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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 218 204
Rank change year-on-year -25 -14 -36
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 907 718 964
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.77% 1.45% 1.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.45% 10.04% 11.12%
Number of salaries quoted 671 509 538
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,075 £76,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £34,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -18.82% -1.16%

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 7,922 7,154 8,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.71% 14.47% 11.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,851 3,958 4,315
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £28,697 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £39,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -25.71% +1.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,030 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,790 £83,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £34,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +32.35% -30.61% +8.89%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -11 851 £40,000 +6.67% 759
UK excluding London -38 635 £37,500 +8.70% 443
Work from Home +20 266 £40,000 -1.23% 252
London +9 253 £55,000 - 343
South East -23 186 £39,250 +4.67% 118
North of England -19 152 £34,500 -1.43% 95
Midlands -29 126 £36,750 +13.08% 62
East of England -8 93 £35,000 +7.69% 52
North West +39 87 £32,250 -20.37% 47
West Midlands -29 76 £37,500 +15.38% 32
Yorkshire -35 54 £33,500 - 37
East Midlands -39 50 £36,000 +10.77% 30
South West -78 43 £32,500 -5.80% 62
Scotland +8 14 £63,451 +111.50% 30
Wales -90 14 £45,000 +28.57% 13
North East -93 11 £40,000 +37.93% 14
Northern Ireland -72 7 £38,000 -48.51% 14

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
1 151 (16.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 118 (13.01%) SharePoint
3 26 (2.87%) IIS
4 18 (1.98%) Apache
5 7 (0.77%) Confluence
6 5 (0.55%) WinCC
7 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.33%) SAS
8 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.11%) Houdini
5 1 (0.11%) NUKE
5 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.11%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.22%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.22%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.11%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.11%) Eikon
3 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 417 (45.98%) Microsoft 365
2 343 (37.82%) Azure
3 247 (27.23%) Entra ID
4 141 (15.55%) AWS
5 54 (5.95%) GCP
6 50 (5.51%) OneDrive
7 37 (4.08%) SaaS
8 24 (2.65%) Google Workspace
9 21 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (1.54%) dbt
10 14 (1.54%) Google Compute Engine
10 14 (1.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 14 (1.54%) OpenShift
10 14 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (1.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 11 (1.21%) IaaS
12 10 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 559 (61.63%) DNS
2 447 (49.28%) DHCP
3 414 (45.64%) Firewall
4 400 (44.10%) VPN
5 219 (24.15%) VLAN
6 210 (23.15%) WAN
7 207 (22.82%) LAN
8 143 (15.77%) Wi-Fi
9 116 (12.79%) Wireless
10 110 (12.13%) Network Security
11 80 (8.82%) BGP
12 77 (8.49%) HTTP
13 69 (7.61%) VoIP
14 57 (6.28%) OSPF
15 43 (4.74%) SD-WAN
16 42 (4.63%) SSL
17 33 (3.64%) Ethernet
18 28 (3.09%) Internet
19 23 (2.54%) FTP
20 22 (2.43%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (2.32%) MySQL
4 20 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.99%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.66%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (0.66%) Redis
7 5 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.55%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.44%) KDB
8 4 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.33%) InfluxDB
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.11%) Db2
10 1 (0.11%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 34 (3.75%) JIRA
2 24 (2.65%) Git
3 14 (1.54%) TeamCity
4 13 (1.43%) GitLab
5 6 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.55%) Selenium
6 5 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.33%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.22%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.22%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.11%) CMake
10 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.11%) GDB
10 1 (0.11%) LSMW
10 1 (0.11%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 432 (47.63%) Social Skills
2 118 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
3 105 (11.58%) Finance
4 67 (7.39%) Telecoms
5 50 (5.51%) Banking
6 45 (4.96%) Law
7 44 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (4.30%) Retail
9 38 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
10 36 (3.97%) Aerospace
10 36 (3.97%) Electronics
11 33 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (2.54%) Manufacturing
13 20 (2.21%) Public Sector
14 17 (1.87%) Back Office
15 16 (1.76%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.10%) Automotive
17 8 (0.88%) Marketing
18 7 (0.77%) Digital Health
18 7 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 248 (27.34%) IT Support
2 211 (23.26%) Support Engineer
3 185 (20.40%) IT Engineer
4 155 (17.09%) IT Support Engineer
5 122 (13.45%) Analyst
6 116 (12.79%) Senior
7 112 (12.35%) Network Engineer
8 94 (10.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 74 (8.16%) 2nd Line Support
10 67 (7.39%) Support Analyst
11 59 (6.50%) IT Technician
11 59 (6.50%) Support Technician
12 54 (5.95%) IT Support Technician
13 46 (5.07%) Lead
14 44 (4.85%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 42 (4.63%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 35 (3.86%) IT Analyst
17 33 (3.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 32 (3.53%) Infrastructure Support
18 32 (3.53%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (8.38%) Terraform
2 25 (2.76%) LDAP
3 22 (2.43%) React
4 19 (2.09%) RESTful
5 18 (1.98%) XML
6 16 (1.76%) Node.js
7 13 (1.43%) JSON
8 12 (1.32%) Middleware
8 12 (1.32%) WebSockets
9 11 (1.21%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (1.10%) CSS
10 10 (1.10%) Django
10 10 (1.10%) FIX Protocol
10 10 (1.10%) HTML
11 9 (0.99%) .NET
11 9 (0.99%) AngularJS
11 9 (0.99%) REST
12 8 (0.88%) gRPC
13 6 (0.66%) GraphQL
14 5 (0.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 129 (14.22%) Driving Licence
2 105 (11.58%) Onboarding
3 45 (4.96%) Data Centre
4 37 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (3.42%) Security Posture
7 29 (3.20%) Management Information System
8 27 (2.98%) Cyber Threat
8 27 (2.98%) Security Operations Centre
9 24 (2.65%) Cloud Native
9 24 (2.65%) PKI
10 22 (2.43%) Client/Server
10 22 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (2.09%) Replication
12 18 (1.98%) CCTV
12 18 (1.98%) Cyber Defence
13 14 (1.54%) Blog
14 13 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.32%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 551 (60.75%) Windows
2 275 (30.32%) Windows Server
3 224 (24.70%) Linux
4 115 (12.68%) Windows 10
5 55 (6.06%) Mac OS
6 41 (4.52%) Unix
7 34 (3.75%) Ubuntu
8 25 (2.76%) Apple iOS
9 20 (2.21%) Android
9 20 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (2.09%) Rocky
11 18 (1.98%) CentOS
12 16 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.77%) Debian
15 6 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
15 6 (0.66%) Solaris
16 5 (0.55%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.44%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (34.95%) Problem-Solving
2 225 (24.81%) Customer Service
3 207 (22.82%) Cybersecurity
4 194 (21.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 166 (18.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 136 (14.99%) ITIL
7 131 (14.44%) Disaster Recovery
8 99 (10.92%) Incident Response
9 98 (10.80%) Mentoring
10 85 (9.37%) Project Delivery
11 84 (9.26%) Service Delivery
12 82 (9.04%) ITSM
13 75 (8.27%) CI/CD
14 71 (7.83%) SIEM
15 70 (7.72%) Infrastructure as Code
16 68 (7.50%) Computer Science
17 63 (6.95%) Software Engineering
18 62 (6.84%) DevOps
19 60 (6.62%) High Availability
20 56 (6.17%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 180 (19.85%) Python
2 156 (17.20%) PowerShell
3 96 (10.58%) SQL
4 93 (10.25%) Bash
5 47 (5.18%) C++
6 29 (3.20%) Java
7 27 (2.98%) Perl
8 25 (2.76%) Go
9 24 (2.65%) JavaScript
10 21 (2.32%) C
11 18 (1.98%) C#
12 14 (1.54%) VBA
13 13 (1.43%) Ruby
14 10 (1.10%) Bicep
14 10 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (1.10%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.10%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.77%) PHP
15 7 (0.77%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 152 (16.76%) Degree
2 115 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 97 (10.69%) Cisco Certification
4 75 (8.27%) SC Cleared
5 73 (8.05%) CCNA
6 65 (7.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (6.28%) CCNP
8 35 (3.86%) CompTIA Security+
9 31 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (3.09%) Azure Certification
11 26 (2.87%) CREST Certified
12 24 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (2.54%) CISSP
13 23 (2.54%) DV Cleared
13 23 (2.54%) Network+ Certification
14 20 (2.21%) A+ Certification
14 20 (2.21%) CEH
15 18 (1.98%) GCIA
16 16 (1.76%) DBS Check
16 16 (1.76%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (8.60%) SLA
2 46 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (4.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 34 (3.75%) GDPR
5 21 (2.32%) NIST
6 20 (2.21%) QA
7 19 (2.09%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.65%) SOC 2
9 11 (1.21%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.66%) GRC
11 6 (0.66%) NCSC
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.11%) DO-178B
13 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.11%) IASME
13 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 408 (44.98%) Active Directory
2 159 (17.53%) Hyper-V
3 140 (15.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.19%) Docker
5 33 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (3.42%) Firmware
7 14 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (1.54%) vSphere
8 10 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.22%) KVM
10 2 (0.22%) Snort
10 2 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.22%) XenApp
10 2 (0.22%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.11%) Ceph
11 1 (0.11%) QEMU
11 1 (0.11%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 155 (17.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (4.63%) Kubernetes
3 41 (4.52%) Ansible
4 30 (3.31%) FortiGate
5 26 (2.87%) Grafana
6 21 (2.32%) QRadar
6 21 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (2.21%) Prometheus
8 14 (1.54%) Nagios
9 11 (1.21%) WSUS
10 9 (0.99%) Kibana
11 8 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.77%) Autotask
12 7 (0.77%) SCCM
13 6 (0.66%) Cilium
14 5 (0.55%) McAfee ePO
14 5 (0.55%) SCVMM
15 4 (0.44%) Proxmox
15 4 (0.44%) ZABBIX
16 3 (0.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 515 (56.78%) Microsoft
2 165 (18.19%) VMware
3 130 (14.33%) Cisco
4 77 (8.49%) Fortinet
5 58 (6.39%) Google
6 55 (6.06%) Veeam
7 45 (4.96%) Splunk
8 42 (4.63%) ServiceNow
9 38 (4.19%) Palo Alto
10 30 (3.31%) Meraki
11 29 (3.20%) Dell
11 29 (3.20%) SonicWALL
12 26 (2.87%) Red Hat
13 23 (2.54%) SolarWinds
14 21 (2.32%) WatchGuard
15 20 (2.21%) Sophos
16 18 (1.98%) Apple
16 18 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
17 17 (1.87%) HP
17 17 (1.87%) Ubiquiti