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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 211 243
Rank change year-on-year -56 +32 +36
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 640 1,448 1,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 1.42% 1.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.55% 10.74% 9.73%
Number of salaries quoted 449 1,159 1,043
10th Percentile £28,050 £25,700 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £63,500 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,672
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.33% -6.25% -2.53%

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 9,770 13,483 15,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.92% 13.23% 15.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,225 9,405 7,838
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,654
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £43,742 £45,000
% change year-on-year -19.99% -2.80% -5.26%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -67 572 £42,500 - 1,287
UK excluding London -69 431 £39,500 +5.33% 1,184
London +12 191 £51,500 -20.77% 247
Work from Home -84 182 £50,750 -3.33% 510
South East 0 139 £37,500 - 315
Midlands -28 87 £32,500 -10.96% 189
North of England -82 74 £39,500 -1.25% 265
East of England -22 67 £47,500 +26.67% 190
West Midlands +17 50 £32,500 -5.80% 92
Yorkshire +6 42 £35,000 -9.09% 123
East Midlands -9 37 £31,000 -22.50% 85
Scotland +84 32 £50,000 +21.21% 62
North West -89 28 £39,500 -1.25% 112
Wales +35 21 £65,000 +136.36% 35
South West -14 17 £51,729 +56.75% 161
North East +45 4 £69,384 +193.69% 34
Northern Ireland +11 1 £85,000 +161.54% 10

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 79 (12.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (8.13%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.66%) IIS
4 8 (1.25%) nginx
5 7 (1.09%) Apache Solr
6 5 (0.78%) Apache
7 2 (0.31%) CMS
7 2 (0.31%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.31%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) CICS
8 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 88 (13.75%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (0.94%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.78%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 206 (32.19%) Azure
2 182 (28.44%) Microsoft 365
3 111 (17.34%) AWS
4 37 (5.78%) Entra ID
5 35 (5.47%) GCP
6 32 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
6 32 (5.00%) OneDrive
7 20 (3.13%) SaaS
8 17 (2.66%) Google Workspace
9 15 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (2.34%) Power Automate
10 14 (2.19%) Mimecast
11 11 (1.72%) Amazon ECR
11 11 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (1.72%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 11 (1.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 11 (1.72%) AWS CodeBuild
11 11 (1.72%) dbt
11 11 (1.72%) Nutanix
11 11 (1.72%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 287 (44.84%) DNS
2 235 (36.72%) DHCP
3 223 (34.84%) Firewall
4 221 (34.53%) VPN
5 143 (22.34%) LAN
5 143 (22.34%) WAN
6 98 (15.31%) VLAN
7 85 (13.28%) BGP
8 73 (11.41%) OSPF
9 72 (11.25%) Network Security
10 40 (6.25%) HTTP
11 39 (6.09%) Wireless
12 38 (5.94%) MPLS
13 37 (5.78%) VoIP
14 30 (4.69%) Wi-Fi
15 27 (4.22%) IPsec
16 26 (4.06%) Internet
16 26 (4.06%) SMTP
17 24 (3.75%) SD-WAN
18 20 (3.13%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (2.81%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (1.72%) MySQL
5 11 (1.72%) Redis
6 8 (1.25%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.09%) Couchbase
8 5 (0.78%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.63%) Power BI
10 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.16%) JasperReports
11 1 (0.16%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.16%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 64 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 64 (10.00%) Robot Framework
2 23 (3.59%) Git
3 9 (1.41%) JIRA
4 6 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (0.94%) Subversion
5 2 (0.31%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.31%) JMeter
5 2 (0.31%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.16%) GitLab
6 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 296 (46.25%) Social Skills
2 108 (16.88%) Telecoms
3 105 (16.41%) Finance
3 105 (16.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 75 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (8.13%) Banking
6 24 (3.75%) Law
7 22 (3.44%) Legal
8 20 (3.13%) Retail
9 15 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.34%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.03%) Automotive
10 13 (2.03%) Public Sector
11 12 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.72%) Local Government
13 10 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.41%) Back Office
14 9 (1.41%) Electronics
15 8 (1.25%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 83 (12.97%) Analyst
2 80 (12.50%) IT Support
3 75 (11.72%) Senior
4 71 (11.09%) Network Engineer
5 67 (10.47%) Lead
6 64 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 64 (10.00%) Test Engineer
7 62 (9.69%) Support Engineer
8 46 (7.19%) IT Engineer
9 42 (6.56%) Support Analyst
10 40 (6.25%) Developer
11 35 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 27 (4.22%) Technical Support
13 26 (4.06%) IT Support Engineer
14 23 (3.59%) Systems Engineer
15 22 (3.44%) Team Leader
16 21 (3.28%) Junior
17 20 (3.13%) Embedded Engineer
17 20 (3.13%) IT Analyst
17 20 (3.13%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.34%) Django
2 14 (2.19%) .NET
3 10 (1.56%) LDAP
3 10 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (1.41%) REST
5 7 (1.09%) HTML
6 6 (0.94%) JSON
6 6 (0.94%) YAML
7 5 (0.78%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (0.63%) 802.1X
8 4 (0.63%) Kafka
8 4 (0.63%) React
8 4 (0.63%) WebSockets
9 3 (0.47%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.47%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.47%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.47%) CSS
9 3 (0.47%) Entity Framework
9 3 (0.47%) Node.js
9 3 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.16%) Linux Command Line
2 56 (8.75%) Management Information System
3 51 (7.97%) Data Centre
4 37 (5.78%) Driving Licence
5 25 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (3.59%) FPGA
7 21 (3.28%) Device Driver
8 18 (2.81%) Cyber Threat
8 18 (2.81%) Security Operations Centre
9 16 (2.50%) Client/Server
10 14 (2.19%) Clustering
10 14 (2.19%) Smartphone
11 13 (2.03%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.88%) IoT
13 11 (1.72%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.72%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (1.41%) Replication
15 9 (1.41%) Security Posture
16 8 (1.25%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 347 (54.22%) Windows
2 203 (31.72%) Linux
3 145 (22.66%) Windows Server
4 47 (7.34%) Unix
5 46 (7.19%) Windows Server 2016
5 46 (7.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 42 (6.56%) Mac OS
6 42 (6.56%) Windows 10
7 27 (4.22%) Apple iOS
8 22 (3.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 20 (3.13%) Mac OS X
10 18 (2.81%) Android
11 16 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 14 (2.19%) Ubuntu
13 8 (1.25%) Embedded Linux
14 7 (1.09%) VMS
14 7 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
15 6 (0.94%) CentOS
16 5 (0.78%) Rocky
16 5 (0.78%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (37.66%) Problem-Solving
2 110 (17.19%) DevOps
3 100 (15.63%) Mentoring
4 90 (14.06%) ITIL
5 89 (13.91%) Cybersecurity
6 78 (12.19%) Customer Service
6 78 (12.19%) Test Automation
7 71 (11.09%) Coaching
8 64 (10.00%) System Testing
8 64 (10.00%) Test Management
9 55 (8.59%) Computer Science
10 50 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery
11 47 (7.34%) Agile
11 47 (7.34%) CI/CD
12 46 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (6.88%) Incident Management
14 42 (6.56%) Incident Response
14 42 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 39 (6.09%) Collaborative Working
16 38 (5.94%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 164 (25.63%) PowerShell
2 160 (25.00%) Python
3 91 (14.22%) Bash
4 73 (11.41%) JavaScript
5 67 (10.47%) SQL
6 63 (9.84%) C
7 58 (9.06%) C++
8 29 (4.53%) Java
9 21 (3.28%) C#
10 16 (2.50%) Perl
11 10 (1.56%) PHP
12 8 (1.25%) R
13 7 (1.09%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.94%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.63%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.63%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.47%) Bicep
16 3 (0.47%) JCL
17 1 (0.16%) VBA
17 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 187 (29.22%) Degree
2 79 (12.34%) Security Cleared
3 72 (11.25%) Cisco Certification
4 65 (10.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 55 (8.59%) CCNA
6 43 (6.72%) SC Cleared
7 38 (5.94%) CCNP
8 37 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (4.06%) Azure Certification
10 24 (3.75%) DV Cleared
11 23 (3.59%) MCSE
12 18 (2.81%) A+ Certification
13 17 (2.66%) CompTIA Security+
14 15 (2.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 14 (2.19%) HNC
15 14 (2.19%) HND
16 12 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (1.72%) JNCIA
17 11 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 10 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (10.63%) QA
2 46 (7.19%) SLA
3 32 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.09%) MIL-STD-1553
5 7 (1.09%) NCSC
5 7 (1.09%) NIST
6 6 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.94%) GDPR
7 3 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 179 (27.97%) Active Directory
2 88 (13.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (11.25%) Hyper-V
4 33 (5.16%) Firmware
5 27 (4.22%) Docker
6 16 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (1.88%) Embedded Firmware
8 11 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.25%) VMware NSX
9 8 (1.25%) vSphere
10 6 (0.94%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 5 (0.78%) XenApp
12 3 (0.47%) NFS
13 2 (0.31%) PowerHA
14 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.16%) RHEV
14 1 (0.16%) vCloud
14 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 74 (11.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 56 (8.75%) Ansible
3 51 (7.97%) SCCM
4 37 (5.78%) Terraform
5 33 (5.16%) Kubernetes
6 15 (2.34%) QRadar
6 15 (2.34%) SCOM
6 15 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (2.03%) FortiGate
8 11 (1.72%) AWS Copilot
8 11 (1.72%) NetBackup
9 9 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.41%) WSUS
10 6 (0.94%) ArcSight ESM
11 5 (0.78%) Grafana
11 5 (0.78%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.63%) Nagios
13 3 (0.47%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 260 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 115 (17.97%) VMware
3 107 (16.72%) Cisco
4 50 (7.81%) Google
5 33 (5.16%) Fortinet
6 26 (4.06%) Red Hat
7 24 (3.75%) Apple
7 24 (3.75%) Citrix
7 24 (3.75%) Dell
8 23 (3.59%) SolarWinds
8 23 (3.59%) Splunk
9 20 (3.13%) Veeam
10 19 (2.97%) ServiceNow
11 18 (2.81%) Juniper
11 18 (2.81%) Ubiquiti
12 15 (2.34%) Oracle
13 12 (1.88%) SAP
14 11 (1.72%) HP
14 11 (1.72%) Sophos
15 10 (1.56%) CheckPoint