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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 218 239
Rank change year-on-year -47 +21 -37
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 771 764 963
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.53% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.34% 10.35% 9.77%
Number of salaries quoted 597 541 734
10th Percentile £28,400 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £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 £78,766 £74,258 £73,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £35,500 £37,750
% change year-on-year -1.41% -5.96% -11.18%

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 7,456 7,379 9,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.04% 14.78% 11.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,795 4,256 6,312
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,688 £29,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -16.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -16.67% -

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 10 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 10 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 -45 723 £38,500 +2.67% 311
UK excluding London -57 548 £35,000 -1.41% 220
Work from Home +13 246 £42,000 -9.19% 107
London -49 212 £60,000 +15.38% 128
South East -16 167 £37,500 +5.63% 73
North of England -24 145 £32,500 -13.33% 44
Midlands -39 92 £33,000 +1.54% 27
North West +30 77 £32,125 -19.69% 25
East of England -36 62 £37,500 -21.05% 22
Yorkshire -55 53 £32,500 -18.75% 12
West Midlands -40 47 £37,500 +15.38% 18
South West -62 47 £33,500 -2.90% 32
East Midlands -20 45 £32,500 +8.33% 9
Wales -55 21 £45,000 +28.57% 5
North East -67 15 £37,500 +29.31% 9
Scotland -2 11 £63,451 +49.30% 15
Northern Ireland - 3 £71,991 - 5

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 (17.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 97 (12.58%) 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 51 (6.61%) 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 4 (0.52%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.26%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 327 (42.41%) Azure
1 327 (42.41%) Microsoft 365
2 169 (21.92%) Entra ID
3 145 (18.81%) AWS
4 43 (5.58%) GCP
5 29 (3.76%) OneDrive
6 26 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (2.46%) dbt
8 17 (2.20%) IaaS
9 16 (2.08%) SaaS
10 14 (1.82%) PaaS
11 13 (1.69%) GitHub
11 13 (1.69%) OpenShift
12 12 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (1.17%) Google Workspace
15 8 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 438 (56.81%) DNS
2 349 (45.27%) Firewall
3 338 (43.84%) DHCP
4 255 (33.07%) VPN
5 186 (24.12%) WAN
6 178 (23.09%) LAN
7 150 (19.46%) VLAN
8 94 (12.19%) Network Security
9 84 (10.89%) Wi-Fi
10 69 (8.95%) VoIP
11 68 (8.82%) Wireless
12 66 (8.56%) HTTP
13 57 (7.39%) BGP
14 45 (5.84%) OSPF
15 42 (5.45%) SD-WAN
16 24 (3.11%) Multicast
17 21 (2.72%) SSL
18 19 (2.46%) Ethernet
19 18 (2.33%) SMTP
19 18 (2.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (1.43%) MySQL
2 11 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
4 6 (0.78%) Redis
5 5 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.52%) InfluxDB
6 4 (0.52%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
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%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 28 (3.63%) JIRA
2 18 (2.33%) Git
3 12 (1.56%) Bitbucket
4 7 (0.91%) 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
1 354 (45.91%) Social Skills
2 96 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
3 95 (12.32%) Finance
4 62 (8.04%) Telecoms
5 46 (5.97%) Law
6 42 (5.45%) Banking
7 41 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (3.63%) Electronics
11 24 (3.11%) Aerospace
12 21 (2.72%) Retail
13 17 (2.20%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.95%) Investment Banking
15 14 (1.82%) Public Sector
16 10 (1.30%) Legal
17 7 (0.91%) Digital Health
17 7 (0.91%) Military
18 6 (0.78%) Automotive
19 5 (0.65%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 192 (24.90%) IT Support
2 150 (19.46%) Support Engineer
3 125 (16.21%) IT Engineer
4 101 (13.10%) IT Support Engineer
5 100 (12.97%) Analyst
6 94 (12.19%) Network Engineer
6 94 (12.19%) Senior
7 68 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 61 (7.91%) 2nd Line Support
9 57 (7.39%) Support Technician
10 52 (6.74%) IT Technician
11 50 (6.49%) IT Support Technician
12 40 (5.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 40 (5.19%) Support Analyst
13 38 (4.93%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 34 (4.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 32 (4.15%) IT Analyst
16 29 (3.76%) Lead
17 27 (3.50%) Systems Engineer
18 26 (3.37%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.46%) LDAP
2 17 (2.20%) React
3 13 (1.69%) gRPC
3 13 (1.69%) Node.js
3 13 (1.69%) WebSockets
4 12 (1.56%) Django
4 12 (1.56%) Middleware
5 11 (1.43%) .NET
6 10 (1.30%) XML
7 8 (1.04%) AngularJS
7 8 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (1.04%) JSON
8 7 (0.91%) 802.1X
8 7 (0.91%) REST
9 6 (0.78%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.78%) CSS
9 6 (0.78%) HTML
10 5 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.52%) ADO
11 4 (0.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 106 (13.75%) Driving Licence
2 56 (7.26%) Onboarding
3 45 (5.84%) Data Centre
4 35 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (3.89%) Cyber Threat
6 24 (3.11%) Security Posture
7 22 (2.85%) Security Operations Centre
8 20 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (2.59%) PKI
9 19 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
10 18 (2.33%) CCTV
11 17 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
12 16 (2.08%) FPGA
12 16 (2.08%) MPEG
13 15 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (1.95%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.82%) Client/Server
15 13 (1.69%) Replication
16 12 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (1.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 457 (59.27%) Windows
2 249 (32.30%) Windows Server
3 192 (24.90%) Linux
4 91 (11.80%) Windows 10
5 58 (7.52%) Mac OS
6 38 (4.93%) Unix
7 28 (3.63%) Apple iOS
8 22 (2.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (2.85%) Ubuntu
9 20 (2.59%) Android
10 18 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (1.69%) CentOS
11 13 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.91%) Debian
12 7 (0.91%) Rocky
13 5 (0.65%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
13 5 (0.65%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.65%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (36.71%) Problem-Solving
2 160 (20.75%) Customer Service
3 156 (20.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 126 (16.34%) Cybersecurity
5 112 (14.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 112 (14.53%) ITIL
6 92 (11.93%) Disaster Recovery
7 91 (11.80%) Incident Response
8 81 (10.51%) Mentoring
9 80 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 78 (10.12%) Service Delivery
11 75 (9.73%) Project Delivery
12 73 (9.47%) DevOps
13 70 (9.08%) ITSM
14 65 (8.43%) CI/CD
14 65 (8.43%) High Availability
15 58 (7.52%) SIEM
16 57 (7.39%) Computer Science
17 51 (6.61%) Software Engineering
18 47 (6.10%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 144 (18.68%) Python
2 139 (18.03%) PowerShell
3 72 (9.34%) Bash
4 63 (8.17%) SQL
5 39 (5.06%) C++
6 27 (3.50%) C
7 21 (2.72%) Java
8 19 (2.46%) Perl
9 15 (1.95%) C#
9 15 (1.95%) JavaScript
10 14 (1.82%) VBA
11 11 (1.43%) Go
12 10 (1.30%) Bicep
13 9 (1.17%) PHP
13 9 (1.17%) Ruby
14 7 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.91%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.78%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.26%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 138 (17.90%) Degree
2 98 (12.71%) Security Cleared
3 84 (10.89%) Cisco Certification
4 74 (9.60%) SC Cleared
5 71 (9.21%) CCNA
6 61 (7.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 53 (6.87%) CCNP
8 31 (4.02%) Azure Certification
9 29 (3.76%) CompTIA Security+
10 27 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (2.59%) CREST Certified
13 16 (2.08%) CEH
13 16 (2.08%) GCIA
13 16 (2.08%) HND
14 14 (1.82%) AWS Certification
14 14 (1.82%) HNC
14 14 (1.82%) OSCP
15 13 (1.69%) DV Cleared
15 13 (1.69%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.43%) SLA
2 28 (3.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.33%) GDPR
5 10 (1.30%) NIST
6 6 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.65%) GRC
7 5 (0.65%) NCSC
8 4 (0.52%) QA
9 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) DICOM
10 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 322 (41.76%) Active Directory
2 136 (17.64%) Hyper-V
3 132 (17.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (4.02%) Docker
5 22 (2.85%) Firmware
6 20 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (1.56%) vSphere
8 10 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (1.17%) KVM
9 9 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.13%) Ceph
12 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.13%) QEMU
12 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 121 (15.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 69 (8.95%) Terraform
3 50 (6.49%) Ansible
4 41 (5.32%) Kubernetes
5 34 (4.41%) FortiGate
6 17 (2.20%) Grafana
6 17 (2.20%) Jamf Pro
6 17 (2.20%) Prometheus
7 16 (2.08%) Nagios
8 15 (1.95%) QRadar
9 11 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (1.04%) Kibana
10 8 (1.04%) Puppet
10 8 (1.04%) WSUS
11 7 (0.91%) SCCM
12 6 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.65%) McAfee ePO
13 5 (0.65%) SCVMM
13 5 (0.65%) VxRail
13 5 (0.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 424 (54.99%) Microsoft
2 153 (19.84%) VMware
3 107 (13.88%) Cisco
4 51 (6.61%) Fortinet
5 41 (5.32%) Veeam
6 34 (4.41%) Meraki
6 34 (4.41%) Splunk
7 32 (4.15%) Google
7 32 (4.15%) Palo Alto
8 30 (3.89%) ServiceNow
9 26 (3.37%) SolarWinds
10 24 (3.11%) Apple
10 24 (3.11%) HP
10 24 (3.11%) Red Hat
11 21 (2.72%) Sophos
12 20 (2.59%) SonicWALL
13 18 (2.33%) Dell
14 17 (2.20%) Zscaler
15 15 (1.95%) CrowdStrike
16 14 (1.82%) Ubiquiti