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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 228 204
Rank change year-on-year -82 -24 +37
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 558 650 1,370
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 1.48% 1.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.25% 9.91% 10.66%
Number of salaries quoted 422 462 1,160
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,788 £25,725
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,313 £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 £61,250 £63,688 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,786 £77,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £41,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -18.07% +10.67% -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 8,932 6,560 12,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.68% 14.94% 13.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,118 3,739 9,368
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.47%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,560
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £44,720 £43,500
% change year-on-year -8.32% +2.80% -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 21 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 21 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 -59 516 £40,000 -5.88% 214
UK excluding London -87 342 £34,000 -18.07% 187
London -11 200 £57,500 +11.65% 58
Work from Home +9 156 £42,500 -18.27% 77
North of England +1 109 £34,000 -23.94% 43
South East -55 96 £35,000 -6.67% 66
Yorkshire -30 52 £32,500 -23.26% 15
Midlands -71 44 £32,500 - 21
North West +17 40 £43,750 -7.41% 24
South West -39 36 £39,000 -24.61% 21
East of England -47 31 £42,500 -10.53% 26
East Midlands -30 29 £32,500 +4.84% 4
North East -25 17 £40,000 -42.35% 5
Wales -35 17 £29,500 -54.62% 6
West Midlands -77 15 £33,250 +2.31% 17
Scotland -27 8 £46,000 -8.00% 14
Northern Ireland -38 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
1 106 (19.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 72 (12.90%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.33%) IIS
4 5 (0.90%) Confluence
5 3 (0.54%) Apache
6 2 (0.36%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 73 (13.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Fidessa
1 2 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 244 (43.73%) Azure
2 230 (41.22%) Microsoft 365
3 112 (20.07%) AWS
4 104 (18.64%) Entra ID
5 33 (5.91%) GCP
6 25 (4.48%) Google Workspace
7 20 (3.58%) OneDrive
8 19 (3.41%) GitHub
9 18 (3.23%) IaaS
10 16 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.51%) PaaS
13 11 (1.97%) SaaS
14 10 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
17 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
18 6 (1.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 6 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 339 (60.75%) DNS
2 265 (47.49%) DHCP
3 212 (37.99%) Firewall
4 173 (31.00%) VPN
5 154 (27.60%) WAN
6 137 (24.55%) LAN
7 104 (18.64%) VLAN
8 64 (11.47%) Wi-Fi
9 55 (9.86%) HTTP
10 54 (9.68%) Network Security
11 37 (6.63%) BGP
12 36 (6.45%) SD-WAN
12 36 (6.45%) VoIP
13 33 (5.91%) Wireless
14 29 (5.20%) OSPF
15 20 (3.58%) Multicast
16 19 (3.41%) SMTP
17 15 (2.69%) Wireshark
18 14 (2.51%) SAN
19 13 (2.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.81%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.25%) MySQL
5 6 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.08%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.90%) Redis
7 4 (0.72%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.54%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (0.54%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.54%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.36%) Power BI
10 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.18%) KDB
10 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.18%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.18%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 17 (3.05%) Jenkins
2 16 (2.87%) Git
3 10 (1.79%) Bitbucket
3 10 (1.79%) JIRA
4 8 (1.43%) GitLab
5 7 (1.25%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.54%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.18%) CMake
8 1 (0.18%) LSMW
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 225 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 95 (17.03%) Finance
3 69 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.89%) Law
5 42 (7.53%) Banking
6 40 (7.17%) Telecoms
7 33 (5.91%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.41%) Investment Banking
11 18 (3.23%) Aerospace
12 17 (3.05%) Retail
13 14 (2.51%) Back Office
14 13 (2.33%) Legal
14 13 (2.33%) Manufacturing
15 12 (2.15%) Public Sector
16 9 (1.61%) Automotive
17 7 (1.25%) Electronics
18 6 (1.08%) Spanish Language
19 5 (0.90%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 147 (26.34%) IT Support
2 81 (14.52%) Analyst
2 81 (14.52%) Support Engineer
3 68 (12.19%) Senior
4 61 (10.93%) IT Engineer
5 56 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 56 (10.04%) Support Technician
6 54 (9.68%) IT Support Engineer
7 52 (9.32%) 2nd Line Support
8 46 (8.24%) Network Engineer
9 45 (8.06%) IT Support Technician
9 45 (8.06%) IT Technician
10 35 (6.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 34 (6.09%) Support Analyst
12 33 (5.91%) Developer
13 30 (5.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 29 (5.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 27 (4.84%) C++ Developer
16 21 (3.76%) Infrastructure Support
16 21 (3.76%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (2.33%) LDAP
3 12 (2.15%) WebSockets
4 11 (1.97%) gRPC
5 9 (1.61%) .NET
6 8 (1.43%) REST
7 7 (1.25%) Django
8 6 (1.08%) 802.1X
8 6 (1.08%) React
9 5 (0.90%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.90%) RESTful
10 4 (0.72%) ADO
10 4 (0.72%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (0.72%) Middleware
10 4 (0.72%) Node.js
10 4 (0.72%) Qt
11 3 (0.54%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (0.54%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 69 (12.37%) Driving Licence
2 36 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 26 (4.66%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.76%) Cyber Threat
5 20 (3.58%) FPGA
5 20 (3.58%) Security Posture
6 19 (3.41%) EPoS
7 17 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (3.05%) Video Conferencing
8 15 (2.69%) Replication
9 12 (2.15%) Cyber Defence
9 12 (2.15%) Security Operations Centre
10 11 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.97%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.97%) MPEG
11 10 (1.79%) Client/Server
11 10 (1.79%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.61%) Digital Signage
12 9 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 336 (60.22%) Windows
2 186 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 130 (23.30%) Linux
4 93 (16.67%) Windows 10
5 43 (7.71%) Mac OS
6 37 (6.63%) Apple iOS
7 27 (4.84%) Android
8 25 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (4.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (3.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 18 (3.23%) Unix
11 14 (2.51%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (1.25%) CentOS
12 7 (1.25%) Windows 7
13 6 (1.08%) VMS
14 4 (0.72%) CoreOS
14 4 (0.72%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.72%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.36%) Rocky
15 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (34.95%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (18.82%) Customer Service
3 87 (15.59%) ITIL
4 79 (14.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 69 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 69 (12.37%) Cybersecurity
6 68 (12.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 65 (11.65%) Service Delivery
8 61 (10.93%) Disaster Recovery
9 58 (10.39%) DevOps
10 57 (10.22%) Incident Response
11 46 (8.24%) CI/CD
11 46 (8.24%) Incident Management
12 43 (7.71%) Root Cause Analysis
13 42 (7.53%) SIEM
14 39 (6.99%) Mentoring
15 38 (6.81%) ITSM
16 37 (6.63%) High Availability
17 35 (6.27%) Computer Science
18 33 (5.91%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 104 (18.64%) PowerShell
1 104 (18.64%) Python
2 57 (10.22%) Bash
3 42 (7.53%) C++
4 41 (7.35%) SQL
5 29 (5.20%) Java
6 23 (4.12%) C
7 19 (3.41%) Go
8 15 (2.69%) C#
9 8 (1.43%) Perl
10 6 (1.08%) Bicep
11 5 (0.90%) JavaScript
12 4 (0.72%) Delphi
12 4 (0.72%) Pascal
12 4 (0.72%) PHP
13 3 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.54%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.36%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 83 (14.87%) Degree
2 53 (9.50%) Security Cleared
3 43 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 41 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 35 (6.27%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (5.02%) CCNA
7 25 (4.48%) Azure Certification
8 21 (3.76%) CCNP
9 20 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
11 15 (2.69%) Network+ Certification
12 14 (2.51%) CREST Certified
13 11 (1.97%) RHCSA
14 10 (1.79%) DBS Check
15 9 (1.61%) CEH
15 9 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (1.61%) MCDST
15 9 (1.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (1.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.99%) SLA
2 25 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.76%) GDPR
4 13 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.97%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.25%) QA
7 5 (0.90%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.72%) DICOM
8 4 (0.72%) HL7
9 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.36%) GxP
10 2 (0.36%) NIST
11 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 247 (44.27%) Active Directory
2 103 (18.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (14.16%) Hyper-V
4 19 (3.41%) Docker
5 13 (2.33%) Firmware
5 13 (2.33%) vSphere
6 10 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.43%) KVM
8 7 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.36%) 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%) Xen
Systems Management
1 73 (13.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (9.14%) Terraform
3 50 (8.96%) Ansible
4 32 (5.73%) Kubernetes
5 24 (4.30%) Grafana
5 24 (4.30%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (3.58%) FortiGate
7 20 (3.58%) Nagios
8 15 (2.69%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (2.15%) QRadar
10 8 (1.43%) Puppet
10 8 (1.43%) SCCM
11 6 (1.08%) vCenter Server
11 6 (1.08%) VxRail
11 6 (1.08%) WSUS
12 5 (0.90%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 305 (54.66%) Microsoft
2 129 (23.12%) VMware
3 62 (11.11%) Cisco
4 30 (5.38%) SolarWinds
5 29 (5.20%) Meraki
6 28 (5.02%) Google
7 26 (4.66%) Veeam
8 24 (4.30%) Citrix
8 24 (4.30%) Red Hat
9 23 (4.12%) Palo Alto
10 20 (3.58%) Apple
10 20 (3.58%) Dell
10 20 (3.58%) Splunk
11 19 (3.41%) HP
12 17 (3.05%) Fortinet
13 16 (2.87%) CrowdStrike
14 13 (2.33%) ServiceNow
15 11 (1.97%) Zscaler
16 8 (1.43%) Sophos
16 8 (1.43%) Yealink