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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 227 219
Rank change year-on-year -38 -8 -37
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 800 692 968
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.70% 1.39% 1.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.29% 9.57% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 624 496 612
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £28,163
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -5.87%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,075 £75,000 £74,914
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,250 £34,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% -13.75% -5.88%

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 7,777 7,230 9,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.85% 14.55% 11.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,987 4,052 5,072
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,000 £36,250
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 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £35,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +27.06% -26.32% +5.56%

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 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 11 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 -30 761 £38,000 +1.33% 494
UK excluding London -42 580 £35,250 +2.17% 365
Work from Home +35 259 £40,000 -3.61% 232
London -27 210 £60,000 +9.09% 195
South East -22 174 £37,500 +4.17% 116
North of England -4 142 £32,500 -7.14% 66
Midlands -35 109 £36,000 +10.77% 47
North West +32 79 £32,000 -20.99% 33
East of England -22 77 £35,000 -22.22% 60
West Midlands -22 65 £37,500 +15.38% 28
Yorkshire -45 53 £33,500 -8.84% 20
South West -66 51 £32,500 -5.80% 41
East Midlands -34 44 £34,250 +14.17% 19
Wales -76 15 £45,000 +28.57% 8
North East -70 10 £37,500 +29.31% 16
Scotland +1 9 £63,451 +111.50% 26
Northern Ireland - 3 £57,246 - 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
1 142 (17.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 111 (13.88%) SharePoint
3 26 (3.25%) IIS
4 14 (1.75%) Apache
5 6 (0.75%) Confluence
6 4 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.50%) WinCC
7 3 (0.38%) SAS
8 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 41 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.25%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) Houdini
4 1 (0.13%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.25%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.25%) 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
1 366 (45.75%) Microsoft 365
2 322 (40.25%) Azure
3 205 (25.63%) Entra ID
4 128 (16.00%) AWS
5 39 (4.88%) OneDrive
6 33 (4.13%) GCP
7 22 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (2.38%) SaaS
9 14 (1.75%) dbt
10 13 (1.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 13 (1.63%) Google Workspace
10 13 (1.63%) OpenShift
11 11 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.13%) IaaS
12 9 (1.13%) PaaS
12 9 (1.13%) Serverless
13 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 496 (62.00%) DNS
2 391 (48.88%) DHCP
3 367 (45.88%) Firewall
4 306 (38.25%) VPN
5 180 (22.50%) WAN
6 172 (21.50%) LAN
7 170 (21.25%) VLAN
8 101 (12.63%) Network Security
9 94 (11.75%) Wi-Fi
10 83 (10.38%) Wireless
11 74 (9.25%) VoIP
12 69 (8.63%) HTTP
13 63 (7.88%) BGP
14 52 (6.50%) OSPF
15 40 (5.00%) SD-WAN
16 28 (3.50%) SSL
17 24 (3.00%) Internet
18 23 (2.88%) Ethernet
19 22 (2.75%) SMTP
20 20 (2.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.88%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.00%) MySQL
3 10 (1.25%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.75%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.63%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.50%) InfluxDB
7 4 (0.50%) Redis
8 3 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.13%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.13%) KDB
10 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 33 (4.13%) JIRA
2 22 (2.75%) Git
3 9 (1.13%) GitLab
4 5 (0.63%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.50%) Selenium
5 4 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.25%) CMake
6 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.13%) GDB
7 1 (0.13%) LSMW
7 1 (0.13%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
General
1 383 (47.88%) Social Skills
2 102 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
3 90 (11.25%) Finance
4 62 (7.75%) Telecoms
5 48 (6.00%) Banking
6 35 (4.38%) Law
7 33 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (4.13%) Electronics
7 33 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
8 31 (3.88%) Retail
9 30 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (3.38%) Aerospace
11 19 (2.38%) Public Sector
12 16 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.38%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.00%) Automotive
15 7 (0.88%) Digital Health
15 7 (0.88%) Marketing
16 6 (0.75%) Games
16 6 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 207 (25.88%) IT Support
2 189 (23.63%) Support Engineer
3 162 (20.25%) IT Engineer
4 135 (16.88%) IT Support Engineer
5 116 (14.50%) Analyst
6 99 (12.38%) Senior
7 96 (12.00%) Network Engineer
8 87 (10.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 66 (8.25%) 2nd Line Support
10 56 (7.00%) Support Analyst
11 50 (6.25%) Support Technician
12 46 (5.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 45 (5.63%) IT Technician
14 44 (5.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 43 (5.38%) IT Support Technician
16 34 (4.25%) IT Analyst
17 33 (4.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 30 (3.75%) Infrastructure Support
19 29 (3.63%) Lead
20 28 (3.50%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (7.88%) Terraform
2 22 (2.75%) LDAP
3 21 (2.63%) React
4 15 (1.88%) XML
5 13 (1.63%) Node.js
6 12 (1.50%) Middleware
7 11 (1.38%) gRPC
7 11 (1.38%) RESTful
7 11 (1.38%) WebSockets
8 10 (1.25%) JSON
9 9 (1.13%) .NET
9 9 (1.13%) CSS
9 9 (1.13%) FIX Protocol
9 9 (1.13%) HTML
9 9 (1.13%) REST
10 8 (1.00%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.88%) Django
12 6 (0.75%) 802.1X
12 6 (0.75%) GraphQL
12 6 (0.75%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 108 (13.50%) Driving Licence
2 77 (9.63%) Onboarding
3 43 (5.38%) Data Centre
4 38 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
5 25 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
6 24 (3.00%) PKI
7 23 (2.88%) Security Posture
8 21 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (2.25%) CCTV
10 18 (2.25%) Client/Server
10 18 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
10 18 (2.25%) Replication
11 15 (1.88%) Cyber Defence
12 13 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.50%) FPGA
13 12 (1.50%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.50%) Social Media
14 10 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 491 (61.38%) Windows
2 252 (31.50%) Windows Server
3 199 (24.88%) Linux
4 98 (12.25%) Windows 10
5 54 (6.75%) Mac OS
6 38 (4.75%) Unix
7 31 (3.88%) Ubuntu
8 24 (3.00%) Apple iOS
9 18 (2.25%) Android
9 18 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (2.13%) CentOS
11 16 (2.00%) Rocky
12 14 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 11 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.88%) Debian
14 7 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
15 6 (0.75%) Solaris
16 5 (0.63%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
17 2 (0.25%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (37.88%) Problem-Solving
2 191 (23.88%) Customer Service
3 170 (21.25%) Cybersecurity
4 154 (19.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 143 (17.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 123 (15.38%) ITIL
7 101 (12.63%) Disaster Recovery
8 86 (10.75%) Mentoring
9 84 (10.50%) Incident Response
10 76 (9.50%) Project Delivery
11 70 (8.75%) Service Delivery
12 69 (8.63%) Computer Science
12 69 (8.63%) ITSM
13 68 (8.50%) Infrastructure as Code
14 62 (7.75%) SIEM
15 60 (7.50%) DevOps
15 60 (7.50%) Software Engineering
16 59 (7.38%) High Availability
17 54 (6.75%) CI/CD
18 52 (6.50%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 145 (18.13%) Python
2 142 (17.75%) PowerShell
3 76 (9.50%) SQL
4 72 (9.00%) Bash
5 38 (4.75%) C++
6 25 (3.13%) C
7 24 (3.00%) Perl
8 21 (2.63%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.00%) C#
10 14 (1.75%) Java
10 14 (1.75%) VBA
11 13 (1.63%) Ruby
12 11 (1.38%) Bicep
12 11 (1.38%) Go
13 10 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.25%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.25%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.88%) PHP
14 7 (0.88%) Search Processing Language
15 3 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 139 (17.38%) Degree
2 100 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 83 (10.38%) Cisco Certification
4 69 (8.63%) CCNA
5 68 (8.50%) SC Cleared
6 58 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 54 (6.75%) CCNP
8 34 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (4.00%) Azure Certification
10 31 (3.88%) CompTIA Security+
11 24 (3.00%) CREST Certified
12 23 (2.88%) Network+ Certification
13 21 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (2.50%) CEH
15 19 (2.38%) GCIA
16 18 (2.25%) A+ Certification
17 17 (2.13%) DV Cleared
18 16 (2.00%) CISSP
18 16 (2.00%) HND
19 14 (1.75%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.00%) SLA
2 42 (5.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 30 (3.75%) GDPR
3 30 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.38%) QA
6 10 (1.25%) NIST
7 6 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (0.75%) GRC
8 5 (0.63%) NCSC
9 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 364 (45.50%) Active Directory
2 147 (18.38%) Hyper-V
3 132 (16.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (3.75%) Docker
4 30 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (2.75%) Firmware
6 12 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (1.25%) vSphere
9 3 (0.38%) KVM
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.25%) QEMU
11 1 (0.13%) Ceph
11 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.13%) Samba
11 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 138 (17.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (4.38%) Ansible
3 34 (4.25%) FortiGate
4 27 (3.38%) Kubernetes
5 18 (2.25%) QRadar
6 14 (1.75%) Grafana
7 13 (1.63%) Nagios
7 13 (1.63%) Prometheus
8 10 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (1.13%) WSUS
10 8 (1.00%) Kibana
10 8 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.63%) McAfee ePO
12 5 (0.63%) SCVMM
13 4 (0.50%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.50%) SCCM
13 4 (0.50%) VxRail
13 4 (0.50%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 458 (57.25%) Microsoft
2 151 (18.88%) VMware
3 117 (14.63%) Cisco
4 61 (7.63%) Fortinet
5 51 (6.38%) Veeam
6 39 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 39 (4.88%) Splunk
7 34 (4.25%) Google
7 34 (4.25%) Palo Alto
8 29 (3.63%) Meraki
9 26 (3.25%) Red Hat
9 26 (3.25%) SonicWALL
10 22 (2.75%) SolarWinds
11 21 (2.63%) Dell
12 20 (2.50%) HP
13 19 (2.38%) Sophos
14 17 (2.13%) Ubiquiti
15 16 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (2.00%) Zscaler
16 13 (1.63%) Apple