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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 208 219
Rank change year-on-year -62 +11 +5
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 726 764 1,264
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.56% 1.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.98% 10.66% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 568 539 1,004
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £40,000 £41,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.19% -7.22%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,250 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% -11.76%

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 7,275 7,168 12,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.35% 14.59% 12.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,675 4,137 8,450
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -7.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £78,188
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,500 £44,274
% change year-on-year +10.39% -13.04% -1.61%

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 17 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 17 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 -42 684 £37,500 -4.94% 247
UK excluding London -55 506 £35,000 -5.41% 207
Work from Home +9 223 £40,000 -15.79% 91
London -24 209 £60,000 +15.38% 74
South East -22 154 £37,500 +2.74% 78
North of England -2 144 £32,500 -14.47% 39
Midlands -47 79 £32,500 - 25
North West +28 70 £31,875 -19.81% 14
East of England -25 56 £35,000 -26.32% 27
Yorkshire -44 56 £32,500 -13.33% 22
East Midlands -11 42 £32,500 - 9
South West -50 42 £33,500 -12.30% 32
West Midlands -44 37 £33,250 +2.31% 16
Wales -56 21 £40,000 -8.57% 5
North East -57 18 £40,000 +37.93% 7
Scotland -12 8 £46,000 -3.16% 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £58,151 - 3

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
1 129 (17.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 93 (12.81%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.44%) IIS
4 11 (1.52%) Apache
5 4 (0.55%) Confluence
6 3 (0.41%) SAS
7 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 62 (8.54%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.28%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.14%) Houdini
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 320 (44.08%) Microsoft 365
2 306 (42.15%) Azure
3 154 (21.21%) Entra ID
4 133 (18.32%) AWS
5 32 (4.41%) GCP
6 21 (2.89%) IaaS
7 20 (2.75%) OneDrive
8 18 (2.48%) GitHub
9 17 (2.34%) PaaS
9 17 (2.34%) SaaS
10 12 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (1.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 9 (1.24%) Google Workspace
12 9 (1.24%) OpenShift
13 7 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (0.96%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 432 (59.50%) DNS
2 334 (46.01%) DHCP
3 323 (44.49%) Firewall
4 243 (33.47%) VPN
5 181 (24.93%) WAN
6 174 (23.97%) LAN
7 157 (21.63%) VLAN
8 85 (11.71%) Wi-Fi
9 80 (11.02%) Network Security
10 71 (9.78%) HTTP
11 63 (8.68%) VoIP
12 60 (8.26%) BGP
13 57 (7.85%) Wireless
14 41 (5.65%) OSPF
14 41 (5.65%) SD-WAN
15 24 (3.31%) Multicast
16 20 (2.75%) Ethernet
17 19 (2.62%) SSL
18 17 (2.34%) SMTP
18 17 (2.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.23%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.52%) MySQL
5 6 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.83%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.69%) Redis
7 4 (0.55%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.41%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.28%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.14%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.14%) KDB
10 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.14%) Power BI
10 1 (0.14%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 29 (3.99%) JIRA
2 15 (2.07%) Git
3 13 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.65%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.69%) GitLab
5 5 (0.69%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.28%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.14%) CMake
7 1 (0.14%) LSMW
General
1 327 (45.04%) Social Skills
2 94 (12.95%) Finance
3 87 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.13%) Telecoms
5 51 (7.02%) Law
6 44 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
7 43 (5.92%) Banking
8 35 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (3.44%) Retail
11 20 (2.75%) Aerospace
12 19 (2.62%) Electronics
13 16 (2.20%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.93%) Public Sector
15 13 (1.79%) Manufacturing
16 9 (1.24%) Back Office
16 9 (1.24%) Legal
17 8 (1.10%) Automotive
18 6 (0.83%) Spanish Language
19 5 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 195 (26.86%) IT Support
2 136 (18.73%) Support Engineer
3 115 (15.84%) IT Engineer
4 100 (13.77%) Analyst
5 91 (12.53%) IT Support Engineer
6 84 (11.57%) Network Engineer
7 71 (9.78%) Senior
8 60 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 59 (8.13%) Support Technician
10 58 (7.99%) 2nd Line Support
11 54 (7.44%) IT Technician
12 52 (7.16%) IT Support Technician
13 40 (5.51%) Support Analyst
14 39 (5.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 36 (4.96%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 34 (4.68%) IT Analyst
17 30 (4.13%) Lead
17 30 (4.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 28 (3.86%) IT Support Analyst
19 25 (3.44%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.62%) LDAP
2 14 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (1.93%) Middleware
2 14 (1.93%) React
2 14 (1.93%) WebSockets
3 13 (1.79%) gRPC
4 12 (1.65%) Node.js
5 11 (1.52%) .NET
6 10 (1.38%) Django
7 8 (1.10%) XML
8 7 (0.96%) 802.1X
8 7 (0.96%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.96%) JSON
8 7 (0.96%) RESTful
9 6 (0.83%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.83%) REST
10 5 (0.69%) CSS
10 5 (0.69%) HTML
11 4 (0.55%) ADO
11 4 (0.55%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 103 (14.19%) Driving Licence
2 46 (6.34%) Data Centre
3 44 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 31 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (3.99%) Cyber Threat
6 25 (3.44%) Security Posture
7 20 (2.75%) Security Operations Centre
8 17 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
9 16 (2.20%) FPGA
10 15 (2.07%) MPEG
11 14 (1.93%) CCTV
11 14 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.93%) PKI
12 13 (1.79%) Client/Server
12 13 (1.79%) Replication
13 12 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.52%) Management Information System
15 10 (1.38%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 444 (61.16%) Windows
2 241 (33.20%) Windows Server
3 162 (22.31%) Linux
4 99 (13.64%) Windows 10
5 53 (7.30%) Mac OS
6 35 (4.82%) Apple iOS
7 25 (3.44%) Android
8 22 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (2.34%) Unix
10 14 (1.93%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (1.10%) CentOS
13 7 (0.96%) Debian
14 6 (0.83%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.69%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.69%) VMS
16 4 (0.55%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (36.78%) Problem-Solving
2 154 (21.21%) Customer Service
3 126 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 123 (16.94%) Cybersecurity
5 104 (14.33%) ITIL
6 101 (13.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 91 (12.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 89 (12.26%) Service Delivery
9 75 (10.33%) Incident Response
10 72 (9.92%) ITSM
11 70 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
12 66 (9.09%) Project Delivery
13 63 (8.68%) DevOps
14 62 (8.54%) Mentoring
15 59 (8.13%) High Availability
16 55 (7.58%) SIEM
17 51 (7.02%) CI/CD
17 51 (7.02%) Incident Management
18 47 (6.47%) Computer Science
18 47 (6.47%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 125 (17.22%) PowerShell
2 119 (16.39%) Python
3 64 (8.82%) Bash
4 60 (8.26%) SQL
5 37 (5.10%) C++
6 26 (3.58%) Java
7 23 (3.17%) C
8 17 (2.34%) Go
9 15 (2.07%) C#
10 14 (1.93%) VBA
11 11 (1.52%) Perl
11 11 (1.52%) PHP
12 8 (1.10%) JavaScript
13 7 (0.96%) Bicep
13 7 (0.96%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.55%) Delphi
15 4 (0.55%) Pascal
15 4 (0.55%) Ruby
15 4 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 120 (16.53%) Degree
2 79 (10.88%) Security Cleared
3 73 (10.06%) Cisco Certification
4 59 (8.13%) CCNA
4 59 (8.13%) SC Cleared
5 57 (7.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 49 (6.75%) CCNP
7 29 (3.99%) Azure Certification
8 26 (3.58%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (2.34%) CREST Certified
11 16 (2.20%) Network+ Certification
12 14 (1.93%) CEH
12 14 (1.93%) GCIA
13 13 (1.79%) HND
14 12 (1.65%) GIAC
15 11 (1.52%) HNC
15 11 (1.52%) RHCSA
16 10 (1.38%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.54%) SLA
2 25 (3.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 25 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.07%) GDPR
4 6 (0.83%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.69%) NIST
5 5 (0.69%) QA
6 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.55%) DICOM
6 4 (0.55%) HL7
7 3 (0.41%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 319 (43.94%) Active Directory
2 130 (17.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 126 (17.36%) Hyper-V
4 25 (3.44%) Docker
5 15 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.07%) vSphere
6 13 (1.79%) Firmware
7 9 (1.24%) KVM
7 9 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.41%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.14%) QEMU
10 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 106 (14.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 57 (7.85%) Terraform
3 55 (7.58%) Ansible
4 38 (5.23%) Kubernetes
5 34 (4.68%) FortiGate
6 23 (3.17%) Grafana
6 23 (3.17%) Prometheus
7 18 (2.48%) Nagios
8 16 (2.20%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (2.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (1.93%) QRadar
11 9 (1.24%) Puppet
11 9 (1.24%) WSUS
12 8 (1.10%) Kibana
13 7 (0.96%) SCCM
13 7 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.83%) VxRail
15 5 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.69%) Control-M
15 5 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 413 (56.89%) Microsoft
2 156 (21.49%) VMware
3 92 (12.67%) Cisco
4 40 (5.51%) Fortinet
5 38 (5.23%) Veeam
6 37 (5.10%) Meraki
7 35 (4.82%) ServiceNow
8 30 (4.13%) Palo Alto
8 30 (4.13%) Splunk
9 29 (3.99%) SolarWinds
10 23 (3.17%) Apple
11 20 (2.75%) HP
12 19 (2.62%) Citrix
12 19 (2.62%) Dell
13 18 (2.48%) Red Hat
14 17 (2.34%) CrowdStrike
14 17 (2.34%) Google
14 17 (2.34%) SonicWALL
14 17 (2.34%) Sophos
15 15 (2.07%) Zscaler