Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 170 238 235
Rank change year-on-year +68 -3 -65
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 1,101 1,906 2,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.11% 1.56% 1.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.88% 12.57% 12.22%
Number of salaries quoted 785 1,399 1,615
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,100 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +5.26% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

TCP/IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,935 15,167 16,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 12.41% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,194 10,320 11,502
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,528 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP.

Salary trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

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 10 December 2023. 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 +63 961 £45,000 - 384
UK excluding London +83 823 £42,500 +6.25% 314
Work from Home +27 364 £54,000 +8.00% 137
London +38 243 £60,000 +4.35% 84
South East +78 227 £47,500 +46.15% 86
North of England +72 158 £42,500 +6.25% 81
South West +51 155 £42,000 -16.00% 39
Midlands +79 124 £45,000 +16.88% 54
West Midlands +101 79 £45,000 +20.00% 34
Yorkshire +52 75 £39,000 +4.00% 30
North West +64 72 £45,000 +6.51% 48
Wales +39 60 £50,000 +14.29% 14
East of England +47 46 £45,000 -10.00% 31
East Midlands +25 45 £36,500 -23.16% 20
Scotland +41 43 £47,610 +18.58% 7
Northern Ireland +39 14 £38,750 -29.55% 5
North East +40 11 £47,250 +17.08% 4

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 72 (6.54%) SharePoint
2 54 (4.90%) MS Exchange
3 23 (2.09%) Confluence
4 13 (1.18%) Tomcat
5 12 (1.09%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.82%) IIS
7 8 (0.73%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.64%) Apache
9 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2003
9 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.18%) nginx
11 1 (0.091%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.091%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.091%) WebSphere
Applications
1 83 (7.54%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.45%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.36%) Cerner Millennium
3 2 (0.18%) Epicor Tropos
4 1 (0.091%) PlanetPress Connect
4 1 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.091%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 440 (39.96%) Azure
2 333 (30.25%) Microsoft 365
3 283 (25.70%) AWS
4 80 (7.27%) OpenShift
5 73 (6.63%) GCP
6 57 (5.18%) Entra ID
7 56 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 52 (4.72%) SaaS
9 47 (4.27%) Cloud Computing
10 27 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
11 26 (2.36%) Mimecast
11 26 (2.36%) OneDrive
12 25 (2.27%) IaaS
12 25 (2.27%) WhatsApp
13 23 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (2.09%) dbt
14 22 (2.00%) Serverless
15 20 (1.82%) Power Platform
16 16 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (1.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 596 (54.13%) DNS
2 526 (47.77%) DHCP
3 397 (36.06%) Firewall
4 237 (21.53%) HTTP
5 234 (21.25%) WAN
6 233 (21.16%) VPN
7 223 (20.25%) LAN
8 139 (12.62%) VLAN
9 133 (12.08%) Network Security
10 98 (8.90%) Internet
11 96 (8.72%) Wireless
12 91 (8.27%) Wi-Fi
13 87 (7.90%) SMTP
14 82 (7.45%) BGP
15 67 (6.09%) OSPF
16 66 (5.99%) SD-WAN
17 63 (5.72%) FTP
18 56 (5.09%) VoIP
19 55 (5.00%) SSL
20 46 (4.18%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (6.72%) SQL Server
2 39 (3.54%) MySQL
3 32 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (2.09%) Redis
6 18 (1.63%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.54%) Power BI
8 12 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.54%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.45%) Big Data
10 5 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.36%) InfluxDB
11 4 (0.36%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.36%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.18%) Couchbase
14 1 (0.091%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.091%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.091%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 49 (4.45%) JIRA
2 47 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.54%) Git
4 13 (1.18%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.09%) GitLab
6 10 (0.91%) Selenium
7 8 (0.73%) JMeter
7 8 (0.73%) SoapUI
7 8 (0.73%) TestLink
8 6 (0.54%) Subversion
9 5 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.36%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.27%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.18%) Fiddler
12 2 (0.18%) Gradle
12 2 (0.18%) Maven
13 1 (0.091%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 276 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 155 (14.08%) Finance
3 139 (12.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 137 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (4.90%) Aerospace
5 54 (4.90%) Telecoms
6 49 (4.45%) Law
7 47 (4.27%) Legal
8 46 (4.18%) Games
9 42 (3.81%) Banking
10 31 (2.82%) Electronics
10 31 (2.82%) Retail
11 27 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
12 26 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (1.91%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.73%) Public Sector
15 10 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (0.82%) Marketing
17 7 (0.64%) Advertising
17 7 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 205 (18.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 194 (17.62%) Senior
3 153 (13.90%) Analyst
4 150 (13.62%) Support Engineer
5 103 (9.36%) Network Engineer
6 78 (7.08%) IT Engineer
7 73 (6.63%) Software Engineer
8 71 (6.45%) IT Support
9 54 (4.90%) Support Analyst
10 49 (4.45%) Administrator
11 47 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
12 46 (4.18%) Embedded Engineer
12 46 (4.18%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 45 (4.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (3.91%) Desktop Support
15 42 (3.81%) Systems Administrator
16 41 (3.72%) 2nd Line Support
17 40 (3.63%) Linux Engineer
18 39 (3.54%) IT Analyst
18 39 (3.54%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.45%) HTML
1 38 (3.45%) LDAP
2 37 (3.36%) SAML
3 33 (3.00%) Protocol Buffers
4 29 (2.63%) OpenID
5 23 (2.09%) Django
6 16 (1.45%) .NET
7 15 (1.36%) JSON
7 15 (1.36%) YAML
8 12 (1.09%) 802.1X
9 11 (1.00%) FIX Protocol
9 11 (1.00%) REST
10 10 (0.91%) RESTful
10 10 (0.91%) Web Services
10 10 (0.91%) XML
11 9 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (0.82%) MFC
12 8 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (0.73%) Yocto
13 7 (0.64%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 68 (6.18%) Data Centre
2 54 (4.90%) Cloud Native
3 51 (4.63%) PKI
4 48 (4.36%) Cyber Threat
5 43 (3.91%) Security Operations Centre
6 41 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
7 36 (3.27%) Cyberattack
8 30 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (2.54%) Driving Licence
10 26 (2.36%) Replication
11 24 (2.18%) Clustering
11 24 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (2.18%) EFT
11 24 (2.18%) Public Cloud
12 23 (2.09%) Management Information System
13 21 (1.91%) NHS
14 20 (1.82%) Onboarding
15 17 (1.54%) Security Posture
16 14 (1.27%) Raspberry Pi
17 12 (1.09%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 596 (54.13%) Windows
2 374 (33.97%) Linux
3 292 (26.52%) Windows Server
4 137 (12.44%) Windows 10
5 90 (8.17%) Android
5 90 (8.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 88 (7.99%) Unix
7 60 (5.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 56 (5.09%) Windows Server 2016
9 38 (3.45%) Apple iOS
10 28 (2.54%) Windows 8
11 24 (2.18%) Mac OS
12 21 (1.91%) Windows 7
12 21 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
13 19 (1.73%) CentOS
14 16 (1.45%) Ubuntu
15 12 (1.09%) Solaris
15 12 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
16 11 (1.00%) Mac OS X
17 8 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (21.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 219 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
3 165 (14.99%) Cybersecurity
4 152 (13.81%) ITIL
5 136 (12.35%) DevOps
6 127 (11.53%) Customer Service
7 121 (10.99%) Actionable Insight
7 121 (10.99%) Agile
8 102 (9.26%) SIEM
9 92 (8.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 85 (7.72%) Functional Testing
11 84 (7.63%) Project Planning
12 83 (7.54%) Software Engineering
13 74 (6.72%) Continuous Integration
14 71 (6.45%) CI/CD
15 68 (6.18%) Disaster Recovery
16 67 (6.09%) Kalman Filter
17 65 (5.90%) Mentoring
18 64 (5.81%) Cloud Security
18 64 (5.81%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 244 (22.16%) PowerShell
2 241 (21.89%) Python
3 140 (12.72%) Bash
4 92 (8.36%) Java
5 74 (6.72%) SQL
6 60 (5.45%) C
7 51 (4.63%) C++
8 27 (2.45%) C#
9 24 (2.18%) Perl
10 16 (1.45%) Ruby
11 15 (1.36%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.45%) DataFlex
12 5 (0.45%) Go
12 5 (0.45%) PHP
13 4 (0.36%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.36%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.18%) Groovy
14 2 (0.18%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.18%) R
14 2 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 222 (20.16%) Degree
2 177 (16.08%) Security Cleared
3 170 (15.44%) Cisco Certification
4 88 (7.99%) SC Cleared
5 71 (6.45%) CCNA
6 69 (6.27%) DV Cleared
7 55 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 52 (4.72%) CCNP
9 34 (3.09%) AWS Certification
10 33 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 31 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (2.27%) CISSP
13 23 (2.09%) CCIE
14 20 (1.82%) MCP
15 17 (1.54%) MCSA
16 14 (1.27%) CEH
16 14 (1.27%) MCSE
17 13 (1.18%) MCITP
17 13 (1.18%) SANS
18 11 (1.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.00%) SLA
2 37 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.00%) NIST
4 17 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.27%) GDPR
6 10 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.82%) NCSC
7 9 (0.82%) PMO
8 8 (0.73%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.64%) HL7
9 7 (0.64%) NIST 800
10 6 (0.54%) ISO 22301
11 5 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.36%) ISO 31000
12 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 4 (0.36%) QA
13 3 (0.27%) DICOM
14 2 (0.18%) GRC
14 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.091%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 362 (32.88%) Active Directory
2 208 (18.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 194 (17.62%) Hyper-V
4 111 (10.08%) Docker
5 39 (3.54%) VMware ESXi
6 28 (2.54%) vSphere
7 21 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (1.91%) XenApp
8 19 (1.73%) Firmware
9 12 (1.09%) VMware NSX
10 11 (1.00%) Terminal Services
11 10 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
12 7 (0.64%) BitLocker
12 7 (0.64%) KVM
12 7 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.54%) Ceph
14 4 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 4 (0.36%) NFS
15 3 (0.27%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.18%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 157 (14.26%) Ansible
2 149 (13.53%) Terraform
3 139 (12.62%) Kubernetes
3 139 (12.62%) Puppet
4 93 (8.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 66 (5.99%) FortiGate
5 66 (5.99%) SCCM
6 28 (2.54%) vCenter Server
7 15 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 15 (1.36%) PaperCut
8 14 (1.27%) Grafana
8 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
9 12 (1.09%) WSUS
10 10 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
10 10 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.82%) Icinga
12 8 (0.73%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (0.54%) Nmap
14 6 (0.54%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 324 (29.43%) Microsoft
2 305 (27.70%) VMware
3 251 (22.80%) Cisco
4 101 (9.17%) Red Hat
5 97 (8.81%) Citrix
6 91 (8.27%) Juniper
7 54 (4.90%) Google
8 49 (4.45%) Meraki
9 47 (4.27%) Splunk
10 42 (3.81%) F5
11 41 (3.72%) CheckPoint
12 35 (3.18%) Palo Alto
13 32 (2.91%) Fortinet
14 31 (2.82%) IBM
15 30 (2.72%) ArcSight
15 30 (2.72%) Aruba
15 30 (2.72%) TippingPoint
15 30 (2.72%) Trend Micro
16 27 (2.45%) SolarWinds
17 26 (2.36%) HP