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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 215 224
Rank change year-on-year -53 +9 -6
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 746 765 1,075
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.55% 1.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.15% 10.56% 9.95%
Number of salaries quoted 579 540 836
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £38,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.65% -8.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% -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 7,347 7,241 10,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.27% 14.69% 12.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,716 4,159 7,255
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £33,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -12.37% -5.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,375 £82,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -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 26 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 26 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 -39 701 £38,000 - 266
UK excluding London -53 525 £35,000 -5.41% 209
Work from Home -2 233 £40,000 -15.79% 96
London -30 209 £60,000 +14.29% 93
South East -21 163 £37,500 +4.90% 69
North of England -15 146 £32,500 -13.33% 43
Midlands -51 81 £32,500 - 26
North West +33 71 £32,250 -19.38% 21
East of England -26 58 £35,000 -26.32% 24
Yorkshire -48 58 £32,500 -13.33% 17
South West -61 44 £33,000 -7.69% 38
East Midlands -29 43 £32,500 - 11
West Midlands -44 38 £35,375 +8.85% 15
Wales -60 21 £40,000 +14.29% 4
North East -53 17 £37,500 +17.19% 7
Scotland +6 10 £57,500 +21.05% 10
Northern Ireland - 2 £58,151 - 3

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
1 130 (17.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 93 (12.47%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.22%) IIS
4 11 (1.47%) Apache
5 3 (0.40%) Confluence
5 3 (0.40%) SAS
6 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 60 (8.04%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) 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 (0.27%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.27%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 326 (43.70%) Microsoft 365
2 314 (42.09%) Azure
3 158 (21.18%) Entra ID
4 137 (18.36%) AWS
5 35 (4.69%) GCP
6 23 (3.08%) OneDrive
7 20 (2.68%) IaaS
8 16 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (2.14%) GitHub
8 16 (2.14%) PaaS
8 16 (2.14%) SaaS
9 13 (1.74%) OpenShift
10 11 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (1.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 10 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.21%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.21%) dbt
12 9 (1.21%) Google Workspace
13 8 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 436 (58.45%) DNS
2 336 (45.04%) DHCP
3 332 (44.50%) Firewall
4 242 (32.44%) VPN
5 188 (25.20%) WAN
6 182 (24.40%) LAN
7 151 (20.24%) VLAN
8 87 (11.66%) Network Security
9 85 (11.39%) Wi-Fi
10 71 (9.52%) HTTP
11 66 (8.85%) VoIP
12 63 (8.45%) Wireless
13 58 (7.77%) BGP
14 43 (5.76%) OSPF
15 42 (5.63%) SD-WAN
16 25 (3.35%) Multicast
17 20 (2.68%) SSL
18 18 (2.41%) Ethernet
18 18 (2.41%) WLAN
19 17 (2.28%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.50%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.47%) MySQL
5 6 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.67%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.67%) Redis
7 4 (0.54%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.40%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.27%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.13%) KDB
10 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 30 (4.02%) JIRA
2 18 (2.41%) Git
3 12 (1.61%) Bitbucket
4 11 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.67%) GitLab
5 5 (0.67%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.13%) CMake
7 1 (0.13%) LSMW
General
1 339 (45.44%) Social Skills
2 93 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
2 93 (12.47%) Finance
3 62 (8.31%) Telecoms
4 50 (6.70%) Law
5 42 (5.63%) Banking
6 40 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
7 34 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (3.22%) Electronics
9 24 (3.22%) Retail
10 23 (3.08%) Aerospace
11 16 (2.14%) Investment Banking
12 15 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.88%) Public Sector
14 9 (1.21%) Legal
15 7 (0.94%) Automotive
15 7 (0.94%) Military
16 6 (0.80%) Back Office
16 6 (0.80%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 197 (26.41%) IT Support
2 142 (19.03%) Support Engineer
3 118 (15.82%) IT Engineer
4 97 (13.00%) Analyst
5 95 (12.73%) IT Support Engineer
6 88 (11.80%) Network Engineer
7 78 (10.46%) Senior
8 64 (8.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 59 (7.91%) Support Technician
10 55 (7.37%) 2nd Line Support
11 54 (7.24%) IT Technician
12 52 (6.97%) IT Support Technician
13 38 (5.09%) Support Analyst
14 37 (4.96%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 35 (4.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 34 (4.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 33 (4.42%) IT Analyst
18 30 (4.02%) Lead
19 27 (3.62%) Developer
19 27 (3.62%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.41%) LDAP
2 15 (2.01%) React
3 14 (1.88%) Middleware
3 14 (1.88%) WebSockets
4 13 (1.74%) gRPC
5 12 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (1.61%) Node.js
6 11 (1.47%) .NET
7 10 (1.34%) Django
8 8 (1.07%) XML
9 7 (0.94%) 802.1X
9 7 (0.94%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.94%) JSON
9 7 (0.94%) REST
10 6 (0.80%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.67%) CSS
11 5 (0.67%) HTML
11 5 (0.67%) RESTful
12 4 (0.54%) ADO
12 4 (0.54%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 108 (14.48%) Driving Licence
2 50 (6.70%) Onboarding
3 47 (6.30%) Data Centre
4 32 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (3.89%) Cyber Threat
6 24 (3.22%) Security Posture
7 21 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
8 18 (2.41%) CCTV
8 18 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
9 17 (2.28%) FPGA
10 16 (2.14%) Cyber Defence
10 16 (2.14%) MPEG
11 15 (2.01%) PKI
12 14 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (1.74%) Client/Server
14 12 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.61%) Replication
14 12 (1.61%) Social Media
15 11 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (1.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 452 (60.59%) Windows
2 246 (32.98%) Windows Server
3 174 (23.32%) Linux
4 92 (12.33%) Windows 10
5 55 (7.37%) Mac OS
6 34 (4.56%) Apple iOS
7 24 (3.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (3.08%) Android
8 23 (3.08%) Unix
9 22 (2.95%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (2.01%) Ubuntu
10 15 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (1.21%) CentOS
12 7 (0.94%) Debian
12 7 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.67%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.67%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.67%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (36.46%) Problem-Solving
2 155 (20.78%) Customer Service
3 141 (18.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 123 (16.49%) Cybersecurity
5 110 (14.75%) ITIL
6 107 (14.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 90 (12.06%) Disaster Recovery
8 85 (11.39%) Service Delivery
9 79 (10.59%) Incident Response
10 72 (9.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 72 (9.65%) ITSM
11 70 (9.38%) Project Delivery
12 67 (8.98%) DevOps
12 67 (8.98%) Mentoring
13 62 (8.31%) High Availability
14 56 (7.51%) SIEM
15 54 (7.24%) CI/CD
16 49 (6.57%) Computer Science
17 47 (6.30%) Incident Management
17 47 (6.30%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 133 (17.83%) PowerShell
2 126 (16.89%) Python
3 66 (8.85%) Bash
4 60 (8.04%) SQL
5 38 (5.09%) C++
6 25 (3.35%) C
7 24 (3.22%) Java
8 15 (2.01%) C#
9 14 (1.88%) Go
9 14 (1.88%) VBA
10 13 (1.74%) Perl
11 11 (1.47%) PHP
12 10 (1.34%) JavaScript
13 9 (1.21%) Bicep
14 7 (0.94%) Search Processing Language
15 6 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.67%) Ruby
16 5 (0.67%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.54%) Pascal
17 4 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (16.62%) Degree
2 87 (11.66%) Security Cleared
3 79 (10.59%) Cisco Certification
4 66 (8.85%) SC Cleared
5 65 (8.71%) CCNA
6 56 (7.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 52 (6.97%) CCNP
8 29 (3.89%) Azure Certification
9 27 (3.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 23 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (2.41%) CREST Certified
13 15 (2.01%) CEH
13 15 (2.01%) GCIA
13 15 (2.01%) HND
13 15 (2.01%) Network+ Certification
14 13 (1.74%) GIAC
14 13 (1.74%) HNC
15 11 (1.47%) AWS Certification
15 11 (1.47%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.31%) SLA
2 26 (3.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.01%) GDPR
6 6 (0.80%) NIST
7 5 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.54%) QA
9 3 (0.40%) DICOM
9 3 (0.40%) HL7
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
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 321 (43.03%) Active Directory
2 130 (17.43%) Hyper-V
2 130 (17.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (3.35%) Docker
4 19 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (2.28%) Firmware
6 14 (1.88%) vSphere
7 10 (1.34%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (1.21%) KVM
8 9 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.13%) QEMU
11 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 112 (15.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 60 (8.04%) Terraform
3 54 (7.24%) Ansible
4 38 (5.09%) Kubernetes
5 35 (4.69%) FortiGate
6 21 (2.82%) Grafana
6 21 (2.82%) Prometheus
7 17 (2.28%) Jamf Pro
7 17 (2.28%) Nagios
8 14 (1.88%) QRadar
9 13 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.21%) Puppet
10 9 (1.21%) WSUS
11 8 (1.07%) Kibana
12 7 (0.94%) SCCM
13 6 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.80%) VxRail
14 5 (0.67%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.67%) McAfee ePO
14 5 (0.67%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 421 (56.43%) Microsoft
2 155 (20.78%) VMware
3 99 (13.27%) Cisco
4 45 (6.03%) Fortinet
5 39 (5.23%) Meraki
5 39 (5.23%) Veeam
6 33 (4.42%) ServiceNow
7 31 (4.16%) Palo Alto
7 31 (4.16%) Splunk
8 27 (3.62%) SolarWinds
9 25 (3.35%) Apple
10 22 (2.95%) Google
10 22 (2.95%) HP
11 20 (2.68%) Red Hat
12 19 (2.55%) Sophos
13 18 (2.41%) Dell
14 17 (2.28%) Citrix
14 17 (2.28%) SonicWALL
14 17 (2.28%) Zscaler
15 16 (2.14%) CrowdStrike