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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 206 215
Rank change year-on-year -60 +9 +12
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 719 759 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.54% 1.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.90% 10.63% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 562 538 1,058
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,070
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £41,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.19% -7.22%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,375 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% -11.41%

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 7,265 7,143 12,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.35% 14.53% 12.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,658 4,123 8,778
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -7.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £39,416 £44,000
% change year-on-year +7.82% -10.42% -2.22%

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 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 15 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 -38 677 £37,500 -4.33% 330
UK excluding London -50 501 £35,000 -5.41% 305
Work from Home +7 222 £40,000 -15.79% 182
London -38 207 £60,000 +15.38% 78
South East -22 151 £37,500 +3.45% 102
North of England -8 144 £32,500 -14.47% 64
Midlands -49 78 £32,500 - 37
North West +27 70 £31,500 -20.25% 25
Yorkshire -43 56 £32,500 -13.33% 31
East of England -34 55 £35,000 -26.32% 33
East Midlands -21 43 £32,500 - 17
South West -61 42 £33,750 -11.65% 44
West Midlands -53 35 £33,250 +2.31% 20
Wales -57 21 £40,000 -23.81% 10
North East -56 18 £40,000 +25.00% 12
Scotland -1 8 £46,000 -3.16% 18
Northern Ireland - 2 £58,151 - 9

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 (18.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 95 (13.21%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.48%) IIS
4 10 (1.39%) Apache
5 4 (0.56%) Confluence
6 3 (0.42%) SAS
7 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 63 (8.76%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.28%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.14%) Houdini
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 319 (44.37%) Microsoft 365
2 302 (42.00%) Azure
3 154 (21.42%) Entra ID
4 131 (18.22%) AWS
5 31 (4.31%) GCP
6 21 (2.92%) OneDrive
7 20 (2.78%) IaaS
8 18 (2.50%) GitHub
9 16 (2.23%) PaaS
9 16 (2.23%) SaaS
10 12 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (1.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 9 (1.25%) OpenShift
13 8 (1.11%) Google Workspace
14 7 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (0.97%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 430 (59.81%) DNS
2 335 (46.59%) DHCP
3 315 (43.81%) Firewall
4 242 (33.66%) VPN
5 180 (25.03%) WAN
6 172 (23.92%) LAN
7 158 (21.97%) VLAN
8 85 (11.82%) Wi-Fi
9 79 (10.99%) Network Security
10 70 (9.74%) HTTP
11 60 (8.34%) BGP
12 59 (8.21%) VoIP
13 53 (7.37%) Wireless
14 40 (5.56%) OSPF
14 40 (5.56%) SD-WAN
15 24 (3.34%) Multicast
16 20 (2.78%) Ethernet
17 18 (2.50%) SSL
18 17 (2.36%) SMTP
18 17 (2.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.42%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.53%) MySQL
5 6 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.83%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.70%) Redis
7 4 (0.56%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.42%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.28%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.14%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.14%) KDB
10 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.14%) Power BI
10 1 (0.14%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 28 (3.89%) JIRA
2 15 (2.09%) Git
3 13 (1.81%) Bitbucket
3 13 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.83%) GitLab
5 5 (0.70%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.28%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.14%) CMake
7 1 (0.14%) LSMW
General
1 324 (45.06%) Social Skills
2 95 (13.21%) Finance
3 87 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (8.07%) Telecoms
5 51 (7.09%) Law
6 45 (6.26%) Organisational Skills
7 43 (5.98%) Banking
8 35 (4.87%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 26 (3.62%) Retail
10 21 (2.92%) Aerospace
11 18 (2.50%) Electronics
12 16 (2.23%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.95%) Public Sector
14 13 (1.81%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.39%) Legal
16 9 (1.25%) Back Office
17 8 (1.11%) Automotive
18 6 (0.83%) Spanish Language
19 5 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 195 (27.12%) IT Support
2 134 (18.64%) Support Engineer
3 111 (15.44%) IT Engineer
4 100 (13.91%) Analyst
5 89 (12.38%) IT Support Engineer
6 83 (11.54%) Network Engineer
7 72 (10.01%) Senior
8 62 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 60 (8.34%) Support Technician
10 58 (8.07%) 2nd Line Support
11 55 (7.65%) IT Technician
12 53 (7.37%) IT Support Technician
13 40 (5.56%) Support Analyst
14 38 (5.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 35 (4.87%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 34 (4.73%) IT Analyst
17 31 (4.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 30 (4.17%) Lead
19 28 (3.89%) IT Support Analyst
20 25 (3.48%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.64%) LDAP
2 14 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (1.95%) Middleware
2 14 (1.95%) WebSockets
3 13 (1.81%) gRPC
3 13 (1.81%) React
4 12 (1.67%) Node.js
5 11 (1.53%) .NET
6 10 (1.39%) Django
7 8 (1.11%) XML
8 7 (0.97%) 802.1X
8 7 (0.97%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.97%) JSON
8 7 (0.97%) RESTful
9 6 (0.83%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.83%) REST
10 5 (0.70%) CSS
10 5 (0.70%) HTML
11 4 (0.56%) ADO
11 4 (0.56%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 102 (14.19%) Driving Licence
2 45 (6.26%) Data Centre
3 42 (5.84%) Onboarding
4 31 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (4.03%) Cyber Threat
6 24 (3.34%) Security Posture
7 19 (2.64%) Security Operations Centre
8 17 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (2.23%) Cyber Defence
9 16 (2.23%) FPGA
10 15 (2.09%) MPEG
11 14 (1.95%) CCTV
11 14 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.95%) PKI
12 13 (1.81%) Client/Server
12 13 (1.81%) Replication
13 12 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.53%) Management Information System
15 10 (1.39%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 439 (61.06%) Windows
2 239 (33.24%) Windows Server
3 160 (22.25%) Linux
4 102 (14.19%) Windows 10
5 53 (7.37%) Mac OS
6 36 (5.01%) Apple iOS
7 26 (3.62%) Android
8 22 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (3.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (2.36%) Unix
10 14 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (1.81%) Ubuntu
12 9 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.97%) CentOS
13 7 (0.97%) Debian
14 6 (0.83%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.70%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.70%) VMS
16 4 (0.56%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (37.13%) Problem-Solving
2 155 (21.56%) Customer Service
3 123 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 120 (16.69%) Cybersecurity
5 105 (14.60%) ITIL
6 100 (13.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 91 (12.66%) Disaster Recovery
7 91 (12.66%) Service Delivery
8 74 (10.29%) Incident Response
9 71 (9.87%) ITSM
10 70 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 63 (8.76%) DevOps
11 63 (8.76%) Project Delivery
12 61 (8.48%) Mentoring
13 55 (7.65%) High Availability
14 54 (7.51%) SIEM
15 51 (7.09%) CI/CD
15 51 (7.09%) Incident Management
16 47 (6.54%) Computer Science
17 45 (6.26%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 126 (17.52%) PowerShell
2 118 (16.41%) Python
3 63 (8.76%) Bash
4 60 (8.34%) SQL
5 38 (5.29%) C++
6 26 (3.62%) Java
7 23 (3.20%) C
8 16 (2.23%) Go
9 15 (2.09%) C#
10 14 (1.95%) VBA
11 11 (1.53%) PHP
12 10 (1.39%) Perl
13 8 (1.11%) JavaScript
14 7 (0.97%) Bicep
14 7 (0.97%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.56%) Delphi
15 4 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.56%) Pascal
15 4 (0.56%) Ruby
16 3 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 120 (16.69%) Degree
2 76 (10.57%) Security Cleared
3 71 (9.87%) Cisco Certification
4 58 (8.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 57 (7.93%) CCNA
6 55 (7.65%) SC Cleared
7 47 (6.54%) CCNP
8 28 (3.89%) Azure Certification
9 25 (3.48%) CompTIA Security+
10 22 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.36%) CREST Certified
12 16 (2.23%) Network+ Certification
13 13 (1.81%) CEH
13 13 (1.81%) GCIA
14 12 (1.67%) HND
15 11 (1.53%) GIAC
15 11 (1.53%) RHCSA
16 10 (1.39%) AWS Certification
16 10 (1.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.48%) SLA
2 26 (3.62%) Cyber Essentials
2 26 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.36%) GDPR
4 15 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.70%) NIST
6 5 (0.70%) QA
7 4 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.56%) DICOM
7 4 (0.56%) HL7
8 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 318 (44.23%) Active Directory
2 129 (17.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 125 (17.39%) Hyper-V
4 25 (3.48%) Docker
5 15 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.09%) vSphere
6 13 (1.81%) Firmware
7 9 (1.25%) KVM
7 9 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.42%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.14%) QEMU
10 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 105 (14.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 57 (7.93%) Terraform
3 56 (7.79%) Ansible
4 38 (5.29%) Kubernetes
5 33 (4.59%) FortiGate
6 23 (3.20%) Grafana
6 23 (3.20%) Prometheus
7 18 (2.50%) Nagios
8 17 (2.36%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (2.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (1.95%) QRadar
11 9 (1.25%) Puppet
11 9 (1.25%) WSUS
12 8 (1.11%) Kibana
13 7 (0.97%) SCCM
13 7 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.83%) VxRail
15 5 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.70%) Control-M
15 5 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 410 (57.02%) Microsoft
2 155 (21.56%) VMware
3 89 (12.38%) Cisco
4 40 (5.56%) Veeam
5 37 (5.15%) Fortinet
5 37 (5.15%) Meraki
6 35 (4.87%) ServiceNow
7 30 (4.17%) Palo Alto
8 29 (4.03%) SolarWinds
8 29 (4.03%) Splunk
9 24 (3.34%) Apple
10 21 (2.92%) HP
11 20 (2.78%) Dell
12 19 (2.64%) Citrix
13 18 (2.50%) Red Hat
14 17 (2.36%) CrowdStrike
14 17 (2.36%) SonicWALL
15 16 (2.23%) Google
15 16 (2.23%) Sophos
16 15 (2.09%) Zscaler