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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 219 211
Rank change year-on-year -51 -8 +15
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 718 751 1,336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.53% 1.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.87% 10.50% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 561 532 1,066
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% -8.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £74,926 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% -11.04%

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 7,275 7,153 12,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.40% 14.59% 12.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,685 4,130 8,843
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -7.50%
75th Percentile £69,390 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,600 £82,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £39,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year +7.59% -10.23% -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 11 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 11 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 -44 677 £37,500 -5.06% 273
UK excluding London -53 500 £35,000 -5.41% 235
Work from Home +9 218 £40,000 -15.79% 110
London -18 207 £60,000 +16.50% 74
South East -30 149 £37,500 +2.74% 86
North of England -1 147 £32,500 -15.58% 45
Midlands -53 75 £32,500 - 34
North West +29 70 £31,500 -20.25% 18
Yorkshire -32 58 £32,500 -13.33% 23
East of England -27 56 £35,000 -26.32% 27
South West -55 43 £34,000 -8.11% 37
East Midlands -28 41 £32,500 - 13
West Midlands -45 34 £33,250 +2.31% 21
Wales -51 21 £40,000 -25.58% 5
North East -46 19 £40,000 +37.93% 8
Scotland -11 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
1 128 (17.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 94 (13.09%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.48%) IIS
4 10 (1.39%) Apache
5 4 (0.56%) Confluence
6 3 (0.42%) SAS
7 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 64 (8.91%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.28%) 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 (0.28%) 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
1 317 (44.15%) Microsoft 365
2 302 (42.06%) Azure
3 152 (21.17%) Entra ID
4 132 (18.38%) AWS
5 33 (4.60%) GCP
6 21 (2.92%) IaaS
6 21 (2.92%) OneDrive
7 20 (2.79%) GitHub
8 17 (2.37%) PaaS
9 16 (2.23%) SaaS
10 14 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (1.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 9 (1.25%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.11%) Google Workspace
15 7 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (0.97%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 431 (60.03%) DNS
2 336 (46.80%) DHCP
3 314 (43.73%) Firewall
4 243 (33.84%) VPN
5 182 (25.35%) WAN
6 173 (24.09%) LAN
7 157 (21.87%) VLAN
8 86 (11.98%) Wi-Fi
9 79 (11.00%) Network Security
10 72 (10.03%) HTTP
11 59 (8.22%) BGP
12 58 (8.08%) VoIP
13 52 (7.24%) Wireless
14 40 (5.57%) SD-WAN
15 39 (5.43%) OSPF
16 23 (3.20%) Multicast
17 20 (2.79%) Ethernet
18 19 (2.65%) SSL
19 17 (2.37%) SMTP
19 17 (2.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.53%) MySQL
5 6 (0.84%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.84%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.70%) Redis
7 4 (0.56%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.42%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.28%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.14%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.14%) KDB
10 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.14%) Power BI
10 1 (0.14%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 26 (3.62%) JIRA
2 15 (2.09%) Git
2 15 (2.09%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.81%) Bitbucket
4 6 (0.84%) GitLab
5 5 (0.70%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.28%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.14%) CMake
7 1 (0.14%) LSMW
General
1 320 (44.57%) Social Skills
2 95 (13.23%) Finance
3 86 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (7.94%) Telecoms
5 52 (7.24%) Law
6 45 (6.27%) Organisational Skills
7 43 (5.99%) Banking
8 39 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (3.62%) Retail
10 25 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (2.92%) Aerospace
12 17 (2.37%) Electronics
12 17 (2.37%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.95%) Public Sector
14 13 (1.81%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.53%) Back Office
16 10 (1.39%) Legal
17 8 (1.11%) Automotive
18 6 (0.84%) Spanish Language
19 5 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 193 (26.88%) IT Support
2 132 (18.38%) Support Engineer
3 109 (15.18%) IT Engineer
4 98 (13.65%) Analyst
5 87 (12.12%) IT Support Engineer
6 84 (11.70%) Network Engineer
7 72 (10.03%) Senior
8 63 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 61 (8.50%) Support Technician
10 59 (8.22%) 2nd Line Support
11 55 (7.66%) IT Technician
12 53 (7.38%) IT Support Technician
13 39 (5.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 38 (5.29%) Support Analyst
15 35 (4.87%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 32 (4.46%) IT Analyst
17 31 (4.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 29 (4.04%) Lead
19 26 (3.62%) Developer
19 26 (3.62%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.65%) LDAP
2 15 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (1.95%) Middleware
3 14 (1.95%) WebSockets
4 13 (1.81%) gRPC
4 13 (1.81%) React
5 12 (1.67%) Node.js
6 11 (1.53%) .NET
7 10 (1.39%) Django
8 7 (0.97%) 802.1X
8 7 (0.97%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.97%) JSON
8 7 (0.97%) RESTful
8 7 (0.97%) XML
9 6 (0.84%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.84%) REST
10 5 (0.70%) CSS
10 5 (0.70%) HTML
11 4 (0.56%) ADO
11 4 (0.56%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 102 (14.21%) Driving Licence
2 45 (6.27%) Data Centre
3 41 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 29 (4.04%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (3.62%) Security Posture
6 19 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
7 17 (2.37%) FPGA
7 17 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (2.23%) Cyber Defence
9 14 (1.95%) CCTV
9 14 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.95%) MPEG
9 14 (1.95%) PKI
10 13 (1.81%) Replication
11 12 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.67%) Client/Server
11 12 (1.67%) EPoS
12 11 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 440 (61.28%) Windows
2 241 (33.57%) Windows Server
3 161 (22.42%) Linux
4 101 (14.07%) Windows 10
5 52 (7.24%) Mac OS
6 36 (5.01%) Apple iOS
7 25 (3.48%) Android
8 23 (3.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 22 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 17 (2.37%) Unix
11 14 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (1.81%) Ubuntu
13 9 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.97%) CentOS
14 7 (0.97%) Debian
15 6 (0.84%) VMS
15 6 (0.84%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.70%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.56%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (36.63%) Problem-Solving
2 155 (21.59%) Customer Service
3 122 (16.99%) Cybersecurity
4 121 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 104 (14.48%) ITIL
6 100 (13.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 90 (12.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 90 (12.53%) Service Delivery
8 76 (10.58%) Incident Response
9 72 (10.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 69 (9.61%) ITSM
11 64 (8.91%) DevOps
12 62 (8.64%) Project Delivery
13 60 (8.36%) Mentoring
14 56 (7.80%) High Availability
15 55 (7.66%) SIEM
16 54 (7.52%) Incident Management
17 53 (7.38%) CI/CD
18 46 (6.41%) Computer Science
19 45 (6.27%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 127 (17.69%) PowerShell
2 119 (16.57%) Python
3 64 (8.91%) Bash
4 59 (8.22%) SQL
5 39 (5.43%) C++
6 26 (3.62%) Java
7 24 (3.34%) C
8 18 (2.51%) Go
9 14 (1.95%) C#
10 12 (1.67%) VBA
11 11 (1.53%) PHP
12 10 (1.39%) Perl
13 8 (1.11%) JavaScript
14 7 (0.97%) Bicep
14 7 (0.97%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.56%) Delphi
15 4 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.56%) Pascal
15 4 (0.56%) Ruby
16 3 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 116 (16.16%) Degree
2 78 (10.86%) Security Cleared
3 69 (9.61%) Cisco Certification
4 57 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 57 (7.94%) SC Cleared
5 56 (7.80%) CCNA
6 47 (6.55%) CCNP
7 29 (4.04%) Azure Certification
8 25 (3.48%) CompTIA Security+
9 21 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (2.51%) Network+ Certification
11 17 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.37%) CREST Certified
12 13 (1.81%) CEH
12 13 (1.81%) GCIA
13 12 (1.67%) HND
14 11 (1.53%) GIAC
14 11 (1.53%) RHCSA
15 10 (1.39%) OSCP
15 10 (1.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.64%) SLA
2 27 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 19 (2.65%) GDPR
5 14 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.70%) NIST
7 5 (0.70%) QA
8 4 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.56%) DICOM
8 4 (0.56%) HL7
9 3 (0.42%) 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
1 316 (44.01%) Active Directory
2 130 (18.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 123 (17.13%) Hyper-V
4 24 (3.34%) Docker
5 16 (2.23%) vSphere
6 15 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (1.81%) Firmware
8 10 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (1.25%) KVM
10 8 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.42%) 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
1 100 (13.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 58 (8.08%) Terraform
3 57 (7.94%) Ansible
4 37 (5.15%) Kubernetes
5 34 (4.74%) FortiGate
6 24 (3.34%) Grafana
6 24 (3.34%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.65%) Nagios
8 17 (2.37%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (1.95%) QRadar
11 9 (1.25%) Puppet
11 9 (1.25%) WSUS
12 8 (1.11%) Kibana
13 7 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.84%) SCCM
14 6 (0.84%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.84%) VxRail
15 5 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.70%) Control-M
Vendors
1 408 (56.82%) Microsoft
2 159 (22.14%) VMware
3 89 (12.40%) Cisco
4 40 (5.57%) Veeam
5 37 (5.15%) Fortinet
5 37 (5.15%) Meraki
6 33 (4.60%) ServiceNow
7 31 (4.32%) SolarWinds
8 30 (4.18%) Palo Alto
9 28 (3.90%) Splunk
10 24 (3.34%) Apple
11 21 (2.92%) Citrix
11 21 (2.92%) Dell
11 21 (2.92%) HP
12 18 (2.51%) CrowdStrike
12 18 (2.51%) Red Hat
13 17 (2.37%) SonicWALL
14 16 (2.23%) Google
14 16 (2.23%) Sophos
15 15 (2.09%) Zscaler