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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 213 201
Rank change year-on-year -90 -12 +45
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 549 668 1,407
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 1.54% 1.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.72% 10.66% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 408 480 1,167
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,088 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.34% +11.18% -5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,865 £77,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.33% -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 9,600 6,266 12,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.59% 14.40% 13.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,007 3,794 9,423
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £77,715
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%

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 9 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 9 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 -56 505 £40,000 -11.11% 227
UK excluding London -93 329 £34,000 -20.00% 190
London -6 200 £55,000 +6.80% 60
Work from Home -10 159 £42,500 -22.73% 95
North of England -36 105 £34,000 -23.94% 43
South East -68 83 £35,000 -6.67% 71
Yorkshire -43 50 £32,500 -23.26% 17
Midlands -79 46 £32,500 - 20
South West -27 42 £39,000 -24.61% 27
North West -14 39 £40,000 -5.88% 21
East Midlands -31 31 £32,500 +4.84% 4
East of England -46 29 £42,500 -5.56% 28
North East -32 16 £45,000 -35.14% 7
Wales -35 16 £29,500 -54.62% 7
West Midlands -69 15 £35,375 +1.07% 16
Scotland -38 7 £46,000 -8.00% 4
Northern Ireland -34 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
1 107 (19.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 71 (12.93%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.19%) IIS
4 4 (0.73%) Confluence
5 3 (0.55%) Apache
6 2 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 71 (12.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 247 (44.99%) Azure
2 230 (41.89%) Microsoft 365
3 112 (20.40%) Entra ID
4 111 (20.22%) AWS
5 35 (6.38%) GCP
6 28 (5.10%) Google Workspace
7 22 (4.01%) GitHub
7 22 (4.01%) OneDrive
8 19 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (3.28%) IaaS
10 14 (2.55%) PaaS
11 12 (2.19%) SaaS
12 10 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (1.09%) Route 53
14 6 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 342 (62.30%) DNS
2 265 (48.27%) DHCP
3 210 (38.25%) Firewall
4 169 (30.78%) VPN
5 153 (27.87%) WAN
6 134 (24.41%) LAN
7 102 (18.58%) VLAN
8 66 (12.02%) Wi-Fi
9 56 (10.20%) HTTP
10 53 (9.65%) Network Security
11 42 (7.65%) SD-WAN
12 40 (7.29%) VoIP
12 40 (7.29%) Wireless
13 30 (5.46%) BGP
14 25 (4.55%) OSPF
15 20 (3.64%) SMTP
16 18 (3.28%) Multicast
17 17 (3.10%) Wireshark
18 14 (2.55%) SAN
19 11 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.92%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.09%) MySQL
5 5 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.91%) Redis
6 4 (0.73%) Power BI
6 4 (0.73%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.36%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.18%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.18%) KDB
9 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.18%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 20 (3.64%) Jenkins
2 17 (3.10%) Git
3 10 (1.82%) Bitbucket
4 9 (1.64%) Metasploit
5 8 (1.46%) GitLab
6 7 (1.28%) JIRA
7 5 (0.91%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.18%) CMake
9 1 (0.18%) Selenium
9 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 228 (41.53%) Social Skills
2 97 (17.67%) Finance
3 74 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.83%) Banking
5 39 (7.10%) Law
6 34 (6.19%) Telecoms
7 31 (5.65%) Organisational Skills
8 26 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.46%) Investment Banking
11 16 (2.91%) Retail
12 15 (2.73%) Aerospace
13 14 (2.55%) Public Sector
14 13 (2.37%) Back Office
14 13 (2.37%) Legal
14 13 (2.37%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.64%) Automotive
16 7 (1.28%) Electronics
17 6 (1.09%) Spanish Language
18 5 (0.91%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 140 (25.50%) IT Support
2 85 (15.48%) Support Engineer
3 72 (13.11%) Analyst
4 67 (12.20%) Senior
5 57 (10.38%) IT Engineer
6 54 (9.84%) 2nd Line Support
7 53 (9.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 53 (9.65%) IT Support Engineer
8 52 (9.47%) Support Technician
9 42 (7.65%) Network Engineer
10 41 (7.47%) IT Support Technician
10 41 (7.47%) IT Technician
11 38 (6.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 33 (6.01%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 33 (6.01%) Developer
13 32 (5.83%) Support Analyst
14 28 (5.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 26 (4.74%) C++ Developer
16 23 (4.19%) Infrastructure Support
17 22 (4.01%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (2.00%) WebSockets
3 10 (1.82%) LDAP
4 7 (1.28%) REST
5 6 (1.09%) .NET
5 6 (1.09%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.09%) Django
6 5 (0.91%) ARM Templates
6 5 (0.91%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (0.91%) gRPC
6 5 (0.91%) RESTful
7 4 (0.73%) ADO
7 4 (0.73%) Middleware
7 4 (0.73%) React
8 3 (0.55%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.55%) Qt
8 3 (0.55%) Sass
8 3 (0.55%) ZeroMQ
9 2 (0.36%) JWT
9 2 (0.36%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 69 (12.57%) Driving Licence
2 32 (5.83%) Data Centre
3 31 (5.65%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.83%) FPGA
5 20 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
5 20 (3.64%) Security Posture
5 20 (3.64%) Video Conferencing
6 19 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (3.28%) EPoS
8 12 (2.19%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.19%) Replication
9 11 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
10 10 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.82%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.82%) MPEG
11 9 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.64%) NHS
11 9 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 335 (61.02%) Windows
2 190 (34.61%) Windows Server
3 129 (23.50%) Linux
4 103 (18.76%) Windows 10
5 41 (7.47%) Mac OS
6 39 (7.10%) Apple iOS
7 27 (4.92%) Android
8 25 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (3.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 18 (3.28%) Unix
11 15 (2.73%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (1.28%) CentOS
12 7 (1.28%) Windows 7
13 6 (1.09%) VMS
14 4 (0.73%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.73%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.55%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.36%) Rocky
16 2 (0.36%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (34.43%) Problem-Solving
2 108 (19.67%) Customer Service
3 86 (15.66%) ITIL
4 76 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 69 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (11.66%) Cybersecurity
7 62 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (11.11%) Service Delivery
9 60 (10.93%) DevOps
10 59 (10.75%) Disaster Recovery
11 56 (10.20%) Incident Response
12 49 (8.93%) Root Cause Analysis
13 48 (8.74%) CI/CD
14 47 (8.56%) Incident Management
15 40 (7.29%) SIEM
16 38 (6.92%) High Availability
16 38 (6.92%) ITSM
17 37 (6.74%) Mentoring
18 36 (6.56%) Computer Science
19 33 (6.01%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 105 (19.13%) Python
2 103 (18.76%) PowerShell
3 58 (10.56%) Bash
4 40 (7.29%) SQL
5 39 (7.10%) C++
6 30 (5.46%) Java
7 23 (4.19%) C
8 22 (4.01%) Go
9 12 (2.19%) C#
10 6 (1.09%) Bicep
10 6 (1.09%) Perl
11 4 (0.73%) Delphi
11 4 (0.73%) Pascal
11 4 (0.73%) PHP
12 3 (0.55%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.36%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.36%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 82 (14.94%) Degree
2 47 (8.56%) Security Cleared
3 42 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 42 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 39 (7.10%) Cisco Certification
5 30 (5.46%) CCNA
6 26 (4.74%) CCNP
7 23 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (4.01%) Azure Certification
9 17 (3.10%) CompTIA Security+
10 15 (2.73%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (2.37%) CREST Certified
11 13 (2.37%) DBS Check
12 11 (2.00%) RHCSA
13 9 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (1.64%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.64%) MCDST
13 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (1.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.83%) SLA
2 29 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.64%) GDPR
4 14 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.82%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.09%) QA
6 6 (1.09%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.73%) DICOM
7 4 (0.73%) HL7
8 3 (0.55%) NIST
8 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.36%) GxP
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 244 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 100 (18.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (13.48%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.28%) Docker
5 13 (2.37%) Firmware
5 13 (2.37%) vSphere
6 11 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.46%) KVM
8 5 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.73%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.18%) QEMU
11 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 75 (13.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 57 (10.38%) Ansible
2 57 (10.38%) Terraform
3 30 (5.46%) Kubernetes
4 22 (4.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (3.83%) Grafana
5 21 (3.83%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.28%) FortiGate
7 14 (2.55%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (2.55%) Nagios
8 9 (1.64%) SCCM
9 8 (1.46%) Puppet
9 8 (1.46%) QRadar
10 6 (1.09%) Nessus
10 6 (1.09%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.91%) Nmap
11 5 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.91%) VxRail
11 5 (0.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 300 (54.64%) Microsoft
2 126 (22.95%) VMware
3 61 (11.11%) Cisco
4 31 (5.65%) Google
5 30 (5.46%) SolarWinds
6 28 (5.10%) Meraki
7 26 (4.74%) Palo Alto
8 24 (4.37%) Citrix
8 24 (4.37%) Red Hat
9 23 (4.19%) Veeam
10 21 (3.83%) Dell
11 20 (3.64%) Apple
11 20 (3.64%) HP
12 18 (3.28%) Fortinet
13 16 (2.91%) Splunk
14 15 (2.73%) CrowdStrike
15 12 (2.19%) ServiceNow
16 10 (1.82%) Zscaler
17 8 (1.46%) Sophos
17 8 (1.46%) Yealink