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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 222 204
Rank change year-on-year -29 -18 -31
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 877 707 997
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.42% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.16% 9.85% 11.02%
Number of salaries quoted 663 502 557
10th Percentile £28,300 £27,025 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% -4.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,075 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £34,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year +9.49% -19.41% -

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 7,860 7,177 9,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.65% 14.43% 12.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4,868 3,965 4,463
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £28,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £39,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.58% -23.30% +0.39%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £34,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year +32.35% -29.17% +6.67%

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 October 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 October 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 -20 824 £40,000 +6.67% 782
UK excluding London -42 613 £37,500 +9.49% 523
Work from Home +28 258 £40,000 -1.23% 284
London -4 248 £55,000 - 324
South East -22 179 £38,000 +1.33% 144
North of England -27 146 £33,000 -5.71% 112
Midlands -29 123 £36,000 +10.77% 62
East of England -18 84 £35,000 +7.69% 70
North West +35 80 £32,125 -20.68% 64
West Midlands -24 74 £37,500 +15.38% 32
Yorkshire -44 54 £33,500 - 34
East Midlands -49 49 £36,000 +10.77% 30
South West -70 46 £32,500 -5.80% 65
Wales -82 15 £45,000 +28.57% 21
Scotland +1 14 £63,451 +111.50% 36
North East -77 12 £40,000 +37.93% 17
Northern Ireland - 6 £40,250 - 18

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
1 145 (16.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 117 (13.34%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.85%) IIS
4 16 (1.82%) Apache
5 7 (0.80%) Confluence
6 5 (0.57%) WinCC
7 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.34%) SAS
8 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.23%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.11%) Houdini
4 1 (0.11%) NUKE
4 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (0.91%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.23%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.23%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.11%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.11%) Eikon
3 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 401 (45.72%) Microsoft 365
2 338 (38.54%) Azure
3 237 (27.02%) Entra ID
4 136 (15.51%) AWS
5 48 (5.47%) OneDrive
6 45 (5.13%) GCP
7 28 (3.19%) SaaS
8 21 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (2.17%) Google Workspace
10 14 (1.60%) dbt
10 14 (1.60%) OpenShift
11 11 (1.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 10 (1.14%) IaaS
13 9 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (0.91%) Serverless
15 7 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.80%) PaaS
16 6 (0.68%) GitHub
16 6 (0.68%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 553 (63.06%) DNS
2 439 (50.06%) DHCP
3 403 (45.95%) Firewall
4 375 (42.76%) VPN
5 206 (23.49%) WAN
6 204 (23.26%) VLAN
7 200 (22.81%) LAN
8 133 (15.17%) Wi-Fi
9 109 (12.43%) Wireless
10 106 (12.09%) Network Security
11 74 (8.44%) HTTP
12 71 (8.10%) BGP
13 69 (7.87%) VoIP
14 56 (6.39%) OSPF
15 41 (4.68%) SD-WAN
16 37 (4.22%) SSL
17 31 (3.53%) Ethernet
18 28 (3.19%) Internet
19 22 (2.51%) FTP
20 21 (2.39%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (6.84%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.17%) MySQL
3 15 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.68%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (0.68%) Redis
7 5 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.57%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.46%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.34%) InfluxDB
9 3 (0.34%) KDB
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.11%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.11%) Db2
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 34 (3.88%) JIRA
2 24 (2.74%) Git
3 13 (1.48%) GitLab
4 6 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (0.68%) TeamCity
5 5 (0.57%) Selenium
6 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.23%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.23%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.11%) CMake
8 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.11%) GDB
8 1 (0.11%) LSMW
8 1 (0.11%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 418 (47.66%) Social Skills
2 116 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
3 99 (11.29%) Finance
4 66 (7.53%) Telecoms
5 47 (5.36%) Banking
6 39 (4.45%) Law
7 37 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (4.10%) Retail
9 33 (3.76%) Electronics
9 33 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (3.65%) Aerospace
11 20 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.28%) Public Sector
12 10 (1.14%) Automotive
13 9 (1.03%) Back Office
14 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.91%) Investment Banking
14 8 (0.91%) Marketing
15 7 (0.80%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 233 (26.57%) IT Support
2 204 (23.26%) Support Engineer
3 176 (20.07%) IT Engineer
4 146 (16.65%) IT Support Engineer
5 121 (13.80%) Analyst
6 112 (12.77%) Senior
7 110 (12.54%) Network Engineer
8 92 (10.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 71 (8.10%) 2nd Line Support
10 64 (7.30%) Support Analyst
11 56 (6.39%) Support Technician
12 55 (6.27%) IT Technician
13 51 (5.82%) IT Support Technician
14 44 (5.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 42 (4.79%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 42 (4.79%) Lead
16 33 (3.76%) Infrastructure Support
16 33 (3.76%) IT Analyst
16 33 (3.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 31 (3.53%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (7.87%) Terraform
2 24 (2.74%) LDAP
3 22 (2.51%) React
4 17 (1.94%) XML
5 15 (1.71%) Node.js
6 14 (1.60%) RESTful
7 12 (1.37%) JSON
7 12 (1.37%) Middleware
7 12 (1.37%) WebSockets
8 10 (1.14%) CSS
8 10 (1.14%) Django
8 10 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
8 10 (1.14%) HTML
9 9 (1.03%) .NET
9 9 (1.03%) AngularJS
9 9 (1.03%) REST
10 8 (0.91%) gRPC
11 6 (0.68%) GraphQL
11 6 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.57%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 121 (13.80%) Driving Licence
2 101 (11.52%) Onboarding
3 44 (5.02%) Data Centre
4 34 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (3.19%) Security Posture
6 27 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
6 27 (3.08%) Security Operations Centre
7 24 (2.74%) PKI
8 22 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (2.39%) Management Information System
10 20 (2.28%) Client/Server
10 20 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (2.17%) Replication
12 18 (2.05%) CCTV
13 17 (1.94%) Cyber Defence
14 16 (1.82%) Cloud Native
15 13 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (1.37%) Social Media
17 10 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 534 (60.89%) Windows
2 267 (30.44%) Windows Server
3 218 (24.86%) Linux
4 110 (12.54%) Windows 10
5 55 (6.27%) Mac OS
6 41 (4.68%) Unix
7 33 (3.76%) Ubuntu
8 25 (2.85%) Apple iOS
9 20 (2.28%) Android
10 19 (2.17%) Rocky
11 18 (2.05%) CentOS
11 18 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
12 15 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.80%) Debian
15 6 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
15 6 (0.68%) Solaris
16 5 (0.57%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.46%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (35.58%) Problem-Solving
2 214 (24.40%) Customer Service
3 200 (22.81%) Cybersecurity
4 184 (20.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 158 (18.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 131 (14.94%) ITIL
7 124 (14.14%) Disaster Recovery
8 95 (10.83%) Incident Response
9 94 (10.72%) Mentoring
10 85 (9.69%) Service Delivery
11 81 (9.24%) Project Delivery
12 80 (9.12%) ITSM
13 70 (7.98%) SIEM
14 68 (7.75%) Computer Science
14 68 (7.75%) Infrastructure as Code
15 65 (7.41%) CI/CD
16 63 (7.18%) DevOps
17 62 (7.07%) Software Engineering
18 60 (6.84%) High Availability
19 53 (6.04%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 170 (19.38%) Python
2 153 (17.45%) PowerShell
3 87 (9.92%) SQL
4 85 (9.69%) Bash
5 45 (5.13%) C++
6 26 (2.96%) Perl
7 24 (2.74%) JavaScript
8 21 (2.39%) C
8 21 (2.39%) Java
9 17 (1.94%) C#
9 17 (1.94%) Go
10 14 (1.60%) VBA
11 13 (1.48%) Ruby
12 10 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (1.14%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.14%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.03%) Bicep
14 7 (0.80%) PHP
14 7 (0.80%) Search Processing Language
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 146 (16.65%) Degree
2 109 (12.43%) Security Cleared
3 93 (10.60%) Cisco Certification
4 73 (8.32%) SC Cleared
5 72 (8.21%) CCNA
6 61 (6.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (6.50%) CCNP
8 35 (3.99%) CompTIA Security+
9 32 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 30 (3.42%) Azure Certification
11 26 (2.96%) CREST Certified
12 24 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 24 (2.74%) Network+ Certification
13 21 (2.39%) CISSP
14 20 (2.28%) A+ Certification
14 20 (2.28%) CEH
14 20 (2.28%) DV Cleared
15 19 (2.17%) GCIA
16 16 (1.82%) HND
17 14 (1.60%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (8.21%) SLA
2 45 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 40 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (3.88%) GDPR
5 20 (2.28%) QA
6 17 (1.94%) NIST
7 12 (1.37%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.25%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.80%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.68%) GRC
10 6 (0.68%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) DO-178B
12 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.11%) IASME
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 394 (44.93%) Active Directory
2 157 (17.90%) Hyper-V
3 139 (15.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.33%) Docker
5 33 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (2.96%) Firmware
7 12 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (1.37%) vSphere
8 10 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.34%) KVM
9 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.23%) QEMU
10 2 (0.23%) Snort
10 2 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.11%) Ceph
11 1 (0.11%) Samba
11 1 (0.11%) XenApp
11 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 148 (16.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (4.68%) Ansible
3 35 (3.99%) Kubernetes
4 31 (3.53%) FortiGate
5 20 (2.28%) QRadar
6 18 (2.05%) Grafana
7 15 (1.71%) Prometheus
7 15 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.48%) Nagios
9 10 (1.14%) WSUS
10 9 (1.03%) Kibana
11 8 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.57%) McAfee ePO
12 5 (0.57%) SCVMM
13 4 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.46%) Autotask
13 4 (0.46%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.46%) SCCM
13 4 (0.46%) VxRail
13 4 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 503 (57.35%) Microsoft
2 163 (18.59%) VMware
3 126 (14.37%) Cisco
4 74 (8.44%) Fortinet
5 55 (6.27%) Veeam
6 49 (5.59%) Google
7 44 (5.02%) Splunk
8 41 (4.68%) ServiceNow
9 38 (4.33%) Palo Alto
10 31 (3.53%) Meraki
11 28 (3.19%) Dell
12 27 (3.08%) Red Hat
12 27 (3.08%) SonicWALL
13 23 (2.62%) SolarWinds
14 20 (2.28%) Sophos
15 18 (2.05%) CrowdStrike
15 18 (2.05%) WatchGuard
16 17 (1.94%) HP
16 17 (1.94%) Ubiquiti
17 16 (1.82%) Apple