Hybrid/Remote TCP/IP Job Trends

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 199 194
Rank change year-on-year -17 -5 +23
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 178 223 493
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.06% 1.66% 1.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.83% 13.23% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 120 166 421
10th Percentile £31,000 £36,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,688 £74,144 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £81,875 £77,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,810 1,686 3,967
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.74% 12.57% 13.21%
Number of salaries quoted 956 1,183 3,449
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,550 £30,625
25th Percentile £33,469 £37,294 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £53,391 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +1.70% -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £42,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.25% -7.62%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing TCP/IP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

TCP/IP
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

TCP/IP salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 49 (27.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (12.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) Apache
3 2 (1.12%) Confluence
3 2 (1.12%) IIS
3 2 (1.12%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (8.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 92 (51.69%) Azure
2 71 (39.89%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (27.53%) AWS
4 41 (23.03%) Entra ID
5 21 (11.80%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (10.67%) Google Workspace
7 18 (10.11%) GCP
8 15 (8.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (8.43%) OneDrive
9 13 (7.30%) Amazon ECR
9 13 (7.30%) dbt
9 13 (7.30%) Pulumi
10 8 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.49%) PaaS
10 8 (4.49%) SaaS
11 7 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.37%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.37%) Route 53
12 6 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 97 (54.49%) DNS
2 84 (47.19%) DHCP
3 66 (37.08%) VPN
4 56 (31.46%) WAN
5 51 (28.65%) Firewall
6 39 (21.91%) LAN
7 34 (19.10%) Wi-Fi
8 26 (14.61%) VLAN
9 21 (11.80%) VoIP
10 19 (10.67%) SD-WAN
11 10 (5.62%) BGP
12 9 (5.06%) Network Security
13 8 (4.49%) SNMP
13 8 (4.49%) Wireless
14 7 (3.93%) SSL
15 6 (3.37%) HTTP
16 5 (2.81%) MPLS
16 5 (2.81%) Remote Desktop
16 5 (2.81%) SAN
17 4 (2.25%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.67%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.30%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (7.30%) Redis
4 12 (6.74%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.81%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.93%) Burp Suite
1 7 (3.93%) Metasploit
2 6 (3.37%) JIRA
3 2 (1.12%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.56%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.56%) Snyk
General
1 75 (42.13%) Social Skills
2 48 (26.97%) Finance
3 26 (14.61%) Banking
4 20 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (10.67%) Investment Banking
6 16 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (6.18%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.49%) Law
9 7 (3.93%) Retail
10 6 (3.37%) Back Office
10 6 (3.37%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.81%) Front Office
11 5 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
14 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.12%) Legal
14 2 (1.12%) Local Government
14 2 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 44 (24.72%) IT Support
2 41 (23.03%) Support Engineer
3 40 (22.47%) Senior
4 38 (21.35%) IT Engineer
4 38 (21.35%) IT Support Engineer
5 28 (15.73%) 2nd Line Support
6 26 (14.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (13.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 24 (13.48%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 23 (12.92%) Developer
9 19 (10.67%) C++ Developer
9 19 (10.67%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 19 (10.67%) Linux Developer
9 19 (10.67%) Linux Scripter
9 19 (10.67%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 18 (10.11%) Analyst
11 13 (7.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (6.18%) Support Analyst
13 9 (5.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 8 (4.49%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.30%) Django
2 6 (3.37%) RESTful
3 5 (2.81%) .NET
4 4 (2.25%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (2.25%) Sass
4 4 (2.25%) ZeroMQ
5 3 (1.69%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.69%) gRPC
5 3 (1.69%) REST
6 2 (1.12%) LDAP
6 2 (1.12%) Middleware
7 1 (0.56%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.56%) ADO
7 1 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.80%) FPGA
2 16 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.99%) Onboarding
3 13 (7.30%) Driving Licence
4 12 (6.74%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (5.62%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (4.49%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.93%) CCTV
8 6 (3.37%) iPad
8 6 (3.37%) iPhone
8 6 (3.37%) NHS
8 6 (3.37%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.81%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.25%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.25%) Replication
10 4 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 89 (50.00%) Windows
2 63 (35.39%) Linux
3 61 (34.27%) Windows Server
4 44 (24.72%) Windows 10
5 26 (14.61%) Mac OS
6 18 (10.11%) Apple iOS
6 18 (10.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 18 (10.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (8.43%) Unix
7 15 (8.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (2.25%) Android
9 3 (1.69%) OpenWrt
10 2 (1.12%) CentOS
10 2 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.56%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.56%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (34.27%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 29 (16.29%) Agile
3 29 (16.29%) CI/CD
4 28 (15.73%) Disaster Recovery
4 28 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (14.61%) Customer Service
5 26 (14.61%) ITIL
6 24 (13.48%) DevOps
7 21 (11.80%) Performance Monitoring
8 20 (11.24%) Low Latency
8 20 (11.24%) Observability
9 19 (10.67%) Service Delivery
10 17 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (9.55%) Root Cause Analysis
11 15 (8.43%) Incident Response
12 14 (7.87%) Identity Access Management
12 14 (7.87%) Mentoring
13 13 (7.30%) Application Performance Monitoring
13 13 (7.30%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 36 (20.22%) Python
2 33 (18.54%) Java
3 27 (15.17%) C
3 27 (15.17%) C++
3 27 (15.17%) PowerShell
4 17 (9.55%) SQL
5 7 (3.93%) C#
6 6 (3.37%) Go
7 5 (2.81%) Bash
8 4 (2.25%) Delphi
8 4 (2.25%) Pascal
8 4 (2.25%) PHP
9 2 (1.12%) Bicep
9 2 (1.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (10.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.55%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.43%) Degree
4 11 (6.18%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.62%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (4.49%) CCNP
6 8 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.93%) CCNA
7 7 (3.93%) CHECK Team Member
7 7 (3.93%) CREST Certified
7 7 (3.93%) Cyber Scheme
7 7 (3.93%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (2.25%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.69%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.69%) CCIE
9 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.12%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.37%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.37%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.81%) SLA
4 4 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.69%) GRC
6 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.12%) NCSC
6 2 (1.12%) NIST
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 74 (41.57%) Active Directory
2 30 (16.85%) Hyper-V
2 30 (16.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (7.87%) Docker
4 7 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.25%) vSphere
6 3 (1.69%) Firmware
7 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.12%) XenApp
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (16.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (16.29%) Terraform
3 17 (9.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (4.49%) Nessus
4 8 (4.49%) SCCM
5 7 (3.93%) Ansible
5 7 (3.93%) Nmap
6 5 (2.81%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.25%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (2.25%) Kubernetes
8 3 (1.69%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.69%) OpenView
8 3 (1.69%) Tivoli
9 2 (1.12%) Autotask
9 2 (1.12%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (1.12%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (46.07%) Microsoft
2 32 (17.98%) Google
2 32 (17.98%) VMware
3 14 (7.87%) Cisco
4 7 (3.93%) Fortinet
4 7 (3.93%) HP
4 7 (3.93%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.37%) Dell
6 5 (2.81%) Citrix
7 4 (2.25%) Oracle
7 4 (2.25%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.25%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.69%) ArcSight
8 3 (1.69%) EMC
8 3 (1.69%) ExtraHop
8 3 (1.69%) Freshdesk
8 3 (1.69%) Riverbed
8 3 (1.69%) Veeam
9 2 (1.12%) Qualys
9 2 (1.12%) Siebel