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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 198 195
Rank change year-on-year -46 -3 +41
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 642 688 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.60% 1.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.31% 11.91% 11.66%
Number of salaries quoted 479 517 1,113
10th Percentile £27,675 £28,400 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £34,750 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £78,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,500 £47,500 £39,750
% change year-on-year -27.37% +19.50% -0.63%

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 10,175 5,775 11,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.64% 13.39% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,041 3,694 9,244
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,313 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £53,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.64% +9.28% -7.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £79,175
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £48,507 £43,500
% change year-on-year -27.85% +11.51% -3.33%

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 March 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 March 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 -28 586 £37,750 -19.68% 197
UK excluding London -72 398 £34,500 -27.37% 176
London +23 219 £45,000 -11.76% 41
Work from Home -14 179 £42,500 -22.73% 70
North of England -15 128 £32,500 -27.78% 50
South East -47 91 £37,500 -16.67% 51
Yorkshire -31 60 £32,500 -27.29% 17
Midlands -25 59 £32,500 -7.14% 20
South West -17 48 £40,000 -1.84% 22
North West -20 41 £40,000 -11.11% 25
East of England -24 41 £31,000 -35.42% 28
East Midlands -28 38 £32,500 -40.91% 6
North East -5 27 £45,000 -35.11% 11
West Midlands -21 21 £52,500 +50.00% 14
Wales -28 14 £40,000 -39.68% 4
Scotland -42 14 £55,000 +11.67% 6
Northern Ireland -32 3 £73,801 +6.48% 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
1 147 (22.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 91 (14.17%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.02%) IIS
4 4 (0.62%) Confluence
5 3 (0.47%) nginx
6 2 (0.31%) Apache
6 2 (0.31%) CMS
6 2 (0.31%) WordPress
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 90 (14.02%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.31%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.31%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 321 (50.00%) Azure
2 298 (46.42%) Microsoft 365
3 130 (20.25%) Entra ID
4 125 (19.47%) AWS
5 61 (9.50%) GCP
6 36 (5.61%) Google Workspace
7 33 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
8 31 (4.83%) OneDrive
9 28 (4.36%) SaaS
10 27 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (3.89%) Amazon ECR
11 25 (3.89%) dbt
11 25 (3.89%) PaaS
11 25 (3.89%) Pulumi
12 22 (3.43%) GitHub
13 21 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
13 21 (3.27%) IaaS
14 18 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 17 (2.65%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 372 (57.94%) DNS
2 311 (48.44%) DHCP
3 231 (35.98%) Firewall
4 199 (31.00%) VPN
5 143 (22.27%) WAN
6 140 (21.81%) VLAN
7 122 (19.00%) LAN
8 91 (14.17%) Wi-Fi
9 62 (9.66%) Wireless
10 58 (9.03%) VoIP
11 48 (7.48%) Network Security
12 41 (6.39%) HTTP
13 35 (5.45%) SD-WAN
14 25 (3.89%) BGP
15 19 (2.96%) OSPF
16 18 (2.80%) SSL
16 18 (2.80%) Wireshark
17 16 (2.49%) Remote Desktop
18 15 (2.34%) MPLS
18 15 (2.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.48%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (6.39%) SQL Server
3 34 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (3.89%) Redis
5 10 (1.56%) Power BI
6 9 (1.40%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.09%) MySQL
8 4 (0.62%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.47%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.31%) JasperReports
10 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.16%) Metadata
11 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.16%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 22 (3.43%) Jenkins
2 17 (2.65%) Git
2 17 (2.65%) JIRA
3 12 (1.87%) Metasploit
4 10 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.25%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.62%) GitLab
8 3 (0.47%) Snyk
9 2 (0.31%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (0.31%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.16%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.16%) MLflow
10 1 (0.16%) Selenium
10 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 283 (44.08%) Social Skills
2 90 (14.02%) Finance
3 67 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (6.70%) Law
5 40 (6.23%) Banking
6 39 (6.07%) Telecoms
7 32 (4.98%) Organisational Skills
8 29 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.12%) Investment Banking
9 20 (3.12%) Manufacturing
10 19 (2.96%) Public Sector
11 18 (2.80%) Retail
12 12 (1.87%) Aerospace
12 12 (1.87%) Back Office
12 12 (1.87%) Legal
13 11 (1.71%) Marketing
14 10 (1.56%) Automotive
15 7 (1.09%) Electronics
15 7 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 199 (31.00%) IT Support
2 133 (20.72%) Support Engineer
3 95 (14.80%) IT Engineer
4 88 (13.71%) IT Support Engineer
5 83 (12.93%) Senior
6 80 (12.46%) 2nd Line Support
7 67 (10.44%) Support Technician
8 61 (9.50%) Analyst
9 55 (8.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 55 (8.57%) IT Support Technician
9 55 (8.57%) IT Technician
10 49 (7.63%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 46 (7.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 42 (6.54%) Support Analyst
13 38 (5.92%) Developer
14 30 (4.67%) Network Engineer
15 29 (4.52%) C++ Developer
16 28 (4.36%) Technical Support
17 25 (3.89%) Lead
18 24 (3.74%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.89%) Django
2 18 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (1.09%) .NET
3 7 (1.09%) REST
4 6 (0.93%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (0.93%) RESTful
5 5 (0.78%) Middleware
5 5 (0.78%) WebSockets
6 4 (0.62%) LDAP
6 4 (0.62%) Qt
6 4 (0.62%) Sass
6 4 (0.62%) STL
6 4 (0.62%) ZeroMQ
7 3 (0.47%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.47%) gRPC
7 3 (0.47%) QML
7 3 (0.47%) SOAP
7 3 (0.47%) Web Services
8 2 (0.31%) OAuth
8 2 (0.31%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.77%) Driving Licence
2 53 (8.26%) Onboarding
3 36 (5.61%) Data Centre
4 27 (4.21%) Linux Command Line
5 25 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (3.43%) FPGA
6 22 (3.43%) Video Conferencing
7 21 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (3.12%) Replication
9 18 (2.80%) Cloud Native
9 18 (2.80%) Management Information System
9 18 (2.80%) Security Posture
10 14 (2.18%) CCTV
10 14 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.18%) NHS
11 13 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (1.87%) iPhone
13 10 (1.56%) EPoS
14 9 (1.40%) Digital Signage
15 8 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 403 (62.77%) Windows
2 233 (36.29%) Windows Server
3 179 (27.88%) Linux
4 130 (20.25%) Windows 10
5 62 (9.66%) Mac OS
6 45 (7.01%) Unix
7 39 (6.07%) Apple iOS
8 35 (5.45%) Android
8 35 (5.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 25 (3.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 20 (3.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (1.40%) CentOS
12 9 (1.40%) Mac OS X
13 7 (1.09%) Ubuntu
13 7 (1.09%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.78%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
15 4 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
15 4 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (36.14%) Problem-Solving
2 140 (21.81%) Customer Service
3 113 (17.60%) ITIL
4 79 (12.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 75 (11.68%) CI/CD
6 74 (11.53%) DevOps
7 69 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (10.44%) Cybersecurity
9 62 (9.66%) Service Delivery
10 58 (9.03%) Disaster Recovery
11 49 (7.63%) Root Cause Analysis
12 46 (7.17%) Mentoring
13 44 (6.85%) ITSM
14 43 (6.70%) Agile
14 43 (6.70%) Incident Response
15 41 (6.39%) Computer Science
16 40 (6.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 36 (5.61%) High Availability
18 34 (5.30%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 133 (20.72%) Python
2 111 (17.29%) PowerShell
3 54 (8.41%) Bash
4 49 (7.63%) C++
5 42 (6.54%) SQL
6 40 (6.23%) Java
7 35 (5.45%) C
8 24 (3.74%) Go
9 14 (2.18%) C#
10 6 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.62%) Delphi
11 4 (0.62%) Pascal
11 4 (0.62%) PHP
12 2 (0.31%) Bicep
12 2 (0.31%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.31%) Perl
12 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.31%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.16%) R
13 1 (0.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 108 (16.82%) Degree
2 66 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 64 (9.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 56 (8.72%) SC Cleared
5 40 (6.23%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (4.83%) CCNA
7 30 (4.67%) Azure Certification
8 23 (3.58%) CCNP
8 23 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (3.43%) A+ Certification
10 21 (3.27%) Network+ Certification
11 17 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
11 17 (2.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 15 (2.34%) DBS Check
13 12 (1.87%) Master's Degree
14 11 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (1.71%) DV Cleared
15 10 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.56%) MCDST
15 10 (1.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (3.74%) SLA
3 21 (3.27%) GDPR
4 15 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.40%) QA
5 9 (1.40%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.78%) NIST
9 4 (0.62%) DICOM
9 4 (0.62%) HL7
9 4 (0.62%) MISRA
10 3 (0.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.47%) GRC
10 3 (0.47%) GxP
11 2 (0.31%) NCSC
11 2 (0.31%) PMO
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 324 (50.47%) Active Directory
2 126 (19.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 114 (17.76%) Hyper-V
4 39 (6.07%) Docker
5 14 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (2.18%) vSphere
6 13 (2.02%) Firmware
7 10 (1.56%) KVM
8 6 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.62%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.31%) XenApp
11 1 (0.16%) NFS
11 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 102 (15.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 68 (10.59%) Terraform
3 54 (8.41%) Ansible
4 24 (3.74%) Kubernetes
5 21 (3.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (3.12%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.96%) FortiGate
7 19 (2.96%) Grafana
8 17 (2.65%) AWS Copilot
9 16 (2.49%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (1.87%) SCCM
11 10 (1.56%) Nessus
12 8 (1.25%) Nagios
12 8 (1.25%) Nmap
12 8 (1.25%) Puppet
13 7 (1.09%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.93%) Autotask
15 5 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
15 5 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.62%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 351 (54.67%) Microsoft
2 153 (23.83%) VMware
3 72 (11.21%) Cisco
4 64 (9.97%) Google
5 33 (5.14%) Veeam
6 30 (4.67%) Apple
7 29 (4.52%) Citrix
8 26 (4.05%) Palo Alto
9 24 (3.74%) SolarWinds
10 22 (3.43%) Red Hat
11 21 (3.27%) Dell
11 21 (3.27%) Meraki
12 20 (3.12%) Fortinet
13 16 (2.49%) HP
13 16 (2.49%) SonicWALL
14 13 (2.02%) CheckPoint
15 12 (1.87%) Juniper
16 11 (1.71%) ServiceNow
17 10 (1.56%) Sophos
18 9 (1.40%) Reuters