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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 213 236
Rank change year-on-year -53 +23 -34
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 763 745 970
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.49% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.26% 10.11% 9.80%
Number of salaries quoted 590 531 732
10th Percentile £28,475 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £74,258 £74,144
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £35,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year -1.41% -7.79% -9.41%

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 7,437 7,372 9,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.99% 14.77% 11.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,783 4,240 6,261
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £37,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.57% -17.78% -0.41%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -39 717 £38,500 +2.67% 305
UK excluding London -52 541 £35,000 -1.41% 217
Work from Home +14 239 £42,000 -6.67% 102
London -26 211 £60,000 +14.29% 121
South East -15 167 £37,500 +5.63% 73
North of England -30 137 £32,500 -13.33% 52
Midlands -32 92 £33,250 +2.31% 28
North West +33 74 £31,500 -21.25% 27
East of England -26 65 £35,000 -26.32% 19
Yorkshire -49 50 £32,500 -16.13% 14
West Midlands -38 48 £37,500 +15.38% 20
South West -58 47 £34,000 -1.45% 27
East Midlands -24 44 £32,500 +8.33% 8
Wales -65 19 £45,000 +28.57% 6
North East -71 13 £35,000 +20.69% 13
Scotland -5 11 £63,451 +69.20% 11
Northern Ireland - 3 £57,246 - 4

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
1 137 (17.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 95 (12.45%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.15%) IIS
4 12 (1.57%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) SAS
6 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) Confluence
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.13%) WinCC
Applications
1 48 (6.29%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Houdini
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.26%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 325 (42.60%) Microsoft 365
2 316 (41.42%) Azure
3 166 (21.76%) Entra ID
4 140 (18.35%) AWS
5 37 (4.85%) GCP
6 29 (3.80%) OneDrive
7 22 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (2.23%) SaaS
9 15 (1.97%) IaaS
10 14 (1.83%) dbt
11 13 (1.70%) OpenShift
12 12 (1.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 11 (1.44%) GitHub
14 9 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (1.18%) Google Workspace
14 9 (1.18%) PaaS
15 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
17 5 (0.66%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 438 (57.40%) DNS
2 347 (45.48%) Firewall
3 336 (44.04%) DHCP
4 256 (33.55%) VPN
5 182 (23.85%) WAN
6 174 (22.80%) LAN
7 148 (19.40%) VLAN
8 95 (12.45%) Network Security
9 81 (10.62%) Wi-Fi
10 68 (8.91%) HTTP
10 68 (8.91%) Wireless
11 66 (8.65%) VoIP
12 57 (7.47%) BGP
13 45 (5.90%) OSPF
14 42 (5.50%) SD-WAN
15 23 (3.01%) Multicast
16 21 (2.75%) SSL
17 19 (2.49%) Ethernet
17 19 (2.49%) SMTP
18 17 (2.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.44%) MySQL
3 8 (1.05%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.79%) Crystal Reports
4 6 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.52%) InfluxDB
6 4 (0.52%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.39%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.13%) KDB
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (0.13%) Redis
9 1 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 28 (3.67%) JIRA
2 18 (2.36%) Git
3 11 (1.44%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.66%) GitLab
4 5 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.52%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.26%) CMake
6 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.13%) GDB
7 1 (0.13%) LSMW
General
1 357 (46.79%) Social Skills
2 97 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (12.58%) Finance
4 60 (7.86%) Telecoms
5 44 (5.77%) Law
6 41 (5.37%) Banking
7 40 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
9 28 (3.67%) Electronics
10 25 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (3.15%) Aerospace
12 21 (2.75%) Retail
13 17 (2.23%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.83%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.83%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.18%) Legal
16 7 (0.92%) Digital Health
16 7 (0.92%) Military
17 6 (0.79%) Automotive
18 5 (0.66%) Games
Job Titles
1 192 (25.16%) IT Support
2 152 (19.92%) Support Engineer
3 128 (16.78%) IT Engineer
4 104 (13.63%) IT Support Engineer
5 103 (13.50%) Analyst
6 92 (12.06%) Network Engineer
7 90 (11.80%) Senior
8 70 (9.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 60 (7.86%) 2nd Line Support
10 55 (7.21%) Support Technician
11 50 (6.55%) IT Technician
12 48 (6.29%) IT Support Technician
13 42 (5.50%) Support Analyst
14 40 (5.24%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 38 (4.98%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 33 (4.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 32 (4.19%) IT Analyst
18 27 (3.54%) Lead
18 27 (3.54%) Systems Engineer
19 26 (3.41%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.75%) React
2 20 (2.62%) LDAP
3 13 (1.70%) gRPC
3 13 (1.70%) Node.js
3 13 (1.70%) WebSockets
4 12 (1.57%) Middleware
4 12 (1.57%) XML
5 11 (1.44%) .NET
6 10 (1.31%) JSON
7 8 (1.05%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.92%) 802.1X
8 7 (0.92%) Django
8 7 (0.92%) REST
8 7 (0.92%) RESTful
9 6 (0.79%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.79%) CSS
9 6 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (0.79%) FIX Protocol
9 6 (0.79%) HTML
10 5 (0.66%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 104 (13.63%) Driving Licence
2 57 (7.47%) Onboarding
3 44 (5.77%) Data Centre
4 37 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (3.93%) Cyber Threat
6 23 (3.01%) Security Operations Centre
6 23 (3.01%) Security Posture
7 21 (2.75%) PKI
8 19 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (2.36%) CCTV
10 17 (2.23%) Cyber Defence
11 16 (2.10%) MPEG
12 15 (1.97%) FPGA
12 15 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (1.97%) Management Information System
13 14 (1.83%) Client/Server
13 14 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (1.83%) Replication
14 13 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 454 (59.50%) Windows
2 245 (32.11%) Windows Server
3 189 (24.77%) Linux
4 87 (11.40%) Windows 10
5 56 (7.34%) Mac OS
6 34 (4.46%) Unix
7 27 (3.54%) Apple iOS
8 24 (3.15%) Ubuntu
9 22 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (2.49%) Android
11 17 (2.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 14 (1.83%) CentOS
13 13 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
14 9 (1.18%) Rocky
15 7 (0.92%) Debian
16 5 (0.66%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
17 4 (0.52%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.52%) Windows 7
17 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (37.48%) Problem-Solving
2 161 (21.10%) Customer Service
3 157 (20.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 131 (17.17%) Cybersecurity
5 115 (15.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 113 (14.81%) ITIL
7 95 (12.45%) Disaster Recovery
8 83 (10.88%) Incident Response
8 83 (10.88%) Mentoring
9 75 (9.83%) Project Delivery
10 74 (9.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 73 (9.57%) Service Delivery
12 67 (8.78%) ITSM
13 66 (8.65%) DevOps
14 62 (8.13%) High Availability
15 61 (7.99%) Computer Science
16 59 (7.73%) CI/CD
17 58 (7.60%) SIEM
18 56 (7.34%) Software Engineering
19 46 (6.03%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 141 (18.48%) Python
2 139 (18.22%) PowerShell
3 72 (9.44%) Bash
4 69 (9.04%) SQL
5 38 (4.98%) C++
6 26 (3.41%) C
7 20 (2.62%) Perl
8 18 (2.36%) C#
9 17 (2.23%) Java
10 16 (2.10%) JavaScript
11 14 (1.83%) VBA
12 13 (1.70%) Go
13 10 (1.31%) Bicep
13 10 (1.31%) Ruby
13 10 (1.31%) TypeScript
14 9 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (1.18%) PHP
15 7 (0.92%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.79%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.26%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 140 (18.35%) Degree
2 94 (12.32%) Security Cleared
3 84 (11.01%) Cisco Certification
4 71 (9.31%) CCNA
5 68 (8.91%) SC Cleared
6 59 (7.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 53 (6.95%) CCNP
8 31 (4.06%) Azure Certification
9 30 (3.93%) CompTIA Security+
10 29 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (2.62%) CREST Certified
12 18 (2.36%) CEH
12 18 (2.36%) GCIA
13 16 (2.10%) HND
14 15 (1.97%) OSCP
15 14 (1.83%) AWS Certification
15 14 (1.83%) DV Cleared
15 14 (1.83%) GIAC
15 14 (1.83%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.26%) SLA
2 28 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.36%) GDPR
5 10 (1.31%) NIST
6 7 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.66%) GRC
7 5 (0.66%) NCSC
8 4 (0.52%) QA
9 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) DICOM
10 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 317 (41.55%) Active Directory
2 137 (17.96%) Hyper-V
3 133 (17.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (3.67%) Docker
5 23 (3.01%) Firmware
6 20 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (1.57%) vSphere
8 10 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (1.05%) KVM
11 7 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.13%) Ceph
13 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.13%) QEMU
13 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 118 (15.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 62 (8.13%) Terraform
3 46 (6.03%) Ansible
4 38 (4.98%) Kubernetes
5 34 (4.46%) FortiGate
6 16 (2.10%) Nagios
6 16 (2.10%) QRadar
7 15 (1.97%) Grafana
7 15 (1.97%) Prometheus
8 14 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
9 10 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (1.05%) Kibana
10 8 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.92%) Puppet
11 7 (0.92%) WSUS
12 6 (0.79%) SCCM
13 5 (0.66%) McAfee ePO
13 5 (0.66%) SCVMM
13 5 (0.66%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 421 (55.18%) Microsoft
2 154 (20.18%) VMware
3 107 (14.02%) Cisco
4 53 (6.95%) Fortinet
5 40 (5.24%) Veeam
6 36 (4.72%) Splunk
7 33 (4.33%) Palo Alto
8 31 (4.06%) Meraki
9 30 (3.93%) ServiceNow
10 28 (3.67%) Google
11 26 (3.41%) Red Hat
12 25 (3.28%) SolarWinds
13 23 (3.01%) HP
14 22 (2.88%) Sophos
15 21 (2.75%) SonicWALL
16 20 (2.62%) Apple
17 18 (2.36%) Dell
18 17 (2.23%) Zscaler
19 15 (1.97%) CrowdStrike
20 14 (1.83%) Ubiquiti