TCP/IP Job Trends

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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 192 158
Rank change year-on-year -16 -34 +91
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 672 932 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.44% 2.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.23% 11.82% 13.36%
Number of salaries quoted 523 534 812
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,225 £27,524
25th Percentile £29,750 £33,200 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £45,075
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +5.38% +0.17%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £67,063
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £43,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% +10.47% +7.50%

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 7,279 7,883 7,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.44% 12.16% 15.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,067 4,065 6,389
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £53,050 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.31% +6.10% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -33.00% +11.11% -5.26%

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 1 December 2025.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Top 18 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 1 December 2025. 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 -9 613 £37,500 -21.46% 554
UK excluding London -13 463 £35,000 -26.32% 504
London +38 187 £52,500 +3.50% 118
Work from Home -14 170 £42,500 -19.89% 399
South East -20 120 £37,500 -21.05% 249
North of England +23 118 £32,500 -27.78% 52
Midlands +19 73 £35,750 +2.14% 40
South West -8 60 £34,500 -44.80% 59
East of England +3 54 £32,500 -18.75% 83
Yorkshire +12 53 £32,000 -27.27% 17
East Midlands +11 39 £31,500 -42.73% 23
North East +43 37 £29,000 -58.16% 6
West Midlands +29 34 £40,000 +14.29% 16
North West +1 28 £40,500 -10.00% 30
Wales +9 22 £50,500 +3.59% 14
Scotland -8 14 £43,000 +8.86% 18
Northern Ireland -14 2 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £65,000 -

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
1 172 (25.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 99 (14.73%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.38%) IIS
4 6 (0.89%) nginx
5 2 (0.30%) Apache
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.30%) CMS
5 2 (0.30%) Confluence
5 2 (0.30%) Traefik
5 2 (0.30%) WordPress
6 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 63 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.93%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.04%) AutoCAD
4 7 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.15%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.15%) Eikon
3 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.15%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 360 (53.57%) Microsoft 365
2 323 (48.07%) Azure
3 134 (19.94%) Entra ID
4 90 (13.39%) AWS
5 42 (6.25%) SaaS
6 37 (5.51%) GCP
7 33 (4.91%) PaaS
8 28 (4.17%) IaaS
9 26 (3.87%) OneDrive
10 25 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (2.98%) Amazon ECR
11 20 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (2.98%) dbt
11 20 (2.98%) Pulumi
12 16 (2.38%) Google Workspace
13 13 (1.93%) GitHub
14 12 (1.79%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 12 (1.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (1.79%) Sentry
15 9 (1.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 386 (57.44%) DNS
2 332 (49.40%) DHCP
3 272 (40.48%) Firewall
4 212 (31.55%) VPN
5 181 (26.93%) VLAN
6 146 (21.73%) WAN
7 139 (20.68%) LAN
8 87 (12.95%) Wi-Fi
9 75 (11.16%) VoIP
10 69 (10.27%) Wireless
11 68 (10.12%) Network Security
12 41 (6.10%) SD-WAN
13 35 (5.21%) OSPF
14 33 (4.91%) BGP
15 25 (3.72%) Internet
15 25 (3.72%) SAN
16 24 (3.57%) HTTP
16 24 (3.57%) SSL
17 21 (3.13%) MPLS
18 20 (2.98%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (6.99%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (2.98%) Redis
5 9 (1.34%) MySQL
5 9 (1.34%) Power BI
6 6 (0.89%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.30%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.30%) JasperReports
8 2 (0.30%) Metadata
8 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.15%) FileMaker
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 16 (2.38%) Git
2 14 (2.08%) JIRA
3 10 (1.49%) Burp Suite
3 10 (1.49%) Metasploit
4 9 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.89%) Snyk
6 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.30%) GitLab
7 2 (0.30%) IDA Disassembler
7 2 (0.30%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.30%) MLflow
7 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.15%) Fiddler
General
1 332 (49.40%) Social Skills
2 74 (11.01%) Finance
3 43 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (5.36%) Banking
5 35 (5.21%) Manufacturing
6 30 (4.46%) Telecoms
7 29 (4.32%) Law
8 25 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (2.83%) Legal
9 19 (2.83%) Retail
10 18 (2.68%) Investment Banking
11 16 (2.38%) Advertising
11 16 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.08%) Public Sector
13 12 (1.79%) Marketing
14 9 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.19%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.19%) Games
16 7 (1.04%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 182 (27.08%) IT Support
2 156 (23.21%) Support Engineer
3 99 (14.73%) IT Engineer
4 86 (12.80%) IT Support Engineer
5 81 (12.05%) 2nd Line Support
6 67 (9.97%) Senior
7 65 (9.67%) Analyst
8 58 (8.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 55 (8.18%) Support Technician
10 52 (7.74%) Technical Support
11 46 (6.85%) Support Analyst
12 45 (6.70%) IT Technician
13 42 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 42 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
14 41 (6.10%) IT Support Technician
15 39 (5.80%) Technical Support Engineer
16 37 (5.51%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 33 (4.91%) Network Engineer
18 32 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support
19 28 (4.17%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.98%) Django
2 11 (1.64%) .NET
3 9 (1.34%) 802.1X
4 5 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (0.74%) LDAP
5 4 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (0.60%) Kafka
5 4 (0.60%) OAuth
6 3 (0.45%) EDI
6 3 (0.45%) FreeSWITCH
6 3 (0.45%) Middleware
6 3 (0.45%) Node.js
6 3 (0.45%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.45%) RESTful
6 3 (0.45%) Web Services
7 2 (0.30%) QML
7 2 (0.30%) Qt
7 2 (0.30%) STL
7 2 (0.30%) WebRTC
7 2 (0.30%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.97%) Onboarding
2 64 (9.52%) Driving Licence
3 39 (5.80%) Data Centre
4 28 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.98%) FPGA
8 19 (2.83%) iPad
8 19 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
9 18 (2.68%) Video Conferencing
10 17 (2.53%) Cloud Native
11 16 (2.38%) Clustering
11 16 (2.38%) iPhone
12 14 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (2.08%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
13 13 (1.93%) Hedge funds
13 13 (1.93%) IoT
13 13 (1.93%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 402 (59.82%) Windows
2 237 (35.27%) Windows Server
3 149 (22.17%) Linux
4 119 (17.71%) Windows 10
5 49 (7.29%) Mac OS
6 40 (5.95%) Unix
7 24 (3.57%) Android
8 21 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (2.83%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 14 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (1.49%) Apple iOS
13 8 (1.19%) Mac OS X
13 8 (1.19%) Ubuntu
14 7 (1.04%) CentOS
14 7 (1.04%) VMS
15 6 (0.89%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.74%) FreeRTOS
17 4 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
17 4 (0.60%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (30.06%) Problem-Solving
2 137 (20.39%) Customer Service
3 131 (19.49%) Cybersecurity
4 106 (15.77%) ITIL
5 90 (13.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 63 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 59 (8.78%) DevOps
8 56 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 46 (6.85%) Mentoring
11 43 (6.40%) CI/CD
12 42 (6.25%) Agile
13 41 (6.10%) Collaborative Working
13 41 (6.10%) Root Cause Analysis
14 36 (5.36%) Computer Science
14 36 (5.36%) Migration
15 34 (5.06%) Incident Response
16 32 (4.76%) High Availability
17 30 (4.46%) Service Delivery
18 29 (4.32%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (17.41%) PowerShell
2 96 (14.29%) Python
3 48 (7.14%) C++
4 38 (5.65%) C
5 37 (5.51%) Java
6 36 (5.36%) SQL
7 29 (4.32%) Bash
8 9 (1.34%) C#
9 8 (1.19%) Go
10 7 (1.04%) VBScript
11 6 (0.89%) R
12 5 (0.74%) Bicep
12 5 (0.74%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.60%) Rust
14 3 (0.45%) Perl
15 2 (0.30%) Embedded C++
15 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.15%) Bourne shell
16 1 (0.15%) C-shell
16 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 102 (15.18%) Degree
2 71 (10.57%) Security Cleared
3 58 (8.63%) Cisco Certification
4 55 (8.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 55 (8.18%) SC Cleared
5 36 (5.36%) CCNA
6 34 (5.06%) CCNP
7 30 (4.46%) Azure Certification
8 27 (4.02%) A+ Certification
9 21 (3.13%) MCP
10 19 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.53%) Network+ Certification
12 15 (2.23%) CISSP
13 14 (2.08%) AWS Certification
13 14 (2.08%) DBS Check
13 14 (2.08%) HND
13 14 (2.08%) MCSA
14 13 (1.93%) CompTIA Security+
14 13 (1.93%) HNC
15 12 (1.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (3.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (3.13%) GDPR
4 18 (2.68%) SLA
5 6 (0.89%) NIST
6 5 (0.74%) GRC
6 5 (0.74%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.60%) MISRA
7 4 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.45%) QA
9 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.30%) GxP
9 2 (0.30%) NCSC
9 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.30%) PMO
10 1 (0.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.15%) JTAG
System Software
1 363 (54.02%) Active Directory
2 155 (23.07%) Hyper-V
3 137 (20.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (4.91%) Docker
5 20 (2.98%) vSphere
6 18 (2.68%) Firmware
7 13 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (1.34%) NFS
9 5 (0.74%) KVM
10 4 (0.60%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.45%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.45%) XenApp
12 2 (0.30%) pfSense
12 2 (0.30%) RHEV
12 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.30%) Xen
13 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 137 (20.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (7.74%) Terraform
3 30 (4.46%) SCCM
4 28 (4.17%) Ansible
5 21 (3.13%) FortiGate
6 18 (2.68%) Kubernetes
7 16 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 16 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.79%) AWS Copilot
8 12 (1.79%) Nessus
9 11 (1.64%) Autotask
10 10 (1.49%) Nmap
11 9 (1.34%) Nagios
12 8 (1.19%) Failover Clustering
13 7 (1.04%) Grafana
13 7 (1.04%) Prometheus
14 5 (0.74%) MaaS360
14 5 (0.74%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
16 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 389 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 141 (20.98%) VMware
3 123 (18.30%) Cisco
4 43 (6.40%) Google
5 41 (6.10%) Veeam
6 28 (4.17%) SonicWALL
7 27 (4.02%) Meraki
8 26 (3.87%) Palo Alto
9 25 (3.72%) Fortinet
10 24 (3.57%) Red Hat
11 23 (3.42%) Apple
12 19 (2.83%) WatchGuard
13 17 (2.53%) Bloomberg
13 17 (2.53%) Citrix
13 17 (2.53%) Reuters
14 15 (2.23%) SolarWinds
15 14 (2.08%) Juniper
15 14 (2.08%) Mitel
16 13 (1.93%) HP
17 12 (1.79%) Avaya