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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 194 188
Rank change year-on-year -42 -6 +50
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 637 721 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.88% 1.64% 1.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.42% 12.04% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 473 511 1,109
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £34,750 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £48,507 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +14.13% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £60,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £78,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £39,500
% change year-on-year -26.32% +20.25% -1.25%

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 9,924 5,990 11,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.75% 13.59% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,880 3,655 9,229
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £53,391 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +11.23% -8.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £79,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £50,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +16.28% -4.44%

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 9 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 9 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 -26 577 £38,250 -19.47% 196
UK excluding London -56 397 £35,000 -26.32% 179
London +22 214 £45,000 -11.76% 42
Work from Home -21 173 £42,000 -23.64% 74
North of England -8 123 £34,000 -24.44% 44
South East -64 94 £37,500 -21.05% 55
Midlands -23 60 £32,500 -7.14% 17
Yorkshire -25 58 £32,500 -27.29% 16
South West -13 46 £40,000 -5.88% 19
East of England -22 40 £31,000 -35.42% 35
East Midlands -15 39 £32,500 -40.91% 7
North West -21 38 £40,000 -20.00% 20
North East +1 27 £45,000 -35.11% 10
West Midlands -15 21 £52,500 +50.00% 10
Wales -15 18 £40,000 -38.46% 4
Scotland -36 13 £60,000 +21.82% 10
Northern Ireland -31 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5

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
1 143 (22.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 87 (13.66%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.88%) IIS
4 4 (0.63%) 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 (14.13%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.63%) 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
1 316 (49.61%) Azure
2 300 (47.10%) Microsoft 365
3 128 (20.09%) Entra ID
4 122 (19.15%) AWS
5 61 (9.58%) GCP
6 38 (5.97%) Google Workspace
7 32 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
8 30 (4.71%) OneDrive
8 30 (4.71%) SaaS
9 26 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (3.92%) Amazon ECR
10 25 (3.92%) dbt
10 25 (3.92%) PaaS
10 25 (3.92%) Pulumi
11 21 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.30%) GitHub
11 21 (3.30%) IaaS
12 18 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 17 (2.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 364 (57.14%) DNS
2 303 (47.57%) DHCP
3 228 (35.79%) Firewall
4 203 (31.87%) VPN
5 142 (22.29%) VLAN
6 141 (22.14%) WAN
7 121 (19.00%) LAN
8 87 (13.66%) Wi-Fi
9 61 (9.58%) Wireless
10 53 (8.32%) Network Security
10 53 (8.32%) VoIP
11 41 (6.44%) HTTP
12 35 (5.49%) SD-WAN
13 25 (3.92%) BGP
14 20 (3.14%) Wireshark
15 19 (2.98%) OSPF
15 19 (2.98%) SSL
16 16 (2.51%) Remote Desktop
17 15 (2.35%) SAN
18 14 (2.20%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.54%) Amazon RDS
2 40 (6.28%) SQL Server
3 34 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (3.92%) Redis
5 10 (1.57%) Power BI
5 10 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.10%) MySQL
7 3 (0.47%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.31%) JasperReports
8 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.16%) FileMaker
9 1 (0.16%) Metadata
9 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.16%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 22 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 17 (2.67%) Git
2 17 (2.67%) JIRA
3 15 (2.35%) Metasploit
4 11 (1.73%) Burp Suite
5 9 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.63%) 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
1 278 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 88 (13.81%) Finance
3 65 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (7.54%) Law
5 39 (6.12%) Banking
5 39 (6.12%) Telecoms
6 30 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (3.45%) Manufacturing
10 19 (2.98%) Investment Banking
10 19 (2.98%) Retail
11 17 (2.67%) Public Sector
12 14 (2.20%) Aerospace
12 14 (2.20%) Legal
13 12 (1.88%) Back Office
13 12 (1.88%) Marketing
14 9 (1.41%) Automotive
15 7 (1.10%) Electronics
15 7 (1.10%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 197 (30.93%) IT Support
2 130 (20.41%) Support Engineer
3 94 (14.76%) IT Engineer
4 86 (13.50%) IT Support Engineer
5 81 (12.72%) Senior
6 79 (12.40%) 2nd Line Support
7 67 (10.52%) Support Technician
8 60 (9.42%) Analyst
9 55 (8.63%) IT Support Technician
9 55 (8.63%) IT Technician
10 54 (8.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 48 (7.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 47 (7.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 44 (6.91%) Support Analyst
14 37 (5.81%) Developer
15 29 (4.55%) Network Engineer
16 28 (4.40%) C++ Developer
17 27 (4.24%) Technical Support
18 25 (3.92%) Lead
19 24 (3.77%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.92%) Django
2 18 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (0.94%) .NET
3 6 (0.94%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (0.94%) REST
3 6 (0.94%) RESTful
4 5 (0.78%) Middleware
4 5 (0.78%) WebSockets
5 4 (0.63%) LDAP
5 4 (0.63%) Qt
5 4 (0.63%) Sass
5 4 (0.63%) STL
5 4 (0.63%) ZeroMQ
6 3 (0.47%) QML
6 3 (0.47%) SOAP
6 3 (0.47%) Web Services
7 2 (0.31%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.31%) gRPC
7 2 (0.31%) OAuth
7 2 (0.31%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 79 (12.40%) Driving Licence
2 50 (7.85%) Onboarding
3 35 (5.49%) Data Centre
4 27 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
5 24 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (3.61%) Video Conferencing
7 21 (3.30%) FPGA
8 20 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (2.98%) Management Information System
10 18 (2.83%) Replication
11 17 (2.67%) Cloud Native
12 16 (2.51%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (2.35%) Security Posture
14 14 (2.20%) NHS
15 13 (2.04%) CCTV
16 12 (1.88%) iPhone
17 10 (1.57%) EPoS
18 9 (1.41%) Clustering
18 9 (1.41%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 400 (62.79%) Windows
2 234 (36.73%) Windows Server
3 178 (27.94%) Linux
4 128 (20.09%) Windows 10
5 60 (9.42%) Mac OS
6 45 (7.06%) Unix
7 37 (5.81%) Apple iOS
8 36 (5.65%) Android
9 33 (5.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 20 (3.14%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (1.57%) Ubuntu
14 9 (1.41%) CentOS
14 9 (1.41%) Mac OS X
15 8 (1.26%) Kali Linux
16 6 (0.94%) Windows 7
17 4 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
17 4 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
17 4 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (35.79%) Problem-Solving
2 134 (21.04%) Customer Service
3 110 (17.27%) ITIL
4 83 (13.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 75 (11.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 73 (11.46%) CI/CD
6 73 (11.46%) Cybersecurity
7 71 (11.15%) DevOps
8 69 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (9.42%) Service Delivery
10 59 (9.26%) Disaster Recovery
11 50 (7.85%) Root Cause Analysis
12 44 (6.91%) ITSM
13 43 (6.75%) Computer Science
13 43 (6.75%) Incident Response
13 43 (6.75%) Mentoring
14 42 (6.59%) Agile
15 39 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 37 (5.81%) High Availability
17 32 (5.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 134 (21.04%) Python
2 109 (17.11%) PowerShell
3 52 (8.16%) Bash
3 52 (8.16%) C++
4 42 (6.59%) Java
4 42 (6.59%) SQL
5 35 (5.49%) C
6 24 (3.77%) Go
7 13 (2.04%) C#
8 6 (0.94%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.63%) Delphi
9 4 (0.63%) Pascal
9 4 (0.63%) PHP
9 4 (0.63%) R
9 4 (0.63%) Rust
10 2 (0.31%) Bicep
10 2 (0.31%) Embedded C++
10 2 (0.31%) Perl
10 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 107 (16.80%) Degree
2 68 (10.68%) Security Cleared
3 61 (9.58%) Microsoft Certification
4 58 (9.11%) SC Cleared
5 38 (5.97%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 29 (4.55%) CCNA
7 24 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (3.61%) A+ Certification
8 23 (3.61%) CCNP
9 20 (3.14%) Network+ Certification
10 17 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
11 16 (2.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 14 (2.20%) DBS Check
13 12 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.73%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (1.73%) DV Cleared
14 11 (1.73%) Master's Degree
15 10 (1.57%) MCSA
16 9 (1.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (3.61%) SLA
3 22 (3.45%) GDPR
4 15 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.41%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.26%) QA
7 7 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.94%) NIST
8 6 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.63%) DICOM
9 4 (0.63%) HL7
9 4 (0.63%) 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 9001
12 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 323 (50.71%) Active Directory
2 126 (19.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 114 (17.90%) Hyper-V
4 38 (5.97%) Docker
5 14 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (2.20%) vSphere
6 12 (1.88%) Firmware
7 9 (1.41%) KVM
8 6 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.63%) 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 99 (15.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 66 (10.36%) Terraform
3 52 (8.16%) Ansible
4 20 (3.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (3.14%) Kubernetes
4 20 (3.14%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.98%) Grafana
6 17 (2.67%) AWS Copilot
7 16 (2.51%) FortiGate
8 14 (2.20%) Jamf Pro
9 13 (2.04%) Nessus
10 11 (1.73%) Nmap
10 11 (1.73%) SCCM
11 8 (1.26%) Nagios
11 8 (1.26%) Puppet
12 7 (1.10%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.94%) Autotask
13 6 (0.94%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.63%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 346 (54.32%) Microsoft
2 153 (24.02%) VMware
3 70 (10.99%) Cisco
4 67 (10.52%) Google
5 32 (5.02%) Veeam
6 29 (4.55%) Citrix
7 28 (4.40%) Apple
8 25 (3.92%) Palo Alto
8 25 (3.92%) Red Hat
9 24 (3.77%) SolarWinds
10 20 (3.14%) Fortinet
11 19 (2.98%) Dell
12 18 (2.83%) Meraki
13 15 (2.35%) SonicWALL
14 13 (2.04%) HP
15 12 (1.88%) CheckPoint
16 11 (1.73%) Juniper
16 11 (1.73%) ServiceNow
17 9 (1.41%) Bloomberg
17 9 (1.41%) Reuters