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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 235 201
Rank change year-on-year -13 -34 -31
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 915 654 958
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.77% 1.32% 1.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.53% 9.25% 11.09%
Number of salaries quoted 673 509 532
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,075 £76,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £34,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +10.29% -20.00% -2.30%

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 7,938 7,068 8,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.72% 14.32% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,851 3,963 4,291
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,375 £28,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £38,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% -26.67% +1.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,875 £68,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £34,000 £49,008
% change year-on-year +32.35% -30.62% +8.91%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +1 857 £40,000 +6.67% 622
UK excluding London -27 641 £37,500 +10.29% 381
Work from Home +30 267 £40,000 -1.23% 216
London +8 255 £55,000 - 262
South East +1 186 £40,000 +6.67% 102
North of England -28 154 £34,500 -1.43% 80
Midlands -20 127 £37,500 +15.38% 53
East of England 0 94 £35,000 +7.69% 43
North West +42 88 £32,250 -20.37% 38
West Midlands -28 77 £37,500 +15.38% 27
Yorkshire -47 55 £33,500 - 32
East Midlands -20 50 £36,000 +10.77% 26
South West -76 43 £32,500 -5.80% 58
Wales -85 15 £45,000 +28.57% 12
Scotland +10 14 £63,451 +111.50% 25
North East -89 11 £40,000 +37.93% 12
Northern Ireland -64 8 £38,000 -48.51% 11

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
1 153 (16.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 119 (13.01%) SharePoint
3 26 (2.84%) IIS
4 18 (1.97%) Apache
5 7 (0.77%) Confluence
6 5 (0.55%) WinCC
7 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.33%) SAS
8 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 35 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.11%) Houdini
5 1 (0.11%) NUKE
5 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.11%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (0.87%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.22%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.22%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.11%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.11%) Eikon
3 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 419 (45.79%) Microsoft 365
2 348 (38.03%) Azure
3 249 (27.21%) Entra ID
4 143 (15.63%) AWS
5 56 (6.12%) GCP
6 50 (5.46%) OneDrive
7 37 (4.04%) SaaS
8 25 (2.73%) Google Workspace
9 21 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (1.53%) dbt
10 14 (1.53%) Google Compute Engine
10 14 (1.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 14 (1.53%) OpenShift
10 14 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 11 (1.20%) IaaS
12 10 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 563 (61.53%) DNS
2 450 (49.18%) DHCP
3 420 (45.90%) Firewall
4 406 (44.37%) VPN
5 225 (24.59%) VLAN
6 212 (23.17%) WAN
7 209 (22.84%) LAN
8 146 (15.96%) Wi-Fi
9 120 (13.11%) Wireless
10 111 (12.13%) Network Security
11 82 (8.96%) BGP
12 77 (8.42%) HTTP
13 69 (7.54%) VoIP
14 59 (6.45%) OSPF
15 44 (4.81%) SD-WAN
16 43 (4.70%) SSL
17 34 (3.72%) Ethernet
18 29 (3.17%) Internet
19 23 (2.51%) FTP
20 22 (2.40%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 24 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (2.40%) MySQL
4 21 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.98%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.66%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (0.66%) Redis
7 5 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.55%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.44%) KDB
8 4 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.33%) InfluxDB
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.22%) Db2
11 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 1 (0.11%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 34 (3.72%) JIRA
2 25 (2.73%) Git
3 14 (1.53%) TeamCity
4 13 (1.42%) GitLab
5 7 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.55%) Selenium
6 5 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.33%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.22%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.22%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.22%) Postman
9 2 (0.22%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.11%) CMake
10 1 (0.11%) GDB
10 1 (0.11%) LSMW
10 1 (0.11%) Metasploit
General
1 432 (47.21%) Social Skills
2 121 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
3 106 (11.58%) Finance
4 68 (7.43%) Telecoms
5 50 (5.46%) Banking
6 46 (5.03%) Law
7 45 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (4.26%) Retail
10 37 (4.04%) Aerospace
11 36 (3.93%) Electronics
12 33 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
13 25 (2.73%) Manufacturing
14 20 (2.19%) Public Sector
15 16 (1.75%) Back Office
15 16 (1.75%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.09%) Automotive
17 8 (0.87%) Marketing
18 7 (0.77%) Digital Health
18 7 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 249 (27.21%) IT Support
2 210 (22.95%) Support Engineer
3 186 (20.33%) IT Engineer
4 155 (16.94%) IT Support Engineer
5 120 (13.11%) Analyst
6 118 (12.90%) Senior
7 115 (12.57%) Network Engineer
8 95 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 73 (7.98%) 2nd Line Support
10 66 (7.21%) Support Analyst
11 60 (6.56%) IT Technician
12 59 (6.45%) Support Technician
13 54 (5.90%) IT Support Technician
14 48 (5.25%) Lead
15 43 (4.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 41 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 35 (3.83%) IT Analyst
18 33 (3.61%) Infrastructure Support
18 33 (3.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 32 (3.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (8.31%) Terraform
2 25 (2.73%) LDAP
3 22 (2.40%) React
4 19 (2.08%) RESTful
4 19 (2.08%) XML
5 16 (1.75%) Node.js
6 14 (1.53%) JSON
7 12 (1.31%) Middleware
7 12 (1.31%) WebSockets
8 11 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
9 10 (1.09%) CSS
9 10 (1.09%) Django
9 10 (1.09%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (1.09%) HTML
9 10 (1.09%) REST
10 9 (0.98%) .NET
10 9 (0.98%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.87%) gRPC
12 6 (0.66%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.55%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 131 (14.32%) Driving Licence
2 108 (11.80%) Onboarding
3 46 (5.03%) Data Centre
4 37 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (3.50%) Security Posture
7 29 (3.17%) Management Information System
8 27 (2.95%) Cyber Threat
9 26 (2.84%) Security Operations Centre
10 25 (2.73%) Cloud Native
11 24 (2.62%) PKI
12 22 (2.40%) Client/Server
12 22 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
13 21 (2.30%) Replication
14 19 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
15 18 (1.97%) CCTV
15 18 (1.97%) Cyber Defence
16 14 (1.53%) Blog
17 13 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
18 12 (1.31%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 556 (60.77%) Windows
2 279 (30.49%) Windows Server
3 227 (24.81%) Linux
4 117 (12.79%) Windows 10
5 56 (6.12%) macOS
6 41 (4.48%) Unix
7 35 (3.83%) Ubuntu
8 25 (2.73%) Apple iOS
9 20 (2.19%) Android
9 20 (2.19%) Rocky
9 20 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (1.97%) CentOS
11 16 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.77%) Debian
14 6 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.66%) Solaris
15 5 (0.55%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.44%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.22%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (34.86%) Problem-Solving
2 227 (24.81%) Customer Service
3 209 (22.84%) Cybersecurity
4 198 (21.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 168 (18.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 136 (14.86%) ITIL
7 131 (14.32%) Disaster Recovery
8 99 (10.82%) Incident Response
8 99 (10.82%) Mentoring
9 86 (9.40%) Project Delivery
10 84 (9.18%) Service Delivery
11 82 (8.96%) ITSM
12 75 (8.20%) CI/CD
13 71 (7.76%) SIEM
14 70 (7.65%) Infrastructure as Code
15 69 (7.54%) Computer Science
16 63 (6.89%) Software Engineering
17 62 (6.78%) DevOps
18 60 (6.56%) High Availability
19 57 (6.23%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 182 (19.89%) Python
2 158 (17.27%) PowerShell
3 98 (10.71%) SQL
4 94 (10.27%) Bash
5 47 (5.14%) C++
6 29 (3.17%) Java
7 27 (2.95%) Perl
8 25 (2.73%) Go
9 24 (2.62%) JavaScript
10 21 (2.30%) C
11 18 (1.97%) C#
12 14 (1.53%) VBA
13 13 (1.42%) Ruby
14 10 (1.09%) Bicep
14 10 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (1.09%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.09%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.77%) PHP
15 7 (0.77%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 154 (16.83%) Degree
2 116 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 100 (10.93%) Cisco Certification
4 76 (8.31%) SC Cleared
5 75 (8.20%) CCNA
6 65 (7.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (6.45%) CCNP
8 35 (3.83%) CompTIA Security+
9 32 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (3.06%) Azure Certification
11 27 (2.95%) CREST Certified
12 24 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (2.51%) CISSP
13 23 (2.51%) DV Cleared
13 23 (2.51%) Network+ Certification
14 20 (2.19%) A+ Certification
14 20 (2.19%) CEH
15 18 (1.97%) GCIA
16 16 (1.75%) DBS Check
16 16 (1.75%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.63%) SLA
2 46 (5.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (4.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 35 (3.83%) GDPR
5 22 (2.40%) QA
6 21 (2.30%) NIST
7 20 (2.19%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.64%) SOC 2
9 11 (1.20%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.66%) GRC
11 6 (0.66%) NCSC
12 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.11%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 1 (0.11%) DO-178B
13 1 (0.11%) GxP
13 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 410 (44.81%) Active Directory
2 162 (17.70%) Hyper-V
3 144 (15.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.15%) Docker
5 34 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (3.39%) Firmware
7 15 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (1.53%) vSphere
9 10 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.22%) KVM
11 2 (0.22%) Snort
11 2 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.22%) XenApp
11 2 (0.22%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.11%) QEMU
12 1 (0.11%) Samba
12 1 (0.11%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 155 (16.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (4.59%) Ansible
2 42 (4.59%) Kubernetes
3 31 (3.39%) FortiGate
4 26 (2.84%) Grafana
5 21 (2.30%) QRadar
5 21 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (2.19%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.53%) Nagios
8 11 (1.20%) WSUS
9 10 (1.09%) Kibana
10 8 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.77%) Autotask
11 7 (0.77%) SCCM
12 6 (0.66%) Cilium
13 5 (0.55%) McAfee ePO
13 5 (0.55%) SCVMM
14 4 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.44%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 518 (56.61%) Microsoft
2 170 (18.58%) VMware
3 132 (14.43%) Cisco
4 79 (8.63%) Fortinet
5 60 (6.56%) Google
6 57 (6.23%) Veeam
7 46 (5.03%) Splunk
8 42 (4.59%) ServiceNow
9 38 (4.15%) Palo Alto
10 30 (3.28%) Dell
10 30 (3.28%) Meraki
11 29 (3.17%) SonicWALL
12 26 (2.84%) Red Hat
13 24 (2.62%) SolarWinds
14 21 (2.30%) WatchGuard
15 20 (2.19%) Sophos
16 18 (1.97%) Apple
17 17 (1.86%) CrowdStrike
17 17 (1.86%) HP
17 17 (1.86%) Ubiquiti