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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 204 204
Rank change year-on-year -87 0 +40
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 564 677 1,411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.60% 1.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.44% 11.32% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 419 489 1,174
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,250 £25,575
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £59,542 £66,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,758 £78,750 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £44,700 £37,500
% change year-on-year -23.94% +19.20% -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 10,373 5,980 13,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.55% 14.11% 13.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,013 3,789 9,504
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £34,000 £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 £67,500 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 30 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 30 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 -79 517 £40,000 -11.11% 169
UK excluding London -112 333 £34,000 -23.94% 153
London +8 209 £48,750 -7.14% 47
Work from Home -14 165 £42,500 -22.73% 73
North of England -38 110 £34,000 -23.94% 31
South East -84 78 £35,000 -6.67% 48
Yorkshire -53 50 £32,500 -27.29% 12
Midlands -73 47 £32,500 -7.14% 10
North West -24 45 £40,000 -5.88% 12
South West -31 41 £40,000 -22.67% 27
East Midlands -53 33 £32,500 +4.00% 2
East of England -60 32 £40,000 -15.79% 26
North East -21 15 £46,250 -33.34% 8
Wales -32 15 £29,500 -54.62% 10
West Midlands -56 14 £41,250 +17.86% 8
Scotland -45 9 £46,000 -8.00% 4
Northern Ireland -40 1 £73,801 -13.18% 6

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
1 113 (20.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 75 (13.30%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.13%) IIS
4 4 (0.71%) Confluence
5 2 (0.35%) Apache
5 2 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) CMS
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 73 (12.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.35%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 255 (45.21%) Azure
2 235 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
3 117 (20.74%) Entra ID
4 110 (19.50%) AWS
5 35 (6.21%) GCP
6 32 (5.67%) Google Workspace
7 25 (4.43%) OneDrive
8 22 (3.90%) GitHub
9 20 (3.55%) IaaS
10 19 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (2.84%) SaaS
13 15 (2.66%) PaaS
14 11 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
17 7 (1.24%) Route 53
17 7 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 6 (1.06%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 347 (61.52%) DNS
2 275 (48.76%) DHCP
3 210 (37.23%) Firewall
4 168 (29.79%) VPN
5 151 (26.77%) WAN
6 131 (23.23%) LAN
7 108 (19.15%) VLAN
8 72 (12.77%) Wi-Fi
9 52 (9.22%) HTTP
9 52 (9.22%) Network Security
10 44 (7.80%) Wireless
11 42 (7.45%) SD-WAN
11 42 (7.45%) VoIP
12 29 (5.14%) BGP
13 23 (4.08%) OSPF
14 19 (3.37%) Multicast
14 19 (3.37%) SMTP
15 18 (3.19%) Wireshark
16 14 (2.48%) SAN
17 11 (1.95%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.91%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (0.89%) MySQL
5 5 (0.89%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.89%) Power BI
5 5 (0.89%) Redis
5 5 (0.89%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.18%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.18%) KDB
8 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.18%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 20 (3.55%) Jenkins
2 17 (3.01%) Git
3 11 (1.95%) Metasploit
4 10 (1.77%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.42%) JIRA
6 7 (1.24%) Burp Suite
7 5 (0.89%) GitLab
8 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.35%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.18%) CMake
10 1 (0.18%) Selenium
10 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 236 (41.84%) Social Skills
2 98 (17.38%) Finance
3 71 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.45%) Law
5 41 (7.27%) Banking
6 35 (6.21%) Telecoms
7 31 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (3.37%) Investment Banking
11 18 (3.19%) Retail
12 17 (3.01%) Manufacturing
13 16 (2.84%) Public Sector
14 15 (2.66%) Aerospace
15 14 (2.48%) Back Office
16 13 (2.30%) Legal
17 10 (1.77%) Automotive
18 8 (1.42%) Electronics
19 6 (1.06%) Spanish Language
20 5 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 152 (26.95%) IT Support
2 98 (17.38%) Support Engineer
3 69 (12.23%) Analyst
4 68 (12.06%) Senior
5 67 (11.88%) IT Engineer
6 64 (11.35%) 2nd Line Support
7 63 (11.17%) IT Support Engineer
8 52 (9.22%) Support Technician
9 51 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 43 (7.62%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 41 (7.27%) IT Support Technician
11 41 (7.27%) IT Technician
12 40 (7.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 40 (7.09%) Network Engineer
13 36 (6.38%) Developer
14 34 (6.03%) Support Analyst
15 28 (4.96%) C++ Developer
16 27 (4.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 23 (4.08%) Infrastructure Support
18 22 (3.90%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (1.42%) LDAP
3 7 (1.24%) WebSockets
4 6 (1.06%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.06%) REST
4 6 (1.06%) RESTful
5 5 (0.89%) .NET
5 5 (0.89%) ARM Templates
5 5 (0.89%) Django
5 5 (0.89%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (0.89%) gRPC
5 5 (0.89%) Qt
6 4 (0.71%) ADO
6 4 (0.71%) Middleware
6 4 (0.71%) STL
7 3 (0.53%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.53%) QML
7 3 (0.53%) Sass
7 3 (0.53%) ZeroMQ
8 2 (0.35%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 73 (12.94%) Driving Licence
2 38 (6.74%) Onboarding
3 31 (5.50%) Data Centre
4 25 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (3.72%) FPGA
6 20 (3.55%) Cyber Threat
6 20 (3.55%) Video Conferencing
7 19 (3.37%) Security Posture
8 18 (3.19%) EPoS
9 14 (2.48%) Cloud Native
10 13 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (2.13%) Management Information System
11 12 (2.13%) Replication
12 10 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
12 10 (1.77%) iPhone
12 10 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.77%) MPEG
12 10 (1.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 350 (62.06%) Windows
2 201 (35.64%) Windows Server
3 132 (23.40%) Linux
4 110 (19.50%) Windows 10
5 46 (8.16%) Mac OS
6 39 (6.91%) Apple iOS
7 28 (4.96%) Android
8 26 (4.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 20 (3.55%) Unix
10 20 (3.55%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (2.84%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (1.42%) CentOS
13 7 (1.24%) Windows 7
14 6 (1.06%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.89%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.71%) VMS
17 3 (0.53%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.53%) Mac OS X
18 2 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (34.93%) Problem-Solving
2 116 (20.57%) Customer Service
3 90 (15.96%) ITIL
4 76 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 70 (12.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (10.99%) Cybersecurity
6 62 (10.99%) Disaster Recovery
6 62 (10.99%) Service Delivery
7 61 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (10.46%) DevOps
9 53 (9.40%) Incident Response
10 50 (8.87%) Root Cause Analysis
11 49 (8.69%) CI/CD
12 46 (8.16%) Incident Management
13 39 (6.91%) Mentoring
14 38 (6.74%) High Availability
14 38 (6.74%) ITSM
14 38 (6.74%) SIEM
15 35 (6.21%) Computer Science
16 34 (6.03%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 105 (18.62%) Python
2 100 (17.73%) PowerShell
3 55 (9.75%) Bash
4 40 (7.09%) C++
5 35 (6.21%) SQL
6 33 (5.85%) Java
7 24 (4.26%) C
8 23 (4.08%) Go
9 13 (2.30%) C#
10 6 (1.06%) Bicep
11 4 (0.71%) Delphi
11 4 (0.71%) Pascal
11 4 (0.71%) Perl
11 4 (0.71%) PHP
12 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.35%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.35%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.18%) Rust
Qualifications
1 85 (15.07%) Degree
2 46 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 46 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 40 (7.09%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.91%) Cisco Certification
5 31 (5.50%) CCNA
6 24 (4.26%) CCNP
7 23 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 23 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (2.84%) Network+ Certification
9 15 (2.66%) CompTIA Security+
10 14 (2.48%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.95%) CREST Certified
12 10 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (1.60%) A+ Certification
13 9 (1.60%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.60%) MCDST
13 9 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (1.42%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.67%) SLA
2 30 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.55%) GDPR
4 16 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.77%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.42%) QA
7 7 (1.24%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.71%) DICOM
8 4 (0.71%) HL7
8 4 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.53%) NIST
10 2 (0.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.35%) GxP
11 1 (0.18%) GRC
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 254 (45.04%) Active Directory
2 102 (18.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 78 (13.83%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.19%) Docker
5 13 (2.30%) Firmware
6 12 (2.13%) vSphere
7 11 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (1.77%) KVM
9 5 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.71%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.18%) QEMU
12 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 81 (14.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 59 (10.46%) Ansible
2 59 (10.46%) Terraform
3 30 (5.32%) Kubernetes
4 23 (4.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (3.72%) Grafana
5 21 (3.72%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.01%) FortiGate
7 15 (2.66%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (1.95%) Nagios
9 10 (1.77%) SCCM
10 9 (1.60%) Nessus
10 9 (1.60%) Puppet
11 7 (1.24%) Nmap
12 6 (1.06%) QRadar
12 6 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.06%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.89%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.89%) VxRail
13 5 (0.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 307 (54.43%) Microsoft
2 128 (22.70%) VMware
3 64 (11.35%) Cisco
4 35 (6.21%) Google
5 28 (4.96%) Meraki
6 27 (4.79%) Palo Alto
6 27 (4.79%) SolarWinds
7 24 (4.26%) Citrix
8 23 (4.08%) Red Hat
9 22 (3.90%) Veeam
10 21 (3.72%) Apple
10 21 (3.72%) Dell
11 20 (3.55%) HP
12 19 (3.37%) Fortinet
13 14 (2.48%) Splunk
14 13 (2.30%) CrowdStrike
15 12 (2.13%) ServiceNow
16 9 (1.60%) CheckPoint
16 9 (1.60%) Zscaler
17 8 (1.42%) Logitech