TCP/IP Job Trends in the West Midlands

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 151 124
Rank change year-on-year -13 -27 +76
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 21 40 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.32% 1.12% 1.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.72% 6.84% 10.80%
Number of salaries quoted 17 37 96
10th Percentile £29,650 £30,800 £24,223
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £27,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £35,000 £39,750
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -11.95% +4.61%
75th Percentile £55,000 £37,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,556 £50,000 £57,500
England median annual salary £38,000 £47,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -19.15% +10.59% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,223 585 972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.51% 16.33% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 236 306 838
10th Percentile £27,694 £32,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £59,063 £65,000 £57,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £53,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.75% +9.28% -4.98%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the West Midlands

TCP/IP
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
Worcestershire -16 6 £52,500 +69.35% 1
Birmingham +5 5 £52,500 +40.00% 3
Coventry - 4 £60,600 -
Staffordshire -37 3 £30,750 -12.14% 1
Wolverhampton -14 1 £45,000 +45.16% 1
Herefordshire - 1 - - 1
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) Entra ID
3 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (19.05%) AWS
4 4 (19.05%) GCP
5 3 (14.29%) SaaS
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (9.52%) dbt
6 2 (9.52%) PaaS
6 2 (9.52%) Pulumi
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (4.76%) IaaS
7 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
7 1 (4.76%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) DNS
2 8 (38.10%) DHCP
3 7 (33.33%) SSL
4 6 (28.57%) VPN
5 4 (19.05%) 3G
5 4 (19.05%) GPRS
5 4 (19.05%) GSM
5 4 (19.05%) HTTP
5 4 (19.05%) LAN
5 4 (19.05%) Modbus
5 4 (19.05%) RS-232
5 4 (19.05%) RS-485
5 4 (19.05%) SSH
5 4 (19.05%) WAN
6 3 (14.29%) Firewall
7 2 (9.52%) FTP
7 2 (9.52%) SMTP
7 2 (9.52%) SNMP
7 2 (9.52%) Telnet
8 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.52%) Redis
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) IT Support
2 5 (23.81%) Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) IT Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) IT Support Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Support Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) C Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded C Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Field Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Information Security Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Django
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.76%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) SAP CAF
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 3 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Cyber Security Posture
2 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) iPad
3 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 6 (28.57%) Linux
4 4 (19.05%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (19.05%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (19.05%) Windows Server
5 2 (9.52%) Android
5 2 (9.52%) Apple iOS
5 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (28.57%) Secure Coding
2 5 (23.81%) Customer Service
2 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Embedded Software Development
3 4 (19.05%) ITIL
3 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
3 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
4 3 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (14.29%) RBAC
4 3 (14.29%) Zero Trust
5 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.52%) Clean Code
5 2 (9.52%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) C
1 4 (19.05%) C++
2 2 (9.52%) Embedded C++
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) A+ Certification
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) CEH
2 2 (9.52%) CISSP
2 2 (9.52%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (9.52%) GSEC
2 2 (9.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) MISRA
2 3 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (9.52%) NIST
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Active Directory
2 4 (19.05%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (19.05%) Firmware
3 2 (9.52%) Docker
3 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Nessus
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (4.76%) CASB
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (9.52%) MobileIron
3 2 (9.52%) Qualys
3 2 (9.52%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) Apple
4 1 (4.76%) Autodesk
4 1 (4.76%) Netskope
4 1 (4.76%) Okta
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) SAP