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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 224 198
Rank change year-on-year -13 -26 -26
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 945 658 941
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.79% 1.35% 1.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.77% 9.71% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 689 511 519
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,000 £28,950
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -21.05% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £34,000 £42,750
% change year-on-year +10.29% -20.47% -1.72%

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 8,030 6,780 8,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.74% 13.86% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,885 3,958 4,192
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £28,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £38,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% -26.67% +2.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £84,964
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £34,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +32.35% -32.00% +11.11%

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 16 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 16 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 -5 883 £40,000 +6.67% 207
UK excluding London -31 661 £37,500 +10.29% 167
Work from Home +34 274 £40,000 +2.56% 92
London -2 262 £55,000 - 53
South East -1 193 £40,500 +8.00% 54
North of England -25 155 £35,000 +2.19% 31
Midlands -14 132 £36,000 +10.77% 27
East of England 0 98 £35,000 +7.69% 16
North West +33 87 £32,250 -20.37% 15
West Midlands -19 81 £37,500 +15.38% 12
Yorkshire -36 57 £33,500 - 14
East Midlands -26 51 £36,000 +10.77% 15
South West -71 45 £32,500 -5.80% 32
Wales -85 16 £45,000 +28.57% 1
Scotland +3 14 £63,451 +111.50% 7
North East -92 11 £40,000 +37.93% 4
Northern Ireland -74 8 £38,000 -48.51% 1

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
1 156 (16.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 123 (13.02%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.65%) IIS
4 18 (1.90%) Apache
5 8 (0.85%) Confluence
6 5 (0.53%) WinCC
7 3 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.32%) SAS
8 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) FactoryTalk
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 35 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.32%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.11%) Houdini
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) NUKE
5 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.11%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (0.85%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.21%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.21%) 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
1 436 (46.14%) Microsoft 365
2 356 (37.67%) Azure
3 261 (27.62%) Entra ID
4 146 (15.45%) AWS
5 60 (6.35%) GCP
6 52 (5.50%) OneDrive
7 41 (4.34%) SaaS
8 27 (2.86%) Google Workspace
9 21 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (1.80%) Google Compute Engine
10 17 (1.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 17 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (1.48%) dbt
11 14 (1.48%) OpenShift
12 12 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
12 12 (1.27%) IaaS
13 11 (1.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 10 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 578 (61.16%) DNS
2 464 (49.10%) DHCP
3 430 (45.50%) Firewall
4 417 (44.13%) VPN
5 238 (25.19%) VLAN
6 215 (22.75%) WAN
7 213 (22.54%) LAN
8 155 (16.40%) Wi-Fi
9 129 (13.65%) Wireless
10 117 (12.38%) Network Security
11 86 (9.10%) BGP
12 76 (8.04%) HTTP
13 71 (7.51%) VoIP
14 60 (6.35%) OSPF
15 45 (4.76%) SD-WAN
15 45 (4.76%) SSL
16 35 (3.70%) Ethernet
17 30 (3.17%) Internet
18 23 (2.43%) Wireshark
19 21 (2.22%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 27 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (2.33%) MySQL
5 9 (0.95%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (0.63%) Redis
7 5 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.53%) KDB
7 5 (0.53%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.53%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.32%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.21%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.21%) Db2
10 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.11%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.11%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 36 (3.81%) JIRA
2 26 (2.75%) Git
3 17 (1.80%) TeamCity
4 13 (1.38%) GitLab
5 7 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.53%) Selenium
6 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.32%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.21%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.21%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.21%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.21%) Postman
9 2 (0.21%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.11%) CMake
10 1 (0.11%) GDB
10 1 (0.11%) LSMW
10 1 (0.11%) Metasploit
General
1 445 (47.09%) Social Skills
2 121 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
3 111 (11.75%) Finance
4 71 (7.51%) Telecoms
5 51 (5.40%) Banking
6 48 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (4.97%) Law
8 41 (4.34%) Documentation Skills
8 41 (4.34%) Retail
9 38 (4.02%) Electronics
10 37 (3.92%) Aerospace
11 35 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (3.07%) Manufacturing
13 21 (2.22%) Public Sector
14 19 (2.01%) Back Office
14 19 (2.01%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.06%) Automotive
16 8 (0.85%) Marketing
17 7 (0.74%) Digital Health
17 7 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 256 (27.09%) IT Support
2 212 (22.43%) Support Engineer
3 191 (20.21%) IT Engineer
4 158 (16.72%) IT Support Engineer
5 126 (13.33%) Senior
6 122 (12.91%) Analyst
7 116 (12.28%) Network Engineer
8 100 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 76 (8.04%) 2nd Line Support
10 70 (7.41%) Support Analyst
11 62 (6.56%) IT Technician
12 60 (6.35%) Support Technician
13 55 (5.82%) IT Support Technician
14 51 (5.40%) Lead
15 45 (4.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 43 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 37 (3.92%) IT Analyst
18 35 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 34 (3.60%) Software Engineer
20 33 (3.49%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (8.57%) Terraform
2 23 (2.43%) LDAP
3 22 (2.33%) React
4 20 (2.12%) RESTful
4 20 (2.12%) XML
5 16 (1.69%) Node.js
6 14 (1.48%) JSON
7 12 (1.27%) Middleware
7 12 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
7 12 (1.27%) WebSockets
8 11 (1.16%) .NET
9 10 (1.06%) CSS
9 10 (1.06%) Django
9 10 (1.06%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (1.06%) HTML
9 10 (1.06%) REST
10 9 (0.95%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.85%) gRPC
12 6 (0.63%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.53%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 137 (14.50%) Driving Licence
2 113 (11.96%) Onboarding
3 49 (5.19%) Data Centre
4 41 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (3.60%) Security Posture
7 33 (3.49%) Management Information System
8 28 (2.96%) Cloud Native
9 27 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
10 25 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
11 23 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
11 23 (2.43%) PKI
12 22 (2.33%) Client/Server
12 22 (2.33%) Replication
13 19 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
14 18 (1.90%) CCTV
15 17 (1.80%) Blog
15 17 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
16 14 (1.48%) SCADA
17 12 (1.27%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 571 (60.42%) Windows
2 286 (30.26%) Windows Server
3 235 (24.87%) Linux
4 118 (12.49%) Windows 10
5 58 (6.14%) macOS
6 41 (4.34%) Unix
7 36 (3.81%) Ubuntu
8 26 (2.75%) Apple iOS
9 21 (2.22%) Android
9 21 (2.22%) Rocky
9 21 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (1.90%) CentOS
11 17 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.85%) Debian
14 6 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.63%) Solaris
15 5 (0.53%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.42%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (35.34%) Problem-Solving
2 233 (24.66%) Customer Service
3 215 (22.75%) Cybersecurity
4 204 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 177 (18.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 140 (14.81%) ITIL
7 134 (14.18%) Disaster Recovery
8 104 (11.01%) Incident Response
9 101 (10.69%) Mentoring
10 90 (9.52%) Project Delivery
11 87 (9.21%) Service Delivery
12 84 (8.89%) ITSM
13 78 (8.25%) CI/CD
14 71 (7.51%) Computer Science
14 71 (7.51%) SIEM
15 70 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
16 66 (6.98%) Software Engineering
17 62 (6.56%) DevOps
17 62 (6.56%) High Availability
18 59 (6.24%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 190 (20.11%) Python
2 163 (17.25%) PowerShell
3 100 (10.58%) SQL
4 97 (10.26%) Bash
5 49 (5.19%) C++
6 33 (3.49%) Java
7 28 (2.96%) Go
8 26 (2.75%) Perl
9 24 (2.54%) JavaScript
10 22 (2.33%) C
11 20 (2.12%) C#
12 14 (1.48%) Ruby
12 14 (1.48%) VBA
13 10 (1.06%) Bicep
13 10 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.06%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.06%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.74%) PHP
14 7 (0.74%) Rust
14 7 (0.74%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 158 (16.72%) Degree
2 120 (12.70%) Security Cleared
3 106 (11.22%) Cisco Certification
4 80 (8.47%) CCNA
5 78 (8.25%) SC Cleared
6 68 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 60 (6.35%) CCNP
8 34 (3.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 32 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (2.75%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.75%) CISSP
10 26 (2.75%) CREST Certified
10 26 (2.75%) DV Cleared
11 25 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (2.43%) Network+ Certification
13 21 (2.22%) A+ Certification
14 19 (2.01%) CEH
15 18 (1.90%) DBS Check
15 18 (1.90%) GCIA
16 17 (1.80%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.47%) SLA
2 51 (5.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 36 (3.81%) GDPR
5 25 (2.65%) NIST
6 23 (2.43%) PCI DSS
7 22 (2.33%) QA
8 18 (1.90%) SOC 2
9 11 (1.16%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.63%) GRC
11 6 (0.63%) NCSC
12 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.11%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 1 (0.11%) DO-178B
13 1 (0.11%) GxP
13 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 419 (44.34%) Active Directory
2 163 (17.25%) Hyper-V
3 144 (15.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (4.13%) Docker
5 35 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (3.49%) Firmware
7 16 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (1.59%) vSphere
9 10 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.21%) KVM
12 2 (0.21%) NFS
12 2 (0.21%) Snort
12 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.21%) XenApp
12 2 (0.21%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.11%) Samba
13 1 (0.11%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 164 (17.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (4.76%) Ansible
2 45 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 31 (3.28%) FortiGate
4 29 (3.07%) Grafana
5 23 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (2.22%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.90%) QRadar
8 14 (1.48%) Nagios
9 11 (1.16%) WSUS
10 10 (1.06%) Kibana
11 8 (0.85%) Cilium
11 8 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.85%) SCCM
12 7 (0.74%) Autotask
13 5 (0.53%) McAfee ePO
13 5 (0.53%) SCVMM
14 4 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.42%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 533 (56.40%) Microsoft
2 171 (18.10%) VMware
3 137 (14.50%) Cisco
4 84 (8.89%) Fortinet
5 65 (6.88%) Google
6 58 (6.14%) Veeam
7 44 (4.66%) ServiceNow
7 44 (4.66%) Splunk
8 39 (4.13%) Palo Alto
9 31 (3.28%) Dell
9 31 (3.28%) Meraki
9 31 (3.28%) SonicWALL
10 27 (2.86%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.54%) SolarWinds
12 23 (2.43%) WatchGuard
13 21 (2.22%) Sophos
14 20 (2.12%) Apple
14 20 (2.12%) Aruba
14 20 (2.12%) F5
15 19 (2.01%) HP