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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 219 209
Rank change year-on-year -60 -10 +18
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 679 722 1,387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.70% 1.54% 1.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.56% 10.43% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 536 510 1,114
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,750 £41,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% -2.35% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,938 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,125 £75,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -11.04%

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 7,102 6,921 13,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.35% 14.75% 12.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,569 3,975 9,195
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,519 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -6.86%
75th Percentile £69,762 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £43,742
% change year-on-year +6.25% -8.55% -2.80%

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 2 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 2 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 -54 638 £37,500 -6.25% 287
UK excluding London -55 462 £35,000 -6.67% 245
London -22 206 £60,000 +14.29% 69
Work from Home +2 198 £40,500 -14.74% 91
South East -26 138 £37,500 +2.04% 90
North of England -14 137 £32,500 -16.67% 42
Midlands -55 68 £32,500 - 35
North West +31 64 £31,500 -20.25% 19
Yorkshire -46 54 £32,500 -18.75% 22
East of England -35 49 £35,000 -26.32% 36
South West -53 40 £37,000 -10.84% 42
East Midlands -22 38 £32,500 - 14
West Midlands -54 30 £33,250 +2.31% 21
Wales -49 21 £40,000 -27.27% 3
North East -44 19 £40,000 +37.93% 5
Scotland -6 8 £46,000 -3.16% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 7

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
1 120 (17.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 90 (13.25%) SharePoint
3 22 (3.24%) IIS
4 7 (1.03%) Apache
5 4 (0.59%) Confluence
6 3 (0.44%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 66 (9.72%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.15%) Houdini
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 294 (43.30%) Microsoft 365
2 287 (42.27%) Azure
3 144 (21.21%) Entra ID
4 127 (18.70%) AWS
5 33 (4.86%) GCP
6 22 (3.24%) OneDrive
7 20 (2.95%) GitHub
8 18 (2.65%) IaaS
9 16 (2.36%) SaaS
10 14 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (2.06%) PaaS
11 12 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (1.33%) Google Workspace
14 8 (1.18%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
15 7 (1.03%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 406 (59.79%) DNS
2 322 (47.42%) DHCP
3 286 (42.12%) Firewall
4 229 (33.73%) VPN
5 184 (27.10%) WAN
6 173 (25.48%) LAN
7 151 (22.24%) VLAN
8 82 (12.08%) Wi-Fi
9 76 (11.19%) Network Security
10 69 (10.16%) HTTP
11 53 (7.81%) BGP
11 53 (7.81%) VoIP
12 42 (6.19%) Wireless
13 39 (5.74%) SD-WAN
14 36 (5.30%) OSPF
15 23 (3.39%) Multicast
16 19 (2.80%) Ethernet
17 17 (2.50%) SMTP
17 17 (2.50%) SSL
17 17 (2.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.62%) MySQL
5 6 (0.88%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.74%) Redis
7 4 (0.59%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.44%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.44%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.15%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.15%) KDB
9 1 (0.15%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.15%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.15%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 20 (2.95%) JIRA
2 15 (2.21%) Git
2 15 (2.21%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.91%) Bitbucket
4 6 (0.88%) GitLab
5 5 (0.74%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.29%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.15%) CMake
7 1 (0.15%) LSMW
General
1 302 (44.48%) Social Skills
2 90 (13.25%) Finance
3 82 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (7.51%) Telecoms
5 50 (7.36%) Law
6 45 (6.63%) Organisational Skills
7 41 (6.04%) Banking
8 37 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (3.24%) Aerospace
11 20 (2.95%) Retail
12 17 (2.50%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.91%) Back Office
14 12 (1.77%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.77%) Public Sector
15 11 (1.62%) Electronics
16 10 (1.47%) Legal
17 8 (1.18%) Automotive
18 6 (0.88%) Spanish Language
19 5 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 182 (26.80%) IT Support
2 119 (17.53%) Support Engineer
3 97 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 96 (14.14%) Analyst
5 77 (11.34%) IT Support Engineer
5 77 (11.34%) Network Engineer
6 75 (11.05%) Senior
7 62 (9.13%) 2nd Line Support
7 62 (9.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 62 (9.13%) Support Technician
8 56 (8.25%) IT Technician
9 54 (7.95%) IT Support Technician
10 37 (5.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 36 (5.30%) Support Analyst
12 33 (4.86%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 33 (4.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 30 (4.42%) IT Analyst
14 29 (4.27%) Developer
15 26 (3.83%) Lead
16 24 (3.53%) 1st/2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.80%) LDAP
2 15 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (1.91%) gRPC
3 13 (1.91%) Middleware
3 13 (1.91%) WebSockets
4 12 (1.77%) React
5 11 (1.62%) .NET
5 11 (1.62%) Node.js
6 9 (1.33%) Django
7 7 (1.03%) 802.1X
7 7 (1.03%) REST
7 7 (1.03%) RESTful
8 6 (0.88%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.88%) ARM Templates
8 6 (0.88%) JSON
9 4 (0.59%) ADO
9 4 (0.59%) COM
9 4 (0.59%) CSS
9 4 (0.59%) DCOM
9 4 (0.59%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (14.14%) Driving Licence
2 39 (5.74%) Data Centre
3 34 (5.01%) Onboarding
4 27 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (3.68%) Cyber Threat
6 23 (3.39%) Security Posture
7 18 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
8 17 (2.50%) EPoS
8 17 (2.50%) FPGA
9 16 (2.36%) Cyber Defence
10 14 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (2.06%) MPEG
10 14 (2.06%) PKI
10 14 (2.06%) Replication
11 13 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.91%) CCTV
12 11 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.62%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.47%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 416 (61.27%) Windows
2 231 (34.02%) Windows Server
3 144 (21.21%) Linux
4 102 (15.02%) Windows 10
5 49 (7.22%) Mac OS
6 36 (5.30%) Apple iOS
7 25 (3.68%) Android
8 23 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (3.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 16 (2.36%) Unix
11 15 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (1.47%) Ubuntu
12 10 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (1.03%) Debian
14 6 (0.88%) CentOS
14 6 (0.88%) VMS
14 6 (0.88%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.74%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.59%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
2 149 (21.94%) Customer Service
3 112 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
4 108 (15.91%) Cybersecurity
5 95 (13.99%) ITIL
6 94 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 88 (12.96%) Service Delivery
8 87 (12.81%) Disaster Recovery
9 72 (10.60%) Incident Response
10 70 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
11 60 (8.84%) DevOps
12 58 (8.54%) ITSM
13 57 (8.39%) Mentoring
14 54 (7.95%) High Availability
15 53 (7.81%) Incident Management
16 52 (7.66%) Project Delivery
17 49 (7.22%) CI/CD
18 48 (7.07%) SIEM
19 45 (6.63%) Computer Science
19 45 (6.63%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 122 (17.97%) PowerShell
2 111 (16.35%) Python
3 61 (8.98%) Bash
4 58 (8.54%) SQL
5 40 (5.89%) C++
6 26 (3.83%) Java
7 24 (3.53%) C
8 18 (2.65%) Go
9 15 (2.21%) C#
10 11 (1.62%) PHP
10 11 (1.62%) VBA
11 8 (1.18%) Perl
12 7 (1.03%) JavaScript
12 7 (1.03%) Search Processing Language
13 6 (0.88%) Bicep
14 4 (0.59%) Delphi
14 4 (0.59%) Pascal
14 4 (0.59%) Ruby
15 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 106 (15.61%) Degree
2 75 (11.05%) Security Cleared
3 62 (9.13%) Cisco Certification
4 54 (7.95%) SC Cleared
5 50 (7.36%) CCNA
5 50 (7.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 42 (6.19%) CCNP
7 27 (3.98%) Azure Certification
8 24 (3.53%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (2.80%) Network+ Certification
11 17 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.50%) CREST Certified
12 12 (1.77%) A+ Certification
12 12 (1.77%) CEH
12 12 (1.77%) GCIA
13 10 (1.47%) GIAC
13 10 (1.47%) OSCP
13 10 (1.47%) RHCSA
13 10 (1.47%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.69%) SLA
2 28 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 20 (2.95%) GDPR
5 14 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.74%) NIST
8 4 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.59%) DICOM
8 4 (0.59%) HL7
8 4 (0.59%) QA
9 3 (0.44%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.15%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 300 (44.18%) Active Directory
2 122 (17.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 111 (16.35%) Hyper-V
4 23 (3.39%) Docker
5 16 (2.36%) vSphere
6 14 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (1.91%) Firmware
8 8 (1.18%) KVM
8 8 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) QEMU
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.15%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 92 (13.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 55 (8.10%) Terraform
3 51 (7.51%) Ansible
4 37 (5.45%) Kubernetes
5 32 (4.71%) FortiGate
6 24 (3.53%) Grafana
6 24 (3.53%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.80%) Nagios
8 17 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 16 (2.36%) Jamf Pro
10 14 (2.06%) QRadar
11 8 (1.18%) Kibana
11 8 (1.18%) Puppet
12 7 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (1.03%) WSUS
13 6 (0.88%) SCCM
13 6 (0.88%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.88%) VxRail
14 5 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.74%) Control-M
Vendors
1 386 (56.85%) Microsoft
2 149 (21.94%) VMware
3 78 (11.49%) Cisco
4 37 (5.45%) Veeam
5 36 (5.30%) Meraki
6 32 (4.71%) SolarWinds
7 31 (4.57%) Fortinet
8 29 (4.27%) ServiceNow
9 28 (4.12%) Splunk
10 25 (3.68%) Palo Alto
11 24 (3.53%) Apple
12 20 (2.95%) Citrix
13 19 (2.80%) Dell
13 19 (2.80%) HP
14 18 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
14 18 (2.65%) Red Hat
15 17 (2.50%) Google
16 15 (2.21%) SonicWALL
16 15 (2.21%) Sophos
17 14 (2.06%) Zscaler