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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 221 211
Rank change year-on-year -48 -10 +16
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 690 732 1,369
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.53% 1.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.69% 10.42% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 540 517 1,096
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,445
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £41,500 £42,072
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% -1.36% -6.51%
75th Percentile £57,813 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -10.35%

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 7,119 7,027 12,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.33% 14.68% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,572 4,059 9,083
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -6.86%
75th Percentile £69,821 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -9.09% -2.22%

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 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 5 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 -50 649 £37,500 -6.25% 280
UK excluding London -54 472 £35,000 -6.67% 239
London -25 207 £60,000 +14.29% 66
Work from Home +8 206 £40,000 -15.79% 90
North of England +2 141 £32,500 -16.67% 41
South East -31 139 £37,500 +2.04% 85
Midlands -46 71 £32,500 - 36
North West +26 69 £31,500 -20.25% 18
Yorkshire -37 53 £32,500 -18.75% 22
East of England -33 51 £35,000 -26.32% 33
South West -57 40 £37,000 -5.73% 41
East Midlands -26 38 £32,500 - 15
West Midlands -42 33 £33,250 +2.31% 21
Wales -57 21 £40,000 -27.27% 3
North East -38 19 £40,000 +25.00% 5
Scotland -6 8 £46,000 -3.16% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 7

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
1 120 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 90 (13.04%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.48%) IIS
4 8 (1.16%) Apache
5 4 (0.58%) Confluence
6 3 (0.43%) SAS
7 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 64 (9.28%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.14%) Houdini
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 298 (43.19%) Microsoft 365
2 291 (42.17%) Azure
3 146 (21.16%) Entra ID
4 130 (18.84%) AWS
5 34 (4.93%) GCP
6 21 (3.04%) OneDrive
7 20 (2.90%) GitHub
8 19 (2.75%) IaaS
9 16 (2.32%) SaaS
10 15 (2.17%) PaaS
11 14 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (1.16%) Google Workspace
14 8 (1.16%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 7 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (1.01%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 412 (59.71%) DNS
2 325 (47.10%) DHCP
3 296 (42.90%) Firewall
4 237 (34.35%) VPN
5 181 (26.23%) WAN
6 171 (24.78%) LAN
7 154 (22.32%) VLAN
8 84 (12.17%) Wi-Fi
9 76 (11.01%) Network Security
10 70 (10.14%) HTTP
11 55 (7.97%) BGP
12 52 (7.54%) VoIP
13 44 (6.38%) Wireless
14 39 (5.65%) SD-WAN
15 37 (5.36%) OSPF
16 23 (3.33%) Multicast
17 20 (2.90%) Ethernet
18 17 (2.46%) SMTP
18 17 (2.46%) SSL
18 17 (2.46%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.23%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (1.74%) MySQL
5 6 (0.87%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.72%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.72%) Redis
7 4 (0.58%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.43%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.43%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.14%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.14%) KDB
9 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.14%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.14%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 21 (3.04%) JIRA
2 15 (2.17%) Git
2 15 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.88%) Bitbucket
4 6 (0.87%) GitLab
5 5 (0.72%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.29%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.14%) CMake
7 1 (0.14%) LSMW
General
1 307 (44.49%) Social Skills
2 91 (13.19%) Finance
3 83 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (7.68%) Telecoms
5 50 (7.25%) Law
6 45 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
7 42 (6.09%) Banking
8 38 (5.51%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (3.33%) Retail
11 22 (3.19%) Aerospace
12 17 (2.46%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.88%) Electronics
13 13 (1.88%) Public Sector
14 12 (1.74%) Back Office
14 12 (1.74%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.45%) Legal
16 8 (1.16%) Automotive
17 6 (0.87%) Spanish Language
18 5 (0.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 183 (26.52%) IT Support
2 121 (17.54%) Support Engineer
3 99 (14.35%) IT Engineer
4 98 (14.20%) Analyst
5 79 (11.45%) Network Engineer
6 78 (11.30%) IT Support Engineer
7 74 (10.72%) Senior
8 61 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 61 (8.84%) Support Technician
9 60 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
10 55 (7.97%) IT Technician
11 53 (7.68%) IT Support Technician
12 38 (5.51%) Support Analyst
13 36 (5.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 32 (4.64%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 32 (4.64%) IT Analyst
14 32 (4.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 29 (4.20%) Developer
16 27 (3.91%) Lead
17 26 (3.77%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.75%) LDAP
2 15 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (2.03%) Middleware
4 13 (1.88%) gRPC
4 13 (1.88%) WebSockets
5 12 (1.74%) React
6 11 (1.59%) .NET
6 11 (1.59%) Node.js
7 9 (1.30%) Django
8 7 (1.01%) 802.1X
8 7 (1.01%) REST
8 7 (1.01%) RESTful
9 6 (0.87%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.87%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.87%) JSON
10 5 (0.72%) XML
11 4 (0.58%) ADO
11 4 (0.58%) COM
11 4 (0.58%) DCOM
11 4 (0.58%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (14.06%) Driving Licence
2 41 (5.94%) Data Centre
3 34 (4.93%) Onboarding
4 28 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (3.91%) Cyber Threat
6 24 (3.48%) Security Posture
7 18 (2.61%) Security Operations Centre
8 17 (2.46%) FPGA
9 16 (2.32%) Cyber Defence
10 14 (2.03%) EPoS
10 14 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (2.03%) MPEG
10 14 (2.03%) PKI
10 14 (2.03%) Replication
11 13 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.88%) CCTV
11 13 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.59%) Client/Server
12 11 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 421 (61.01%) Windows
2 233 (33.77%) Windows Server
3 152 (22.03%) Linux
4 100 (14.49%) Windows 10
5 48 (6.96%) Mac OS
6 35 (5.07%) Apple iOS
7 25 (3.62%) Android
8 23 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (2.46%) Unix
11 14 (2.03%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (1.74%) Ubuntu
13 9 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (1.01%) CentOS
14 7 (1.01%) Debian
15 6 (0.87%) VMS
15 6 (0.87%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.72%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.58%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
2 149 (21.59%) Customer Service
3 115 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 114 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 98 (14.20%) ITIL
6 95 (13.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 91 (13.19%) Disaster Recovery
8 89 (12.90%) Service Delivery
9 74 (10.72%) Incident Response
10 70 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 64 (9.28%) DevOps
12 61 (8.84%) ITSM
13 58 (8.41%) Mentoring
14 55 (7.97%) High Availability
15 54 (7.83%) Project Delivery
16 53 (7.68%) Incident Management
17 52 (7.54%) CI/CD
18 51 (7.39%) SIEM
19 47 (6.81%) Computer Science
20 45 (6.52%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 125 (18.12%) PowerShell
2 114 (16.52%) Python
3 62 (8.99%) Bash
4 59 (8.55%) SQL
5 41 (5.94%) C++
6 26 (3.77%) Java
7 25 (3.62%) C
8 18 (2.61%) Go
9 15 (2.17%) C#
10 11 (1.59%) PHP
10 11 (1.59%) VBA
11 8 (1.16%) Perl
12 7 (1.01%) JavaScript
12 7 (1.01%) Search Processing Language
13 6 (0.87%) Bicep
14 4 (0.58%) Delphi
14 4 (0.58%) Pascal
14 4 (0.58%) Ruby
14 4 (0.58%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 111 (16.09%) Degree
2 74 (10.72%) Security Cleared
3 65 (9.42%) Cisco Certification
4 53 (7.68%) CCNA
4 53 (7.68%) SC Cleared
5 52 (7.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (6.38%) CCNP
7 27 (3.91%) Azure Certification
8 24 (3.48%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (2.75%) Network+ Certification
11 17 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.46%) CREST Certified
12 12 (1.74%) A+ Certification
12 12 (1.74%) CEH
12 12 (1.74%) GCIA
13 11 (1.59%) RHCSA
14 10 (1.45%) GIAC
14 10 (1.45%) OSCP
14 10 (1.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.55%) SLA
2 28 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 20 (2.90%) GDPR
5 14 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.72%) NIST
8 4 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.58%) DICOM
8 4 (0.58%) HL7
8 4 (0.58%) QA
9 3 (0.43%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 301 (43.62%) Active Directory
2 127 (18.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 115 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 23 (3.33%) Docker
5 16 (2.32%) vSphere
6 15 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (1.88%) Firmware
8 9 (1.30%) KVM
8 9 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.14%) QEMU
13 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.14%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 93 (13.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 55 (7.97%) Terraform
3 53 (7.68%) Ansible
4 37 (5.36%) Kubernetes
5 32 (4.64%) FortiGate
6 24 (3.48%) Grafana
6 24 (3.48%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.75%) Nagios
8 16 (2.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 16 (2.32%) Jamf Pro
9 14 (2.03%) QRadar
10 9 (1.30%) Puppet
11 8 (1.16%) Kibana
11 8 (1.16%) WSUS
12 7 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.87%) SCCM
13 6 (0.87%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.87%) VxRail
14 5 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.72%) Control-M
Vendors
1 390 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 154 (22.32%) VMware
3 81 (11.74%) Cisco
4 38 (5.51%) Veeam
5 36 (5.22%) Meraki
6 32 (4.64%) Fortinet
6 32 (4.64%) SolarWinds
7 30 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 28 (4.06%) Splunk
9 27 (3.91%) Palo Alto
10 24 (3.48%) Apple
11 20 (2.90%) Citrix
11 20 (2.90%) Dell
11 20 (2.90%) HP
12 19 (2.75%) Red Hat
13 18 (2.61%) CrowdStrike
14 16 (2.32%) Google
14 16 (2.32%) SonicWALL
15 15 (2.17%) Sophos
16 14 (2.03%) Zscaler