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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 209 232
Rank change year-on-year -61 +23 -15
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 759 760 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.54% 1.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.33% 10.45% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 593 537 798
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,597 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £36,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -4.11% -2.67% -11.76%

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 7,348 7,272 10,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.14% 14.72% 12.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,753 4,168 6,943
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -13.27% -5.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £64,275
90th Percentile £86,450 £81,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,750 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% -16.67% -

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -50 708 £37,500 - 292
UK excluding London -51 538 £35,000 -4.11% 217
Work from Home +18 237 £40,000 -11.11% 107
London -35 206 £60,000 +14.29% 109
South East -19 166 £37,500 +5.63% 71
North of England -10 144 £32,500 -13.33% 48
Midlands -53 87 £32,750 +0.77% 30
North West +38 73 £32,250 -19.38% 25
East of England -28 59 £35,000 -26.32% 20
Yorkshire -46 55 £32,500 -16.13% 15
East Midlands -18 46 £32,500 +4.00% 11
South West -59 46 £33,500 -6.29% 37
West Midlands -42 41 £33,250 +2.31% 19
Wales -60 22 £40,000 +14.29% 4
North East -54 16 £40,000 +25.00% 10
Scotland -3 11 £60,476 +27.32% 9
Northern Ireland - 3 £71,991 - 4

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
1 135 (17.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 95 (12.52%) SharePoint
3 23 (3.03%) IIS
4 12 (1.58%) Apache
5 3 (0.40%) SAS
6 1 (0.13%) Confluence
6 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 58 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Houdini
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Fidessa
1 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 329 (43.35%) Microsoft 365
2 323 (42.56%) Azure
3 160 (21.08%) Entra ID
4 142 (18.71%) AWS
5 39 (5.14%) GCP
6 25 (3.29%) OneDrive
7 22 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (2.50%) IaaS
9 15 (1.98%) dbt
9 15 (1.98%) GitHub
9 15 (1.98%) PaaS
9 15 (1.98%) SaaS
10 13 (1.71%) OpenShift
11 10 (1.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 9 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (1.05%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 439 (57.84%) DNS
2 340 (44.80%) DHCP
3 339 (44.66%) Firewall
4 247 (32.54%) VPN
5 186 (24.51%) WAN
6 180 (23.72%) LAN
7 150 (19.76%) VLAN
8 88 (11.59%) Network Security
9 85 (11.20%) Wi-Fi
10 69 (9.09%) HTTP
11 66 (8.70%) VoIP
11 66 (8.70%) Wireless
12 57 (7.51%) BGP
13 44 (5.80%) OSPF
14 42 (5.53%) SD-WAN
15 25 (3.29%) Multicast
16 19 (2.50%) SSL
17 18 (2.37%) Ethernet
17 18 (2.37%) Wireshark
18 17 (2.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (1.45%) MySQL
5 7 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (0.79%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (0.79%) Redis
6 6 (0.79%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.66%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.53%) InfluxDB
9 3 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.40%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 1 (0.13%) KDB
11 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
11 1 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 28 (3.69%) JIRA
2 20 (2.64%) Git
3 12 (1.58%) Bitbucket
4 9 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.66%) GitLab
5 5 (0.66%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.26%) CMake
6 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.13%) GDB
7 1 (0.13%) LSMW
General
1 348 (45.85%) Social Skills
2 95 (12.52%) Analytical Skills
3 93 (12.25%) Finance
4 61 (8.04%) Telecoms
5 47 (6.19%) Law
6 42 (5.53%) Banking
6 42 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
7 33 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.43%) Electronics
9 24 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (3.03%) Aerospace
11 22 (2.90%) Retail
12 16 (2.11%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.98%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.84%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.19%) Legal
16 7 (0.92%) Automotive
16 7 (0.92%) Military
17 6 (0.79%) Digital Health
17 6 (0.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 199 (26.22%) IT Support
2 147 (19.37%) Support Engineer
3 122 (16.07%) IT Engineer
4 99 (13.04%) IT Support Engineer
5 97 (12.78%) Analyst
6 90 (11.86%) Network Engineer
7 83 (10.94%) Senior
8 64 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 59 (7.77%) Support Technician
10 58 (7.64%) 2nd Line Support
11 54 (7.11%) IT Technician
12 52 (6.85%) IT Support Technician
13 38 (5.01%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 38 (5.01%) Support Analyst
14 36 (4.74%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 33 (4.35%) IT Analyst
16 32 (4.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 29 (3.82%) Lead
18 27 (3.56%) IT Support Analyst
19 26 (3.43%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.37%) LDAP
2 16 (2.11%) React
3 15 (1.98%) WebSockets
4 13 (1.71%) gRPC
4 13 (1.71%) Node.js
5 12 (1.58%) Django
5 12 (1.58%) Middleware
6 11 (1.45%) .NET
7 10 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (1.19%) XML
9 8 (1.05%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.05%) JSON
10 7 (0.92%) 802.1X
10 7 (0.92%) REST
11 6 (0.79%) ARM Templates
11 6 (0.79%) CSS
11 6 (0.79%) HTML
12 4 (0.53%) ADO
12 4 (0.53%) COM
12 4 (0.53%) DCOM
Miscellaneous
1 110 (14.49%) Driving Licence
2 54 (7.11%) Onboarding
3 48 (6.32%) Data Centre
4 33 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (3.82%) Cyber Threat
6 23 (3.03%) Security Posture
7 21 (2.77%) Security Operations Centre
8 19 (2.50%) CCTV
8 19 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (2.11%) Cyber Defence
9 16 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (2.11%) FPGA
9 16 (2.11%) MPEG
10 15 (1.98%) PKI
11 13 (1.71%) Client/Server
11 13 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.58%) Replication
12 12 (1.58%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 459 (60.47%) Windows
2 250 (32.94%) Windows Server
3 186 (24.51%) Linux
4 95 (12.52%) Windows 10
5 56 (7.38%) Mac OS
6 31 (4.08%) Apple iOS
6 31 (4.08%) Unix
7 24 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (2.90%) Android
9 20 (2.64%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (2.37%) Ubuntu
11 14 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
12 11 (1.45%) CentOS
13 7 (0.92%) Debian
14 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.66%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
15 5 (0.66%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.66%) Windows 7
16 4 (0.53%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (36.63%) Problem-Solving
2 160 (21.08%) Customer Service
3 152 (20.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 123 (16.21%) Cybersecurity
5 111 (14.62%) ITIL
6 106 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 88 (11.59%) Disaster Recovery
8 84 (11.07%) Incident Response
9 81 (10.67%) Service Delivery
10 75 (9.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 74 (9.75%) Project Delivery
12 73 (9.62%) ITSM
13 72 (9.49%) DevOps
14 71 (9.35%) Mentoring
15 64 (8.43%) High Availability
16 59 (7.77%) CI/CD
17 57 (7.51%) SIEM
18 51 (6.72%) Computer Science
19 47 (6.19%) Incident Management
19 47 (6.19%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 136 (17.92%) Python
2 134 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 71 (9.35%) Bash
4 63 (8.30%) SQL
5 39 (5.14%) C++
6 26 (3.43%) C
7 22 (2.90%) Java
8 16 (2.11%) Perl
9 15 (1.98%) C#
10 14 (1.84%) VBA
11 13 (1.71%) JavaScript
12 11 (1.45%) Go
12 11 (1.45%) PHP
13 8 (1.05%) Bicep
14 7 (0.92%) Ruby
14 7 (0.92%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.66%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.53%) Pascal
17 4 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 130 (17.13%) Degree
2 92 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 81 (10.67%) Cisco Certification
4 70 (9.22%) SC Cleared
5 67 (8.83%) CCNA
6 58 (7.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 52 (6.85%) CCNP
8 28 (3.69%) Azure Certification
9 27 (3.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 24 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (2.37%) CREST Certified
13 16 (2.11%) HND
14 15 (1.98%) CEH
14 15 (1.98%) GCIA
15 14 (1.84%) HNC
15 14 (1.84%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (1.71%) GIAC
17 12 (1.58%) AWS Certification
18 11 (1.45%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.43%) SLA
2 26 (3.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 24 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.84%) GDPR
6 6 (0.79%) NIST
7 5 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.53%) QA
9 3 (0.40%) DICOM
9 3 (0.40%) HL7
9 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 321 (42.29%) Active Directory
2 136 (17.92%) Hyper-V
3 133 (17.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (3.95%) Docker
5 19 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (2.37%) Firmware
7 13 (1.71%) vSphere
8 10 (1.32%) KVM
8 10 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.13%) Ceph
12 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.13%) QEMU
12 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 118 (15.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 64 (8.43%) Terraform
3 53 (6.98%) Ansible
4 39 (5.14%) Kubernetes
5 34 (4.48%) FortiGate
6 19 (2.50%) Grafana
6 19 (2.50%) Prometheus
7 18 (2.37%) Jamf Pro
7 18 (2.37%) Nagios
8 14 (1.84%) QRadar
9 12 (1.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.19%) Puppet
11 8 (1.05%) Kibana
11 8 (1.05%) SCCM
11 8 (1.05%) WSUS
12 6 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.66%) McAfee ePO
13 5 (0.66%) SCVMM
13 5 (0.66%) VxRail
Vendors
1 421 (55.47%) Microsoft
2 156 (20.55%) VMware
3 105 (13.83%) Cisco
4 48 (6.32%) Fortinet
5 39 (5.14%) Veeam
6 37 (4.87%) Meraki
7 33 (4.35%) Palo Alto
8 32 (4.22%) Splunk
9 31 (4.08%) ServiceNow
10 28 (3.69%) SolarWinds
11 27 (3.56%) Google
12 25 (3.29%) Apple
13 23 (3.03%) HP
13 23 (3.03%) Red Hat
14 20 (2.64%) Sophos
15 18 (2.37%) SonicWALL
15 18 (2.37%) Zscaler
16 17 (2.24%) Dell
17 15 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
18 14 (1.84%) Citrix