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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 216 237
Rank change year-on-year -46 +21 -47
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 772 732 975
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.47% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.28% 9.98% 9.94%
Number of salaries quoted 597 529 726
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £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 £77,500 £73,750 £73,947
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 7,509 7,335 9,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.99% 14.70% 11.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,827 4,225 6,125
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £27,539
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -18.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £36,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -20.00% -

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 19 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 19 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 -28 729 £38,000 +1.33% 427
UK excluding London -51 552 £35,000 - 273
Work from Home +25 243 £42,000 -6.67% 117
London -23 212 £60,000 +9.09% 208
South East -14 170 £37,500 +5.63% 87
North of England -11 141 £32,500 -13.33% 54
Midlands -42 93 £33,250 +2.31% 37
North West +31 78 £31,750 -19.62% 25
East of England -32 67 £36,250 -23.68% 33
Yorkshire -34 50 £32,500 -13.33% 19
West Midlands -37 50 £37,500 +15.38% 23
South West -54 50 £34,000 -1.45% 36
East Midlands -18 43 £32,500 +8.33% 14
Wales -62 18 £45,000 +28.57% 4
North East -66 13 £35,000 +20.69% 13
Scotland -11 10 £63,451 +75.04% 19
Northern Ireland - 3 £57,246 - 7

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
1 138 (17.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 101 (13.08%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.11%) IIS
4 12 (1.55%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) SAS
6 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) Confluence
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.13%) WinCC
Applications
1 48 (6.22%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.94%) 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 5 (0.65%) 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%) Eikon
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 334 (43.26%) Microsoft 365
2 320 (41.45%) Azure
3 174 (22.54%) Entra ID
4 140 (18.13%) AWS
5 37 (4.79%) GCP
6 32 (4.15%) OneDrive
7 22 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (2.20%) SaaS
9 14 (1.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 14 (1.81%) dbt
9 14 (1.81%) IaaS
10 13 (1.68%) OpenShift
11 11 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (1.42%) GitHub
12 9 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.17%) Google Workspace
12 9 (1.17%) PaaS
13 7 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (0.65%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 451 (58.42%) DNS
2 358 (46.37%) Firewall
3 347 (44.95%) DHCP
4 266 (34.46%) VPN
5 183 (23.70%) WAN
6 176 (22.80%) LAN
7 153 (19.82%) VLAN
8 96 (12.44%) Network Security
9 83 (10.75%) Wi-Fi
10 71 (9.20%) Wireless
11 70 (9.07%) VoIP
12 69 (8.94%) HTTP
13 57 (7.38%) BGP
14 45 (5.83%) OSPF
15 41 (5.31%) SD-WAN
16 23 (2.98%) SSL
17 21 (2.72%) Multicast
18 20 (2.59%) Internet
18 20 (2.59%) SMTP
19 19 (2.46%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.99%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.42%) MySQL
3 8 (1.04%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.52%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.39%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (0.13%) Redis
9 1 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 28 (3.63%) JIRA
2 18 (2.33%) Git
3 11 (1.42%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.65%) GitLab
4 5 (0.65%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.52%) 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
1 362 (46.89%) Social Skills
2 100 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (12.44%) Finance
4 60 (7.77%) Telecoms
5 44 (5.70%) Law
6 42 (5.44%) Banking
7 39 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
9 28 (3.63%) Electronics
10 26 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (3.24%) Aerospace
12 24 (3.11%) Retail
13 18 (2.33%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.94%) Public Sector
15 13 (1.68%) Investment Banking
16 9 (1.17%) Legal
17 7 (0.91%) Digital Health
17 7 (0.91%) Military
18 6 (0.78%) Games
19 5 (0.65%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 194 (25.13%) IT Support
2 156 (20.21%) Support Engineer
3 133 (17.23%) IT Engineer
4 108 (13.99%) IT Support Engineer
5 105 (13.60%) Analyst
6 92 (11.92%) Network Engineer
7 91 (11.79%) Senior
8 72 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 62 (8.03%) 2nd Line Support
10 55 (7.12%) Support Technician
11 50 (6.48%) IT Technician
12 48 (6.22%) IT Support Technician
13 43 (5.57%) Support Analyst
14 42 (5.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 40 (5.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 33 (4.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 32 (4.15%) IT Analyst
18 28 (3.63%) Lead
18 28 (3.63%) Systems Engineer
19 26 (3.37%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.72%) LDAP
1 21 (2.72%) React
2 13 (1.68%) gRPC
2 13 (1.68%) Node.js
2 13 (1.68%) WebSockets
3 12 (1.55%) Middleware
3 12 (1.55%) XML
4 11 (1.42%) .NET
5 10 (1.30%) JSON
6 8 (1.04%) AngularJS
7 7 (0.91%) 802.1X
7 7 (0.91%) Django
7 7 (0.91%) REST
7 7 (0.91%) RESTful
8 6 (0.78%) ARM Templates
8 6 (0.78%) CSS
8 6 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (0.78%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (0.78%) HTML
9 5 (0.65%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 104 (13.47%) Driving Licence
2 59 (7.64%) Onboarding
3 43 (5.57%) Data Centre
4 38 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (4.02%) Cyber Threat
6 25 (3.24%) Security Operations Centre
7 24 (3.11%) Security Posture
8 22 (2.85%) PKI
9 19 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (2.33%) CCTV
10 18 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
11 17 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (2.20%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.94%) MPEG
12 15 (1.94%) Replication
13 14 (1.81%) Client/Server
13 14 (1.81%) FPGA
13 14 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
14 13 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.55%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 465 (60.23%) Windows
2 252 (32.64%) Windows Server
3 191 (24.74%) Linux
4 89 (11.53%) Windows 10
5 57 (7.38%) Mac OS
6 34 (4.40%) Unix
7 27 (3.50%) Apple iOS
8 24 (3.11%) Ubuntu
9 20 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (2.46%) Android
11 18 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 14 (1.81%) CentOS
13 13 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
14 9 (1.17%) Rocky
15 7 (0.91%) Debian
16 5 (0.65%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
17 4 (0.52%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.52%) Solaris
18 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (37.69%) Problem-Solving
2 164 (21.24%) Customer Service
3 156 (20.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 139 (18.01%) Cybersecurity
5 122 (15.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 114 (14.77%) ITIL
7 100 (12.95%) Disaster Recovery
8 86 (11.14%) Incident Response
8 86 (11.14%) Mentoring
9 77 (9.97%) Project Delivery
10 76 (9.84%) Infrastructure as Code
11 73 (9.46%) Service Delivery
12 66 (8.55%) Computer Science
12 66 (8.55%) DevOps
12 66 (8.55%) ITSM
13 63 (8.16%) High Availability
14 62 (8.03%) SIEM
15 59 (7.64%) CI/CD
16 56 (7.25%) Software Engineering
17 48 (6.22%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 143 (18.52%) Python
2 142 (18.39%) PowerShell
3 75 (9.72%) Bash
4 69 (8.94%) SQL
5 38 (4.92%) C++
6 26 (3.37%) C
7 21 (2.72%) Perl
8 18 (2.33%) C#
9 16 (2.07%) Java
9 16 (2.07%) JavaScript
10 14 (1.81%) VBA
11 13 (1.68%) Go
12 12 (1.55%) Bicep
13 10 (1.30%) Ruby
13 10 (1.30%) TypeScript
14 9 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (1.04%) PHP
16 7 (0.91%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.78%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.26%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 144 (18.65%) Degree
2 98 (12.69%) Security Cleared
3 87 (11.27%) Cisco Certification
4 74 (9.59%) CCNA
5 70 (9.07%) SC Cleared
6 59 (7.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 54 (6.99%) CCNP
8 33 (4.27%) Azure Certification
9 32 (4.15%) CompTIA Security+
10 30 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (2.72%) CREST Certified
12 20 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (2.33%) CEH
13 18 (2.33%) GCIA
14 16 (2.07%) DV Cleared
14 16 (2.07%) HND
14 16 (2.07%) Network+ Certification
15 15 (1.94%) OSCP
16 14 (1.81%) AWS Certification
16 14 (1.81%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.16%) SLA
2 32 (4.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 27 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.85%) GDPR
5 18 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.30%) NIST
7 7 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.65%) GRC
8 5 (0.65%) NCSC
8 5 (0.65%) QA
9 3 (0.39%) 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
System Software
1 331 (42.88%) Active Directory
2 140 (18.13%) Hyper-V
3 135 (17.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (3.76%) Docker
5 23 (2.98%) Firmware
5 23 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.68%) vSphere
7 10 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.91%) KVM
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.13%) Ceph
11 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.13%) QEMU
11 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 122 (15.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 64 (8.29%) Terraform
3 45 (5.83%) Ansible
4 38 (4.92%) Kubernetes
5 36 (4.66%) FortiGate
6 17 (2.20%) QRadar
7 16 (2.07%) Nagios
8 15 (1.94%) Grafana
8 15 (1.94%) Prometheus
9 14 (1.81%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (1.04%) Kibana
11 8 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.91%) WSUS
13 6 (0.78%) Puppet
13 6 (0.78%) SCCM
14 5 (0.65%) McAfee ePO
14 5 (0.65%) SCVMM
14 5 (0.65%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.52%) Control-M
Vendors
1 431 (55.83%) Microsoft
2 155 (20.08%) VMware
3 109 (14.12%) Cisco
4 55 (7.12%) Fortinet
5 43 (5.57%) Veeam
6 38 (4.92%) Splunk
7 32 (4.15%) Palo Alto
8 30 (3.89%) Meraki
8 30 (3.89%) ServiceNow
9 28 (3.63%) Google
10 25 (3.24%) Red Hat
10 25 (3.24%) SolarWinds
11 23 (2.98%) SonicWALL
12 22 (2.85%) HP
12 22 (2.85%) Sophos
13 19 (2.46%) Apple
14 17 (2.20%) Dell
15 16 (2.07%) Zscaler
16 15 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
17 14 (1.81%) Ubiquiti