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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 221 208
Rank change year-on-year -64 -13 +32
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 617 705 1,420
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.58% 1.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.01% 10.47% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 481 494 1,141
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -9.33% - -7.41%

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 6,848 6,736 13,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.31% 15.06% 12.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,379 3,798 9,448
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £69,390 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -10.11% -1.11%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -58 577 £39,000 -6.02% 194
UK excluding London -74 409 £34,000 -9.33% 189
London -30 197 £57,500 +9.52% 38
Work from Home -4 178 £42,000 -18.45% 64
South East -28 127 £37,500 +1.35% 64
North of England -14 119 £34,000 -12.26% 35
Midlands -56 60 £32,500 - 30
Yorkshire -37 53 £32,500 -13.33% 8
North West +23 48 £32,250 -17.83% 23
East of England -43 38 £37,500 -21.05% 23
South West -48 36 £40,000 -11.11% 23
East Midlands -31 34 £32,500 +0.78% 11
West Midlands -44 26 £33,250 +2.31% 19
Wales -48 20 £37,000 -38.33% 3
North East -37 18 £40,000 +37.93% 6
Scotland -10 8 £46,000 -3.16% 2
Northern Ireland -32 1 £73,801 -13.18% 19

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
1 106 (17.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 76 (12.32%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.76%) IIS
4 5 (0.81%) Apache
5 4 (0.65%) Confluence
6 3 (0.49%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 70 (11.35%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.16%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 264 (42.79%) Azure
2 259 (41.98%) Microsoft 365
3 124 (20.10%) Entra ID
4 117 (18.96%) AWS
5 31 (5.02%) GCP
6 20 (3.24%) GitHub
7 19 (3.08%) OneDrive
8 18 (2.92%) IaaS
9 15 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (2.43%) SaaS
10 14 (2.27%) Google Workspace
10 14 (2.27%) PaaS
11 10 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (1.13%) OpenShift
13 6 (0.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (0.97%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 368 (59.64%) DNS
2 285 (46.19%) DHCP
3 247 (40.03%) Firewall
4 202 (32.74%) VPN
5 173 (28.04%) WAN
6 162 (26.26%) LAN
7 128 (20.75%) VLAN
8 72 (11.67%) Wi-Fi
9 65 (10.53%) Network Security
10 61 (9.89%) HTTP
11 44 (7.13%) BGP
11 44 (7.13%) VoIP
12 39 (6.32%) SD-WAN
13 33 (5.35%) OSPF
14 29 (4.70%) Wireless
15 22 (3.57%) Multicast
16 16 (2.59%) SMTP
17 15 (2.43%) Ethernet
17 15 (2.43%) Wireshark
17 15 (2.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.32%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.62%) MySQL
5 6 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.97%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.81%) Redis
7 4 (0.65%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.49%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.16%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.16%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.16%) Power BI
10 1 (0.16%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (2.76%) JIRA
2 16 (2.59%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.27%) Git
4 12 (1.94%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.97%) GitLab
6 4 (0.65%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.16%) CMake
8 1 (0.16%) LSMW
General
1 271 (43.92%) Social Skills
2 91 (14.75%) Finance
3 77 (12.48%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (7.78%) Law
5 47 (7.62%) Telecoms
6 43 (6.97%) Banking
7 41 (6.65%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (5.35%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (3.40%) Aerospace
11 19 (3.08%) Investment Banking
11 19 (3.08%) Retail
12 14 (2.27%) Back Office
13 10 (1.62%) Legal
13 10 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.62%) Public Sector
14 9 (1.46%) Electronics
15 8 (1.30%) Automotive
16 6 (0.97%) Spanish Language
17 5 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 164 (26.58%) IT Support
2 102 (16.53%) Support Engineer
3 91 (14.75%) Analyst
4 79 (12.80%) IT Engineer
5 69 (11.18%) Senior
6 65 (10.53%) IT Support Engineer
7 62 (10.05%) Network Engineer
8 60 (9.72%) Support Technician
9 57 (9.24%) 2nd Line Support
10 55 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 52 (8.43%) IT Technician
12 51 (8.27%) IT Support Technician
13 35 (5.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 33 (5.35%) Support Analyst
15 31 (5.02%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 31 (5.02%) Developer
15 31 (5.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (4.05%) IT Analyst
16 25 (4.05%) Lead
17 23 (3.73%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.76%) LDAP
2 15 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (2.11%) WebSockets
4 12 (1.94%) gRPC
5 11 (1.78%) .NET
5 11 (1.78%) React
6 10 (1.62%) Node.js
7 9 (1.46%) Django
7 9 (1.46%) Middleware
8 7 (1.13%) 802.1X
8 7 (1.13%) REST
9 6 (0.97%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.97%) RESTful
10 5 (0.81%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.81%) JSON
11 4 (0.65%) ADO
11 4 (0.65%) CSS
11 4 (0.65%) HTML
11 4 (0.65%) XML
12 3 (0.49%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 81 (13.13%) Driving Licence
2 39 (6.32%) Data Centre
3 24 (3.89%) Cyber Threat
3 24 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (3.40%) Security Posture
6 19 (3.08%) EPoS
6 19 (3.08%) FPGA
7 17 (2.76%) Security Operations Centre
8 16 (2.59%) Cyber Defence
9 14 (2.27%) Replication
10 13 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (2.11%) MPEG
11 11 (1.78%) CCTV
11 11 (1.78%) PKI
12 10 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.62%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.46%) Digital Signage
13 9 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 376 (60.94%) Windows
2 209 (33.87%) Windows Server
3 135 (21.88%) Linux
4 94 (15.24%) Windows 10
5 48 (7.78%) Mac OS
6 35 (5.67%) Apple iOS
7 23 (3.73%) Android
7 23 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
9 16 (2.59%) Unix
10 12 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (1.13%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.97%) CentOS
12 6 (0.97%) VMS
12 6 (0.97%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.81%) Debian
14 4 (0.65%) CoreOS
14 4 (0.65%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.32%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (35.98%) Problem-Solving
2 126 (20.42%) Customer Service
3 98 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 91 (14.75%) Cybersecurity
5 89 (14.42%) ITIL
6 81 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 78 (12.64%) Disaster Recovery
8 77 (12.48%) Service Delivery
9 68 (11.02%) Incident Response
10 66 (10.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 57 (9.24%) DevOps
12 52 (8.43%) ITSM
12 52 (8.43%) Mentoring
13 51 (8.27%) Incident Management
14 49 (7.94%) High Availability
15 47 (7.62%) CI/CD
16 46 (7.46%) Root Cause Analysis
16 46 (7.46%) SIEM
17 43 (6.97%) Project Delivery
18 37 (6.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 113 (18.31%) PowerShell
2 103 (16.69%) Python
3 59 (9.56%) Bash
4 52 (8.43%) SQL
5 40 (6.48%) C++
6 27 (4.38%) Java
7 24 (3.89%) C
8 19 (3.08%) Go
9 14 (2.27%) C#
10 9 (1.46%) PHP
11 8 (1.30%) Perl
11 8 (1.30%) VBA
12 7 (1.13%) JavaScript
12 7 (1.13%) Search Processing Language
13 6 (0.97%) Bicep
14 4 (0.65%) Delphi
14 4 (0.65%) Pascal
15 3 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.49%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 94 (15.24%) Degree
2 70 (11.35%) Security Cleared
3 53 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 51 (8.27%) Cisco Certification
5 43 (6.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (6.48%) CCNA
7 32 (5.19%) CCNP
8 27 (4.38%) Azure Certification
9 22 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
10 20 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.76%) Network+ Certification
12 16 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (2.59%) CREST Certified
13 12 (1.94%) GCIA
14 11 (1.78%) CEH
15 10 (1.62%) GIAC
15 10 (1.62%) OSCP
15 10 (1.62%) RHCSA
15 10 (1.62%) SANS
16 9 (1.46%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.08%) SLA
2 26 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.08%) GDPR
4 17 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (2.11%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.65%) DICOM
7 4 (0.65%) HL7
7 4 (0.65%) NIST
8 3 (0.49%) QA
8 3 (0.49%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 269 (43.60%) Active Directory
2 112 (18.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 99 (16.05%) Hyper-V
4 21 (3.40%) Docker
5 14 (2.27%) vSphere
6 12 (1.94%) Firmware
7 11 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (1.30%) KVM
9 7 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.16%) QEMU
12 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.16%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 84 (13.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 50 (8.10%) Terraform
3 48 (7.78%) Ansible
4 34 (5.51%) Kubernetes
5 27 (4.38%) FortiGate
6 24 (3.89%) Grafana
6 24 (3.89%) Prometheus
7 19 (3.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 19 (3.08%) Nagios
8 16 (2.59%) Jamf Pro
9 14 (2.27%) QRadar
10 8 (1.30%) Kibana
10 8 (1.30%) Puppet
11 6 (0.97%) SCCM
11 6 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.97%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.97%) VxRail
11 6 (0.97%) WSUS
12 5 (0.81%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.81%) Control-M
Vendors
1 347 (56.24%) Microsoft
2 140 (22.69%) VMware
3 70 (11.35%) Cisco
4 32 (5.19%) Veeam
5 31 (5.02%) Meraki
6 30 (4.86%) SolarWinds
7 26 (4.21%) Splunk
8 25 (4.05%) Apple
8 25 (4.05%) Fortinet
8 25 (4.05%) ServiceNow
9 23 (3.73%) Palo Alto
10 21 (3.40%) Citrix
11 20 (3.24%) Google
12 18 (2.92%) CrowdStrike
12 18 (2.92%) HP
12 18 (2.92%) Red Hat
13 17 (2.76%) Dell
14 12 (1.94%) Sophos
14 12 (1.94%) Zscaler
15 11 (1.78%) SonicWALL