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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 218 203
Rank change year-on-year -80 -15 +46
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 547 658 1,401
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 1.50% 1.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.21% 10.34% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 409 472 1,165
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,125 £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 £61,250 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,840 £77,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £42,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +12.00% -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 8,812 6,366 12,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.75% 14.56% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,024 3,789 9,419
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,219 £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 12 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 12 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 -67 504 £40,000 -7.51% 218
UK excluding London -87 332 £34,000 -19.05% 181
London 0 196 £55,000 +6.80% 62
Work from Home +2 157 £42,500 -22.73% 92
North of England -4 107 £34,000 -23.94% 39
South East -48 90 £35,750 -4.67% 65
Yorkshire -43 51 £32,500 -18.75% 15
Midlands -75 43 £32,500 - 21
North West 0 39 £40,000 - 18
South West -27 39 £39,000 -24.61% 27
East Midlands -39 29 £32,500 +8.33% 4
East of England -54 29 £43,750 -2.78% 28
North East -22 17 £45,000 -35.14% 7
Wales -31 16 £29,500 -54.62% 6
West Midlands -62 14 £33,250 -5.00% 17
Scotland -28 7 £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
1 106 (19.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 71 (12.98%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.19%) IIS
4 4 (0.73%) Confluence
5 3 (0.55%) Apache
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 71 (12.98%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.37%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 245 (44.79%) Azure
2 228 (41.68%) Microsoft 365
3 112 (20.48%) AWS
4 108 (19.74%) Entra ID
5 35 (6.40%) GCP
6 26 (4.75%) Google Workspace
7 22 (4.02%) GitHub
8 21 (3.84%) OneDrive
9 19 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (3.29%) IaaS
11 14 (2.56%) PaaS
12 11 (2.01%) SaaS
13 10 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (1.10%) Route 53
15 6 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 339 (61.97%) DNS
2 263 (48.08%) DHCP
3 212 (38.76%) Firewall
4 173 (31.63%) VPN
5 154 (28.15%) WAN
6 136 (24.86%) LAN
7 100 (18.28%) VLAN
8 66 (12.07%) Wi-Fi
9 55 (10.05%) HTTP
10 54 (9.87%) Network Security
11 41 (7.50%) SD-WAN
12 37 (6.76%) VoIP
12 37 (6.76%) Wireless
13 30 (5.48%) BGP
14 24 (4.39%) OSPF
15 19 (3.47%) SMTP
16 18 (3.29%) Multicast
17 16 (2.93%) Wireshark
18 14 (2.56%) SAN
19 10 (1.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.95%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.28%) MySQL
5 6 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.91%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.91%) Redis
6 5 (0.91%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.55%) Power BI
8 2 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.18%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.18%) KDB
9 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.18%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 20 (3.66%) Jenkins
2 16 (2.93%) Git
3 10 (1.83%) Bitbucket
4 9 (1.65%) Metasploit
5 8 (1.46%) GitLab
5 8 (1.46%) JIRA
6 5 (0.91%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.37%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.18%) CMake
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 226 (41.32%) Social Skills
2 96 (17.55%) Finance
3 70 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.86%) Banking
5 39 (7.13%) Law
6 34 (6.22%) Telecoms
7 31 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.47%) Investment Banking
11 16 (2.93%) Aerospace
11 16 (2.93%) Retail
12 14 (2.56%) Public Sector
13 13 (2.38%) Back Office
13 13 (2.38%) Legal
13 13 (2.38%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.65%) Automotive
15 7 (1.28%) Electronics
16 6 (1.10%) Spanish Language
17 5 (0.91%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 140 (25.59%) IT Support
2 83 (15.17%) Support Engineer
3 75 (13.71%) Analyst
4 66 (12.07%) Senior
5 57 (10.42%) IT Engineer
6 54 (9.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 52 (9.51%) 2nd Line Support
7 52 (9.51%) IT Support Engineer
7 52 (9.51%) Support Technician
8 43 (7.86%) Network Engineer
9 41 (7.50%) IT Support Technician
9 41 (7.50%) IT Technician
10 36 (6.58%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 33 (6.03%) Support Analyst
12 32 (5.85%) Developer
13 31 (5.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 28 (5.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 26 (4.75%) C++ Developer
16 22 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
16 22 (4.02%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (2.01%) LDAP
2 11 (2.01%) WebSockets
3 8 (1.46%) .NET
3 8 (1.46%) REST
4 6 (1.10%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.10%) Django
5 5 (0.91%) ARM Templates
5 5 (0.91%) gRPC
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
7 3 (0.55%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.55%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.55%) Node.js
7 3 (0.55%) Qt
8 2 (0.37%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (0.37%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 69 (12.61%) Driving Licence
2 32 (5.85%) Data Centre
3 29 (5.30%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.84%) FPGA
5 20 (3.66%) Cyber Threat
6 19 (3.47%) Security Posture
6 19 (3.47%) Video Conferencing
7 18 (3.29%) EPoS
7 18 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.38%) Replication
9 11 (2.01%) Cloud Native
9 11 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
10 10 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.83%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.83%) MPEG
10 10 (1.83%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.65%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 331 (60.51%) Windows
2 186 (34.00%) Windows Server
3 127 (23.22%) Linux
4 98 (17.92%) Windows 10
5 40 (7.31%) Mac OS
6 37 (6.76%) Apple iOS
7 26 (4.75%) Android
8 25 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (4.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (3.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (3.11%) Unix
12 14 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (1.28%) CentOS
13 7 (1.28%) Windows 7
14 6 (1.10%) VMS
15 4 (0.73%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.73%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.55%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
17 2 (0.37%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (34.55%) Problem-Solving
2 106 (19.38%) Customer Service
3 85 (15.54%) ITIL
4 78 (14.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 70 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (11.70%) Cybersecurity
7 63 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (11.15%) DevOps
8 61 (11.15%) Service Delivery
9 59 (10.79%) Disaster Recovery
10 56 (10.24%) Incident Response
11 49 (8.96%) CI/CD
12 46 (8.41%) Incident Management
12 46 (8.41%) Root Cause Analysis
13 40 (7.31%) SIEM
14 39 (7.13%) High Availability
15 38 (6.95%) ITSM
15 38 (6.95%) Mentoring
16 36 (6.58%) Computer Science
17 33 (6.03%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 104 (19.01%) Python
2 103 (18.83%) PowerShell
3 59 (10.79%) Bash
4 39 (7.13%) C++
5 38 (6.95%) SQL
6 30 (5.48%) Java
7 22 (4.02%) C
7 22 (4.02%) Go
8 13 (2.38%) C#
9 7 (1.28%) Perl
10 6 (1.10%) Bicep
11 4 (0.73%) Delphi
11 4 (0.73%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.73%) Pascal
11 4 (0.73%) PHP
12 3 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
12 3 (0.55%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.37%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.18%) Korn
Qualifications
1 81 (14.81%) Degree
2 49 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 42 (7.68%) SC Cleared
4 41 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 38 (6.95%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (5.30%) CCNA
7 25 (4.57%) CCNP
8 23 (4.20%) Azure Certification
9 22 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (3.11%) CompTIA Security+
11 15 (2.74%) Network+ Certification
12 14 (2.56%) CREST Certified
13 12 (2.19%) DBS Check
14 11 (2.01%) RHCSA
15 9 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (1.65%) MCDST
15 9 (1.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (1.46%) GIAC
16 8 (1.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.85%) SLA
2 27 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.66%) GDPR
4 13 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.10%) QA
6 6 (1.10%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.73%) DICOM
7 4 (0.73%) HL7
8 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.37%) GxP
9 2 (0.37%) NIST
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 243 (44.42%) Active Directory
2 100 (18.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (13.53%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.29%) Docker
5 13 (2.38%) Firmware
5 13 (2.38%) vSphere
6 11 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.46%) KVM
8 6 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.55%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.37%) 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 73 (13.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 57 (10.42%) Ansible
2 57 (10.42%) Terraform
3 31 (5.67%) Kubernetes
4 21 (3.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (3.84%) Grafana
4 21 (3.84%) Prometheus
5 18 (3.29%) FortiGate
6 14 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (2.56%) Nagios
7 9 (1.65%) QRadar
7 9 (1.65%) SCCM
8 8 (1.46%) Puppet
9 6 (1.10%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.91%) Nessus
10 5 (0.91%) Nmap
10 5 (0.91%) VxRail
10 5 (0.91%) WSUS
11 4 (0.73%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 299 (54.66%) Microsoft
2 126 (23.03%) VMware
3 62 (11.33%) Cisco
4 29 (5.30%) Google
4 29 (5.30%) SolarWinds
5 28 (5.12%) Meraki
6 25 (4.57%) Palo Alto
7 24 (4.39%) Citrix
7 24 (4.39%) Red Hat
7 24 (4.39%) Veeam
8 20 (3.66%) Dell
9 19 (3.47%) Apple
9 19 (3.47%) HP
10 18 (3.29%) Fortinet
11 17 (3.11%) Splunk
12 15 (2.74%) CrowdStrike
13 12 (2.19%) ServiceNow
14 10 (1.83%) Zscaler
15 8 (1.46%) Sophos
15 8 (1.46%) Yealink