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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 225 201
Rank change year-on-year -21 -24 -26
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 881 707 999
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.42% 1.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.20% 9.88% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 665 500 558
10th Percentile £28,350 £27,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% -5.01%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,075 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £34,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year +9.49% -19.41% -

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 7,863 7,156 8,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.66% 14.41% 12.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,853 3,943 4,452
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £28,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £39,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -24.27% +0.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £34,000 £48,256
% change year-on-year +32.35% -29.54% +7.24%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -13 827 £40,000 +6.67% 743
UK excluding London -43 614 £37,500 +9.49% 491
Work from Home +26 257 £40,000 -1.23% 271
London -3 250 £55,000 - 304
South East -27 180 £38,000 +1.33% 141
North of England -20 146 £33,000 -5.71% 108
Midlands -34 123 £36,000 +10.77% 63
East of England -15 85 £35,000 -9.68% 65
North West +22 80 £32,125 -20.68% 62
West Midlands -22 74 £37,500 +15.38% 29
Yorkshire -44 54 £33,500 - 32
East Midlands -41 49 £36,000 +10.77% 34
South West -75 45 £32,500 -5.80% 54
Wales -75 15 £45,000 +28.57% 19
Scotland +1 14 £63,451 +111.50% 33
North East -79 12 £40,000 +37.93% 17
Northern Ireland - 6 £40,250 - 12

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
1 146 (16.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 117 (13.28%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.72%) IIS
4 16 (1.82%) Apache
5 7 (0.79%) Confluence
6 5 (0.57%) WinCC
7 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.34%) SAS
8 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.23%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.11%) Houdini
4 1 (0.11%) NUKE
4 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (0.91%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.23%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.23%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.11%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.11%) Eikon
3 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 404 (45.86%) Microsoft 365
2 342 (38.82%) Azure
3 240 (27.24%) Entra ID
4 138 (15.66%) AWS
5 48 (5.45%) OneDrive
6 46 (5.22%) GCP
7 29 (3.29%) SaaS
8 21 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (2.16%) Google Workspace
10 14 (1.59%) dbt
10 14 (1.59%) OpenShift
11 11 (1.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 10 (1.14%) IaaS
13 9 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (0.91%) Serverless
15 7 (0.79%) PaaS
16 6 (0.68%) Datadog
16 6 (0.68%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 554 (62.88%) DNS
2 439 (49.83%) DHCP
3 406 (46.08%) Firewall
4 378 (42.91%) VPN
5 207 (23.50%) WAN
6 205 (23.27%) VLAN
7 201 (22.81%) LAN
8 133 (15.10%) Wi-Fi
9 110 (12.49%) Wireless
10 107 (12.15%) Network Security
11 75 (8.51%) HTTP
12 72 (8.17%) BGP
13 69 (7.83%) VoIP
14 57 (6.47%) OSPF
15 42 (4.77%) SD-WAN
16 37 (4.20%) SSL
17 31 (3.52%) Ethernet
18 27 (3.06%) Internet
19 23 (2.61%) FTP
20 22 (2.50%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (6.81%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.16%) MySQL
3 15 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.02%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.68%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (0.68%) Redis
7 5 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.57%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.34%) InfluxDB
9 3 (0.34%) KDB
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.11%) Db2
10 1 (0.11%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 34 (3.86%) JIRA
2 24 (2.72%) Git
3 13 (1.48%) GitLab
4 6 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (0.68%) TeamCity
5 5 (0.57%) Selenium
6 4 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.23%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.23%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.11%) CMake
9 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.11%) GDB
9 1 (0.11%) LSMW
9 1 (0.11%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 422 (47.90%) Social Skills
2 118 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
3 99 (11.24%) Finance
4 66 (7.49%) Telecoms
5 47 (5.33%) Banking
6 40 (4.54%) Law
7 38 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (4.09%) Retail
9 33 (3.75%) Aerospace
9 33 (3.75%) Electronics
9 33 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (2.27%) Manufacturing
10 20 (2.27%) Public Sector
11 10 (1.14%) Automotive
12 9 (1.02%) Back Office
13 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.91%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.91%) Marketing
14 7 (0.79%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 234 (26.56%) IT Support
2 204 (23.16%) Support Engineer
3 176 (19.98%) IT Engineer
4 146 (16.57%) IT Support Engineer
5 124 (14.07%) Analyst
6 112 (12.71%) Senior
7 111 (12.60%) Network Engineer
8 91 (10.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 72 (8.17%) 2nd Line Support
10 66 (7.49%) Support Analyst
11 56 (6.36%) Support Technician
12 55 (6.24%) IT Technician
13 51 (5.79%) IT Support Technician
14 44 (4.99%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 42 (4.77%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 42 (4.77%) Lead
16 33 (3.75%) Infrastructure Support
16 33 (3.75%) IT Analyst
17 32 (3.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 31 (3.52%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (7.95%) Terraform
2 25 (2.84%) LDAP
3 22 (2.50%) React
4 17 (1.93%) XML
5 15 (1.70%) Node.js
6 14 (1.59%) RESTful
7 12 (1.36%) JSON
7 12 (1.36%) Middleware
7 12 (1.36%) WebSockets
8 10 (1.14%) CSS
8 10 (1.14%) Django
8 10 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
8 10 (1.14%) HTML
9 9 (1.02%) .NET
9 9 (1.02%) AngularJS
9 9 (1.02%) REST
10 8 (0.91%) gRPC
11 6 (0.68%) GraphQL
11 6 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.57%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 122 (13.85%) Driving Licence
2 101 (11.46%) Onboarding
3 44 (4.99%) Data Centre
4 34 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (3.18%) Cyber Threat
5 28 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (3.18%) Security Operations Centre
5 28 (3.18%) Security Posture
6 24 (2.72%) PKI
7 22 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
8 21 (2.38%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.27%) Client/Server
9 20 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (2.16%) Replication
11 18 (2.04%) CCTV
11 18 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
12 16 (1.82%) Cloud Native
13 13 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.36%) Social Media
15 11 (1.25%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 534 (60.61%) Windows
2 268 (30.42%) Windows Server
3 218 (24.74%) Linux
4 112 (12.71%) Windows 10
5 55 (6.24%) Mac OS
6 41 (4.65%) Unix
7 32 (3.63%) Ubuntu
8 25 (2.84%) Apple iOS
9 20 (2.27%) Android
10 19 (2.16%) Rocky
11 18 (2.04%) CentOS
11 18 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
12 15 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.79%) Debian
15 6 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
15 6 (0.68%) Solaris
16 5 (0.57%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.45%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (35.53%) Problem-Solving
2 216 (24.52%) Customer Service
3 202 (22.93%) Cybersecurity
4 187 (21.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 158 (17.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 131 (14.87%) ITIL
7 125 (14.19%) Disaster Recovery
8 97 (11.01%) Incident Response
9 93 (10.56%) Mentoring
10 84 (9.53%) Service Delivery
11 82 (9.31%) Project Delivery
12 80 (9.08%) ITSM
13 71 (8.06%) SIEM
14 69 (7.83%) Infrastructure as Code
15 68 (7.72%) Computer Science
16 65 (7.38%) CI/CD
17 63 (7.15%) DevOps
18 62 (7.04%) Software Engineering
19 61 (6.92%) High Availability
20 53 (6.02%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 172 (19.52%) Python
2 154 (17.48%) PowerShell
3 88 (9.99%) SQL
4 87 (9.88%) Bash
5 46 (5.22%) C++
6 27 (3.06%) Perl
7 24 (2.72%) JavaScript
8 21 (2.38%) C
8 21 (2.38%) Java
9 17 (1.93%) C#
9 17 (1.93%) Go
10 14 (1.59%) VBA
11 13 (1.48%) Ruby
12 10 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (1.14%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.14%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.02%) Bicep
14 7 (0.79%) PHP
14 7 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 146 (16.57%) Degree
2 111 (12.60%) Security Cleared
3 94 (10.67%) Cisco Certification
4 75 (8.51%) SC Cleared
5 73 (8.29%) CCNA
6 61 (6.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (6.47%) CCNP
8 36 (4.09%) CompTIA Security+
9 32 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 30 (3.41%) Azure Certification
11 26 (2.95%) CREST Certified
12 24 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 24 (2.72%) Network+ Certification
13 21 (2.38%) CISSP
13 21 (2.38%) DV Cleared
14 20 (2.27%) A+ Certification
14 20 (2.27%) CEH
15 19 (2.16%) GCIA
16 16 (1.82%) HND
17 15 (1.70%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (8.29%) SLA
2 45 (5.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 41 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (3.86%) GDPR
5 20 (2.27%) QA
6 18 (2.04%) NIST
7 12 (1.36%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.25%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.79%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.68%) GRC
10 6 (0.68%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.11%) DO-178B
12 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.11%) IASME
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 396 (44.95%) Active Directory
2 157 (17.82%) Hyper-V
3 138 (15.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.31%) Docker
5 33 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (3.06%) Firmware
7 12 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (1.36%) vSphere
8 10 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.23%) KVM
10 2 (0.23%) Snort
10 2 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.11%) QEMU
11 1 (0.11%) Samba
11 1 (0.11%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.11%) XenApp
11 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 149 (16.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (4.65%) Ansible
3 35 (3.97%) Kubernetes
4 31 (3.52%) FortiGate
5 21 (2.38%) QRadar
6 18 (2.04%) Grafana
7 16 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.70%) Prometheus
9 13 (1.48%) Nagios
10 9 (1.02%) Kibana
10 9 (1.02%) WSUS
11 8 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.57%) McAfee ePO
12 5 (0.57%) SCVMM
13 4 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.45%) Autotask
13 4 (0.45%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.45%) SCCM
13 4 (0.45%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.34%) Cilium
Vendors
1 505 (57.32%) Microsoft
2 162 (18.39%) VMware
3 127 (14.42%) Cisco
4 74 (8.40%) Fortinet
5 54 (6.13%) Veeam
6 50 (5.68%) Google
7 45 (5.11%) Splunk
8 41 (4.65%) ServiceNow
9 38 (4.31%) Palo Alto
10 30 (3.41%) Meraki
11 27 (3.06%) Dell
11 27 (3.06%) SonicWALL
12 26 (2.95%) Red Hat
13 23 (2.61%) SolarWinds
14 20 (2.27%) Sophos
15 18 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
15 18 (2.04%) WatchGuard
16 17 (1.93%) Ubiquiti
17 16 (1.82%) Apple
17 16 (1.82%) HP