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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 215 223
Rank change year-on-year -57 +8 -1
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 733 763 1,144
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.55% 1.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.06% 10.64% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 572 541 900
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £39,500 £42,286
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -6.59% -6.03%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% -11.76%

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 7,288 7,172 11,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.26% 14.61% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4,685 4,129 7,734
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £26,545
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -12.37% -6.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,500 £82,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,094 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.57% -15.35% -

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -53 690 £37,750 -3.21% 271
UK excluding London -46 514 £35,000 -5.41% 215
Work from Home +14 232 £40,000 -15.79% 95
London -27 208 £60,000 +14.29% 87
South East -14 161 £37,500 +4.17% 72
North of England -10 143 £32,500 -14.47% 41
Midlands -48 79 £32,500 - 28
North West +30 69 £31,875 -20.31% 19
East of England -17 58 £36,250 -23.68% 27
Yorkshire -42 56 £32,500 -13.33% 19
East Midlands -24 43 £32,500 - 11
South West -56 41 £33,000 -13.61% 38
West Midlands -55 36 £33,250 +2.31% 17
Wales -56 21 £40,000 +14.29% 4
North East -54 18 £40,000 +25.00% 5
Scotland +4 9 £51,750 +8.95% 10
Northern Ireland - 2 £58,151 - 4

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
1 130 (17.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 97 (13.23%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.27%) IIS
4 11 (1.50%) Apache
5 4 (0.55%) Confluence
6 3 (0.41%) SAS
7 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 59 (8.05%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) Houdini
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 323 (44.07%) Microsoft 365
2 308 (42.02%) Azure
3 156 (21.28%) Entra ID
4 133 (18.14%) AWS
5 34 (4.64%) GCP
6 24 (3.27%) OneDrive
7 20 (2.73%) IaaS
8 18 (2.46%) GitHub
9 16 (2.18%) PaaS
9 16 (2.18%) SaaS
10 14 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (1.36%) OpenShift
14 9 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (1.09%) Google Workspace
15 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 430 (58.66%) DNS
2 330 (45.02%) DHCP
3 329 (44.88%) Firewall
4 242 (33.02%) VPN
5 181 (24.69%) WAN
6 175 (23.87%) LAN
7 154 (21.01%) VLAN
8 85 (11.60%) Wi-Fi
9 84 (11.46%) Network Security
10 72 (9.82%) HTTP
11 64 (8.73%) VoIP
12 59 (8.05%) BGP
13 58 (7.91%) Wireless
14 42 (5.73%) OSPF
15 41 (5.59%) SD-WAN
16 25 (3.41%) Multicast
17 18 (2.46%) Ethernet
17 18 (2.46%) SSL
17 18 (2.46%) WLAN
18 17 (2.32%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (5.46%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.50%) MySQL
5 6 (0.82%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.82%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.68%) Redis
7 4 (0.55%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.41%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.27%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.14%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.14%) KDB
10 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.14%) Power BI
10 1 (0.14%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 31 (4.23%) JIRA
2 15 (2.05%) Git
3 13 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.68%) GitLab
5 5 (0.68%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.14%) CMake
7 1 (0.14%) LSMW
General
1 330 (45.02%) Social Skills
2 97 (13.23%) Finance
3 89 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (8.59%) Telecoms
5 52 (7.09%) Law
6 42 (5.73%) Banking
7 41 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (3.41%) Retail
10 22 (3.00%) Aerospace
11 21 (2.86%) Electronics
12 16 (2.18%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.91%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.91%) Public Sector
14 9 (1.23%) Legal
15 7 (0.95%) Automotive
15 7 (0.95%) Back Office
16 6 (0.82%) Military
16 6 (0.82%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 194 (26.47%) IT Support
2 138 (18.83%) Support Engineer
3 115 (15.69%) IT Engineer
4 97 (13.23%) Analyst
5 92 (12.55%) IT Support Engineer
6 87 (11.87%) Network Engineer
7 74 (10.10%) Senior
8 65 (8.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 58 (7.91%) Support Technician
10 54 (7.37%) 2nd Line Support
11 53 (7.23%) IT Technician
12 51 (6.96%) IT Support Technician
13 38 (5.18%) Support Analyst
14 36 (4.91%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 35 (4.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 34 (4.64%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 33 (4.50%) IT Analyst
18 30 (4.09%) Lead
19 27 (3.68%) IT Support Analyst
20 26 (3.55%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.46%) LDAP
2 14 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (1.91%) Middleware
2 14 (1.91%) React
2 14 (1.91%) WebSockets
3 13 (1.77%) gRPC
4 12 (1.64%) Node.js
5 11 (1.50%) .NET
6 10 (1.36%) Django
7 8 (1.09%) XML
8 7 (0.95%) 802.1X
8 7 (0.95%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.95%) JSON
8 7 (0.95%) REST
9 6 (0.82%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.82%) RESTful
10 5 (0.68%) CSS
10 5 (0.68%) HTML
11 4 (0.55%) ADO
11 4 (0.55%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 106 (14.46%) Driving Licence
2 48 (6.55%) Onboarding
3 47 (6.41%) Data Centre
4 32 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (3.96%) Cyber Threat
6 24 (3.27%) Security Posture
7 21 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
8 18 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (2.18%) CCTV
9 16 (2.18%) Cyber Defence
9 16 (2.18%) FPGA
9 16 (2.18%) MPEG
10 14 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.91%) PKI
11 13 (1.77%) Client/Server
11 13 (1.77%) Replication
12 12 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.64%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 444 (60.57%) Windows
2 240 (32.74%) Windows Server
3 167 (22.78%) Linux
4 93 (12.69%) Windows 10
5 55 (7.50%) Mac OS
6 35 (4.77%) Apple iOS
7 24 (3.27%) Android
8 20 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (2.59%) Unix
10 18 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (1.91%) Ubuntu
12 11 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.95%) Debian
13 7 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.82%) CentOS
15 5 (0.68%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.68%) Windows 7
16 4 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
16 4 (0.55%) VMS
17 2 (0.27%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (36.83%) Problem-Solving
2 153 (20.87%) Customer Service
3 132 (18.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 121 (16.51%) Cybersecurity
5 107 (14.60%) ITIL
6 106 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 91 (12.41%) Disaster Recovery
8 88 (12.01%) Service Delivery
9 77 (10.50%) Incident Response
10 71 (9.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 71 (9.69%) ITSM
11 67 (9.14%) DevOps
11 67 (9.14%) Project Delivery
12 62 (8.46%) Mentoring
13 60 (8.19%) High Availability
14 56 (7.64%) SIEM
15 53 (7.23%) CI/CD
16 47 (6.41%) Computer Science
16 47 (6.41%) Incident Management
17 46 (6.28%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 128 (17.46%) PowerShell
2 122 (16.64%) Python
3 65 (8.87%) Bash
4 60 (8.19%) SQL
5 37 (5.05%) C++
6 25 (3.41%) Java
7 24 (3.27%) C
8 16 (2.18%) Go
9 15 (2.05%) C#
10 14 (1.91%) VBA
11 12 (1.64%) Perl
12 11 (1.50%) PHP
13 9 (1.23%) JavaScript
14 8 (1.09%) Bicep
15 7 (0.95%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.55%) Delphi
17 4 (0.55%) Pascal
17 4 (0.55%) Ruby
17 4 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 124 (16.92%) Degree
2 83 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 76 (10.37%) Cisco Certification
4 63 (8.59%) SC Cleared
5 62 (8.46%) CCNA
6 57 (7.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 49 (6.68%) CCNP
8 28 (3.82%) Azure Certification
9 27 (3.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 22 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (2.32%) CREST Certified
13 15 (2.05%) CEH
13 15 (2.05%) GCIA
13 15 (2.05%) Network+ Certification
14 14 (1.91%) HND
15 13 (1.77%) GIAC
16 12 (1.64%) HNC
17 11 (1.50%) RHCSA
18 10 (1.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.46%) SLA
2 27 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.32%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.05%) GDPR
6 5 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.68%) NIST
6 5 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.68%) QA
7 3 (0.41%) DICOM
7 3 (0.41%) HL7
8 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 316 (43.11%) Active Directory
2 130 (17.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (16.92%) Hyper-V
4 25 (3.41%) Docker
5 16 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (2.05%) Firmware
7 14 (1.91%) vSphere
8 10 (1.36%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (1.23%) KVM
9 9 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.41%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.14%) QEMU
12 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.14%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 110 (15.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 60 (8.19%) Terraform
3 56 (7.64%) Ansible
4 38 (5.18%) Kubernetes
5 34 (4.64%) FortiGate
6 23 (3.14%) Grafana
6 23 (3.14%) Prometheus
7 17 (2.32%) Jamf Pro
7 17 (2.32%) Nagios
8 14 (1.91%) QRadar
9 13 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.23%) Puppet
10 9 (1.23%) WSUS
11 8 (1.09%) Kibana
12 7 (0.95%) SCCM
13 6 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.82%) VxRail
14 5 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.68%) Control-M
15 4 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 415 (56.62%) Microsoft
2 155 (21.15%) VMware
3 97 (13.23%) Cisco
4 43 (5.87%) Fortinet
5 40 (5.46%) Veeam
6 38 (5.18%) Meraki
7 34 (4.64%) ServiceNow
8 30 (4.09%) Palo Alto
8 30 (4.09%) Splunk
9 27 (3.68%) SolarWinds
10 25 (3.41%) Apple
11 22 (3.00%) HP
12 19 (2.59%) Dell
12 19 (2.59%) Google
13 18 (2.46%) Citrix
13 18 (2.46%) Sophos
14 17 (2.32%) SonicWALL
14 17 (2.32%) Zscaler
15 16 (2.18%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (2.18%) Red Hat