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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 225 215
Rank change year-on-year -36 -10 -38
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 821 694 988
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.41% 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.62% 9.62% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 633 496 596
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,375 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -7.61%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,075 £75,625 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,000 £34,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -5.88%

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 7,728 7,214 9,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.73% 14.61% 12.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,885 4,024 4,900
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £29,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £29,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% -20.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £35,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +28.57% -26.32% +5.56%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -28 779 £39,000 +4.00% 704
UK excluding London -48 589 £36,000 +5.88% 466
Work from Home +29 256 £40,000 -3.61% 253
London -10 222 £60,000 +4.35% 313
South East -30 174 £37,500 +1.35% 131
North of England -14 145 £32,500 -7.14% 87
Midlands -28 112 £36,000 +10.77% 61
North West +32 80 £32,000 -20.99% 47
East of England -20 78 £35,000 -22.22% 69
West Midlands -25 68 £37,500 +15.38% 35
Yorkshire -39 53 £33,500 -23.43% 24
South West -65 50 £32,500 -5.80% 58
East Midlands -47 44 £36,000 +20.00% 26
Wales -83 15 £45,000 +28.57% 12
North East -76 12 £40,000 +37.93% 18
Scotland -4 10 £63,451 +111.50% 40
Northern Ireland - 5 £42,500 - 17

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
1 140 (17.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 109 (13.28%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.05%) IIS
4 15 (1.83%) Apache
5 7 (0.85%) Confluence
6 4 (0.49%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.49%) WinCC
7 3 (0.37%) SAS
8 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 37 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.12%) Houdini
4 1 (0.12%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 8 (0.97%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.24%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.24%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.12%) Eikon
3 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 374 (45.55%) Microsoft 365
2 325 (39.59%) Azure
3 215 (26.19%) Entra ID
4 128 (15.59%) AWS
5 41 (4.99%) OneDrive
6 35 (4.26%) GCP
7 21 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (2.56%) SaaS
8 14 (1.71%) dbt
9 13 (1.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 13 (1.58%) Google Workspace
9 13 (1.58%) OpenShift
10 11 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (1.10%) IaaS
11 9 (1.10%) PaaS
11 9 (1.10%) Serverless
12 6 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.73%) Datadog
12 6 (0.73%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 516 (62.85%) DNS
2 410 (49.94%) DHCP
3 378 (46.04%) Firewall
4 329 (40.07%) VPN
5 189 (23.02%) WAN
6 182 (22.17%) LAN
7 181 (22.05%) VLAN
8 107 (13.03%) Wi-Fi
9 102 (12.42%) Network Security
10 93 (11.33%) Wireless
11 71 (8.65%) HTTP
11 71 (8.65%) VoIP
12 65 (7.92%) BGP
13 54 (6.58%) OSPF
14 41 (4.99%) SD-WAN
15 31 (3.78%) SSL
16 26 (3.17%) Ethernet
16 26 (3.17%) Internet
17 22 (2.68%) SMTP
18 20 (2.44%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (7.80%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.19%) MySQL
3 10 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.10%) NoSQL
5 7 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.73%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (0.73%) Redis
7 5 (0.61%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.49%) InfluxDB
9 3 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.37%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.12%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.12%) Db2
10 1 (0.12%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.12%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 34 (4.14%) JIRA
2 23 (2.80%) Git
3 10 (1.22%) GitLab
4 5 (0.61%) Selenium
5 4 (0.49%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.24%) CMake
6 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.24%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.12%) GDB
7 1 (0.12%) LSMW
7 1 (0.12%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
General
1 394 (47.99%) Social Skills
2 105 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
3 91 (11.08%) Finance
4 63 (7.67%) Telecoms
5 48 (5.85%) Banking
6 36 (4.38%) Law
7 35 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (4.02%) Electronics
8 33 (4.02%) Retail
9 31 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
10 29 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (3.41%) Aerospace
12 20 (2.44%) Public Sector
13 16 (1.95%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.22%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.97%) Automotive
15 8 (0.97%) Marketing
16 7 (0.85%) Digital Health
17 6 (0.73%) Games
17 6 (0.73%) Legal
Job Titles
1 211 (25.70%) IT Support
2 194 (23.63%) Support Engineer
3 163 (19.85%) IT Engineer
4 135 (16.44%) IT Support Engineer
5 119 (14.49%) Analyst
6 102 (12.42%) Senior
7 101 (12.30%) Network Engineer
8 89 (10.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 71 (8.65%) 2nd Line Support
10 61 (7.43%) Support Analyst
11 50 (6.09%) Support Technician
12 47 (5.72%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 46 (5.60%) IT Technician
14 45 (5.48%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 44 (5.36%) IT Support Technician
16 35 (4.26%) IT Analyst
17 33 (4.02%) Lead
17 33 (4.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 32 (3.90%) Infrastructure Support
19 29 (3.53%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (7.92%) Terraform
2 23 (2.80%) LDAP
3 21 (2.56%) React
4 16 (1.95%) XML
5 13 (1.58%) Node.js
6 12 (1.46%) Middleware
7 11 (1.34%) JSON
7 11 (1.34%) RESTful
7 11 (1.34%) WebSockets
8 10 (1.22%) gRPC
9 9 (1.10%) CSS
9 9 (1.10%) Django
9 9 (1.10%) FIX Protocol
9 9 (1.10%) HTML
9 9 (1.10%) REST
10 8 (0.97%) .NET
10 8 (0.97%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.73%) 802.1X
11 6 (0.73%) GraphQL
11 6 (0.73%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 112 (13.64%) Driving Licence
2 85 (10.35%) Onboarding
3 42 (5.12%) Data Centre
4 36 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
5 25 (3.05%) Security Operations Centre
6 24 (2.92%) PKI
7 22 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (2.68%) Security Posture
8 20 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (2.31%) Client/Server
9 19 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
10 18 (2.19%) CCTV
11 17 (2.07%) Replication
12 16 (1.95%) Cyber Defence
13 14 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.58%) Management Information System
15 12 (1.46%) Social Media
16 11 (1.34%) FPGA
17 10 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 499 (60.78%) Windows
2 257 (31.30%) Windows Server
3 202 (24.60%) Linux
4 102 (12.42%) Windows 10
5 53 (6.46%) Mac OS
6 41 (4.99%) Unix
7 32 (3.90%) Ubuntu
8 24 (2.92%) Apple iOS
9 18 (2.19%) Android
10 17 (2.07%) CentOS
10 17 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (1.95%) Rocky
12 14 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 10 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.85%) Debian
14 7 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
15 6 (0.73%) Solaris
16 5 (0.61%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
17 2 (0.24%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (36.54%) Problem-Solving
2 201 (24.48%) Customer Service
3 182 (22.17%) Cybersecurity
4 163 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 146 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 123 (14.98%) ITIL
7 106 (12.91%) Disaster Recovery
8 89 (10.84%) Mentoring
9 84 (10.23%) Incident Response
10 76 (9.26%) Project Delivery
10 76 (9.26%) Service Delivery
11 74 (9.01%) ITSM
12 68 (8.28%) Computer Science
12 68 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
13 65 (7.92%) SIEM
14 60 (7.31%) DevOps
15 59 (7.19%) High Availability
15 59 (7.19%) Software Engineering
16 55 (6.70%) CI/CD
17 53 (6.46%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 150 (18.27%) Python
2 144 (17.54%) PowerShell
3 77 (9.38%) SQL
4 73 (8.89%) Bash
5 38 (4.63%) C++
6 24 (2.92%) C
6 24 (2.92%) Perl
7 21 (2.56%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.95%) C#
9 14 (1.71%) Java
9 14 (1.71%) VBA
10 13 (1.58%) Ruby
11 12 (1.46%) Go
12 11 (1.34%) Bicep
13 10 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.22%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.85%) PHP
14 7 (0.85%) Search Processing Language
15 3 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 142 (17.30%) Degree
2 103 (12.55%) Security Cleared
3 83 (10.11%) Cisco Certification
4 69 (8.40%) CCNA
4 69 (8.40%) SC Cleared
5 60 (7.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (6.46%) CCNP
7 34 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (3.90%) Azure Certification
9 30 (3.65%) CompTIA Security+
10 25 (3.05%) CREST Certified
11 24 (2.92%) Network+ Certification
12 22 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (2.44%) CEH
14 19 (2.31%) A+ Certification
14 19 (2.31%) GCIA
15 18 (2.19%) DV Cleared
16 16 (1.95%) CISSP
16 16 (1.95%) HND
17 14 (1.71%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (8.16%) SLA
2 44 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 31 (3.78%) GDPR
4 29 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.83%) QA
6 13 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.34%) NIST
8 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.73%) GRC
9 5 (0.61%) NCSC
9 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.12%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 373 (45.43%) Active Directory
2 150 (18.27%) Hyper-V
3 136 (16.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (3.90%) Docker
5 31 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (2.80%) Firmware
7 12 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (1.22%) vSphere
9 3 (0.37%) KVM
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.24%) QEMU
11 1 (0.12%) Ceph
11 1 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.12%) Samba
11 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 140 (17.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (4.26%) Ansible
3 31 (3.78%) FortiGate
4 26 (3.17%) Kubernetes
5 19 (2.31%) QRadar
6 14 (1.71%) Grafana
7 13 (1.58%) Nagios
7 13 (1.58%) Prometheus
8 10 (1.22%) WSUS
9 9 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (1.10%) Kibana
9 9 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.61%) McAfee ePO
10 5 (0.61%) SCVMM
11 4 (0.49%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.49%) VxRail
11 4 (0.49%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.37%) logstash
Vendors
1 465 (56.64%) Microsoft
2 156 (19.00%) VMware
3 116 (14.13%) Cisco
4 64 (7.80%) Fortinet
5 52 (6.33%) Veeam
6 41 (4.99%) Splunk
7 40 (4.87%) ServiceNow
8 37 (4.51%) Palo Alto
9 36 (4.38%) Google
10 28 (3.41%) Meraki
11 26 (3.17%) Red Hat
11 26 (3.17%) SonicWALL
12 23 (2.80%) Dell
13 22 (2.68%) SolarWinds
14 19 (2.31%) HP
15 18 (2.19%) Ubiquiti
16 17 (2.07%) Sophos
17 16 (1.95%) CrowdStrike
17 16 (1.95%) Zscaler
18 14 (1.71%) Apple