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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 216 203
Rank change year-on-year -85 -13 +42
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 545 649 1,386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 1.49% 1.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.17% 9.95% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 409 461 1,163
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +10.59% -5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £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 8,833 6,525 12,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.71% 14.99% 13.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,027 3,746 9,385
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,949 £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% -5.00%
75th Percentile £69,390 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,500 £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 15 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 15 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 -64 501 £40,000 -9.09% 228
UK excluding London -85 334 £34,000 -20.00% 186
London -18 193 £57,500 +11.65% 66
Work from Home +11 155 £42,500 -20.48% 81
North of England 0 108 £34,000 -30.04% 37
South East -62 90 £35,000 -6.67% 67
Yorkshire -40 51 £32,500 -27.29% 14
Midlands -75 45 £32,500 - 20
North West +9 41 £40,000 -15.79% 20
South West -34 37 £38,000 -26.54% 29
East Midlands -29 30 £32,500 +4.84% 6
East of England -49 28 £43,750 -5.41% 28
Wales -33 17 £29,500 -54.62% 7
North East -23 16 £45,000 -35.14% 4
West Midlands -66 15 £35,375 +4.81% 14
Scotland -28 8 £46,000 -8.00% 5
Northern Ireland -35 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 (19.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 70 (12.84%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.39%) IIS
4 5 (0.92%) Confluence
5 2 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 73 (13.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.37%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 240 (44.04%) Azure
2 225 (41.28%) Microsoft 365
3 108 (19.82%) AWS
4 106 (19.45%) Entra ID
5 32 (5.87%) GCP
6 25 (4.59%) Google Workspace
7 21 (3.85%) OneDrive
8 19 (3.49%) GitHub
9 18 (3.30%) IaaS
10 16 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.57%) PaaS
13 11 (2.02%) SaaS
14 10 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (1.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 6 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
16 6 (1.10%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 333 (61.10%) DNS
2 260 (47.71%) DHCP
3 206 (37.80%) Firewall
4 166 (30.46%) VPN
5 152 (27.89%) WAN
6 134 (24.59%) LAN
7 104 (19.08%) VLAN
8 64 (11.74%) Wi-Fi
9 54 (9.91%) HTTP
10 52 (9.54%) Network Security
11 39 (7.16%) SD-WAN
12 37 (6.79%) VoIP
13 36 (6.61%) Wireless
14 35 (6.42%) BGP
15 28 (5.14%) OSPF
16 19 (3.49%) Multicast
16 19 (3.49%) SMTP
17 15 (2.75%) Wireshark
18 14 (2.57%) SAN
19 11 (2.02%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.97%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.28%) MySQL
5 6 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.92%) Redis
6 5 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.73%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.37%) Power BI
10 1 (0.18%) KDB
10 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.18%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 17 (3.12%) Jenkins
2 16 (2.94%) Git
3 10 (1.83%) Bitbucket
4 9 (1.65%) JIRA
5 8 (1.47%) GitLab
5 8 (1.47%) Metasploit
6 4 (0.73%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.37%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.18%) CMake
9 1 (0.18%) Selenium
9 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 220 (40.37%) Social Skills
2 94 (17.25%) Finance
3 70 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.71%) Law
5 41 (7.52%) Banking
6 38 (6.97%) Telecoms
7 31 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (3.30%) Investment Banking
11 17 (3.12%) Retail
12 16 (2.94%) Aerospace
13 14 (2.57%) Back Office
14 13 (2.39%) Legal
14 13 (2.39%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.39%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.65%) Automotive
16 7 (1.28%) Electronics
17 6 (1.10%) Spanish Language
18 5 (0.92%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 142 (26.06%) IT Support
2 80 (14.68%) Support Engineer
3 76 (13.94%) Analyst
4 67 (12.29%) Senior
5 58 (10.64%) IT Engineer
6 55 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 53 (9.72%) IT Support Engineer
7 53 (9.72%) Support Technician
8 51 (9.36%) 2nd Line Support
9 47 (8.62%) Network Engineer
10 42 (7.71%) IT Support Technician
10 42 (7.71%) IT Technician
11 35 (6.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 33 (6.06%) Support Analyst
13 32 (5.87%) Developer
14 30 (5.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 29 (5.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 26 (4.77%) C++ Developer
17 22 (4.04%) Infrastructure Support
18 19 (3.49%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (2.02%) gRPC
2 11 (2.02%) LDAP
2 11 (2.02%) WebSockets
3 8 (1.47%) .NET
3 8 (1.47%) REST
4 6 (1.10%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.10%) Django
5 5 (0.92%) ARM Templates
5 5 (0.92%) React
5 5 (0.92%) RESTful
6 4 (0.73%) ADO
6 4 (0.73%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (0.73%) Middleware
6 4 (0.73%) Qt
7 3 (0.55%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.55%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.55%) Node.js
7 3 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.55%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 69 (12.66%) Driving Licence
2 34 (6.24%) Data Centre
3 28 (5.14%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
5 19 (3.49%) EPoS
5 19 (3.49%) FPGA
5 19 (3.49%) Security Posture
6 18 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (3.30%) Video Conferencing
7 13 (2.39%) Replication
8 12 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
9 11 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (2.02%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.83%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.83%) MPEG
10 10 (1.83%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.65%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 330 (60.55%) Windows
2 186 (34.13%) Windows Server
3 125 (22.94%) Linux
4 95 (17.43%) Windows 10
5 40 (7.34%) Mac OS
6 38 (6.97%) Apple iOS
7 27 (4.95%) Android
8 24 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (3.12%) Unix
11 14 (2.57%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (1.28%) Windows 7
13 6 (1.10%) CentOS
13 6 (1.10%) VMS
14 4 (0.73%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.73%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.55%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.37%) Rocky
16 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (35.41%) Problem-Solving
2 104 (19.08%) Customer Service
3 86 (15.78%) ITIL
4 78 (14.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 67 (12.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 64 (11.74%) Cybersecurity
7 63 (11.56%) Service Delivery
8 60 (11.01%) Disaster Recovery
9 58 (10.64%) DevOps
10 55 (10.09%) Incident Response
11 47 (8.62%) Incident Management
12 46 (8.44%) CI/CD
13 44 (8.07%) Root Cause Analysis
14 40 (7.34%) SIEM
15 38 (6.97%) Mentoring
16 37 (6.79%) ITSM
17 36 (6.61%) High Availability
18 34 (6.24%) Computer Science
18 34 (6.24%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 102 (18.72%) Python
2 101 (18.53%) PowerShell
3 55 (10.09%) Bash
4 39 (7.16%) C++
5 37 (6.79%) SQL
6 28 (5.14%) Java
7 21 (3.85%) C
8 19 (3.49%) Go
9 14 (2.57%) C#
10 6 (1.10%) Bicep
10 6 (1.10%) Perl
11 4 (0.73%) Delphi
11 4 (0.73%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.73%) Pascal
11 4 (0.73%) PHP
12 3 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
12 3 (0.55%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.37%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.18%) Korn
Qualifications
1 80 (14.68%) Degree
2 50 (9.17%) Security Cleared
3 42 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 41 (7.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 36 (6.61%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (5.14%) CCNA
7 23 (4.22%) Azure Certification
7 23 (4.22%) CCNP
8 19 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (3.12%) CompTIA Security+
10 15 (2.75%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (2.39%) CREST Certified
12 11 (2.02%) DBS Check
12 11 (2.02%) RHCSA
13 9 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (1.65%) MCDST
13 9 (1.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (1.47%) GIAC
15 7 (1.28%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.16%) SLA
2 26 (4.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.67%) GDPR
4 13 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.10%) QA
7 5 (0.92%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.73%) DICOM
8 4 (0.73%) HL7
9 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.37%) GxP
10 2 (0.37%) NIST
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 240 (44.04%) Active Directory
2 100 (18.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (13.76%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.30%) Docker
5 13 (2.39%) Firmware
5 13 (2.39%) vSphere
6 11 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.47%) KVM
8 6 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.55%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.18%) QEMU
11 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 73 (13.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (9.54%) Terraform
3 51 (9.36%) Ansible
4 31 (5.69%) Kubernetes
5 24 (4.40%) Grafana
5 24 (4.40%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (3.67%) Nagios
8 18 (3.30%) FortiGate
9 15 (2.75%) Jamf Pro
10 10 (1.83%) QRadar
11 9 (1.65%) SCCM
12 8 (1.47%) Puppet
13 6 (1.10%) vCenter Server
13 6 (1.10%) VxRail
13 6 (1.10%) WSUS
14 5 (0.92%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.73%) Autotask
15 4 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 298 (54.68%) Microsoft
2 126 (23.12%) VMware
3 61 (11.19%) Cisco
4 31 (5.69%) SolarWinds
5 29 (5.32%) Meraki
6 28 (5.14%) Google
7 25 (4.59%) Veeam
8 24 (4.40%) Citrix
9 23 (4.22%) Palo Alto
9 23 (4.22%) Red Hat
10 20 (3.67%) Apple
10 20 (3.67%) Dell
11 19 (3.49%) HP
12 18 (3.30%) Splunk
13 16 (2.94%) Fortinet
14 15 (2.75%) CrowdStrike
15 12 (2.20%) ServiceNow
16 10 (1.83%) Zscaler
17 8 (1.47%) Logitech
17 8 (1.47%) Yealink