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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 185 163
Rank change year-on-year -18 -22 +97
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 699 932 1,067
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 1.37% 2.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.29% 11.95% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 547 514 838
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £27,666
25th Percentile £29,750 £33,200 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +2.27% +10.00%

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 6,191 7,796 8,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.37% 11.50% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,161 4,008 6,519
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £34,250
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £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 5 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 5 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 -3 634 £37,500 -21.05% 1,369
UK excluding London -4 491 £35,000 -22.22% 1,228
London +31 190 £55,000 +3.77% 462
Work from Home -39 180 £40,500 -22.86% 1,069
North of England +11 129 £33,000 -20.00% 107
South East -13 129 £37,500 -21.05% 650
Midlands +25 79 £33,750 -3.57% 80
Yorkshire +18 65 £32,250 -7.86% 29
South West +1 53 £34,500 -44.80% 81
East of England -4 53 £32,500 -18.75% 275
West Midlands +30 42 £36,500 +4.29% 38
North East +37 37 £29,000 -58.16% 13
East Midlands +7 37 £32,500 -18.75% 35
North West -14 27 £40,500 -1.82% 65
Wales +14 26 £35,000 -27.08% 27
Scotland -11 19 £37,500 -6.25% 21
Northern Ireland -14 2 £73,801 +6.48% 10
Channel Islands - 2 £55,000 - 6

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
1 173 (24.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 96 (13.73%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.15%) IIS
4 7 (1.00%) nginx
5 4 (0.57%) Traefik
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Confluence
7 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 74 (10.59%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.72%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.00%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.14%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.14%) Eikon
3 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.14%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 361 (51.65%) Microsoft 365
2 343 (49.07%) Azure
3 126 (18.03%) Entra ID
4 96 (13.73%) AWS
5 43 (6.15%) GCP
6 41 (5.87%) SaaS
7 33 (4.72%) PaaS
8 28 (4.01%) IaaS
9 24 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (3.29%) OneDrive
11 20 (2.86%) Amazon ECR
11 20 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (2.86%) dbt
11 20 (2.86%) Pulumi
12 13 (1.86%) GitHub
13 12 (1.72%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 12 (1.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (1.72%) Sentry
14 11 (1.57%) Google Workspace
14 11 (1.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 393 (56.22%) DNS
2 341 (48.78%) DHCP
3 283 (40.49%) Firewall
4 230 (32.90%) VPN
5 184 (26.32%) VLAN
6 162 (23.18%) WAN
7 158 (22.60%) LAN
8 85 (12.16%) Wi-Fi
9 76 (10.87%) VoIP
10 71 (10.16%) Network Security
11 59 (8.44%) Wireless
12 42 (6.01%) BGP
13 41 (5.87%) OSPF
14 37 (5.29%) SD-WAN
15 32 (4.58%) Internet
16 24 (3.43%) SAN
16 24 (3.43%) SSL
17 23 (3.29%) Remote Desktop
18 21 (3.00%) HTTP
19 20 (2.86%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (6.01%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (2.86%) Redis
5 10 (1.43%) MySQL
6 7 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.86%) Power BI
8 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.29%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.29%) JasperReports
9 2 (0.29%) Metadata
9 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.14%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.14%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 20 (2.86%) Git
2 12 (1.72%) JIRA
3 6 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.86%) Snyk
4 5 (0.72%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.72%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.29%) GitLab
5 2 (0.29%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (0.29%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.29%) MLflow
5 2 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
General
1 337 (48.21%) Social Skills
2 80 (11.44%) Finance
3 47 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (6.58%) Banking
5 37 (5.29%) Manufacturing
6 36 (5.15%) Telecoms
7 27 (3.86%) Law
8 26 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (2.72%) Legal
12 18 (2.58%) Advertising
12 18 (2.58%) Investment Banking
13 17 (2.43%) Retail
14 13 (1.86%) Marketing
15 10 (1.43%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.43%) Public Sector
16 9 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.14%) Games
18 7 (1.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 181 (25.89%) IT Support
2 143 (20.46%) Support Engineer
3 96 (13.73%) IT Engineer
4 79 (11.30%) IT Support Engineer
5 77 (11.02%) Analyst
6 74 (10.59%) 2nd Line Support
7 70 (10.01%) Senior
8 69 (9.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 64 (9.16%) Technical Support
10 55 (7.87%) Support Technician
11 53 (7.58%) Network Engineer
12 49 (7.01%) Support Analyst
13 45 (6.44%) IT Technician
14 41 (5.87%) IT Support Technician
15 38 (5.44%) Technical Engineer
15 38 (5.44%) Technical Support Engineer
16 33 (4.72%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 32 (4.58%) 3rd Line Support
18 27 (3.86%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 27 (3.86%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.86%) Django
2 13 (1.86%) .NET
3 10 (1.43%) 802.1X
4 7 (1.00%) Kafka
4 7 (1.00%) Middleware
5 5 (0.72%) LDAP
6 4 (0.57%) OAuth
7 3 (0.43%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.43%) EDI
7 3 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (0.43%) FreeSWITCH
7 3 (0.43%) Node.js
7 3 (0.43%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.43%) RESTful
8 2 (0.29%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.29%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.29%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.29%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.29%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.01%) Driving Licence
2 56 (8.01%) Onboarding
3 49 (7.01%) Data Centre
4 25 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.58%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 19 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (2.58%) FPGA
7 18 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (2.29%) Clustering
9 15 (2.15%) Hedge funds
9 15 (2.15%) iPad
10 14 (2.00%) Cloud Native
10 14 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
11 13 (1.86%) CCTV
11 13 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.86%) IoT
12 12 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 402 (57.51%) Windows
2 229 (32.76%) Windows Server
3 149 (21.32%) Linux
4 107 (15.31%) Windows 10
5 45 (6.44%) Mac OS
6 43 (6.15%) Unix
7 27 (3.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (3.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 21 (3.00%) Android
9 21 (3.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (1.14%) VMS
12 7 (1.00%) Mac OS X
12 7 (1.00%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.72%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.72%) FreeRTOS
13 5 (0.72%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.57%) CentOS
14 4 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.57%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (31.33%) Problem-Solving
2 142 (20.31%) Customer Service
3 133 (19.03%) Cybersecurity
4 106 (15.16%) ITIL
5 101 (14.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 68 (9.73%) DevOps
7 63 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (8.30%) Disaster Recovery
9 52 (7.44%) Mentoring
10 50 (7.15%) Infrastructure as Code
11 47 (6.72%) Agile
11 47 (6.72%) CI/CD
12 44 (6.29%) Collaborative Working
13 39 (5.58%) Migration
14 38 (5.44%) Incident Response
15 34 (4.86%) Root Cause Analysis
16 33 (4.72%) Incident Management
17 32 (4.58%) High Availability
18 31 (4.43%) Computer Science
19 30 (4.29%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (16.74%) PowerShell
2 90 (12.88%) Python
3 42 (6.01%) C++
4 36 (5.15%) C
4 36 (5.15%) Java
5 35 (5.01%) SQL
6 23 (3.29%) Bash
7 9 (1.29%) C#
8 7 (1.00%) VBScript
9 6 (0.86%) Go
9 6 (0.86%) R
10 5 (0.72%) Bicep
11 4 (0.57%) Rust
11 4 (0.57%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.29%) Embedded C++
13 1 (0.14%) Perl
13 1 (0.14%) PHP
13 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 98 (14.02%) Degree
2 78 (11.16%) Security Cleared
3 61 (8.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 59 (8.44%) SC Cleared
5 58 (8.30%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (5.44%) CCNA
7 30 (4.29%) Azure Certification
8 29 (4.15%) A+ Certification
8 29 (4.15%) CCNP
9 24 (3.43%) MCP
9 24 (3.43%) Network+ Certification
10 15 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (2.15%) MCSA
11 14 (2.00%) CISSP
11 14 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 14 (2.00%) DV Cleared
11 14 (2.00%) HND
12 13 (1.86%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.86%) HNC
13 11 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (3.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (2.58%) GDPR
3 18 (2.58%) SLA
4 5 (0.72%) GRC
4 5 (0.72%) NIST
5 4 (0.57%) MISRA
6 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.29%) GxP
7 2 (0.29%) NCSC
7 2 (0.29%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.29%) PMO
7 2 (0.29%) QA
7 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.14%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.14%) JTAG
System Software
1 365 (52.22%) Active Directory
2 157 (22.46%) Hyper-V
3 142 (20.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (5.15%) Docker
5 22 (3.15%) vSphere
6 18 (2.58%) Firmware
7 12 (1.72%) NFS
8 10 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.57%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.57%) KVM
10 4 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.57%) XenApp
11 2 (0.29%) pfSense
11 2 (0.29%) RHEV
11 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.29%) Xen
12 1 (0.14%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 147 (21.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 49 (7.01%) Terraform
3 37 (5.29%) SCCM
4 35 (5.01%) Ansible
5 27 (3.86%) FortiGate
5 27 (3.86%) Kubernetes
6 16 (2.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.72%) AWS Copilot
8 11 (1.57%) Autotask
8 11 (1.57%) Nagios
9 8 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.86%) Nessus
11 5 (0.72%) MaaS360
11 5 (0.72%) Nmap
11 5 (0.72%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.72%) WSUS
12 4 (0.57%) Grafana
12 4 (0.57%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 407 (58.23%) Microsoft
2 150 (21.46%) VMware
3 138 (19.74%) Cisco
4 44 (6.29%) Veeam
5 42 (6.01%) Google
6 31 (4.43%) Meraki
7 29 (4.15%) SonicWALL
8 28 (4.01%) Fortinet
9 25 (3.58%) Red Hat
10 24 (3.43%) WatchGuard
11 23 (3.29%) Apple
12 21 (3.00%) Citrix
12 21 (3.00%) Palo Alto
13 19 (2.72%) Bloomberg
14 18 (2.58%) Reuters
15 17 (2.43%) SolarWinds
15 17 (2.43%) Sophos
16 15 (2.15%) Juniper
16 15 (2.15%) Splunk
17 14 (2.00%) Mitel