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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring TCP/IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited TCP/IP over the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 193 225
Rank change year-on-year -33 +32 +21
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 859 1,010 1,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.32% 1.71% 1.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.20% 12.21% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 506 782 1,324
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,290 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,200 £34,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,887 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% +6.67%

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 10,474 8,273 13,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.09% 14.04% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,768 6,394 9,139
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -

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 16 January 2025.

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 January 2025. 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 -35 765 £50,000 +5.26% 187
UK excluding London -39 638 £47,500 +11.76% 137
Work from Home -3 297 £55,000 -4.35% 134
South East +15 207 £50,000 +11.11% 36
London -31 199 £55,000 -15.38% 68
North of England -69 109 £45,000 +12.50% 28
Midlands -24 102 £35,000 -22.22% 26
East of England -17 74 £38,750 -26.19% 19
South West -57 69 £65,000 +67.74% 15
North West -47 62 £45,000 +12.50% 21
West Midlands -44 57 £35,000 -22.22% 12
East Midlands -10 45 £55,000 +22.22% 14
Scotland +13 41 £47,500 -22.76% 9
Yorkshire -5 39 £45,000 +9.09% 6
Wales -2 24 £50,221 +0.44% 6
Northern Ireland +21 13 £69,308 +78.86% 5
North East -13 8 £69,308 +46.30% 1

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
1 134 (15.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 75 (8.73%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.75%) Apache
4 12 (1.40%) nginx
5 11 (1.28%) Apache Solr
5 11 (1.28%) IIS
6 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.35%) SAS
8 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 113 (13.15%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.51%) Simulink
4 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.35%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (1.05%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 294 (34.23%) Azure
2 284 (33.06%) Microsoft 365
3 128 (14.90%) AWS
4 70 (8.15%) Entra ID
5 55 (6.40%) GCP
6 36 (4.19%) Cloud Computing
6 36 (4.19%) PaaS
7 35 (4.07%) SaaS
8 32 (3.73%) OneDrive
9 31 (3.61%) Google Workspace
10 27 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (2.33%) Amazon ECR
11 20 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (2.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 20 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 20 (2.33%) AWS CodeBuild
11 20 (2.33%) dbt
11 20 (2.33%) Pulumi
12 18 (2.10%) GitHub
13 16 (1.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 402 (46.80%) Firewall
2 388 (45.17%) DNS
3 298 (34.69%) DHCP
4 283 (32.95%) VPN
5 197 (22.93%) VLAN
6 170 (19.79%) LAN
7 159 (18.51%) WAN
8 149 (17.35%) BGP
9 136 (15.83%) OSPF
10 90 (10.48%) Network Security
11 80 (9.31%) Wireless
12 79 (9.20%) Internet
13 60 (6.98%) WLAN
14 59 (6.87%) HTTP
15 53 (6.17%) Intrusion Detection
16 50 (5.82%) Ethernet
17 46 (5.36%) IPsec
18 45 (5.24%) MPLS
18 45 (5.24%) SMTP
19 38 (4.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (9.43%) SQL Server
2 33 (3.84%) MySQL
3 30 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (2.33%) Redis
6 17 (1.98%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.51%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.28%) Couchbase
9 9 (1.05%) Power BI
10 2 (0.23%) Big Data
10 2 (0.23%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.23%) MS Access
10 2 (0.23%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.23%) Tableau
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.12%) GIS
11 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (4.19%) Git
2 21 (2.44%) Subversion
3 13 (1.51%) JIRA
3 13 (1.51%) Rational Rhapsody
4 10 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.47%) Spinnaker
6 2 (0.23%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 354 (41.21%) Social Skills
2 97 (11.29%) Finance
3 80 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (6.64%) Retail
5 40 (4.66%) Electronics
6 35 (4.07%) Automotive
6 35 (4.07%) Banking
7 33 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (3.84%) Telecoms
8 27 (3.14%) Aerospace
8 27 (3.14%) Back Office
9 24 (2.79%) Legal
10 23 (2.68%) Public Sector
11 20 (2.33%) Military
12 18 (2.10%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.16%) Investment Banking
16 8 (0.93%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 116 (13.50%) IT Engineer
2 113 (13.15%) Senior
3 106 (12.34%) Network Engineer
4 98 (11.41%) Analyst
5 94 (10.94%) IT Support
6 76 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 73 (8.50%) Support Engineer
8 52 (6.05%) IT Support Engineer
8 52 (6.05%) Software Engineer
9 50 (5.82%) Lead
10 49 (5.70%) Developer
11 46 (5.36%) Systems Engineer
12 39 (4.54%) 2nd Line Support
13 38 (4.42%) Consultant
14 35 (4.07%) Support Technician
15 31 (3.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 28 (3.26%) Embedded Engineer
17 27 (3.14%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
17 27 (3.14%) Service Analyst
17 27 (3.14%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (3.96%) Django
2 30 (3.49%) 802.1X
3 26 (3.03%) XML
4 22 (2.56%) Web Services
5 20 (2.33%) OAuth
5 20 (2.33%) OAuth2
5 20 (2.33%) SAML
6 15 (1.75%) HTML
7 13 (1.51%) LDAP
7 13 (1.51%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (1.40%) FIX Protocol
9 6 (0.70%) Entity Framework
9 6 (0.70%) WPF
10 5 (0.58%) .NET
10 5 (0.58%) GStreamer
10 5 (0.58%) JSON
11 4 (0.47%) LAPP Stack
11 4 (0.47%) SOAP
11 4 (0.47%) WDF
11 4 (0.47%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 60 (6.98%) Management Information System
2 48 (5.59%) Driving Licence
3 45 (5.24%) Data Centre
4 42 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (3.14%) Smartphone
6 25 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.91%) Security Operations Centre
7 23 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (2.68%) FPGA
8 19 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
9 18 (2.10%) Algorithms
9 18 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.75%) PKI
11 14 (1.63%) Clustering
11 14 (1.63%) Embedded Systems
11 14 (1.63%) IoT
11 14 (1.63%) Robotics
11 14 (1.63%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.51%) Client/Server
13 12 (1.40%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 468 (54.48%) Windows
2 272 (31.66%) Linux
3 207 (24.10%) Windows Server
4 112 (13.04%) Windows 10
5 55 (6.40%) Unix
6 51 (5.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 50 (5.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 46 (5.36%) Ubuntu
9 42 (4.89%) Mac OS
10 32 (3.73%) Mac OS X
11 18 (2.10%) Windows 7
12 17 (1.98%) CentOS
13 13 (1.51%) VxWorks
14 12 (1.40%) Apple iOS
14 12 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 10 (1.16%) Embedded Linux
15 10 (1.16%) Solaris
16 8 (0.93%) Android
17 5 (0.58%) SUSE
17 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (32.71%) Problem-Solving
2 128 (14.90%) Customer Service
3 108 (12.57%) Cybersecurity
4 99 (11.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 98 (11.41%) ITIL
6 92 (10.71%) Computer Science
7 77 (8.96%) Agile
8 67 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 65 (7.57%) Roadmaps
10 59 (6.87%) Disaster Recovery
11 56 (6.52%) Software Engineering
12 55 (6.40%) Information Security
13 52 (6.05%) DevOps
13 52 (6.05%) ITSM
14 49 (5.70%) High Availability
14 49 (5.70%) Project Management
15 48 (5.59%) CI/CD
16 47 (5.47%) Mentoring
17 43 (5.01%) SIEM
18 39 (4.54%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 145 (16.88%) Python
2 116 (13.50%) PowerShell
3 94 (10.94%) C
4 85 (9.90%) SQL
5 76 (8.85%) C++
6 43 (5.01%) Bash
7 29 (3.38%) C#
8 23 (2.68%) JavaScript
9 19 (2.21%) Java
10 17 (1.98%) MATLAB
11 15 (1.75%) Perl
12 14 (1.63%) PHP
13 12 (1.40%) Assembly Language
14 11 (1.28%) Embedded C++
15 10 (1.16%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.93%) Ruby
17 4 (0.47%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.47%) Jython
17 4 (0.47%) Rust
18 3 (0.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 170 (19.79%) Degree
2 123 (14.32%) Security Cleared
3 116 (13.50%) Cisco Certification
4 80 (9.31%) CCNA
5 76 (8.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 61 (7.10%) SC Cleared
7 59 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (6.52%) DV Cleared
9 53 (6.17%) CCNP
10 29 (3.38%) HND
11 28 (3.26%) HNC
12 27 (3.14%) A+ Certification
12 27 (3.14%) CISSP
13 26 (3.03%) MCSE
14 24 (2.79%) Azure Certification
14 24 (2.79%) CompTIA Security+
15 21 (2.44%) MCP
16 18 (2.10%) CEH
17 15 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
18 14 (1.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (3.61%) SLA
3 29 (3.38%) NIST
4 22 (2.56%) GDPR
5 14 (1.63%) ISO 9001
6 13 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (0.81%) NCSC
7 7 (0.81%) QA
8 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (0.70%) NIST 800
8 6 (0.70%) PMO
9 5 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
10 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.23%) COBIT
12 2 (0.23%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.23%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.12%) GLBA
System Software
1 274 (31.90%) Active Directory
2 125 (14.55%) Hyper-V
3 121 (14.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (5.01%) Docker
5 33 (3.84%) Firmware
6 22 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (2.21%) Embedded Firmware
8 11 (1.28%) vSphere
9 10 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.70%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.23%) pfSense
14 2 (0.23%) Terminal Server
14 2 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.23%) VirtualBox
15 1 (0.12%) KVM
15 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 76 (8.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (5.94%) Ansible
3 45 (5.24%) Kubernetes
4 38 (4.42%) Terraform
5 28 (3.26%) FortiGate
6 22 (2.56%) SCCM
7 21 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (2.33%) AWS Copilot
9 14 (1.63%) Puppet
9 14 (1.63%) QRadar
9 14 (1.63%) vCenter Server
10 10 (1.16%) WSUS
11 7 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.81%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.58%) CASB
12 5 (0.58%) Grafana
12 5 (0.58%) WMI
13 4 (0.47%) McAfee ePO
14 3 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 378 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 189 (22.00%) VMware
3 173 (20.14%) Cisco
4 86 (10.01%) Google
5 70 (8.15%) Fortinet
6 65 (7.57%) Juniper
7 45 (5.24%) Apple
8 42 (4.89%) Dell
9 33 (3.84%) Palo Alto
10 29 (3.38%) Veeam
11 27 (3.14%) Ubiquiti
12 23 (2.68%) Red Hat
13 22 (2.56%) CheckPoint
14 20 (2.33%) Citrix
15 18 (2.10%) SolarWinds
15 18 (2.10%) Splunk
16 16 (1.86%) Extreme Networks
16 16 (1.86%) Sony
17 14 (1.63%) HP
17 14 (1.63%) ServiceNow