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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 212 232
Rank change year-on-year -49 +20 -14
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 754 760 1,032
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.54% 1.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.35% 10.46% 9.83%
Number of salaries quoted 587 537 801
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £38,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -9.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% -11.76%

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 7,283 7,268 10,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.16% 14.73% 12.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,709 4,161 6,962
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -13.27% -4.99%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% -

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -44 706 £37,750 +0.67% 284
UK excluding London -44 536 £35,000 -5.41% 215
Work from Home -1 237 £40,000 -15.79% 103
London -23 204 £60,000 +14.29% 103
South East -18 167 £37,500 +5.63% 72
North of England -16 147 £32,500 -13.33% 47
Midlands -48 85 £32,750 +0.77% 31
North West +20 72 £32,250 -19.38% 24
East of England -34 58 £35,000 -26.32% 20
Yorkshire -39 58 £32,500 -16.13% 15
East Midlands -22 45 £32,500 - 13
South West -55 45 £33,500 -9.46% 35
West Midlands -51 40 £33,250 +2.31% 18
Wales -58 22 £40,000 +14.29% 4
North East -55 17 £40,000 +25.00% 10
Scotland -2 10 £57,500 +21.05% 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £58,151 - 4

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
1 133 (17.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 96 (12.73%) SharePoint
3 23 (3.05%) IIS
4 12 (1.59%) Apache
5 3 (0.40%) SAS
6 1 (0.13%) Confluence
6 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 59 (7.82%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Houdini
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.27%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 329 (43.63%) Microsoft 365
2 323 (42.84%) Azure
3 161 (21.35%) Entra ID
4 140 (18.57%) AWS
5 38 (5.04%) GCP
6 25 (3.32%) OneDrive
7 19 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (2.52%) IaaS
8 16 (2.12%) GitHub
9 15 (1.99%) PaaS
9 15 (1.99%) SaaS
10 13 (1.72%) OpenShift
11 12 (1.59%) dbt
12 11 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (1.06%) Google Workspace
15 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 438 (58.09%) DNS
2 338 (44.83%) Firewall
3 337 (44.69%) DHCP
4 247 (32.76%) VPN
5 187 (24.80%) WAN
6 180 (23.87%) LAN
7 148 (19.63%) VLAN
8 88 (11.67%) Network Security
9 84 (11.14%) Wi-Fi
10 71 (9.42%) HTTP
11 66 (8.75%) VoIP
12 64 (8.49%) Wireless
13 57 (7.56%) BGP
14 43 (5.70%) OSPF
14 43 (5.70%) SD-WAN
15 25 (3.32%) Multicast
16 19 (2.52%) SSL
17 18 (2.39%) Ethernet
17 18 (2.39%) Wireshark
17 18 (2.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.70%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.46%) MySQL
4 6 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
4 6 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (0.80%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.66%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.66%) Redis
6 4 (0.53%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.40%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.27%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.13%) KDB
9 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 28 (3.71%) JIRA
2 20 (2.65%) Git
3 12 (1.59%) Bitbucket
4 11 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.66%) GitLab
5 5 (0.66%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.27%) CMake
6 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.13%) GDB
7 1 (0.13%) LSMW
General
1 343 (45.49%) Social Skills
2 94 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
3 91 (12.07%) Finance
4 63 (8.36%) Telecoms
5 49 (6.50%) Law
6 43 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (5.31%) Banking
8 34 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (3.45%) Electronics
10 24 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (3.05%) Aerospace
12 22 (2.92%) Retail
13 15 (1.99%) Investment Banking
13 15 (1.99%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.86%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.19%) Legal
16 7 (0.93%) Automotive
16 7 (0.93%) Military
17 6 (0.80%) Digital Health
17 6 (0.80%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 199 (26.39%) IT Support
2 145 (19.23%) Support Engineer
3 121 (16.05%) IT Engineer
4 98 (13.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 96 (12.73%) Analyst
6 89 (11.80%) Network Engineer
7 82 (10.88%) Senior
8 64 (8.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 58 (7.69%) Support Technician
10 56 (7.43%) 2nd Line Support
11 53 (7.03%) IT Technician
12 51 (6.76%) IT Support Technician
13 37 (4.91%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 37 (4.91%) Support Analyst
14 35 (4.64%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 34 (4.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 33 (4.38%) IT Analyst
17 30 (3.98%) Lead
18 27 (3.58%) IT Support Analyst
19 26 (3.45%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.39%) LDAP
2 16 (2.12%) React
3 15 (1.99%) WebSockets
4 13 (1.72%) gRPC
4 13 (1.72%) Node.js
5 12 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (1.59%) Middleware
6 11 (1.46%) .NET
6 11 (1.46%) Django
7 9 (1.19%) XML
8 8 (1.06%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.06%) JSON
9 7 (0.93%) 802.1X
9 7 (0.93%) REST
10 6 (0.80%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.80%) CSS
10 6 (0.80%) HTML
11 4 (0.53%) ADO
11 4 (0.53%) COM
11 4 (0.53%) DCOM
Miscellaneous
1 108 (14.32%) Driving Licence
2 51 (6.76%) Onboarding
3 47 (6.23%) Data Centre
4 33 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
6 23 (3.05%) Security Posture
7 21 (2.79%) Security Operations Centre
8 19 (2.52%) Linux Command Line
9 18 (2.39%) CCTV
10 16 (2.12%) Cyber Defence
10 16 (2.12%) FPGA
10 16 (2.12%) MPEG
11 15 (1.99%) PKI
12 13 (1.72%) Client/Server
12 13 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.72%) Replication
13 12 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.59%) Social Media
14 11 (1.46%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 458 (60.74%) Windows
2 251 (33.29%) Windows Server
3 179 (23.74%) Linux
4 94 (12.47%) Windows 10
5 56 (7.43%) Mac OS
6 32 (4.24%) Apple iOS
7 26 (3.45%) Unix
8 24 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (2.92%) Android
10 20 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (2.12%) Ubuntu
12 14 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (1.19%) CentOS
14 7 (0.93%) Debian
15 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.66%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
16 5 (0.66%) Kali Linux
16 5 (0.66%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (36.60%) Problem-Solving
2 156 (20.69%) Customer Service
3 147 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 123 (16.31%) Cybersecurity
5 110 (14.59%) ITIL
6 106 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 90 (11.94%) Disaster Recovery
8 83 (11.01%) Service Delivery
9 81 (10.74%) Incident Response
10 74 (9.81%) Project Delivery
11 73 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
12 72 (9.55%) ITSM
13 71 (9.42%) DevOps
14 68 (9.02%) Mentoring
15 64 (8.49%) High Availability
16 58 (7.69%) CI/CD
17 57 (7.56%) SIEM
18 50 (6.63%) Computer Science
19 48 (6.37%) Incident Management
19 48 (6.37%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 131 (17.37%) PowerShell
1 131 (17.37%) Python
2 69 (9.15%) Bash
3 61 (8.09%) SQL
4 39 (5.17%) C++
5 25 (3.32%) C
6 22 (2.92%) Java
7 15 (1.99%) C#
8 14 (1.86%) Perl
8 14 (1.86%) VBA
9 13 (1.72%) Go
10 11 (1.46%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.46%) PHP
11 8 (1.06%) Bicep
12 7 (0.93%) Search Processing Language
13 6 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.66%) Ruby
14 5 (0.66%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.53%) Pascal
15 4 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 128 (16.98%) Degree
2 90 (11.94%) Security Cleared
3 80 (10.61%) Cisco Certification
4 69 (9.15%) SC Cleared
5 66 (8.75%) CCNA
6 58 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 52 (6.90%) CCNP
8 28 (3.71%) Azure Certification
9 27 (3.58%) CompTIA Security+
10 24 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (2.39%) CREST Certified
13 16 (2.12%) HND
14 15 (1.99%) CEH
14 15 (1.99%) GCIA
15 14 (1.86%) HNC
16 13 (1.72%) GIAC
16 13 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
17 12 (1.59%) AWS Certification
18 11 (1.46%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.49%) SLA
2 26 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 24 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.86%) GDPR
6 6 (0.80%) NIST
7 5 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.53%) QA
9 3 (0.40%) DICOM
9 3 (0.40%) HL7
9 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 323 (42.84%) Active Directory
2 135 (17.90%) Hyper-V
3 133 (17.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (3.58%) Docker
5 19 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (2.39%) Firmware
7 13 (1.72%) vSphere
8 10 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (1.19%) KVM
10 7 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.13%) QEMU
13 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 117 (15.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 62 (8.22%) Terraform
3 54 (7.16%) Ansible
4 38 (5.04%) Kubernetes
5 34 (4.51%) FortiGate
6 21 (2.79%) Grafana
6 21 (2.79%) Prometheus
7 18 (2.39%) Nagios
8 17 (2.25%) Jamf Pro
9 14 (1.86%) QRadar
10 12 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (1.19%) Puppet
12 8 (1.06%) Kibana
12 8 (1.06%) SCCM
12 8 (1.06%) WSUS
13 6 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.66%) Control-M
14 5 (0.66%) McAfee ePO
14 5 (0.66%) SCVMM
14 5 (0.66%) VxRail
Vendors
1 421 (55.84%) Microsoft
2 157 (20.82%) VMware
3 103 (13.66%) Cisco
4 47 (6.23%) Fortinet
5 40 (5.31%) Veeam
6 38 (5.04%) Meraki
7 33 (4.38%) Palo Alto
8 32 (4.24%) Splunk
9 31 (4.11%) ServiceNow
10 27 (3.58%) SolarWinds
11 25 (3.32%) Apple
12 24 (3.18%) Google
13 23 (3.05%) HP
14 21 (2.79%) Red Hat
15 20 (2.65%) Sophos
16 18 (2.39%) SonicWALL
16 18 (2.39%) Zscaler
17 17 (2.25%) Dell
18 16 (2.12%) Citrix
19 15 (1.99%) CrowdStrike