TCP/IP Jobs in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 150 196
Rank change year-on-year +9 +46 -51
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 53 107 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.23% 1.43% 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.77% 10.86% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 47 98 65
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,696 £23,150
25th Percentile £27,750 £28,188 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £34,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% -10.39% -6.67%
75th Percentile £37,500 £48,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £42,850 £57,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +3.45%

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 492 985 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.40% 13.16% 17.60%
Number of salaries quoted 311 804 514
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,750 £25,913
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £46,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -4.76%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the West Midlands

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for TCP/IP in the West Midlands

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

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 20 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
Staffordshire +21 15 £35,000 +12.90% 13
Warwickshire -5 11 £32,500 -31.58% 2
Birmingham +5 7 £39,000 -13.33% 13
Shropshire +13 6 £28,500 -10.94% 1
West Bromwich - 5 £26,000 -
Herefordshire - 4 - - 3
Worcestershire +17 1 £25,500 -27.14% 2
Wolverhampton - 1 £31,000 -
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 11 (20.75%) SharePoint
2 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.77%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 34 (64.15%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (33.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (9.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (11.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (54.72%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (24.53%) Google Workspace
3 5 (9.43%) Azure
4 3 (5.66%) AWS
4 3 (5.66%) OneDrive
4 3 (5.66%) Power Automate
4 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.66%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.89%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.89%) dbt
5 1 (1.89%) GCP
5 1 (1.89%) Pulumi
5 1 (1.89%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 42 (79.25%) DHCP
2 28 (52.83%) DNS
3 26 (49.06%) Firewall
4 15 (28.30%) VLAN
5 14 (26.42%) BGP
5 14 (26.42%) WLAN
6 13 (24.53%) OSPF
7 12 (22.64%) VPN
8 10 (18.87%) LAN
8 10 (18.87%) WAN
9 5 (9.43%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (9.43%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (3.77%) Network Security
10 2 (3.77%) SAN
10 2 (3.77%) Skype
10 2 (3.77%) Wireless
11 1 (1.89%) Internet
11 1 (1.89%) MPLS
11 1 (1.89%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Cucumber
1 2 (3.77%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.89%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) Subversion
General
1 35 (66.04%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.53%) Automotive
2 13 (24.53%) Retail
3 11 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Telecoms
5 5 (9.43%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (7.55%) Law
7 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.89%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) IT Engineer
2 13 (24.53%) Systems Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) Analyst
3 12 (22.64%) IT Support
4 10 (18.87%) IT Analyst
4 10 (18.87%) IT Support Analyst
4 10 (18.87%) Support Analyst
5 9 (16.98%) ICT Officer
5 9 (16.98%) ICT Support
5 9 (16.98%) ICT Support Officer
5 9 (16.98%) Support Officer
6 6 (11.32%) 1st Line Support
7 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior
8 2 (3.77%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Test Engineer
9 1 (1.89%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
9 1 (1.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (1.89%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.89%) CSS
2 1 (1.89%) CSS3
2 1 (1.89%) Django
2 1 (1.89%) HTML
2 1 (1.89%) HTML5
2 1 (1.89%) React
2 1 (1.89%) REST
2 1 (1.89%) RESTful
2 1 (1.89%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.30%) Management Information System
2 13 (24.53%) Smartphone
3 7 (13.21%) Driving Licence
4 3 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (73.58%) Windows
2 25 (47.17%) Windows Server
3 20 (37.74%) Linux
4 15 (28.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (24.53%) Mac OS X
5 13 (24.53%) Ubuntu
5 13 (24.53%) Windows 10
5 13 (24.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (11.32%) Apple iOS
6 6 (11.32%) Mac OS
7 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (30.19%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (26.42%) Computer Science
4 13 (24.53%) Business Case
4 13 (24.53%) Customer Service
4 13 (24.53%) Systems Engineering
5 9 (16.98%) ITIL
6 6 (11.32%) Data Security
6 6 (11.32%) ERP
7 5 (9.43%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (7.55%) Agile
8 4 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (7.55%) Machine Learning
8 4 (7.55%) Mentoring
9 3 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (5.66%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (5.66%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (5.66%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 26 (49.06%) PowerShell
2 16 (30.19%) SQL
3 5 (9.43%) Python
4 4 (7.55%) Bash
5 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.77%) Perl
7 1 (1.89%) C
7 1 (1.89%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (47.17%) Degree
2 14 (26.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (24.53%) HNC
3 13 (24.53%) HND
3 13 (24.53%) MCSE
3 13 (24.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (11.32%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
6 4 (7.55%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.77%) CCNA
7 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.89%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) SLA
2 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.77%) QA
System Software
1 29 (54.72%) Active Directory
2 13 (24.53%) Hyper-V
2 13 (24.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) SCOM
2 2 (3.77%) Ansible
2 2 (3.77%) Progress Chef
2 2 (3.77%) Puppet
2 2 (3.77%) SCCM
2 2 (3.77%) SCOrch
2 2 (3.77%) SCSM
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.89%) Nagios
3 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (83.02%) Microsoft
2 19 (35.85%) Apple
3 17 (32.08%) Cisco
4 14 (26.42%) Fortinet
4 14 (26.42%) Google
5 13 (24.53%) Dell
5 13 (24.53%) Ubiquiti
5 13 (24.53%) VMware
6 6 (11.32%) SAP
7 2 (3.77%) ArcSight
7 2 (3.77%) Juniper
7 2 (3.77%) Meraki
7 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.77%) Splunk
8 1 (1.89%) Aruba
8 1 (1.89%) HP
8 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds