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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 229 212
Rank change year-on-year -68 -17 +27
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 588 670 1,377
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.53% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.02% 10.17% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 457 467 1,139
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £25,700
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -9.33% - -7.41%

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 8,376 6,589 12,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.04% 15.09% 12.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,276 3,674 9,368
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% - -5.94%
75th Percentile £69,390 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,134 £43,871
% change year-on-year +0.87% -3.96% -2.51%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -56 547 £40,000 -3.61% 251
UK excluding London -72 376 £34,000 -9.33% 213
London -17 199 £55,000 +6.80% 74
Work from Home -1 167 £42,000 -16.00% 89
South East -44 113 £37,500 +0.67% 75
North of England -19 110 £34,000 -11.69% 41
Yorkshire -36 54 £32,500 -7.14% 10
Midlands -74 54 £32,500 - 28
North West +7 39 £40,000 +1.27% 26
South West -34 36 £37,000 -28.47% 30
East of England -57 35 £40,000 -15.79% 26
East Midlands -34 31 £32,500 +8.33% 13
West Midlands -62 23 £32,875 +1.15% 15
Wales -38 19 £37,000 -43.08% 5
North East -24 17 £40,000 -42.35% 6
Scotland -12 8 £46,000 -6.61% 14
Northern Ireland -38 1 £73,801 -13.18% 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
1 107 (18.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 76 (12.93%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.38%) IIS
4 5 (0.85%) Apache
5 4 (0.68%) Confluence
6 3 (0.51%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 72 (12.24%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.17%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
1 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 256 (43.54%) Azure
2 246 (41.84%) Microsoft 365
3 113 (19.22%) Entra ID
4 112 (19.05%) AWS
5 34 (5.78%) GCP
6 21 (3.57%) Google Workspace
7 20 (3.40%) OneDrive
8 19 (3.23%) GitHub
9 17 (2.89%) IaaS
10 16 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.21%) PaaS
13 12 (2.04%) SaaS
14 10 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
17 6 (1.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 6 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
17 6 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 351 (59.69%) DNS
2 271 (46.09%) DHCP
3 231 (39.29%) Firewall
4 185 (31.46%) VPN
5 167 (28.40%) WAN
6 154 (26.19%) LAN
7 116 (19.73%) VLAN
8 68 (11.56%) Wi-Fi
9 60 (10.20%) Network Security
10 58 (9.86%) HTTP
11 39 (6.63%) VoIP
12 38 (6.46%) BGP
13 36 (6.12%) SD-WAN
14 31 (5.27%) OSPF
15 30 (5.10%) Wireless
16 21 (3.57%) Multicast
17 18 (3.06%) SMTP
18 15 (2.55%) FTP
18 15 (2.55%) Wireshark
19 13 (2.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.29%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.53%) MySQL
5 6 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.02%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.85%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.85%) Redis
7 4 (0.68%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (0.68%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.51%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.17%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.17%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.17%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 17 (2.89%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.55%) Git
2 15 (2.55%) JIRA
3 12 (2.04%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.36%) GitLab
5 5 (0.85%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.17%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.17%) CMake
8 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.17%) LSMW
8 1 (0.17%) Selenium
8 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 248 (42.18%) Social Skills
2 97 (16.50%) Finance
3 76 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (7.65%) Banking
4 45 (7.65%) Law
5 43 (7.31%) Telecoms
6 38 (6.46%) Organisational Skills
7 28 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.40%) Aerospace
10 19 (3.23%) Investment Banking
11 18 (3.06%) Retail
12 14 (2.38%) Back Office
13 12 (2.04%) Manufacturing
13 12 (2.04%) Public Sector
14 11 (1.87%) Legal
15 10 (1.70%) Electronics
16 9 (1.53%) Automotive
17 6 (1.02%) Spanish Language
18 5 (0.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 156 (26.53%) IT Support
2 88 (14.97%) Support Engineer
3 86 (14.63%) Analyst
4 71 (12.07%) Senior
5 68 (11.56%) IT Engineer
6 62 (10.54%) Support Technician
7 59 (10.03%) IT Support Engineer
8 57 (9.69%) Network Engineer
9 56 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 52 (8.84%) 2nd Line Support
11 51 (8.67%) IT Support Technician
11 51 (8.67%) IT Technician
12 36 (6.12%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 33 (5.61%) Developer
13 33 (5.61%) Support Analyst
14 31 (5.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 31 (5.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (4.25%) C++ Developer
16 23 (3.91%) Lead
17 21 (3.57%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
1 15 (2.55%) LDAP
2 14 (2.38%) WebSockets
3 13 (2.21%) .NET
4 12 (2.04%) gRPC
5 10 (1.70%) React
6 9 (1.53%) Django
7 8 (1.36%) Node.js
7 8 (1.36%) REST
8 6 (1.02%) 802.1X
8 6 (1.02%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.02%) RESTful
9 5 (0.85%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.85%) JSON
9 5 (0.85%) Middleware
10 4 (0.68%) ADO
10 4 (0.68%) CSS
10 4 (0.68%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (0.68%) HTML
10 4 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (11.56%) Driving Licence
2 39 (6.63%) Data Centre
3 23 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.74%) Cyber Threat
5 19 (3.23%) EPoS
5 19 (3.23%) FPGA
5 19 (3.23%) Security Posture
6 18 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.89%) Replication
8 15 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (2.55%) Cyber Defence
8 15 (2.55%) Security Operations Centre
9 12 (2.04%) MPEG
9 12 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
10 10 (1.70%) Client/Server
10 10 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.70%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.53%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 357 (60.71%) Windows
2 199 (33.84%) Windows Server
3 134 (22.79%) Linux
4 92 (15.65%) Windows 10
5 45 (7.65%) Mac OS
6 33 (5.61%) Apple iOS
7 26 (4.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 23 (3.91%) Android
10 20 (3.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (3.23%) Unix
12 13 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (1.02%) CentOS
13 6 (1.02%) Ubuntu
13 6 (1.02%) VMS
13 6 (1.02%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.68%) CoreOS
14 4 (0.68%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.34%) Debian
15 2 (0.34%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (34.86%) Problem-Solving
2 113 (19.22%) Customer Service
3 89 (15.14%) ITIL
4 83 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 78 (13.27%) Cybersecurity
5 78 (13.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 71 (12.07%) Service Delivery
7 68 (11.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 66 (11.22%) Disaster Recovery
9 64 (10.88%) Incident Response
10 58 (9.86%) DevOps
11 49 (8.33%) Incident Management
12 48 (8.16%) CI/CD
13 46 (7.82%) Mentoring
14 45 (7.65%) ITSM
15 44 (7.48%) Root Cause Analysis
16 43 (7.31%) SIEM
17 41 (6.97%) High Availability
18 39 (6.63%) Project Delivery
19 37 (6.29%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 110 (18.71%) PowerShell
2 108 (18.37%) Python
3 58 (9.86%) Bash
4 49 (8.33%) SQL
5 43 (7.31%) C++
6 28 (4.76%) Java
7 25 (4.25%) C
8 19 (3.23%) Go
9 17 (2.89%) C#
10 8 (1.36%) Perl
11 7 (1.19%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.02%) Bicep
12 6 (1.02%) PHP
12 6 (1.02%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (1.02%) VBA
13 4 (0.68%) Delphi
13 4 (0.68%) Pascal
14 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.51%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 87 (14.80%) Degree
2 66 (11.22%) Security Cleared
3 51 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 45 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 43 (7.31%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (5.78%) CCNA
7 26 (4.42%) Azure Certification
8 25 (4.25%) CCNP
9 21 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 21 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.89%) Network+ Certification
11 16 (2.72%) CREST Certified
12 12 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.87%) RHCSA
14 10 (1.70%) CEH
14 10 (1.70%) GCIA
14 10 (1.70%) OSCP
15 9 (1.53%) GIAC
15 9 (1.53%) MCDST
15 9 (1.53%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.33%) SLA
2 24 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.06%) GDPR
4 15 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.85%) QA
7 4 (0.68%) DICOM
7 4 (0.68%) HL7
7 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.51%) NIST
8 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) GxP
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 260 (44.22%) Active Directory
2 108 (18.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (14.80%) Hyper-V
4 22 (3.74%) Docker
5 14 (2.38%) Firmware
5 14 (2.38%) vSphere
6 10 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.36%) KVM
8 7 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.17%) QEMU
10 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 78 (13.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (8.84%) Terraform
3 48 (8.16%) Ansible
4 34 (5.78%) Kubernetes
5 25 (4.25%) FortiGate
6 24 (4.08%) Grafana
6 24 (4.08%) Prometheus
7 20 (3.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (3.40%) Nagios
8 15 (2.55%) Jamf Pro
9 13 (2.21%) QRadar
10 8 (1.36%) Puppet
11 7 (1.19%) Kibana
12 6 (1.02%) SCCM
12 6 (1.02%) vCenter Server
12 6 (1.02%) VxRail
12 6 (1.02%) WSUS
13 5 (0.85%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.68%) Autotask
Vendors
1 329 (55.95%) Microsoft
2 137 (23.30%) VMware
3 69 (11.73%) Cisco
4 32 (5.44%) Veeam
5 31 (5.27%) Meraki
5 31 (5.27%) SolarWinds
6 26 (4.42%) Google
7 24 (4.08%) Fortinet
7 24 (4.08%) Splunk
8 23 (3.91%) Apple
8 23 (3.91%) Citrix
9 22 (3.74%) Red Hat
10 21 (3.57%) ServiceNow
11 20 (3.40%) Palo Alto
12 19 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
12 19 (3.23%) Dell
12 19 (3.23%) HP
13 11 (1.87%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.70%) Sophos
15 9 (1.53%) SonicWALL