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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 229 204
Rank change year-on-year -77 -25 +38
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 565 636 1,371
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 1.49% 1.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.25% 9.90% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 430 445 1,156
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,900 £25,625
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,938 £63,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,754 £77,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £39,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year -14.47% +6.00% -6.25%

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 9,035 6,421 12,880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 15.09% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,204 3,580 9,388
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,875 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% +2.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £42,500 £43,742
% change year-on-year -2.35% -2.84% -2.80%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -56 523 £40,000 -5.88% 211
UK excluding London -72 354 £34,000 -14.47% 189
London -10 197 £57,500 +11.65% 54
Work from Home -10 157 £42,000 -16.00% 78
North of England 0 110 £34,000 -13.92% 36
South East -40 100 £37,500 - 65
Yorkshire -40 53 £32,500 -7.14% 11
Midlands -76 47 £32,500 - 25
North West +6 40 £43,750 +10.76% 22
South West -42 36 £38,000 -30.23% 25
East of England -55 33 £43,750 -7.89% 30
East Midlands -39 29 £32,500 +8.33% 8
Wales -34 19 £37,000 -43.08% 6
West Midlands -74 18 £33,250 +2.31% 17
North East -28 17 £40,000 -42.35% 4
Scotland -25 8 £46,000 -8.00% 11
Northern Ireland -39 1 £73,801 -13.18%

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
1 105 (18.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 72 (12.74%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.30%) IIS
4 4 (0.71%) Apache
4 4 (0.71%) Confluence
5 3 (0.53%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 73 (12.92%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Fidessa
1 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 245 (43.36%) Azure
2 230 (40.71%) Microsoft 365
3 112 (19.82%) AWS
4 104 (18.41%) Entra ID
5 33 (5.84%) GCP
6 24 (4.25%) Google Workspace
7 19 (3.36%) GitHub
8 18 (3.19%) OneDrive
9 17 (3.01%) IaaS
10 16 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.30%) PaaS
13 11 (1.95%) SaaS
14 10 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
17 6 (1.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 6 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 342 (60.53%) DNS
2 265 (46.90%) DHCP
3 220 (38.94%) Firewall
4 177 (31.33%) VPN
5 157 (27.79%) WAN
6 143 (25.31%) LAN
7 108 (19.12%) VLAN
8 65 (11.50%) Wi-Fi
9 56 (9.91%) HTTP
9 56 (9.91%) Network Security
10 37 (6.55%) VoIP
11 36 (6.37%) BGP
12 34 (6.02%) SD-WAN
13 32 (5.66%) Wireless
14 28 (4.96%) OSPF
15 21 (3.72%) Multicast
16 19 (3.36%) SMTP
17 16 (2.83%) Wireshark
18 14 (2.48%) FTP
18 14 (2.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.55%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.42%) MySQL
5 6 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.88%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.88%) Redis
7 4 (0.71%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (0.71%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.18%) KDB
10 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.18%) Power BI
10 1 (0.18%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.18%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 17 (3.01%) Jenkins
2 14 (2.48%) Git
3 12 (2.12%) JIRA
4 11 (1.95%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.42%) GitLab
6 6 (1.06%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.35%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.35%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.18%) CMake
9 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.18%) LSMW
9 1 (0.18%) Selenium
9 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 230 (40.71%) Social Skills
2 98 (17.35%) Finance
3 73 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.61%) Law
5 42 (7.43%) Banking
6 41 (7.26%) Telecoms
7 33 (5.84%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.36%) Aerospace
10 19 (3.36%) Investment Banking
11 18 (3.19%) Retail
12 14 (2.48%) Back Office
13 13 (2.30%) Manufacturing
14 12 (2.12%) Legal
15 11 (1.95%) Public Sector
16 9 (1.59%) Automotive
17 7 (1.24%) Electronics
18 6 (1.06%) Spanish Language
19 5 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 149 (26.37%) IT Support
2 84 (14.87%) Analyst
3 83 (14.69%) Support Engineer
4 72 (12.74%) Senior
5 63 (11.15%) IT Engineer
6 57 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 57 (10.09%) Support Technician
7 56 (9.91%) IT Support Engineer
8 51 (9.03%) 2nd Line Support
9 50 (8.85%) Network Engineer
10 46 (8.14%) IT Support Technician
10 46 (8.14%) IT Technician
11 35 (6.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 34 (6.02%) Developer
13 33 (5.84%) Support Analyst
14 31 (5.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 30 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 27 (4.78%) C++ Developer
17 22 (3.89%) IT Analyst
18 21 (3.72%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (2.48%) LDAP
3 13 (2.30%) WebSockets
4 11 (1.95%) gRPC
5 10 (1.77%) .NET
6 9 (1.59%) REST
7 8 (1.42%) Django
7 8 (1.42%) React
8 6 (1.06%) 802.1X
8 6 (1.06%) Node.js
9 5 (0.88%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.88%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.88%) Middleware
9 5 (0.88%) Qt
9 5 (0.88%) RESTful
10 4 (0.71%) ADO
10 4 (0.71%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (0.53%) CSS
11 3 (0.53%) STL
11 3 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.39%) Driving Licence
2 38 (6.73%) Data Centre
3 25 (4.42%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.89%) Cyber Threat
5 20 (3.54%) FPGA
5 20 (3.54%) Security Posture
6 19 (3.36%) EPoS
7 17 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (2.83%) Replication
9 15 (2.65%) Video Conferencing
10 14 (2.48%) Security Operations Centre
11 13 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (2.30%) Cyber Defence
12 12 (2.12%) MPEG
13 11 (1.95%) Client/Server
14 10 (1.77%) Management Information System
15 9 (1.59%) Digital Signage
15 9 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (1.42%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 338 (59.82%) Windows
2 187 (33.10%) Windows Server
3 135 (23.89%) Linux
4 92 (16.28%) Windows 10
5 43 (7.61%) Mac OS
6 36 (6.37%) Apple iOS
7 27 (4.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 26 (4.60%) Android
9 25 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 21 (3.72%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (3.19%) Unix
12 14 (2.48%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (1.24%) CentOS
13 7 (1.24%) Windows 7
14 6 (1.06%) VMS
15 5 (0.88%) Ubuntu
16 4 (0.71%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.71%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.35%) Solaris
17 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (18.58%) Customer Service
3 87 (15.40%) ITIL
4 79 (13.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 73 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 73 (12.92%) Cybersecurity
6 67 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 65 (11.50%) Service Delivery
8 63 (11.15%) Disaster Recovery
9 60 (10.62%) Incident Response
10 57 (10.09%) DevOps
11 46 (8.14%) CI/CD
11 46 (8.14%) Incident Management
12 43 (7.61%) SIEM
13 41 (7.26%) Root Cause Analysis
14 39 (6.90%) High Availability
14 39 (6.90%) Mentoring
15 38 (6.73%) Computer Science
15 38 (6.73%) ITSM
16 34 (6.02%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 108 (19.12%) Python
2 104 (18.41%) PowerShell
3 59 (10.44%) Bash
4 45 (7.96%) SQL
5 43 (7.61%) C++
6 29 (5.13%) Java
7 24 (4.25%) C
8 19 (3.36%) Go
9 15 (2.65%) C#
10 9 (1.59%) Perl
11 6 (1.06%) Bicep
11 6 (1.06%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.88%) PHP
13 4 (0.71%) Delphi
13 4 (0.71%) Pascal
13 4 (0.71%) Search Processing Language
14 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.53%) VBA
15 2 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 83 (14.69%) Degree
2 56 (9.91%) Security Cleared
3 45 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 41 (7.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 38 (6.73%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (5.13%) CCNA
7 24 (4.25%) Azure Certification
7 24 (4.25%) CCNP
8 22 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (3.72%) CompTIA Security+
10 15 (2.65%) CREST Certified
10 15 (2.65%) Network+ Certification
11 11 (1.95%) RHCSA
12 10 (1.77%) CEH
13 9 (1.59%) A+ Certification
13 9 (1.59%) DBS Check
13 9 (1.59%) GIAC
13 9 (1.59%) MCDST
13 9 (1.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (1.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.90%) SLA
2 23 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.19%) GDPR
4 15 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (2.12%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.24%) QA
7 4 (0.71%) DICOM
7 4 (0.71%) HL7
7 4 (0.71%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.35%) GxP
9 2 (0.35%) NIST
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 247 (43.72%) Active Directory
2 104 (18.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 81 (14.34%) Hyper-V
4 20 (3.54%) Docker
5 15 (2.65%) vSphere
6 13 (2.30%) Firmware
7 10 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (1.42%) KVM
9 7 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.18%) QEMU
12 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.18%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 73 (12.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 50 (8.85%) Ansible
2 50 (8.85%) Terraform
3 32 (5.66%) Kubernetes
4 24 (4.25%) Grafana
4 24 (4.25%) Prometheus
5 23 (4.07%) FortiGate
6 21 (3.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (3.54%) Nagios
8 15 (2.65%) Jamf Pro
9 13 (2.30%) QRadar
10 8 (1.42%) Puppet
11 7 (1.24%) SCCM
12 6 (1.06%) vCenter Server
12 6 (1.06%) VxRail
12 6 (1.06%) WSUS
13 5 (0.88%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.88%) Kibana
13 5 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 309 (54.69%) Microsoft
2 131 (23.19%) VMware
3 64 (11.33%) Cisco
4 30 (5.31%) SolarWinds
5 29 (5.13%) Google
5 29 (5.13%) Meraki
6 28 (4.96%) Veeam
7 24 (4.25%) Red Hat
8 23 (4.07%) Citrix
8 23 (4.07%) Splunk
9 22 (3.89%) Palo Alto
10 21 (3.72%) Apple
11 20 (3.54%) Dell
11 20 (3.54%) Fortinet
12 19 (3.36%) HP
13 17 (3.01%) CrowdStrike
14 14 (2.48%) ServiceNow
15 10 (1.77%) Zscaler
16 8 (1.42%) Sophos
16 8 (1.42%) Yealink