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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 203 198
Rank change year-on-year -60 -5 +35
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 617 610 1,365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.49% 1.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.97% 11.74% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 464 493 1,150
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,938 £33,200 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £59,313 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £78,750 £73,800
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £45,637 £38,500
% change year-on-year -25.50% +18.54% -3.75%

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 10,343 5,194 12,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.66% 12.67% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,100 3,739 9,421
10th Percentile £26,725 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -7.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £43,461
% change year-on-year -21.05% +9.29% -3.42%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -36 563 £37,875 -15.83% 197
UK excluding London -63 372 £34,000 -25.50% 174
London +21 221 £45,000 -12.62% 42
Work from Home -11 176 £42,500 -29.17% 79
North of England -19 122 £34,000 -24.44% 49
South East -62 83 £36,250 -3.33% 50
Yorkshire -34 56 £32,500 -23.26% 17
Midlands -47 49 £32,500 -7.14% 25
South West -21 48 £40,000 -7.51% 25
North West -17 44 £40,000 -11.11% 26
East of England -44 40 £34,000 -28.42% 20
East Midlands -39 33 £32,500 -7.14% 8
North East -11 22 £46,250 -33.31% 7
West Midlands -33 16 £52,500 +50.00% 17
Wales -30 14 £40,000 -42.29% 4
Scotland -51 13 £60,000 +20.00% 5
Northern Ireland -36 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2

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
1 133 (21.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 81 (13.13%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.78%) IIS
4 4 (0.65%) Confluence
5 2 (0.32%) Apache
5 2 (0.32%) CMS
5 2 (0.32%) nginx
5 2 (0.32%) WordPress
6 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 85 (13.78%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.32%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.32%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 307 (49.76%) Azure
2 277 (44.89%) Microsoft 365
3 128 (20.75%) AWS
4 126 (20.42%) Entra ID
5 58 (9.40%) GCP
6 36 (5.83%) Google Workspace
7 33 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (4.54%) OneDrive
9 27 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (4.21%) PaaS
11 25 (4.05%) Amazon ECR
11 25 (4.05%) dbt
11 25 (4.05%) Pulumi
12 23 (3.73%) SaaS
13 22 (3.57%) GitHub
14 20 (3.24%) IaaS
15 19 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (2.76%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 357 (57.86%) DNS
2 303 (49.11%) DHCP
3 218 (35.33%) Firewall
4 181 (29.34%) VPN
5 144 (23.34%) WAN
6 132 (21.39%) VLAN
7 126 (20.42%) LAN
8 88 (14.26%) Wi-Fi
9 59 (9.56%) Wireless
10 55 (8.91%) VoIP
11 49 (7.94%) Network Security
12 41 (6.65%) HTTP
13 37 (6.00%) SD-WAN
14 28 (4.54%) BGP
15 20 (3.24%) OSPF
16 18 (2.92%) Wireshark
17 17 (2.76%) SMTP
18 16 (2.59%) Multicast
19 14 (2.27%) MPLS
20 13 (2.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (7.62%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (6.32%) SQL Server
3 34 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (4.05%) Redis
6 10 (1.62%) Power BI
7 8 (1.30%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.13%) MySQL
9 3 (0.49%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.49%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.32%) JasperReports
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.16%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.16%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.16%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 22 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 18 (2.92%) Git
3 14 (2.27%) JIRA
4 12 (1.94%) Metasploit
5 10 (1.62%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.30%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.49%) GitLab
9 2 (0.32%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.16%) CMake
10 1 (0.16%) Selenium
10 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 267 (43.27%) Social Skills
2 93 (15.07%) Finance
3 66 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.13%) Law
5 41 (6.65%) Banking
6 38 (6.16%) Telecoms
7 33 (5.35%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 26 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (3.08%) Investment Banking
10 19 (3.08%) Retail
11 17 (2.76%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.76%) Public Sector
12 14 (2.27%) Back Office
13 13 (2.11%) Aerospace
13 13 (2.11%) Legal
14 10 (1.62%) Automotive
15 8 (1.30%) Electronics
15 8 (1.30%) Marketing
16 6 (0.97%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 188 (30.47%) IT Support
2 129 (20.91%) Support Engineer
3 92 (14.91%) IT Engineer
4 88 (14.26%) IT Support Engineer
5 82 (13.29%) Senior
6 81 (13.13%) 2nd Line Support
7 62 (10.05%) Support Technician
8 59 (9.56%) Analyst
9 56 (9.08%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 51 (8.27%) IT Support Technician
10 51 (8.27%) IT Technician
11 50 (8.10%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 48 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 37 (6.00%) Support Analyst
14 35 (5.67%) Developer
15 32 (5.19%) Network Engineer
16 28 (4.54%) C++ Developer
17 26 (4.21%) Lead
18 22 (3.57%) Infrastructure Support
18 22 (3.57%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.05%) Django
2 18 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (0.97%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (0.97%) REST
3 6 (0.97%) RESTful
4 5 (0.81%) .NET
4 5 (0.81%) 802.1X
4 5 (0.81%) gRPC
4 5 (0.81%) LDAP
4 5 (0.81%) Qt
4 5 (0.81%) WebSockets
5 4 (0.65%) Middleware
5 4 (0.65%) Sass
5 4 (0.65%) STL
5 4 (0.65%) ZeroMQ
6 3 (0.49%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.49%) QML
7 2 (0.32%) ADO
7 2 (0.32%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 82 (13.29%) Driving Licence
2 43 (6.97%) Onboarding
3 34 (5.51%) Data Centre
4 28 (4.54%) Linux Command Line
4 28 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
6 21 (3.40%) FPGA
7 20 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.59%) Replication
8 16 (2.59%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.43%) Cloud Native
9 15 (2.43%) Cyber Threat
9 15 (2.43%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.27%) EPoS
11 13 (2.11%) CCTV
11 13 (2.11%) iPhone
12 12 (1.94%) NHS
13 11 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 383 (62.07%) Windows
2 225 (36.47%) Windows Server
3 170 (27.55%) Linux
4 125 (20.26%) Windows 10
5 56 (9.08%) Mac OS
6 45 (7.29%) Unix
7 41 (6.65%) Apple iOS
8 35 (5.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 33 (5.35%) Android
10 25 (4.05%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 20 (3.24%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (1.62%) CentOS
14 8 (1.30%) Mac OS X
14 8 (1.30%) Ubuntu
15 7 (1.13%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.81%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.65%) VMS
18 3 (0.49%) OpenWrt
18 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (35.82%) Problem-Solving
2 137 (22.20%) Customer Service
3 108 (17.50%) ITIL
4 83 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 78 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 73 (11.83%) DevOps
7 72 (11.67%) CI/CD
8 64 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (10.21%) Service Delivery
10 57 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
11 56 (9.08%) Disaster Recovery
12 48 (7.78%) Root Cause Analysis
13 45 (7.29%) Mentoring
14 43 (6.97%) ITSM
15 41 (6.65%) Incident Response
15 41 (6.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 38 (6.16%) Computer Science
16 38 (6.16%) Incident Management
17 37 (6.00%) Agile
18 34 (5.51%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 131 (21.23%) Python
2 107 (17.34%) PowerShell
3 54 (8.75%) Bash
4 45 (7.29%) C++
5 36 (5.83%) Java
6 33 (5.35%) SQL
7 31 (5.02%) C
8 25 (4.05%) Go
9 14 (2.27%) C#
10 6 (0.97%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.65%) Bicep
11 4 (0.65%) Delphi
11 4 (0.65%) Pascal
11 4 (0.65%) PHP
12 2 (0.32%) Perl
12 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.32%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.16%) Korn
13 1 (0.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 100 (16.21%) Degree
2 64 (10.37%) Security Cleared
3 59 (9.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 55 (8.91%) SC Cleared
5 37 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
6 30 (4.86%) Azure Certification
6 30 (4.86%) CCNA
7 24 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (3.40%) Network+ Certification
9 19 (3.08%) A+ Certification
9 19 (3.08%) CCNP
10 15 (2.43%) DBS Check
10 15 (2.43%) ITIL Certification
10 15 (2.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 11 (1.78%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.62%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (1.62%) MCSE
13 9 (1.46%) DV Cleared
13 9 (1.46%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (4.54%) SLA
3 18 (2.92%) GDPR
4 14 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.46%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.30%) QA
7 6 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.65%) DICOM
8 4 (0.65%) HL7
8 4 (0.65%) NIST
9 2 (0.32%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.32%) GxP
9 2 (0.32%) PMO
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 303 (49.11%) Active Directory
2 121 (19.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 104 (16.86%) Hyper-V
4 38 (6.16%) Docker
5 14 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (2.27%) vSphere
6 11 (1.78%) Firmware
6 11 (1.78%) KVM
7 6 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.65%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.32%) XenApp
10 1 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.16%) QEMU
10 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 97 (15.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (11.99%) Terraform
3 57 (9.24%) Ansible
4 27 (4.38%) Kubernetes
5 22 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (3.24%) Grafana
6 20 (3.24%) Prometheus
7 17 (2.76%) AWS Copilot
7 17 (2.76%) FortiGate
7 17 (2.76%) Jamf Pro
8 12 (1.94%) SCCM
9 10 (1.62%) Nessus
10 9 (1.46%) Nagios
10 9 (1.46%) Puppet
11 8 (1.30%) Nmap
12 7 (1.13%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.65%) Backup Exec
14 4 (0.65%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.65%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 332 (53.81%) Microsoft
2 149 (24.15%) VMware
3 71 (11.51%) Cisco
4 62 (10.05%) Google
5 29 (4.70%) Citrix
5 29 (4.70%) Veeam
6 28 (4.54%) Palo Alto
7 27 (4.38%) Apple
8 26 (4.21%) SolarWinds
9 24 (3.89%) Red Hat
10 23 (3.73%) Meraki
11 21 (3.40%) Dell
11 21 (3.40%) Fortinet
12 18 (2.92%) HP
13 13 (2.11%) CheckPoint
13 13 (2.11%) ServiceNow
13 13 (2.11%) SonicWALL
14 12 (1.94%) Juniper
15 10 (1.62%) Sophos
16 8 (1.30%) Reuters