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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 205 192
Rank change year-on-year -37 -13 +44
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 631 665 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 1.56% 1.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.21% 11.91% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 472 506 1,117
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £25,800
25th Percentile £30,500 £34,063 £30,625
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 £66,975 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £78,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% +21.79% -0.10%

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 10,162 5,585 11,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.54% 13.13% 13.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,022 3,654 9,206
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.25% -7.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,188 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £43,500
% change year-on-year -26.32% +9.20% -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 19 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 19 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 -33 575 £38,000 -19.15% 198
UK excluding London -58 389 £35,000 -26.32% 179
London +21 217 £45,000 -12.62% 39
Work from Home -17 178 £42,500 -24.44% 68
North of England -16 126 £33,250 -26.11% 51
South East -58 89 £37,500 -16.67% 49
Yorkshire -24 59 £32,500 -23.26% 18
Midlands -29 57 £32,500 -7.14% 22
South West -11 46 £40,000 -1.84% 24
North West -12 41 £40,000 -20.00% 26
East of England -32 40 £31,000 -34.74% 24
East Midlands -35 36 £32,500 -40.91% 7
North East -2 26 £45,000 -35.11% 10
West Midlands -21 21 £52,500 +50.00% 15
Wales -23 14 £40,000 -40.85% 4
Scotland -48 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
1 142 (22.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 87 (13.79%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.74%) IIS
4 4 (0.63%) Confluence
5 2 (0.32%) Apache
5 2 (0.32%) CMS
5 2 (0.32%) nginx
5 2 (0.32%) WordPress
6 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 90 (14.26%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.32%) 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 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.32%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 315 (49.92%) Azure
2 292 (46.28%) Microsoft 365
3 127 (20.13%) Entra ID
4 123 (19.49%) AWS
5 60 (9.51%) GCP
6 36 (5.71%) Google Workspace
7 33 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
8 30 (4.75%) OneDrive
9 27 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (4.28%) SaaS
10 25 (3.96%) Amazon ECR
10 25 (3.96%) dbt
10 25 (3.96%) PaaS
10 25 (3.96%) Pulumi
11 22 (3.49%) GitHub
12 21 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (3.33%) IaaS
13 18 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (2.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 17 (2.69%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 363 (57.53%) DNS
2 306 (48.49%) DHCP
3 225 (35.66%) Firewall
4 193 (30.59%) VPN
5 141 (22.35%) WAN
6 138 (21.87%) VLAN
7 121 (19.18%) LAN
8 88 (13.95%) Wi-Fi
9 61 (9.67%) Wireless
10 57 (9.03%) VoIP
11 48 (7.61%) Network Security
12 41 (6.50%) HTTP
13 35 (5.55%) SD-WAN
14 24 (3.80%) BGP
15 18 (2.85%) OSPF
15 18 (2.85%) SSL
15 18 (2.85%) Wireshark
16 16 (2.54%) Remote Desktop
17 15 (2.38%) MPLS
18 14 (2.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.61%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 33 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (3.96%) Redis
5 10 (1.58%) Power BI
6 9 (1.43%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.95%) MySQL
8 3 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.48%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.32%) JasperReports
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.16%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 21 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 17 (2.69%) Git
2 17 (2.69%) JIRA
3 12 (1.90%) Metasploit
4 10 (1.58%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.27%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.79%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.48%) GitLab
7 3 (0.48%) Snyk
8 2 (0.32%) IDA Disassembler
8 2 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.16%) Selenium
9 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 278 (44.06%) Social Skills
2 89 (14.10%) Finance
3 67 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (6.81%) Law
5 39 (6.18%) Banking
5 39 (6.18%) Telecoms
6 31 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
7 29 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (3.17%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.01%) Investment Banking
10 19 (3.01%) Public Sector
11 18 (2.85%) Retail
12 13 (2.06%) Legal
13 12 (1.90%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.90%) Back Office
14 10 (1.58%) Automotive
14 10 (1.58%) Marketing
15 7 (1.11%) Electronics
15 7 (1.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 194 (30.74%) IT Support
2 132 (20.92%) Support Engineer
3 94 (14.90%) IT Engineer
4 87 (13.79%) IT Support Engineer
5 82 (13.00%) Senior
6 79 (12.52%) 2nd Line Support
7 67 (10.62%) Support Technician
8 60 (9.51%) Analyst
9 55 (8.72%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 55 (8.72%) IT Support Technician
9 55 (8.72%) IT Technician
10 49 (7.77%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 44 (6.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (6.18%) Support Analyst
13 37 (5.86%) Developer
14 29 (4.60%) Network Engineer
15 28 (4.44%) C++ Developer
16 27 (4.28%) Technical Support
17 24 (3.80%) Lead
18 23 (3.65%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.96%) Django
2 18 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (1.11%) .NET
3 7 (1.11%) REST
4 6 (0.95%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (0.95%) RESTful
5 5 (0.79%) Middleware
5 5 (0.79%) WebSockets
6 4 (0.63%) LDAP
6 4 (0.63%) Qt
6 4 (0.63%) Sass
6 4 (0.63%) STL
6 4 (0.63%) ZeroMQ
7 3 (0.48%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.48%) gRPC
7 3 (0.48%) QML
7 3 (0.48%) SOAP
7 3 (0.48%) Web Services
8 2 (0.32%) OAuth
8 2 (0.32%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 82 (13.00%) Driving Licence
2 51 (8.08%) Onboarding
3 35 (5.55%) Data Centre
4 27 (4.28%) Linux Command Line
5 25 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (3.49%) Video Conferencing
7 21 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (3.33%) FPGA
8 19 (3.01%) Replication
9 18 (2.85%) Cloud Native
9 18 (2.85%) Management Information System
9 18 (2.85%) Security Posture
10 14 (2.22%) CCTV
10 14 (2.22%) NHS
11 13 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.90%) iPhone
13 10 (1.58%) EPoS
14 9 (1.43%) Digital Signage
15 8 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 395 (62.60%) Windows
2 228 (36.13%) Windows Server
3 177 (28.05%) Linux
4 128 (20.29%) Windows 10
5 60 (9.51%) Mac OS
6 45 (7.13%) Unix
7 39 (6.18%) Apple iOS
8 35 (5.55%) Android
8 35 (5.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 25 (3.96%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 20 (3.17%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (1.43%) CentOS
12 9 (1.43%) Mac OS X
13 7 (1.11%) Ubuntu
13 7 (1.11%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.79%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
15 4 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
15 4 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (35.82%) Problem-Solving
2 138 (21.87%) Customer Service
3 111 (17.59%) ITIL
4 77 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 74 (11.73%) CI/CD
6 73 (11.57%) DevOps
7 67 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
9 62 (9.83%) Service Delivery
10 57 (9.03%) Disaster Recovery
11 48 (7.61%) Root Cause Analysis
12 45 (7.13%) Mentoring
13 44 (6.97%) ITSM
14 42 (6.66%) Agile
14 42 (6.66%) Incident Response
15 40 (6.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 39 (6.18%) Computer Science
17 34 (5.39%) High Availability
18 33 (5.23%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (20.92%) Python
2 108 (17.12%) PowerShell
3 54 (8.56%) Bash
4 48 (7.61%) C++
5 40 (6.34%) SQL
6 38 (6.02%) Java
7 34 (5.39%) C
8 24 (3.80%) Go
9 14 (2.22%) C#
10 6 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.63%) Delphi
11 4 (0.63%) Pascal
11 4 (0.63%) PHP
12 2 (0.32%) Bicep
12 2 (0.32%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.32%) Perl
12 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.32%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 104 (16.48%) Degree
2 65 (10.30%) Security Cleared
3 63 (9.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 55 (8.72%) SC Cleared
5 40 (6.34%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (4.91%) CCNA
7 29 (4.60%) Azure Certification
8 23 (3.65%) CCNP
8 23 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (3.33%) A+ Certification
10 20 (3.17%) Network+ Certification
11 17 (2.69%) ITIL Certification
11 17 (2.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 15 (2.38%) DBS Check
13 12 (1.90%) Master's Degree
14 11 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (1.74%) DV Cleared
15 10 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.58%) MCSA
15 10 (1.58%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (3.80%) SLA
3 20 (3.17%) GDPR
4 14 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.43%) QA
5 9 (1.43%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.63%) DICOM
8 4 (0.63%) HL7
8 4 (0.63%) MISRA
8 4 (0.63%) NIST
9 3 (0.48%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.48%) GRC
9 3 (0.48%) GxP
10 2 (0.32%) NCSC
10 2 (0.32%) PMO
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 317 (50.24%) Active Directory
2 125 (19.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 112 (17.75%) Hyper-V
4 37 (5.86%) Docker
5 14 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (2.22%) vSphere
6 13 (2.06%) Firmware
7 10 (1.58%) KVM
8 6 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.63%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.32%) XenApp
11 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 101 (16.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 67 (10.62%) Terraform
3 53 (8.40%) Ansible
4 23 (3.65%) Kubernetes
5 21 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (3.01%) FortiGate
6 19 (3.01%) Prometheus
7 18 (2.85%) Grafana
8 17 (2.69%) AWS Copilot
9 16 (2.54%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (1.90%) SCCM
11 10 (1.58%) Nessus
12 8 (1.27%) Nagios
12 8 (1.27%) Nmap
12 8 (1.27%) Puppet
13 7 (1.11%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.95%) Autotask
15 5 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
16 4 (0.63%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 343 (54.36%) Microsoft
2 153 (24.25%) VMware
3 70 (11.09%) Cisco
4 64 (10.14%) Google
5 32 (5.07%) Veeam
6 29 (4.60%) Apple
6 29 (4.60%) Citrix
7 26 (4.12%) Palo Alto
8 24 (3.80%) SolarWinds
9 22 (3.49%) Red Hat
10 21 (3.33%) Dell
10 21 (3.33%) Meraki
11 20 (3.17%) Fortinet
12 16 (2.54%) HP
12 16 (2.54%) SonicWALL
13 13 (2.06%) CheckPoint
14 12 (1.90%) Juniper
15 11 (1.74%) ServiceNow
16 10 (1.58%) Sophos
17 9 (1.43%) Reuters