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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 230 208
Rank change year-on-year -82 -22 +33
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 557 660 1,369
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 1.50% 1.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.24% 10.05% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 421 470 1,161
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,088 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,688 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £41,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -18.07% +10.67% -6.25%

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 8,931 6,566 12,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.68% 14.89% 13.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,107 3,772 9,387
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.47%
75th Percentile £69,576 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,706
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £44,860 £43,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% +3.13% -3.33%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -62 514 £40,000 -5.88% 236
UK excluding London -90 340 £34,000 -18.07% 201
London 0 200 £57,500 +11.65% 67
Work from Home +2 158 £42,500 -17.48% 89
North of England -4 108 £34,000 -23.94% 41
South East -53 95 £35,000 -6.67% 73
Yorkshire -35 52 £32,500 -18.75% 15
Midlands -75 44 £32,500 - 24
North West +12 40 £43,750 -7.89% 22
South West -45 37 £39,000 -24.61% 23
East of England -53 30 £43,750 -5.41% 27
East Midlands -39 28 £32,500 +4.84% 7
Wales -30 17 £29,500 -54.62% 7
North East -26 16 £45,000 -35.14% 5
West Midlands -68 16 £33,250 +2.31% 17
Scotland -24 8 £46,000 -8.00% 15
Northern Ireland -37 1 £73,801 -13.18%

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
1 106 (19.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 72 (12.93%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.33%) IIS
4 5 (0.90%) Confluence
5 2 (0.36%) Apache
5 2 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 73 (13.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Fidessa
1 2 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 245 (43.99%) Azure
2 229 (41.11%) Microsoft 365
3 113 (20.29%) AWS
4 105 (18.85%) Entra ID
5 33 (5.92%) GCP
6 25 (4.49%) Google Workspace
7 20 (3.59%) OneDrive
8 19 (3.41%) GitHub
9 18 (3.23%) IaaS
10 16 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.51%) PaaS
13 11 (1.97%) SaaS
14 10 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
17 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
18 6 (1.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 6 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 338 (60.68%) DNS
2 264 (47.40%) DHCP
3 213 (38.24%) Firewall
4 173 (31.06%) VPN
5 156 (28.01%) WAN
6 139 (24.96%) LAN
7 105 (18.85%) VLAN
8 65 (11.67%) Wi-Fi
9 55 (9.87%) HTTP
9 55 (9.87%) Network Security
10 38 (6.82%) BGP
10 38 (6.82%) SD-WAN
11 36 (6.46%) VoIP
12 33 (5.92%) Wireless
13 30 (5.39%) OSPF
14 20 (3.59%) Multicast
15 19 (3.41%) SMTP
16 14 (2.51%) SAN
16 14 (2.51%) Wireshark
17 13 (2.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.26%) MySQL
5 6 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.08%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.90%) Redis
7 4 (0.72%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.54%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (0.54%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.54%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.36%) Power BI
10 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.18%) KDB
10 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.18%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.18%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 17 (3.05%) Jenkins
2 16 (2.87%) Git
3 10 (1.80%) Bitbucket
3 10 (1.80%) JIRA
4 8 (1.44%) GitLab
4 8 (1.44%) Metasploit
5 4 (0.72%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.18%) CMake
8 1 (0.18%) LSMW
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 224 (40.22%) Social Skills
2 95 (17.06%) Finance
3 69 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.90%) Law
5 42 (7.54%) Banking
6 40 (7.18%) Telecoms
7 32 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.41%) Investment Banking
11 18 (3.23%) Aerospace
12 17 (3.05%) Retail
13 14 (2.51%) Back Office
14 13 (2.33%) Legal
14 13 (2.33%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.33%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.62%) Automotive
16 7 (1.26%) Electronics
17 6 (1.08%) Spanish Language
18 5 (0.90%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 146 (26.21%) IT Support
2 82 (14.72%) Support Engineer
3 81 (14.54%) Analyst
4 68 (12.21%) Senior
5 61 (10.95%) IT Engineer
6 56 (10.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 55 (9.87%) IT Support Engineer
8 54 (9.69%) Support Technician
9 52 (9.34%) 2nd Line Support
10 47 (8.44%) Network Engineer
11 43 (7.72%) IT Support Technician
11 43 (7.72%) IT Technician
12 35 (6.28%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 34 (6.10%) Support Analyst
14 33 (5.92%) Developer
15 30 (5.39%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 29 (5.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 27 (4.85%) C++ Developer
18 21 (3.77%) Infrastructure Support
18 21 (3.77%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (2.33%) LDAP
3 11 (1.97%) gRPC
3 11 (1.97%) WebSockets
4 9 (1.62%) .NET
5 8 (1.44%) REST
6 6 (1.08%) 802.1X
6 6 (1.08%) Django
7 5 (0.90%) ARM Templates
7 5 (0.90%) React
7 5 (0.90%) RESTful
8 4 (0.72%) ADO
8 4 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (0.72%) Middleware
8 4 (0.72%) Qt
9 3 (0.54%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.54%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.54%) Node.js
9 3 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (0.54%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 67 (12.03%) Driving Licence
2 36 (6.46%) Data Centre
3 26 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
5 20 (3.59%) FPGA
5 20 (3.59%) Security Posture
6 19 (3.41%) EPoS
7 17 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (3.05%) Video Conferencing
8 15 (2.69%) Replication
9 12 (2.15%) Cyber Defence
9 12 (2.15%) Security Operations Centre
10 11 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.97%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.97%) MPEG
11 10 (1.80%) Client/Server
11 10 (1.80%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.62%) Digital Signage
12 9 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 334 (59.96%) Windows
2 186 (33.39%) Windows Server
3 129 (23.16%) Linux
4 94 (16.88%) Windows 10
5 43 (7.72%) Mac OS
6 37 (6.64%) Apple iOS
7 27 (4.85%) Android
8 25 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (4.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (3.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 18 (3.23%) Unix
11 14 (2.51%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (1.26%) CentOS
12 7 (1.26%) Windows 7
13 6 (1.08%) VMS
14 4 (0.72%) CoreOS
14 4 (0.72%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.72%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.36%) Rocky
15 2 (0.36%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (34.47%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (18.85%) Customer Service
3 87 (15.62%) ITIL
4 79 (14.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 69 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 68 (12.21%) Cybersecurity
6 68 (12.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 64 (11.49%) Service Delivery
8 62 (11.13%) Disaster Recovery
9 58 (10.41%) DevOps
10 57 (10.23%) Incident Response
11 46 (8.26%) CI/CD
11 46 (8.26%) Incident Management
12 44 (7.90%) Root Cause Analysis
13 42 (7.54%) SIEM
14 39 (7.00%) Mentoring
15 37 (6.64%) High Availability
15 37 (6.64%) ITSM
16 36 (6.46%) Computer Science
17 33 (5.92%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 104 (18.67%) PowerShell
1 104 (18.67%) Python
2 58 (10.41%) Bash
3 41 (7.36%) C++
4 39 (7.00%) SQL
5 29 (5.21%) Java
6 23 (4.13%) C
7 19 (3.41%) Go
8 15 (2.69%) C#
9 8 (1.44%) Perl
10 6 (1.08%) Bicep
11 4 (0.72%) Delphi
11 4 (0.72%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.72%) Pascal
11 4 (0.72%) PHP
12 3 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
12 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.54%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.36%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.18%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 83 (14.90%) Degree
2 53 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 43 (7.72%) SC Cleared
4 41 (7.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 36 (6.46%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (5.03%) CCNA
7 25 (4.49%) Azure Certification
8 22 (3.95%) CCNP
9 21 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
11 15 (2.69%) CREST Certified
11 15 (2.69%) Network+ Certification
12 11 (1.97%) RHCSA
13 10 (1.80%) DBS Check
14 9 (1.62%) CEH
14 9 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (1.62%) MCDST
14 9 (1.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (1.44%) A+ Certification
15 8 (1.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.00%) SLA
2 25 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.77%) GDPR
4 13 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.97%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.26%) QA
7 5 (0.90%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.72%) DICOM
8 4 (0.72%) HL7
9 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.36%) GxP
10 2 (0.36%) NIST
11 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 246 (44.17%) Active Directory
2 104 (18.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (14.18%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.23%) Docker
5 13 (2.33%) Firmware
5 13 (2.33%) vSphere
6 10 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.44%) KVM
8 7 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.36%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.18%) QEMU
11 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 73 (13.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (9.34%) Terraform
3 51 (9.16%) Ansible
4 32 (5.75%) Kubernetes
5 24 (4.31%) Grafana
5 24 (4.31%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (3.59%) FortiGate
7 20 (3.59%) Nagios
8 15 (2.69%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (2.15%) QRadar
10 8 (1.44%) Puppet
10 8 (1.44%) SCCM
11 6 (1.08%) vCenter Server
11 6 (1.08%) VxRail
11 6 (1.08%) WSUS
12 5 (0.90%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.72%) Autotask
13 4 (0.72%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 304 (54.58%) Microsoft
2 130 (23.34%) VMware
3 63 (11.31%) Cisco
4 30 (5.39%) SolarWinds
5 29 (5.21%) Meraki
6 28 (5.03%) Google
7 26 (4.67%) Veeam
8 24 (4.31%) Citrix
8 24 (4.31%) Palo Alto
8 24 (4.31%) Red Hat
9 20 (3.59%) Apple
9 20 (3.59%) Dell
9 20 (3.59%) Splunk
10 19 (3.41%) HP
11 18 (3.23%) Fortinet
12 16 (2.87%) CrowdStrike
13 12 (2.15%) ServiceNow
14 11 (1.97%) Zscaler
15 8 (1.44%) Sophos
15 8 (1.44%) Yealink