) REST
4 6 (1.05%) RESTful
5 5 (0.87%) .NET
5 5 (0.87%) ARM Templates
5 5 (0.87%) Django
5 5 (0.87%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (0.87%) gRPC
5 5 (0.87%) Qt
6 4 (0.70%) ADO
6 4 (0.70%) Middleware
6 4 (0.70%) STL
7 3 (0.52%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.52%) QML
7 3 (0.52%) Sass
7 3 (0.52%) ZeroMQ
8 2 (0.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 73 (12.72%) Driving Licence
2 40 (6.97%) Onboarding
3 30 (5.23%) Data Centre
4 26 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (3.66%) FPGA
6 20 (3.48%) Video Conferencing
7 19 (3.31%) Cyber Threat
8 18 (3.14%) EPoS
8 18 (3.14%) Security Posture
9 14 (2.44%) Cloud Native
10 13 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.26%) iPhone
11 12 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (2.09%) Management Information System
11 12 (2.09%) Replication
12 10 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.74%) Cyber Defence
12 10 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.74%) MPEG
12 10 (1.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 360 (62.72%) Windows
2 203 (35.37%) Windows Server
3 132 (23.00%) Linux
4 112 (19.51%) Windows 10
5 50 (8.71%) Mac OS
6 40 (6.97%) Apple iOS
7 30 (5.23%) Android
8 26 (4.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 20 (3.48%) Unix
10 20 (3.48%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (2.79%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (1.39%) CentOS
13 7 (1.22%) Windows 7
14 6 (1.05%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.87%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.70%) VMS
17 3 (0.52%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.52%) Mac OS X
18 2 (0.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (35.37%) Problem-Solving
2 118 (20.56%) Customer Service
3 91 (15.85%) ITIL
4 77 (13.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 70 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (11.15%) Cybersecurity
7 63 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 62 (10.80%) Disaster Recovery
8 62 (10.80%) Service Delivery
9 59 (10.28%) DevOps
10 52 (9.06%) Incident Response
11 51 (8.89%) CI/CD
12 50 (8.71%) Root Cause Analysis
13 46 (8.01%) Incident Management
14 40 (6.97%) Mentoring
15 39 (6.79%) High Availability
15 39 (6.79%) ITSM
16 37 (6.45%) SIEM
17 36 (6.27%) Agile
18 35 (6.10%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 104 (18.12%) Python
2 101 (17.60%) PowerShell
3 54 (9.41%) Bash
4 41 (7.14%) C++
5 36 (6.27%) SQL
6 33 (5.75%) Java
7 25 (4.36%) C
8 23 (4.01%) Go
9 13 (2.26%) C#
10 6 (1.05%) Bicep
11 4 (0.70%) Delphi
11 4 (0.70%) Pascal
11 4 (0.70%) Perl
11 4 (0.70%) PHP
12 3 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.35%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.35%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 86 (14.98%) Degree
2 48 (8.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 45 (7.84%) Security Cleared
4 39 (6.79%) Cisco Certification
4 39 (6.79%) SC Cleared
5 31 (5.40%) CCNA
6 24 (4.18%) CCNP
7 23 (4.01%) Azure Certification
7 23 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (2.96%) Network+ Certification
9 15 (2.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 14 (2.44%) DBS Check
11 12 (2.09%) CREST Certified
11 12 (2.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.92%) A+ Certification
12 11 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (1.57%) Master's Degree
14 9 (1.57%) MCDST
14 9 (1.57%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.57%) SLA
2 30 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.48%) GDPR
4 16 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.74%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.39%) QA
7 7 (1.22%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.70%) DICOM
8 4 (0.70%) HL7
8 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.52%) NIST
10 2 (0.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.35%) GxP
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 261 (45.47%) Active Directory
2 107 (18.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 83 (14.46%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.14%) Docker
5 14 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.26%) vSphere
7 12 (2.09%) Firmware
8 10 (1.74%) KVM
9 5 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.70%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.17%) QEMU
12 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 84 (14.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 59 (10.28%) Terraform
3 58 (10.10%) Ansible
4 30 (5.23%) Kubernetes
5 23 (4.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (3.48%) Grafana
6 20 (3.48%) Prometheus
7 16 (2.79%) FortiGate
7 16 (2.79%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (1.92%) Nagios
9 10 (1.74%) Nessus
9 10 (1.74%) SCCM
10 9 (1.57%) Puppet
11 8 (1.39%) Nmap
12 6 (1.05%) QRadar
12 6 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.05%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.87%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.70%) Autotask
14 4 (0.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 315 (54.88%) Microsoft
2 133 (23.17%) VMware
3 63 (10.98%) Cisco
4 37 (6.45%) Google
5 28 (4.88%) Palo Alto
6 27 (4.70%) Meraki
6 27 (4.70%) SolarWinds
7 26 (4.53%) Citrix
8 23 (4.01%) Red Hat
9 21 (3.66%) Apple
9 21 (3.66%) Veeam
10 20 (3.48%) Dell
11 19 (3.31%) HP
12 18 (3.14%) Fortinet
13 13 (2.26%) CrowdStrike
13 13 (2.26%) Splunk
14 12 (2.09%) ServiceNow
15 10 (1.74%) Zscaler
16 9 (1.57%) CheckPoint
16 9 (1.57%) Sophos