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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 222 211
Rank change year-on-year -40 -11 -23
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 784 703 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.41% 1.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.33% 9.61% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 613 506 690
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -11.76% -6.23%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,075 £75,000 £72,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £39,250
% change year-on-year - -10.83% -7.65%

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 7,589 7,313 9,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.90% 14.67% 11.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,907 4,162 5,676
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,472 £35,000 £45,802
% change year-on-year +27.06% -23.58% +1.78%

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 2 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 2 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 -25 746 £37,500 - 581
UK excluding London -36 569 £35,000 - 374
Work from Home +26 251 £40,000 -5.88% 198
London -26 206 £60,000 +9.09% 286
South East -18 173 £37,500 +2.74% 103
North of England -12 147 £32,500 -7.14% 79
Midlands -39 99 £33,250 +2.31% 47
North West +36 79 £32,000 -20.00% 41
East of England -17 74 £35,000 -22.22% 38
West Midlands -30 57 £37,500 +15.38% 27
Yorkshire -46 55 £32,500 -2.99% 21
South West -62 49 £33,000 -4.35% 55
East Midlands -29 42 £32,500 +4.00% 20
Wales -73 15 £45,000 +28.57% 8
North East -66 13 £35,000 +20.69% 20
Scotland -5 9 £63,451 +95.23% 30
Northern Ireland - 3 £57,246 - 19

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
1 137 (17.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (13.27%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.19%) IIS
4 13 (1.66%) Apache
5 4 (0.51%) Confluence
6 3 (0.38%) SAS
6 3 (0.38%) WinCC
7 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 44 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Houdini
4 1 (0.13%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.26%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.13%) Eikon
3 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 352 (44.90%) Microsoft 365
2 319 (40.69%) Azure
3 192 (24.49%) Entra ID
4 131 (16.71%) AWS
5 35 (4.46%) OneDrive
6 33 (4.21%) GCP
7 22 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (2.30%) SaaS
9 14 (1.79%) dbt
9 14 (1.79%) Google Workspace
10 13 (1.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 13 (1.66%) OpenShift
11 11 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (1.40%) IaaS
12 9 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.15%) PaaS
13 8 (1.02%) GitHub
14 7 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 480 (61.22%) DNS
2 374 (47.70%) DHCP
3 361 (46.05%) Firewall
4 289 (36.86%) VPN
5 176 (22.45%) WAN
6 170 (21.68%) LAN
7 164 (20.92%) VLAN
8 99 (12.63%) Network Security
9 88 (11.22%) Wi-Fi
10 80 (10.20%) Wireless
11 71 (9.06%) VoIP
12 68 (8.67%) HTTP
13 61 (7.78%) BGP
14 50 (6.38%) OSPF
15 38 (4.85%) SD-WAN
16 28 (3.57%) SSL
17 23 (2.93%) Internet
18 20 (2.55%) Ethernet
18 20 (2.55%) SMTP
19 18 (2.30%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (7.53%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.66%) MySQL
3 8 (1.02%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.77%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.51%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.38%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.26%) Redis
8 2 (0.26%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.13%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.13%) KDB
9 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 30 (3.83%) JIRA
2 19 (2.42%) Git
3 7 (0.89%) Bitbucket
3 7 (0.89%) GitLab
4 4 (0.51%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.26%) CMake
5 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.26%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.26%) Selenium
5 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.13%) GDB
6 1 (0.13%) LSMW
6 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
General
1 374 (47.70%) Social Skills
2 99 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
3 92 (11.73%) Finance
4 59 (7.53%) Telecoms
5 45 (5.74%) Banking
6 40 (5.10%) Law
7 35 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (3.83%) Electronics
10 28 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (3.44%) Retail
12 25 (3.19%) Aerospace
13 17 (2.17%) Public Sector
14 15 (1.91%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.53%) Investment Banking
16 7 (0.89%) Digital Health
16 7 (0.89%) Legal
17 6 (0.77%) Games
18 5 (0.64%) Marketing
18 5 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 197 (25.13%) IT Support
2 175 (22.32%) Support Engineer
3 147 (18.75%) IT Engineer
4 122 (15.56%) IT Support Engineer
5 109 (13.90%) Analyst
6 95 (12.12%) Network Engineer
7 94 (11.99%) Senior
8 84 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 64 (8.16%) 2nd Line Support
10 52 (6.63%) Support Technician
11 49 (6.25%) Support Analyst
12 47 (5.99%) IT Technician
13 45 (5.74%) IT Support Technician
14 43 (5.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 41 (5.23%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 33 (4.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 31 (3.95%) IT Analyst
18 29 (3.70%) Lead
19 28 (3.57%) Infrastructure Support
20 26 (3.32%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.16%) Terraform
2 21 (2.68%) LDAP
2 21 (2.68%) React
3 14 (1.79%) XML
4 13 (1.66%) Node.js
5 12 (1.53%) Middleware
5 12 (1.53%) WebSockets
6 11 (1.40%) gRPC
7 10 (1.28%) JSON
8 9 (1.15%) .NET
8 9 (1.15%) RESTful
9 8 (1.02%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.89%) 802.1X
10 7 (0.89%) CSS
10 7 (0.89%) Django
10 7 (0.89%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (0.89%) HTML
10 7 (0.89%) REST
11 6 (0.77%) ARM Templates
11 6 (0.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 102 (13.01%) Driving Licence
2 71 (9.06%) Onboarding
3 42 (5.36%) Data Centre
4 38 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (3.44%) Cyber Threat
6 25 (3.19%) Security Operations Centre
7 24 (3.06%) PKI
8 23 (2.93%) Security Posture
9 21 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (2.30%) CCTV
10 18 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (2.30%) Replication
11 17 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (2.04%) Client/Server
12 16 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
13 14 (1.79%) Management Information System
14 13 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.66%) FPGA
15 12 (1.53%) Social Media
16 11 (1.40%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 479 (61.10%) Windows
2 250 (31.89%) Windows Server
3 197 (25.13%) Linux
4 92 (11.73%) Windows 10
5 57 (7.27%) Mac OS
6 36 (4.59%) Unix
7 27 (3.44%) Ubuntu
8 25 (3.19%) Apple iOS
9 18 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (2.17%) Android
11 16 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 14 (1.79%) CentOS
13 13 (1.66%) Rocky
14 12 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
15 7 (0.89%) Debian
15 7 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
16 5 (0.64%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.51%) Solaris
18 2 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
18 2 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (38.01%) Problem-Solving
2 182 (23.21%) Customer Service
3 155 (19.77%) Cybersecurity
4 152 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 136 (17.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 115 (14.67%) ITIL
7 100 (12.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 88 (11.22%) Mentoring
9 83 (10.59%) Incident Response
10 75 (9.57%) Project Delivery
11 71 (9.06%) Service Delivery
12 70 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
13 67 (8.55%) Computer Science
13 67 (8.55%) ITSM
14 62 (7.91%) SIEM
15 61 (7.78%) DevOps
16 60 (7.65%) High Availability
17 57 (7.27%) Software Engineering
18 54 (6.89%) CI/CD
19 48 (6.12%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (18.24%) Python
2 140 (17.86%) PowerShell
3 72 (9.18%) SQL
4 71 (9.06%) Bash
5 38 (4.85%) C++
6 26 (3.32%) C
7 22 (2.81%) Perl
8 17 (2.17%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.04%) C#
10 15 (1.91%) Java
11 14 (1.79%) VBA
12 13 (1.66%) Go
13 11 (1.40%) Bicep
13 11 (1.40%) Ruby
14 10 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (1.28%) TypeScript
15 8 (1.02%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.89%) PHP
16 7 (0.89%) Search Processing Language
17 3 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 138 (17.60%) Degree
2 99 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 85 (10.84%) Cisco Certification
4 71 (9.06%) CCNA
5 69 (8.80%) SC Cleared
6 59 (7.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 54 (6.89%) CCNP
8 33 (4.21%) Azure Certification
9 32 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (3.95%) CompTIA Security+
11 23 (2.93%) CREST Certified
12 20 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (2.55%) CEH
13 19 (2.42%) GCIA
13 19 (2.42%) Network+ Certification
14 16 (2.04%) CISSP
14 16 (2.04%) DV Cleared
14 16 (2.04%) HND
15 14 (1.79%) GIAC
15 14 (1.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.04%) SLA
2 36 (4.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 27 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (3.32%) GDPR
5 15 (1.91%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.28%) QA
7 9 (1.15%) NIST
8 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.64%) GRC
9 5 (0.64%) NCSC
10 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 349 (44.52%) Active Directory
2 142 (18.11%) Hyper-V
3 131 (16.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (3.57%) Docker
5 26 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (2.93%) Firmware
7 11 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.28%) vSphere
9 4 (0.51%) KVM
10 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.26%) QEMU
12 1 (0.13%) Ceph
12 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.13%) NFS
12 1 (0.13%) Samba
12 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 130 (16.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (4.85%) Ansible
3 35 (4.46%) FortiGate
4 30 (3.83%) Kubernetes
5 17 (2.17%) QRadar
6 14 (1.79%) Grafana
6 14 (1.79%) Nagios
7 13 (1.66%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (1.02%) Kibana
9 8 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.02%) WSUS
10 5 (0.64%) McAfee ePO
10 5 (0.64%) SCVMM
11 4 (0.51%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.51%) SCCM
11 4 (0.51%) VxRail
11 4 (0.51%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.38%) Control-M
Vendors
1 445 (56.76%) Microsoft
2 151 (19.26%) VMware
3 111 (14.16%) Cisco
4 56 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 48 (6.12%) Veeam
6 38 (4.85%) Splunk
7 34 (4.34%) Google
7 34 (4.34%) ServiceNow
8 33 (4.21%) Palo Alto
9 30 (3.83%) Meraki
10 24 (3.06%) Red Hat
10 24 (3.06%) SonicWALL
11 23 (2.93%) SolarWinds
12 20 (2.55%) HP
12 20 (2.55%) Sophos
13 19 (2.42%) Dell
14 16 (2.04%) Ubiquiti
14 16 (2.04%) Zscaler
15 15 (1.91%) CrowdStrike
16 13 (1.66%) Apple