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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 212 232
Rank change year-on-year -57 +20 -16
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 771 761 982
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.53% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.39% 10.38% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 603 539 748
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,875 £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 £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £74,258 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £36,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -4.11% -2.67% -11.76%

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 7,423 7,332 9,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.12% 14.78% 11.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,778 4,211 6,412
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% -1.10%

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 5 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 5 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 -43 721 £39,000 +4.00% 326
UK excluding London -53 550 £35,000 -4.11% 245
Work from Home +17 243 £42,000 -9.19% 130
London -41 210 £60,000 +15.38% 120
South East -10 168 £37,500 +5.63% 79
North of England -17 147 £32,500 -13.33% 50
Midlands -39 90 £33,000 +1.54% 28
North West +39 76 £32,250 -18.87% 27
East of England -33 61 £35,000 -26.32% 25
Yorkshire -46 55 £32,500 -18.75% 16
South West -55 47 £33,500 -6.29% 41
East Midlands -19 45 £32,500 +4.00% 9
West Midlands -47 45 £37,500 +15.38% 19
Wales -53 23 £40,000 +14.29% 4
North East -59 16 £40,000 +37.93% 9
Scotland -1 11 £63,451 +33.58% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 £71,991 - 14

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
1 138 (17.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 98 (12.71%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.98%) IIS
4 12 (1.56%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) SAS
6 1 (0.13%) Confluence
6 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 57 (7.39%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Houdini
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Fidessa
1 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 335 (43.45%) Microsoft 365
2 330 (42.80%) Azure
3 166 (21.53%) Entra ID
4 149 (19.33%) AWS
5 45 (5.84%) GCP
6 29 (3.76%) OneDrive
7 26 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (2.46%) dbt
9 17 (2.20%) IaaS
10 16 (2.08%) SaaS
11 15 (1.95%) GitHub
12 14 (1.82%) PaaS
13 13 (1.69%) OpenShift
14 12 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 10 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (1.30%) Google Workspace
16 9 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 445 (57.72%) DNS
2 345 (44.75%) Firewall
3 341 (44.23%) DHCP
4 254 (32.94%) VPN
5 189 (24.51%) WAN
6 182 (23.61%) LAN
7 149 (19.33%) VLAN
8 91 (11.80%) Network Security
9 85 (11.02%) Wi-Fi
10 70 (9.08%) HTTP
11 68 (8.82%) VoIP
11 68 (8.82%) Wireless
12 58 (7.52%) BGP
13 44 (5.71%) OSPF
14 43 (5.58%) SD-WAN
15 24 (3.11%) Multicast
16 21 (2.72%) SSL
17 19 (2.46%) Ethernet
18 18 (2.33%) SMTP
19 17 (2.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.43%) MySQL
4 7 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.78%) Redis
6 5 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.52%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.13%) KDB
10 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 28 (3.63%) JIRA
2 20 (2.59%) Git
3 12 (1.56%) Bitbucket
4 9 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.65%) GitLab
5 5 (0.65%) 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
General
1 353 (45.78%) Social Skills
2 98 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
3 94 (12.19%) Finance
4 62 (8.04%) Telecoms
5 48 (6.23%) Law
6 42 (5.45%) Banking
6 42 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
7 32 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.37%) Electronics
8 26 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (2.98%) Aerospace
10 22 (2.85%) Retail
11 17 (2.20%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.95%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.82%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.30%) Legal
15 7 (0.91%) Digital Health
15 7 (0.91%) Military
16 6 (0.78%) Automotive
17 5 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 200 (25.94%) IT Support
2 151 (19.58%) Support Engineer
3 126 (16.34%) IT Engineer
4 103 (13.36%) IT Support Engineer
5 96 (12.45%) Analyst
6 93 (12.06%) Network Engineer
6 93 (12.06%) Senior
7 67 (8.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 60 (7.78%) 2nd Line Support
9 58 (7.52%) Support Technician
10 53 (6.87%) IT Technician
11 51 (6.61%) IT Support Technician
12 40 (5.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 38 (4.93%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 37 (4.80%) Support Analyst
15 33 (4.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 32 (4.15%) IT Analyst
17 29 (3.76%) Lead
18 26 (3.37%) IT Support Analyst
19 25 (3.24%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.46%) LDAP
2 17 (2.20%) React
3 15 (1.95%) WebSockets
4 13 (1.69%) gRPC
4 13 (1.69%) Node.js
5 12 (1.56%) Django
5 12 (1.56%) Middleware
6 11 (1.43%) .NET
7 10 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (1.17%) XML
9 8 (1.04%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.04%) JSON
10 7 (0.91%) 802.1X
10 7 (0.91%) REST
11 6 (0.78%) ARM Templates
11 6 (0.78%) CSS
11 6 (0.78%) HTML
12 4 (0.52%) ADO
12 4 (0.52%) COM
12 4 (0.52%) DCOM
Miscellaneous
1 109 (14.14%) Driving Licence
2 54 (7.00%) Onboarding
3 47 (6.10%) Data Centre
4 35 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (3.89%) Cyber Threat
6 23 (2.98%) Security Posture
7 22 (2.85%) Security Operations Centre
8 20 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
10 18 (2.33%) CCTV
10 18 (2.33%) PKI
11 17 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
12 16 (2.08%) FPGA
12 16 (2.08%) MPEG
13 15 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.69%) Client/Server
14 13 (1.69%) Management Information System
14 13 (1.69%) Replication
15 12 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 463 (60.05%) Windows
2 252 (32.68%) Windows Server
3 191 (24.77%) Linux
4 96 (12.45%) Windows 10
5 58 (7.52%) Mac OS
6 36 (4.67%) Unix
7 31 (4.02%) Apple iOS
8 24 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (2.85%) Android
10 20 (2.59%) Ubuntu
11 19 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 14 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (1.43%) CentOS
14 7 (0.91%) Debian
15 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.65%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
16 5 (0.65%) Kali Linux
16 5 (0.65%) Rocky
16 5 (0.65%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
2 161 (20.88%) Customer Service
3 160 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (16.21%) Cybersecurity
5 112 (14.53%) ITIL
6 111 (14.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 93 (12.06%) Disaster Recovery
8 91 (11.80%) Incident Response
9 82 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 81 (10.51%) Mentoring
11 79 (10.25%) Service Delivery
12 76 (9.86%) DevOps
13 74 (9.60%) Project Delivery
14 71 (9.21%) ITSM
15 68 (8.82%) High Availability
16 65 (8.43%) CI/CD
17 57 (7.39%) SIEM
18 54 (7.00%) Computer Science
19 51 (6.61%) Software Engineering
20 48 (6.23%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 144 (18.68%) Python
2 138 (17.90%) PowerShell
3 72 (9.34%) Bash
4 63 (8.17%) SQL
5 39 (5.06%) C++
6 25 (3.24%) C
7 21 (2.72%) Java
8 17 (2.20%) Perl
9 15 (1.95%) C#
10 14 (1.82%) VBA
11 13 (1.69%) Go
11 13 (1.69%) JavaScript
12 10 (1.30%) Bicep
12 10 (1.30%) PHP
13 7 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.91%) Ruby
13 7 (0.91%) Search Processing Language
14 6 (0.78%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.65%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.39%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 135 (17.51%) Degree
2 97 (12.58%) Security Cleared
3 82 (10.64%) Cisco Certification
4 75 (9.73%) SC Cleared
5 69 (8.95%) CCNA
6 59 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 52 (6.74%) CCNP
8 30 (3.89%) Azure Certification
9 29 (3.76%) CompTIA Security+
10 27 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (2.46%) CREST Certified
13 16 (2.08%) CEH
13 16 (2.08%) GCIA
13 16 (2.08%) HND
14 14 (1.82%) HNC
15 13 (1.69%) AWS Certification
15 13 (1.69%) GIAC
15 13 (1.69%) OSCP
16 12 (1.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.43%) SLA
2 26 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.08%) GDPR
6 8 (1.04%) NIST
7 6 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.52%) QA
9 3 (0.39%) GRC
9 3 (0.39%) NCSC
9 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) DICOM
10 2 (0.26%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 325 (42.15%) Active Directory
2 139 (18.03%) Hyper-V
3 134 (17.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (3.76%) Docker
5 21 (2.72%) Firmware
6 20 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (1.56%) vSphere
8 10 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (1.17%) KVM
10 8 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.13%) Ceph
13 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.13%) QEMU
13 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 120 (15.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 71 (9.21%) Terraform
3 52 (6.74%) Ansible
4 39 (5.06%) Kubernetes
5 34 (4.41%) FortiGate
6 19 (2.46%) Grafana
6 19 (2.46%) Prometheus
7 18 (2.33%) Nagios
8 17 (2.20%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (1.95%) QRadar
10 11 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (1.04%) Kibana
11 8 (1.04%) Puppet
11 8 (1.04%) WSUS
12 7 (0.91%) SCCM
13 6 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.65%) Control-M
14 5 (0.65%) McAfee ePO
14 5 (0.65%) SCVMM
14 5 (0.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 428 (55.51%) Microsoft
2 158 (20.49%) VMware
3 106 (13.75%) Cisco
4 49 (6.36%) Fortinet
5 40 (5.19%) Veeam
6 36 (4.67%) Meraki
7 34 (4.41%) Splunk
8 33 (4.28%) Google
8 33 (4.28%) Palo Alto
9 30 (3.89%) ServiceNow
10 27 (3.50%) SolarWinds
11 24 (3.11%) Apple
11 24 (3.11%) HP
11 24 (3.11%) Red Hat
12 21 (2.72%) Sophos
13 19 (2.46%) SonicWALL
14 18 (2.33%) Dell
14 18 (2.33%) Zscaler
15 15 (1.95%) CrowdStrike
16 14 (1.82%) Ubiquiti