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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 209 241
Rank change year-on-year -62 +32 -33
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 770 760 971
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.53% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.34% 10.36% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 600 539 741
10th Percentile £28,475 £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 £78,754 £74,258 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £36,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.00% -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 7,446 7,335 9,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.09% 14.79% 11.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,793 4,217 6,374
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £29,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% -1.10%

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 7 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 7 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 -39 721 £38,000 +1.33% 310
UK excluding London -49 550 £35,000 -2.78% 220
Work from Home +24 247 £42,000 -9.19% 110
London -23 209 £60,000 +15.38% 124
South East -18 168 £37,500 +5.63% 76
North of England -25 145 £32,500 -13.33% 45
Midlands -40 92 £33,000 +1.54% 26
North West +28 75 £32,250 -19.38% 25
East of England -35 62 £36,250 -23.68% 22
Yorkshire -35 55 £32,500 -18.75% 12
South West -59 47 £33,500 -6.29% 32
East Midlands -22 46 £32,500 +8.33% 9
West Midlands -47 46 £37,500 +15.38% 17
Wales -64 22 £42,500 +21.43% 5
North East -61 15 £37,500 +29.31% 10
Scotland +4 11 £63,451 +33.58% 12
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 (17.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 97 (12.60%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.99%) IIS
4 12 (1.56%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) SAS
6 1 (0.13%) Confluence
6 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 54 (7.01%) 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 3 (0.39%) 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
1 333 (43.25%) Microsoft 365
2 330 (42.86%) Azure
3 167 (21.69%) Entra ID
4 146 (18.96%) AWS
5 43 (5.58%) GCP
6 29 (3.77%) OneDrive
7 26 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (2.47%) dbt
9 17 (2.21%) IaaS
10 16 (2.08%) SaaS
11 14 (1.82%) PaaS
12 13 (1.69%) GitHub
12 13 (1.69%) OpenShift
13 12 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 10 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (1.17%) Google Workspace
16 8 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
16 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
17 7 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 442 (57.40%) DNS
2 347 (45.06%) Firewall
3 341 (44.29%) DHCP
4 257 (33.38%) VPN
5 190 (24.68%) WAN
6 181 (23.51%) LAN
7 150 (19.48%) VLAN
8 93 (12.08%) Network Security
9 84 (10.91%) Wi-Fi
10 68 (8.83%) Wireless
11 67 (8.70%) VoIP
12 66 (8.57%) HTTP
13 57 (7.40%) BGP
14 45 (5.84%) OSPF
15 43 (5.58%) SD-WAN
16 24 (3.12%) Multicast
17 21 (2.73%) SSL
18 19 (2.47%) Ethernet
19 18 (2.34%) SMTP
19 18 (2.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (6.23%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.43%) MySQL
4 7 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.78%) Redis
6 5 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.52%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.13%) KDB
10 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 28 (3.64%) JIRA
2 18 (2.34%) 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
1 355 (46.10%) Social Skills
2 95 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
3 94 (12.21%) Finance
4 61 (7.92%) Telecoms
5 46 (5.97%) Law
6 42 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
7 41 (5.32%) Banking
8 33 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
9 27 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (3.38%) Electronics
11 24 (3.12%) Aerospace
12 21 (2.73%) Retail
13 17 (2.21%) 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
1 198 (25.71%) IT Support
2 151 (19.61%) Support Engineer
3 126 (16.36%) IT Engineer
4 102 (13.25%) IT Support Engineer
5 99 (12.86%) Analyst
6 95 (12.34%) Network Engineer
7 94 (12.21%) Senior
8 68 (8.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 60 (7.79%) 2nd Line Support
10 58 (7.53%) Support Technician
11 53 (6.88%) IT Technician
12 51 (6.62%) IT Support Technician
13 39 (5.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 39 (5.06%) Support Analyst
14 37 (4.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 34 (4.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 33 (4.29%) IT Analyst
17 28 (3.64%) Lead
18 27 (3.51%) IT Support Analyst
19 25 (3.25%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.47%) LDAP
2 17 (2.21%) 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 9 (1.17%) 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 4 (0.52%) ADO
10 4 (0.52%) COM
10 4 (0.52%) DCOM
Miscellaneous
1 108 (14.03%) Driving Licence
2 56 (7.27%) Onboarding
3 45 (5.84%) Data Centre
4 35 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
6 24 (3.12%) Security Posture
7 22 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
8 20 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
10 18 (2.34%) CCTV
10 18 (2.34%) PKI
11 17 (2.21%) Cyber Defence
12 16 (2.08%) FPGA
12 16 (2.08%) MPEG
13 15 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
14 14 (1.82%) Management Information System
15 13 (1.69%) Client/Server
15 13 (1.69%) Replication
16 12 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (1.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 463 (60.13%) Windows
2 252 (32.73%) Windows Server
3 190 (24.68%) Linux
4 95 (12.34%) Windows 10
5 58 (7.53%) Mac OS
6 37 (4.81%) Unix
7 30 (3.90%) Apple iOS
8 22 (2.86%) Android
8 22 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 21 (2.73%) Ubuntu
10 18 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (1.56%) CentOS
13 7 (0.91%) Debian
14 6 (0.78%) Rocky
15 5 (0.65%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
15 5 (0.65%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.65%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (36.62%) Problem-Solving
2 162 (21.04%) Customer Service
3 160 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 126 (16.36%) Cybersecurity
5 112 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 112 (14.55%) ITIL
6 93 (12.08%) Disaster Recovery
7 91 (11.82%) Incident Response
8 81 (10.52%) Mentoring
9 80 (10.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 78 (10.13%) Service Delivery
11 75 (9.74%) Project Delivery
12 73 (9.48%) ITSM
13 72 (9.35%) DevOps
14 66 (8.57%) High Availability
15 63 (8.18%) CI/CD
16 58 (7.53%) SIEM
17 55 (7.14%) Computer Science
18 51 (6.62%) Software Engineering
19 49 (6.36%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 141 (18.31%) Python
2 139 (18.05%) PowerShell
3 69 (8.96%) Bash
4 62 (8.05%) SQL
5 39 (5.06%) C++
6 25 (3.25%) C
7 21 (2.73%) Java
8 18 (2.34%) Perl
9 15 (1.95%) C#
10 14 (1.82%) JavaScript
10 14 (1.82%) VBA
11 11 (1.43%) Go
12 10 (1.30%) Bicep
12 10 (1.30%) PHP
13 8 (1.04%) 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 3 (0.39%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 134 (17.40%) Degree
2 98 (12.73%) Security Cleared
3 84 (10.91%) Cisco Certification
4 76 (9.87%) SC Cleared
5 71 (9.22%) CCNA
6 60 (7.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 53 (6.88%) CCNP
8 31 (4.03%) Azure Certification
9 29 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
10 27 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (2.47%) 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
15 13 (1.69%) DV Cleared
15 13 (1.69%) GIAC
15 13 (1.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.44%) SLA
2 27 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.08%) GDPR
6 8 (1.04%) NIST
7 6 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.52%) QA
9 3 (0.39%) GRC
9 3 (0.39%) NCSC
9 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) DICOM
10 2 (0.26%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 326 (42.34%) Active Directory
2 138 (17.92%) Hyper-V
3 134 (17.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (3.77%) Docker
5 21 (2.73%) Firmware
6 20 (2.60%) 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 (15.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 69 (8.96%) Terraform
3 50 (6.49%) Ansible
4 39 (5.06%) Kubernetes
5 34 (4.42%) FortiGate
6 17 (2.21%) Grafana
6 17 (2.21%) Jamf Pro
6 17 (2.21%) 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
1 429 (55.71%) Microsoft
2 158 (20.52%) VMware
3 107 (13.90%) Cisco
4 50 (6.49%) Fortinet
5 41 (5.32%) Veeam
6 35 (4.55%) Meraki
7 34 (4.42%) Splunk
8 33 (4.29%) Palo Alto
9 32 (4.16%) Google
10 30 (3.90%) ServiceNow
11 26 (3.38%) SolarWinds
12 24 (3.12%) Apple
12 24 (3.12%) HP
13 23 (2.99%) Red Hat
14 21 (2.73%) Sophos
15 19 (2.47%) SonicWALL
16 18 (2.34%) Dell
16 18 (2.34%) Zscaler
17 15 (1.95%) CrowdStrike
18 14 (1.82%) Ubiquiti