TCP/IP Job Trends in Wales

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 41 94
Rank change year-on-year -43 +53 0
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 19 22 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.04% 4.22% 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.58% 14.86% 11.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18 21 16
10th Percentile £24,125 - £21,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £25,438 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £65,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year -43.08% +136.36% -20.48%
75th Percentile £47,500 £77,500 £28,750
90th Percentile - £78,750 £44,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 151 148 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 8.23% 28.41% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 115 116 152
10th Percentile £24,125 £23,504 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,375 £25,087 £28,290
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £35,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -13.58% +7.28%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £47,688
90th Percentile £76,201 £78,750 £59,750
UK median annual salary £47,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.05% - -5.94%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing TCP/IP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Wales

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Wales over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in Wales

TCP/IP
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Wales region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
South Wales -28 13 £25,000 -59.23% 1
West Wales - 5 £45,000 - 3
Dyfed - 2 £45,000 - 2
North Wales -16 1 £34,000 +31.40%
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 7 (36.84%) SharePoint
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.26%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.79%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.26%) dbt
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Pulumi
5 1 (5.26%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 13 (68.42%) DNS
2 10 (52.63%) Firewall
3 9 (47.37%) DHCP
3 9 (47.37%) LAN
3 9 (47.37%) WAN
4 5 (26.32%) IPsec
4 5 (26.32%) Network Security
4 5 (26.32%) SSH
4 5 (26.32%) SSL
4 5 (26.32%) VPN
4 5 (26.32%) WLAN
5 4 (21.05%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (21.05%) VoIP
6 1 (5.26%) FTP
6 1 (5.26%) HTTP
6 1 (5.26%) Internet
6 1 (5.26%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Redis
General
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Network Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) 1st Line Support
3 4 (21.05%) First Line Help Desk Support
3 4 (21.05%) Help Desk Support
3 4 (21.05%) Support Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) IT Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) IT Support
4 3 (15.79%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Service Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Django
1 1 (5.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) PKI
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 17 (89.47%) Windows
2 9 (47.37%) Windows Server
3 8 (42.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.26%) Linux
4 1 (5.26%) Unix
4 1 (5.26%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Customer Service
2 6 (31.58%) Incident Response
3 5 (26.32%) BCP
3 5 (26.32%) Business Continuity
3 5 (26.32%) Business Continuity Planning
3 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) Process Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) Security Operations
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.79%) ITSM
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.79%) Service Management
6 1 (5.26%) Agile
6 1 (5.26%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.26%) Critical Thinking
6 1 (5.26%) Incident Management
6 1 (5.26%) Migration
6 1 (5.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) CCIE
1 5 (26.32%) CCNP
1 5 (26.32%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (26.32%) JNCIP
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (26.32%) vSphere
3 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
4 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (5.26%) QRadar
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 9 (47.37%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) ArcSight
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk