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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 219 197
Rank change year-on-year -33 -22 -25
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 872 709 998
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.43% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.08% 9.91% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 657 505 558
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% -4.51%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,075 £75,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £34,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -13.75% -5.88%

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 7,870 7,154 9,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.66% 14.43% 12.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4,879 3,946 4,485
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £28,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £51,251
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -21.95% -0.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,030 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £34,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year +31.39% -27.89% +5.56%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -11 820 £40,000 +6.67% 763
UK excluding London -55 610 £37,500 +8.70% 522
Work from Home +28 259 £40,000 -1.23% 288
London -5 246 £55,000 - 314
South East -22 178 £38,000 +1.33% 142
North of England -26 145 £33,500 -4.29% 109
Midlands -28 123 £36,000 +10.77% 65
East of England -21 84 £35,000 -9.68% 69
North West +22 80 £32,125 -20.68% 63
West Midlands -27 74 £37,500 +15.38% 32
Yorkshire -41 53 £33,500 - 34
East Midlands -42 49 £36,000 +10.77% 33
South West -76 46 £32,500 -5.80% 63
Wales -83 15 £45,000 +28.57% 17
Scotland +1 13 £63,451 +111.50% 46
North East -79 12 £40,000 +37.93% 15
Northern Ireland - 6 £40,250 - 16

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
1 145 (16.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 117 (13.42%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.87%) IIS
4 16 (1.83%) Apache
5 7 (0.80%) Confluence
6 5 (0.57%) WinCC
7 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.34%) SAS
8 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.23%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.11%) Houdini
4 1 (0.11%) NUKE
4 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (0.92%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.23%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.23%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.11%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.11%) Eikon
3 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 398 (45.64%) Microsoft 365
2 336 (38.53%) Azure
3 236 (27.06%) Entra ID
4 135 (15.48%) AWS
5 48 (5.50%) OneDrive
6 45 (5.16%) GCP
7 27 (3.10%) SaaS
8 21 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (2.06%) Google Workspace
10 14 (1.61%) dbt
11 13 (1.49%) OpenShift
12 12 (1.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (1.15%) IaaS
14 9 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (0.92%) Serverless
16 7 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (0.80%) PaaS
17 6 (0.69%) Google Compute Engine
17 6 (0.69%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 549 (62.96%) DNS
2 436 (50.00%) DHCP
3 399 (45.76%) Firewall
4 372 (42.66%) VPN
5 203 (23.28%) WAN
6 202 (23.17%) VLAN
7 197 (22.59%) LAN
8 131 (15.02%) Wi-Fi
9 106 (12.16%) Wireless
10 104 (11.93%) Network Security
11 75 (8.60%) HTTP
12 69 (7.91%) BGP
12 69 (7.91%) VoIP
13 54 (6.19%) OSPF
14 40 (4.59%) SD-WAN
15 37 (4.24%) SSL
16 31 (3.56%) Ethernet
17 28 (3.21%) Internet
18 22 (2.52%) FTP
19 21 (2.41%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (6.88%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.06%) MySQL
3 15 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.69%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (0.69%) Redis
7 5 (0.57%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.46%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.34%) InfluxDB
9 3 (0.34%) KDB
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.11%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.11%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 34 (3.90%) JIRA
2 23 (2.64%) Git
3 12 (1.38%) GitLab
4 6 (0.69%) TeamCity
5 5 (0.57%) Selenium
5 5 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.23%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.23%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.11%) CMake
8 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.11%) GDB
8 1 (0.11%) LSMW
8 1 (0.11%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 413 (47.36%) Social Skills
2 114 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
3 97 (11.12%) Finance
4 66 (7.57%) Telecoms
5 47 (5.39%) Banking
6 39 (4.47%) Law
7 37 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (4.13%) Retail
9 33 (3.78%) Electronics
10 32 (3.67%) Aerospace
10 32 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (2.29%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.29%) Public Sector
12 9 (1.03%) Automotive
12 9 (1.03%) Back Office
13 8 (0.92%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.92%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.92%) Marketing
14 7 (0.80%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 231 (26.49%) IT Support
2 203 (23.28%) Support Engineer
3 176 (20.18%) IT Engineer
4 146 (16.74%) IT Support Engineer
5 121 (13.88%) Analyst
6 113 (12.96%) Senior
7 106 (12.16%) Network Engineer
8 93 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 71 (8.14%) 2nd Line Support
10 64 (7.34%) Support Analyst
11 54 (6.19%) Support Technician
12 53 (6.08%) IT Technician
13 49 (5.62%) IT Support Technician
14 44 (5.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 42 (4.82%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 42 (4.82%) Lead
16 34 (3.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 33 (3.78%) Infrastructure Support
17 33 (3.78%) IT Analyst
18 31 (3.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (7.91%) Terraform
2 24 (2.75%) LDAP
3 22 (2.52%) React
4 17 (1.95%) XML
5 15 (1.72%) Node.js
6 14 (1.61%) RESTful
7 12 (1.38%) JSON
7 12 (1.38%) Middleware
7 12 (1.38%) WebSockets
8 10 (1.15%) CSS
8 10 (1.15%) Django
8 10 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
8 10 (1.15%) HTML
9 9 (1.03%) .NET
9 9 (1.03%) AngularJS
9 9 (1.03%) REST
10 8 (0.92%) gRPC
11 6 (0.69%) GraphQL
11 6 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.57%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 120 (13.76%) Driving Licence
2 99 (11.35%) Onboarding
3 42 (4.82%) Data Centre
4 34 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (3.10%) Cyber Threat
6 27 (3.10%) Security Operations Centre
6 27 (3.10%) Security Posture
7 24 (2.75%) PKI
8 21 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (2.29%) Client/Server
9 20 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (2.29%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.18%) Replication
11 18 (2.06%) CCTV
12 17 (1.95%) Cyber Defence
13 15 (1.72%) Cloud Native
14 13 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.38%) Social Media
16 10 (1.15%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 532 (61.01%) Windows
2 266 (30.50%) Windows Server
3 216 (24.77%) Linux
4 109 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 54 (6.19%) Mac OS
6 41 (4.70%) Unix
7 33 (3.78%) Ubuntu
8 25 (2.87%) Apple iOS
9 20 (2.29%) Android
10 18 (2.06%) Rocky
10 18 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
11 17 (1.95%) CentOS
12 15 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.80%) Debian
15 6 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
15 6 (0.69%) Solaris
16 5 (0.57%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.46%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.23%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (35.55%) Problem-Solving
2 213 (24.43%) Customer Service
3 198 (22.71%) Cybersecurity
4 181 (20.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 158 (18.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 131 (15.02%) ITIL
7 123 (14.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 95 (10.89%) Incident Response
9 94 (10.78%) Mentoring
10 84 (9.63%) Service Delivery
11 81 (9.29%) Project Delivery
12 80 (9.17%) ITSM
13 70 (8.03%) SIEM
14 68 (7.80%) Computer Science
14 68 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
15 64 (7.34%) CI/CD
16 62 (7.11%) DevOps
16 62 (7.11%) Software Engineering
17 59 (6.77%) High Availability
18 52 (5.96%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 168 (19.27%) Python
2 153 (17.55%) PowerShell
3 87 (9.98%) SQL
4 84 (9.63%) Bash
5 45 (5.16%) C++
6 26 (2.98%) Perl
7 24 (2.75%) JavaScript
8 21 (2.41%) C
8 21 (2.41%) Java
9 17 (1.95%) C#
9 17 (1.95%) Go
10 14 (1.61%) VBA
11 13 (1.49%) Ruby
12 10 (1.15%) Bicep
12 10 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (1.15%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.15%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.80%) PHP
13 7 (0.80%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 145 (16.63%) Degree
2 109 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 90 (10.32%) Cisco Certification
4 73 (8.37%) SC Cleared
5 70 (8.03%) CCNA
6 61 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 55 (6.31%) CCNP
8 35 (4.01%) CompTIA Security+
9 32 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 30 (3.44%) Azure Certification
11 26 (2.98%) CREST Certified
12 24 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 24 (2.75%) Network+ Certification
13 21 (2.41%) CISSP
14 20 (2.29%) A+ Certification
14 20 (2.29%) CEH
14 20 (2.29%) DV Cleared
15 19 (2.18%) GCIA
16 16 (1.83%) HND
17 14 (1.61%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (8.26%) SLA
2 45 (5.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 39 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (3.78%) GDPR
5 19 (2.18%) QA
6 17 (1.95%) NIST
7 13 (1.49%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.26%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.80%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.69%) GRC
10 6 (0.69%) NCSC
11 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.11%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.11%) IASME
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 392 (44.95%) Active Directory
2 157 (18.00%) Hyper-V
3 138 (15.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (4.24%) Docker
5 33 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (2.98%) Firmware
7 12 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (1.38%) vSphere
8 10 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.34%) KVM
9 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.23%) QEMU
10 2 (0.23%) Snort
10 2 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.11%) Ceph
11 1 (0.11%) Xen
11 1 (0.11%) XenApp
11 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 147 (16.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (4.47%) Ansible
3 34 (3.90%) Kubernetes
4 30 (3.44%) FortiGate
5 20 (2.29%) QRadar
6 18 (2.06%) Grafana
7 15 (1.72%) Prometheus
7 15 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.49%) Nagios
9 10 (1.15%) WSUS
10 9 (1.03%) Kibana
11 8 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.57%) McAfee ePO
12 5 (0.57%) SCVMM
13 4 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.46%) Autotask
13 4 (0.46%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.46%) SCCM
13 4 (0.46%) VxRail
13 4 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 499 (57.22%) Microsoft
2 162 (18.58%) VMware
3 125 (14.33%) Cisco
4 71 (8.14%) Fortinet
5 55 (6.31%) Veeam
6 48 (5.50%) Google
7 44 (5.05%) Splunk
8 41 (4.70%) ServiceNow
9 38 (4.36%) Palo Alto
10 30 (3.44%) Meraki
11 28 (3.21%) Dell
12 27 (3.10%) SonicWALL
13 26 (2.98%) Red Hat
14 23 (2.64%) SolarWinds
15 20 (2.29%) Sophos
16 18 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
17 17 (1.95%) HP
17 17 (1.95%) Ubiquiti
17 17 (1.95%) WatchGuard
18 16 (1.83%) Apple