TCP/IP Job Trends

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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 191 165
Rank change year-on-year -16 -26 +93
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 716 932 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.37% 1.38% 2.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.24% 11.89% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 556 513 838
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,150 £27,738
25th Percentile £29,750 £33,200 £34,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £47,375
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +0.26% +5.28%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -22.22% +3.45% +8.75%

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 7,752 7,839 8,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.81% 11.64% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,215 3,981 6,536
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.00% +11.11% -5.26%

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 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Top 18 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 12 November 2025. 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 -5 652 £37,500 -21.05% 653
UK excluding London -7 498 £35,000 -22.22% 508
London +39 199 £52,500 +1.01% 192
Work from Home -26 185 £40,500 -22.86% 415
North of England +11 132 £32,500 -23.53% 60
South East -24 129 £37,500 -21.05% 227
Midlands +31 79 £33,750 -3.57% 47
Yorkshire +22 65 £32,250 -21.34% 20
East of England -8 56 £32,500 -18.75% 93
South West -14 56 £34,500 -44.80% 61
East Midlands +18 40 £32,500 -31.58% 24
West Midlands +24 39 £37,000 +5.71% 23
North East +37 37 £29,000 -50.35% 6
North West -14 30 £40,500 -4.71% 34
Wales +11 24 £45,000 -6.25% 15
Scotland -16 19 £31,000 -20.51% 18
Northern Ireland -8 2 £73,801 +6.48% 5
Channel Islands - 2 £55,000 -

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
1 178 (24.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 101 (14.11%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.09%) IIS
4 7 (0.98%) nginx
5 4 (0.56%) Traefik
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.28%) CMS
6 2 (0.28%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) Confluence
7 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 71 (9.92%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.98%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.14%) OmniGraffle
6 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.14%) Eikon
3 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.14%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 368 (51.40%) Microsoft 365
2 347 (48.46%) Azure
3 133 (18.58%) Entra ID
4 98 (13.69%) AWS
5 43 (6.01%) GCP
5 43 (6.01%) SaaS
6 32 (4.47%) PaaS
7 27 (3.77%) IaaS
8 26 (3.63%) OneDrive
9 25 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (2.79%) Amazon ECR
10 20 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (2.79%) dbt
10 20 (2.79%) Pulumi
11 14 (1.96%) Google Workspace
12 13 (1.82%) GitHub
13 12 (1.68%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 12 (1.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (1.68%) Sentry
14 10 (1.40%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 403 (56.28%) DNS
2 350 (48.88%) DHCP
3 290 (40.50%) Firewall
4 233 (32.54%) VPN
5 193 (26.96%) VLAN
6 163 (22.77%) WAN
7 159 (22.21%) LAN
8 89 (12.43%) Wi-Fi
9 77 (10.75%) VoIP
10 73 (10.20%) Network Security
11 64 (8.94%) Wireless
12 43 (6.01%) BGP
13 42 (5.87%) OSPF
14 37 (5.17%) SD-WAN
15 33 (4.61%) Internet
16 26 (3.63%) SSL
17 24 (3.35%) HTTP
17 24 (3.35%) SAN
18 22 (3.07%) Remote Desktop
19 20 (2.79%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (6.70%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (5.87%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (2.79%) Redis
5 10 (1.40%) MySQL
6 7 (0.98%) Power BI
6 7 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.28%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.28%) JasperReports
8 2 (0.28%) Metadata
8 2 (0.28%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.14%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.14%) FileMaker
9 1 (0.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (2.93%) Git
2 12 (1.68%) JIRA
3 6 (0.84%) Burp Suite
3 6 (0.84%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.84%) Metasploit
3 6 (0.84%) Snyk
4 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.28%) GitLab
5 2 (0.28%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (0.28%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.28%) MLflow
5 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
General
1 344 (48.04%) Social Skills
2 83 (11.59%) Finance
3 52 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (6.56%) Banking
5 38 (5.31%) Manufacturing
6 33 (4.61%) Telecoms
7 28 (3.91%) Law
8 26 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (2.65%) Investment Banking
11 19 (2.65%) Legal
11 19 (2.65%) Retail
12 18 (2.51%) Advertising
13 13 (1.82%) Marketing
14 11 (1.54%) Public Sector
15 10 (1.40%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.12%) Games
18 7 (0.98%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 187 (26.12%) IT Support
2 151 (21.09%) Support Engineer
3 102 (14.25%) IT Engineer
4 85 (11.87%) IT Support Engineer
5 81 (11.31%) 2nd Line Support
6 77 (10.75%) Analyst
7 72 (10.06%) Senior
8 69 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 59 (8.24%) Technical Support
10 57 (7.96%) Support Technician
11 53 (7.40%) Network Engineer
12 49 (6.84%) Support Analyst
13 47 (6.56%) IT Technician
14 43 (6.01%) IT Support Technician
15 39 (5.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 39 (5.45%) Technical Engineer
16 38 (5.31%) Technical Support Engineer
17 33 (4.61%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 32 (4.47%) 3rd Line Support
19 30 (4.19%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.79%) Django
2 13 (1.82%) .NET
3 10 (1.40%) 802.1X
4 7 (0.98%) Kafka
4 7 (0.98%) Middleware
5 5 (0.70%) LDAP
6 4 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (0.56%) OAuth
6 4 (0.56%) RESTful
7 3 (0.42%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.42%) EDI
7 3 (0.42%) FreeSWITCH
7 3 (0.42%) Node.js
7 3 (0.42%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.42%) Web Services
8 2 (0.28%) QML
8 2 (0.28%) Sass
8 2 (0.28%) STL
8 2 (0.28%) WebRTC
8 2 (0.28%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.94%) Driving Licence
2 61 (8.52%) Onboarding
3 49 (6.84%) Data Centre
4 27 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.63%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.93%) Security Operations Centre
8 19 (2.65%) FPGA
8 19 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
9 17 (2.37%) iPad
10 16 (2.23%) Cloud Native
11 15 (2.09%) Clustering
11 15 (2.09%) Hedge funds
11 15 (2.09%) Video Conferencing
12 14 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
12 14 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.96%) iPhone
13 13 (1.82%) IoT
13 13 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 415 (57.96%) Windows
2 239 (33.38%) Windows Server
3 157 (21.93%) Linux
4 115 (16.06%) Windows 10
5 50 (6.98%) Mac OS
6 44 (6.15%) Unix
7 27 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (3.21%) Android
9 22 (3.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 21 (2.93%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 8 (1.12%) Apple iOS
12 8 (1.12%) Mac OS X
12 8 (1.12%) Ubuntu
12 8 (1.12%) VMS
13 5 (0.70%) CentOS
13 5 (0.70%) FreeRTOS
13 5 (0.70%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.56%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
2 144 (20.11%) Customer Service
3 138 (19.27%) Cybersecurity
4 109 (15.22%) ITIL
5 103 (14.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 68 (9.50%) DevOps
7 67 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (8.52%) Disaster Recovery
9 52 (7.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 52 (7.26%) Mentoring
10 49 (6.84%) Agile
11 47 (6.56%) CI/CD
12 44 (6.15%) Collaborative Working
13 40 (5.59%) Incident Response
14 39 (5.45%) Migration
15 38 (5.31%) Root Cause Analysis
16 33 (4.61%) Incident Management
17 31 (4.33%) Computer Science
17 31 (4.33%) High Availability
17 31 (4.33%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (16.34%) PowerShell
2 95 (13.27%) Python
3 47 (6.56%) C++
4 39 (5.45%) C
5 38 (5.31%) Java
5 38 (5.31%) SQL
6 24 (3.35%) Bash
7 11 (1.54%) C#
8 7 (0.98%) Go
8 7 (0.98%) VBScript
9 6 (0.84%) R
10 5 (0.70%) Bicep
10 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.56%) Rust
12 2 (0.28%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.14%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.14%) Perl
13 1 (0.14%) PHP
13 1 (0.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 102 (14.25%) Degree
2 78 (10.89%) Security Cleared
3 62 (8.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 60 (8.38%) Cisco Certification
5 58 (8.10%) SC Cleared
6 41 (5.73%) CCNA
7 31 (4.33%) Azure Certification
8 30 (4.19%) CCNP
9 29 (4.05%) A+ Certification
10 25 (3.49%) Network+ Certification
11 24 (3.35%) MCP
12 15 (2.09%) CISSP
12 15 (2.09%) CompTIA Security+
12 15 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (2.09%) DV Cleared
12 15 (2.09%) MCSA
13 14 (1.96%) HND
14 13 (1.82%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.82%) HNC
15 12 (1.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (3.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 19 (2.65%) SLA
4 18 (2.51%) GDPR
5 6 (0.84%) NIST
6 5 (0.70%) GRC
7 4 (0.56%) MISRA
7 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.42%) QA
8 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.28%) GxP
9 2 (0.28%) NCSC
9 2 (0.28%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.28%) PMO
10 1 (0.14%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) JTAG
System Software
1 375 (52.37%) Active Directory
2 161 (22.49%) Hyper-V
3 147 (20.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (5.03%) Docker
5 22 (3.07%) vSphere
6 18 (2.51%) Firmware
7 12 (1.68%) NFS
8 11 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.70%) KVM
9 5 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.56%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.56%) XenApp
11 3 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.28%) pfSense
12 2 (0.28%) RHEV
12 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.28%) Xen
13 1 (0.14%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 150 (20.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (7.12%) Terraform
3 36 (5.03%) SCCM
4 35 (4.89%) Ansible
5 27 (3.77%) Kubernetes
6 26 (3.63%) FortiGate
7 17 (2.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 17 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.68%) AWS Copilot
9 11 (1.54%) Autotask
10 10 (1.40%) Nagios
11 8 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (1.12%) Nessus
12 6 (0.84%) Nmap
13 5 (0.70%) MaaS360
13 5 (0.70%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.56%) Prometheus
14 4 (0.56%) SCOM
14 4 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 415 (57.96%) Microsoft
2 154 (21.51%) VMware
3 137 (19.13%) Cisco
4 45 (6.28%) Google
5 44 (6.15%) Veeam
6 30 (4.19%) SonicWALL
7 29 (4.05%) Meraki
8 28 (3.91%) Fortinet
9 26 (3.63%) Red Hat
10 24 (3.35%) Apple
10 24 (3.35%) WatchGuard
11 23 (3.21%) Palo Alto
12 21 (2.93%) Citrix
13 19 (2.65%) Bloomberg
14 18 (2.51%) Reuters
15 17 (2.37%) Juniper
15 17 (2.37%) SolarWinds
16 16 (2.23%) Sophos
17 15 (2.09%) Splunk
18 14 (1.96%) Mitel