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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 206 196
Rank change year-on-year -60 -10 +36
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 610 612 1,385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.50% 1.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.88% 11.73% 11.29%
Number of salaries quoted 457 494 1,157
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £33,200 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £48,504 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +14.13% -5.56%
75th Percentile £59,084 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £78,750 £73,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £47,500 £38,250
% change year-on-year -28.42% +24.18% -4.38%

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 10,367 5,218 12,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.44% 12.75% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4,090 3,752 9,509
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,843 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.02% +9.14% -6.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £46,000 £43,227
% change year-on-year -18.48% +6.41% -3.94%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -40 558 £38,000 -19.15% 197
UK excluding London -88 361 £34,000 -28.42% 174
London +14 224 £46,250 -10.19% 42
Work from Home -11 178 £43,750 -27.08% 79
North of England -34 117 £34,000 -30.26% 49
South East -57 83 £35,500 -5.33% 50
Yorkshire -38 54 £32,500 -27.29% 17
South West -20 50 £40,000 -20.00% 25
Midlands -68 45 £32,500 -7.14% 25
North West -21 44 £40,000 -20.00% 26
East of England -53 39 £34,000 -28.42% 20
East Midlands -49 31 £32,500 -16.13% 8
North East -16 19 £46,250 -33.34% 7
West Midlands -39 14 £45,000 +28.57% 17
Wales -34 13 £37,000 -46.61% 4
Scotland -38 12 £55,000 +10.00% 5
Northern Ireland -39 2 £73,801 +6.48% 2

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
1 129 (21.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 79 (12.95%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.80%) IIS
4 4 (0.66%) Confluence
5 2 (0.33%) Apache
5 2 (0.33%) CMS
5 2 (0.33%) nginx
5 2 (0.33%) WordPress
6 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 84 (13.77%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 300 (49.18%) Azure
2 271 (44.43%) Microsoft 365
3 125 (20.49%) AWS
3 125 (20.49%) Entra ID
4 51 (8.36%) GCP
5 36 (5.90%) Google Workspace
6 26 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
6 26 (4.26%) OneDrive
7 23 (3.77%) SaaS
8 22 (3.61%) GitHub
9 21 (3.44%) IaaS
10 20 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (3.28%) PaaS
11 19 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (2.95%) Amazon ECR
12 18 (2.95%) dbt
12 18 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (2.95%) Pulumi
13 11 (1.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 10 (1.64%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 361 (59.18%) DNS
2 303 (49.67%) DHCP
3 217 (35.57%) Firewall
4 176 (28.85%) VPN
5 143 (23.44%) WAN
6 127 (20.82%) VLAN
7 126 (20.66%) LAN
8 84 (13.77%) Wi-Fi
9 58 (9.51%) Wireless
10 53 (8.69%) VoIP
11 50 (8.20%) Network Security
12 40 (6.56%) HTTP
13 37 (6.07%) SD-WAN
14 29 (4.75%) BGP
15 21 (3.44%) OSPF
16 18 (2.95%) Wireshark
17 17 (2.79%) Multicast
18 16 (2.62%) SMTP
19 14 (2.30%) SAN
20 13 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.39%) SQL Server
2 38 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
5 18 (2.95%) Redis
6 10 (1.64%) Power BI
7 7 (1.15%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.98%) MySQL
9 3 (0.49%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.49%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.33%) JasperReports
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.16%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.16%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.16%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 22 (3.61%) Jenkins
2 18 (2.95%) Git
3 13 (2.13%) JIRA
4 12 (1.97%) Metasploit
5 10 (1.64%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.31%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.66%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.49%) GitLab
9 2 (0.33%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (0.33%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.16%) CMake
10 1 (0.16%) Selenium
10 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 271 (44.43%) Social Skills
2 96 (15.74%) Finance
3 69 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.21%) Law
5 43 (7.05%) Banking
6 39 (6.39%) Telecoms
7 32 (5.25%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 26 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
10 20 (3.28%) Investment Banking
11 19 (3.11%) Retail
12 17 (2.79%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.79%) Public Sector
13 14 (2.30%) Back Office
14 13 (2.13%) Aerospace
14 13 (2.13%) Legal
15 10 (1.64%) Automotive
16 8 (1.31%) Electronics
17 7 (1.15%) Marketing
18 6 (0.98%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 186 (30.49%) IT Support
2 125 (20.49%) Support Engineer
3 90 (14.75%) IT Engineer
4 86 (14.10%) IT Support Engineer
5 80 (13.11%) 2nd Line Support
6 77 (12.62%) Senior
7 61 (10.00%) Support Technician
8 60 (9.84%) Analyst
9 55 (9.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 50 (8.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 50 (8.20%) IT Support Technician
10 50 (8.20%) IT Technician
11 49 (8.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 37 (6.07%) Developer
13 36 (5.90%) Support Analyst
14 34 (5.57%) Network Engineer
15 29 (4.75%) C++ Developer
16 26 (4.26%) Lead
17 23 (3.77%) Infrastructure Support
18 21 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.95%) Django
1 18 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (0.98%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (0.98%) REST
2 6 (0.98%) RESTful
3 5 (0.82%) .NET
3 5 (0.82%) 802.1X
3 5 (0.82%) gRPC
3 5 (0.82%) LDAP
3 5 (0.82%) Qt
3 5 (0.82%) WebSockets
4 4 (0.66%) Middleware
4 4 (0.66%) Sass
4 4 (0.66%) STL
4 4 (0.66%) ZeroMQ
5 3 (0.49%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.49%) ADO
5 3 (0.49%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.49%) QML
6 2 (0.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 80 (13.11%) Driving Licence
2 43 (7.05%) Onboarding
3 35 (5.74%) Data Centre
4 27 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (3.61%) FPGA
6 20 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
6 20 (3.28%) Video Conferencing
7 16 (2.62%) Cyber Threat
7 16 (2.62%) Replication
7 16 (2.62%) Security Posture
8 15 (2.46%) Cloud Native
8 15 (2.46%) EPoS
8 15 (2.46%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.13%) CCTV
9 13 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (2.13%) iPhone
10 12 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.97%) NHS
11 9 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 381 (62.46%) Windows
2 223 (36.56%) Windows Server
3 159 (26.07%) Linux
4 124 (20.33%) Windows 10
5 54 (8.85%) Mac OS
6 41 (6.72%) Apple iOS
7 36 (5.90%) Unix
8 34 (5.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 33 (5.41%) Android
10 25 (4.10%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 20 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (1.64%) CentOS
14 8 (1.31%) Mac OS X
14 8 (1.31%) Ubuntu
15 7 (1.15%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.82%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.66%) VMS
18 3 (0.49%) CoreOS
18 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
2 136 (22.30%) Customer Service
3 107 (17.54%) ITIL
4 79 (12.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 77 (12.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 68 (11.15%) DevOps
7 65 (10.66%) CI/CD
7 65 (10.66%) Service Delivery
8 63 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
9 56 (9.18%) Disaster Recovery
10 49 (8.03%) Root Cause Analysis
11 44 (7.21%) Mentoring
12 43 (7.05%) ITSM
13 42 (6.89%) Incident Response
14 40 (6.56%) Incident Management
15 38 (6.23%) Computer Science
16 37 (6.07%) Agile
17 36 (5.90%) High Availability
18 34 (5.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 122 (20.00%) Python
2 106 (17.38%) PowerShell
3 54 (8.85%) Bash
4 45 (7.38%) C++
5 37 (6.07%) Java
6 33 (5.41%) SQL
7 31 (5.08%) C
8 25 (4.10%) Go
9 14 (2.30%) C#
10 5 (0.82%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.66%) Bicep
11 4 (0.66%) Delphi
11 4 (0.66%) Pascal
11 4 (0.66%) PHP
12 2 (0.33%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.33%) Perl
12 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.33%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.16%) Korn
13 1 (0.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 98 (16.07%) Degree
2 60 (9.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 57 (9.34%) Security Cleared
4 48 (7.87%) SC Cleared
5 38 (6.23%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (5.08%) Azure Certification
6 31 (5.08%) CCNA
7 25 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (3.61%) CCNP
9 20 (3.28%) Network+ Certification
10 19 (3.11%) A+ Certification
11 15 (2.46%) DBS Check
11 15 (2.46%) ITIL Certification
11 15 (2.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 11 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
12 11 (1.80%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.64%) MCSE
14 9 (1.48%) DV Cleared
14 9 (1.48%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (4.59%) SLA
3 19 (3.11%) GDPR
4 15 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.48%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.48%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.31%) QA
7 6 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.66%) DICOM
8 4 (0.66%) HL7
9 3 (0.49%) NIST
10 2 (0.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.33%) GxP
10 2 (0.33%) PMO
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 295 (48.36%) Active Directory
2 119 (19.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 101 (16.56%) Hyper-V
4 31 (5.08%) Docker
5 14 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.13%) vSphere
7 11 (1.80%) KVM
8 10 (1.64%) Firmware
9 5 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.66%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.33%) XenApp
12 1 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.16%) QEMU
12 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 95 (15.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (11.48%) Terraform
3 58 (9.51%) Ansible
4 28 (4.59%) Kubernetes
5 23 (3.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (3.28%) Grafana
6 20 (3.28%) Prometheus
7 16 (2.62%) FortiGate
7 16 (2.62%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (1.80%) SCCM
9 10 (1.64%) AWS Copilot
9 10 (1.64%) Nessus
10 9 (1.48%) Nagios
10 9 (1.48%) Puppet
11 8 (1.31%) Nmap
12 6 (0.98%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.66%) Autotask
13 4 (0.66%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.66%) McAfee ePO
13 4 (0.66%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 330 (54.10%) Microsoft
2 146 (23.93%) VMware
3 67 (10.98%) Cisco
4 55 (9.02%) Google
5 29 (4.75%) Citrix
6 28 (4.59%) Palo Alto
7 27 (4.43%) Veeam
8 26 (4.26%) Apple
8 26 (4.26%) SolarWinds
9 24 (3.93%) Red Hat
10 23 (3.77%) Meraki
11 20 (3.28%) Dell
11 20 (3.28%) Fortinet
12 18 (2.95%) HP
13 13 (2.13%) ServiceNow
14 11 (1.80%) CheckPoint
14 11 (1.80%) SonicWALL
15 10 (1.64%) Juniper
15 10 (1.64%) Sophos
16 9 (1.48%) Zscaler