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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 223 221
Rank change year-on-year -48 -2 -34
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 781 706 1,000
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.42% 1.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.33% 9.67% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 613 509 681
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -11.76% -6.59%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,075 £75,000 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year - -10.26% -8.24%

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 7,563 7,301 9,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.87% 14.67% 11.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,893 4,153 5,609
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £28,125
25th Percentile £33,000 £29,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,300 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £35,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -23.91% +2.22%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -34 743 £37,500 - 609
UK excluding London -46 568 £35,000 - 384
Work from Home +26 251 £40,000 -5.88% 206
London -27 204 £60,000 +9.09% 302
South East -20 172 £37,500 +1.35% 103
North of England -6 146 £32,500 -7.14% 81
Midlands -38 101 £36,000 +10.77% 51
North West +34 78 £32,000 -20.00% 41
East of England -30 73 £35,000 -22.22% 42
West Midlands -33 58 £37,500 +15.38% 29
Yorkshire -53 55 £32,500 -2.99% 23
South West -65 49 £33,000 -4.35% 56
East Midlands -21 43 £32,500 +4.00% 22
Wales -66 15 £45,000 +28.57% 7
North East -67 13 £35,000 +20.69% 20
Scotland +5 9 £63,451 +95.23% 31
Northern Ireland - 3 £57,246 - 19

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
1 139 (17.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 105 (13.44%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.20%) IIS
4 13 (1.66%) Apache
5 4 (0.51%) Confluence
6 3 (0.38%) SAS
6 3 (0.38%) WinCC
7 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 43 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Houdini
4 1 (0.13%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 7 (0.90%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.26%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.13%) Eikon
3 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 352 (45.07%) Microsoft 365
2 317 (40.59%) Azure
3 191 (24.46%) Entra ID
4 130 (16.65%) AWS
5 36 (4.61%) OneDrive
6 33 (4.23%) GCP
7 22 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (2.30%) SaaS
9 14 (1.79%) dbt
9 14 (1.79%) Google Workspace
10 13 (1.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 13 (1.66%) OpenShift
11 11 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (1.28%) IaaS
13 9 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (1.15%) PaaS
14 7 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.90%) GitHub
14 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (0.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 480 (61.46%) DNS
2 376 (48.14%) DHCP
3 360 (46.09%) Firewall
4 291 (37.26%) VPN
5 175 (22.41%) WAN
6 169 (21.64%) LAN
7 165 (21.13%) VLAN
8 99 (12.68%) Network Security
9 88 (11.27%) Wi-Fi
10 81 (10.37%) Wireless
11 72 (9.22%) VoIP
12 67 (8.58%) HTTP
13 61 (7.81%) BGP
14 50 (6.40%) OSPF
15 38 (4.87%) SD-WAN
16 28 (3.59%) SSL
17 23 (2.94%) Internet
18 21 (2.69%) Ethernet
19 20 (2.56%) SMTP
20 18 (2.30%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (7.68%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.66%) MySQL
3 8 (1.02%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.77%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.51%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.38%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.26%) Redis
8 2 (0.26%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.13%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.13%) KDB
9 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 31 (3.97%) JIRA
2 18 (2.30%) Git
3 7 (0.90%) GitLab
4 6 (0.77%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.51%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.26%) CMake
6 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.26%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.26%) Selenium
6 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.13%) GDB
7 1 (0.13%) LSMW
7 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
General
1 375 (48.02%) Social Skills
2 100 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
3 90 (11.52%) Finance
4 58 (7.43%) Telecoms
5 44 (5.63%) Banking
6 39 (4.99%) Law
7 35 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (3.84%) Electronics
10 28 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (3.46%) Retail
12 25 (3.20%) Aerospace
13 16 (2.05%) Public Sector
14 15 (1.92%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.41%) Investment Banking
16 7 (0.90%) Digital Health
16 7 (0.90%) Legal
17 6 (0.77%) Games
18 5 (0.64%) Marketing
18 5 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 196 (25.10%) IT Support
2 175 (22.41%) Support Engineer
3 147 (18.82%) IT Engineer
4 122 (15.62%) IT Support Engineer
5 110 (14.08%) Analyst
6 95 (12.16%) Network Engineer
6 95 (12.16%) Senior
7 84 (10.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 63 (8.07%) 2nd Line Support
9 51 (6.53%) Support Technician
10 50 (6.40%) Support Analyst
11 46 (5.89%) IT Technician
12 44 (5.63%) IT Support Technician
13 43 (5.51%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 41 (5.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 33 (4.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 32 (4.10%) IT Analyst
17 28 (3.59%) Infrastructure Support
17 28 (3.59%) Lead
18 26 (3.33%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.19%) Terraform
2 21 (2.69%) LDAP
2 21 (2.69%) React
3 14 (1.79%) XML
4 13 (1.66%) Node.js
5 12 (1.54%) Middleware
6 11 (1.41%) gRPC
6 11 (1.41%) WebSockets
7 10 (1.28%) JSON
8 9 (1.15%) .NET
8 9 (1.15%) RESTful
9 8 (1.02%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.02%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (0.90%) 802.1X
10 7 (0.90%) CSS
10 7 (0.90%) Django
10 7 (0.90%) HTML
10 7 (0.90%) REST
11 6 (0.77%) ARM Templates
11 6 (0.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 101 (12.93%) Driving Licence
2 73 (9.35%) Onboarding
3 41 (5.25%) Data Centre
4 38 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
6 25 (3.20%) Security Operations Centre
7 24 (3.07%) PKI
8 23 (2.94%) Security Posture
9 21 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (2.30%) CCTV
11 18 (2.30%) Replication
12 17 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (2.05%) Client/Server
13 16 (2.05%) Cyber Defence
14 13 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.66%) Management Information System
15 12 (1.54%) FPGA
15 12 (1.54%) Social Media
16 11 (1.41%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 477 (61.08%) Windows
2 249 (31.88%) Windows Server
3 196 (25.10%) Linux
4 92 (11.78%) Windows 10
5 57 (7.30%) Mac OS
6 36 (4.61%) Unix
7 28 (3.59%) Ubuntu
8 25 (3.20%) Apple iOS
9 18 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (2.18%) Android
11 15 (1.92%) CentOS
11 15 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 14 (1.79%) Rocky
13 12 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.90%) Debian
14 7 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
15 5 (0.64%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.64%) Solaris
16 2 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
16 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (38.16%) Problem-Solving
2 181 (23.18%) Customer Service
3 156 (19.97%) Cybersecurity
4 153 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 136 (17.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 116 (14.85%) ITIL
7 101 (12.93%) Disaster Recovery
8 88 (11.27%) Mentoring
9 83 (10.63%) Incident Response
10 75 (9.60%) Project Delivery
11 71 (9.09%) Service Delivery
12 69 (8.83%) Infrastructure as Code
13 67 (8.58%) Computer Science
13 67 (8.58%) ITSM
14 61 (7.81%) SIEM
15 60 (7.68%) High Availability
16 59 (7.55%) DevOps
17 58 (7.43%) Software Engineering
18 53 (6.79%) CI/CD
19 48 (6.15%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 142 (18.18%) Python
2 140 (17.93%) PowerShell
3 72 (9.22%) SQL
4 70 (8.96%) Bash
5 38 (4.87%) C++
6 25 (3.20%) C
7 23 (2.94%) Perl
8 18 (2.30%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.05%) C#
10 14 (1.79%) Java
10 14 (1.79%) VBA
11 13 (1.66%) Go
12 12 (1.54%) Ruby
13 11 (1.41%) Bicep
14 10 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (1.28%) TypeScript
15 8 (1.02%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.90%) PHP
16 7 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
17 3 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 135 (17.29%) Degree
2 99 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 84 (10.76%) Cisco Certification
4 70 (8.96%) CCNA
5 69 (8.83%) SC Cleared
6 58 (7.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 54 (6.91%) CCNP
8 33 (4.23%) Azure Certification
8 33 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (3.84%) CompTIA Security+
10 23 (2.94%) CREST Certified
11 20 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (2.56%) CEH
12 19 (2.43%) GCIA
12 19 (2.43%) Network+ Certification
13 16 (2.05%) CISSP
13 16 (2.05%) DV Cleared
13 16 (2.05%) HND
14 14 (1.79%) AWS Certification
14 14 (1.79%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.07%) SLA
2 37 (4.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 27 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (3.33%) GDPR
5 14 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.28%) QA
7 9 (1.15%) NIST
8 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.64%) GRC
9 5 (0.64%) NCSC
10 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 350 (44.81%) Active Directory
2 143 (18.31%) Hyper-V
3 131 (16.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (3.59%) Docker
5 27 (3.46%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (2.94%) Firmware
7 12 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.28%) vSphere
9 4 (0.51%) KVM
10 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.26%) QEMU
12 1 (0.13%) Ceph
12 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.13%) Samba
12 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 130 (16.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (4.74%) Ansible
3 35 (4.48%) FortiGate
4 29 (3.71%) Kubernetes
5 17 (2.18%) QRadar
6 14 (1.79%) Grafana
7 13 (1.66%) Nagios
7 13 (1.66%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (1.02%) Kibana
9 8 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.02%) WSUS
10 5 (0.64%) McAfee ePO
10 5 (0.64%) SCVMM
11 4 (0.51%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.51%) SCCM
11 4 (0.51%) VxRail
11 4 (0.51%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 444 (56.85%) Microsoft
2 151 (19.33%) VMware
3 111 (14.21%) Cisco
4 56 (7.17%) Fortinet
5 48 (6.15%) Veeam
6 38 (4.87%) Splunk
7 35 (4.48%) ServiceNow
8 34 (4.35%) Google
9 33 (4.23%) Palo Alto
10 29 (3.71%) Meraki
11 24 (3.07%) Red Hat
11 24 (3.07%) SonicWALL
12 22 (2.82%) SolarWinds
13 20 (2.56%) HP
14 19 (2.43%) Dell
14 19 (2.43%) Sophos
15 16 (2.05%) Ubiquiti
15 16 (2.05%) Zscaler
16 15 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
17 13 (1.66%) Apple