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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 252 224
Rank change year-on-year +2 -28 +28
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 198 188 489
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 1.18% 1.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.65% 9.80% 9.82%
Number of salaries quoted 142 146 394
10th Percentile £29,775 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,873 £37,913
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,688 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,625 £76,250 £77,125
UK median annual salary £37,750 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.04% -2.35% -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 2,290 1,919 4,978
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.00% 12.02% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,213 1,165 3,184
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -6.86%

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 2 July 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 43 (21.72%) Microsoft Exchange
1 43 (21.72%) SharePoint
2 13 (6.57%) IIS
3 3 (1.52%) Confluence
3 3 (1.52%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (7.07%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.51%) Houdini
2 1 (0.51%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 99 (50.00%) Azure
2 92 (46.46%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (31.31%) Entra ID
4 46 (23.23%) AWS
5 10 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (5.05%) OneDrive
6 9 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (4.55%) GCP
6 9 (4.55%) Google Workspace
7 7 (3.54%) OpenShift
7 7 (3.54%) SaaS
8 6 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.53%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 5 (2.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (2.53%) AWS CodeBuild
9 5 (2.53%) dbt
9 5 (2.53%) Pulumi
9 5 (2.53%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 116 (58.59%) DNS
2 94 (47.47%) DHCP
3 81 (40.91%) Firewall
4 67 (33.84%) VPN
5 55 (27.78%) WAN
6 51 (25.76%) LAN
7 28 (14.14%) VLAN
8 24 (12.12%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (9.60%) Network Security
10 16 (8.08%) BGP
11 14 (7.07%) SD-WAN
12 13 (6.57%) VoIP
13 12 (6.06%) OSPF
14 11 (5.56%) HTTP
15 6 (3.03%) Internet
15 6 (3.03%) VXLAN
15 6 (3.03%) Wireless
16 4 (2.02%) FTP
16 4 (2.02%) MPLS
16 4 (2.02%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.59%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.53%) Redis
5 4 (2.02%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.02%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.52%) MySQL
7 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.51%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.51%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 10 (5.05%) JIRA
2 4 (2.02%) Git
3 2 (1.01%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.51%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.51%) Metasploit
General
1 86 (43.43%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.23%) Finance
3 27 (13.64%) Banking
4 17 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.59%) Investment Banking
5 14 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (6.06%) Law
7 8 (4.04%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.03%) Aerospace
8 6 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.53%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.53%) Retail
10 3 (1.52%) Back Office
10 3 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.52%) Games
11 2 (1.01%) Electronics
11 2 (1.01%) Legal
11 2 (1.01%) Military
11 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (29.29%) IT Support
2 56 (28.28%) Support Engineer
3 42 (21.21%) IT Engineer
4 41 (20.71%) IT Support Engineer
5 35 (17.68%) Senior
6 28 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 27 (13.64%) Analyst
8 20 (10.10%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 20 (10.10%) 2nd Line Support
8 20 (10.10%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 19 (9.60%) Developer
10 17 (8.59%) C++ Developer
10 17 (8.59%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
10 17 (8.59%) Linux Developer
10 17 (8.59%) Linux Scripter
10 17 (8.59%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 16 (8.08%) Network Engineer
11 16 (8.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (7.58%) IT Analyst
12 15 (7.58%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.57%) Middleware
2 8 (4.04%) LDAP
3 6 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.53%) .NET
4 5 (2.53%) Django
4 5 (2.53%) REST
4 5 (2.53%) RESTful
5 4 (2.02%) ADO
5 4 (2.02%) COM
5 4 (2.02%) DCOM
5 4 (2.02%) gRPC
6 3 (1.52%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.52%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.52%) React
6 3 (1.52%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (1.01%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.01%) Node.js
7 2 (1.01%) Vue
8 1 (0.51%) JSON
8 1 (0.51%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.59%) FPGA
2 16 (8.08%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.06%) Driving Licence
4 11 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.54%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (3.03%) PKI
6 6 (3.03%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.53%) Life Science
8 4 (2.02%) CCTV
8 4 (2.02%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.02%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.02%) Smartcard
9 3 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 109 (55.05%) Windows
2 65 (32.83%) Windows Server
3 51 (25.76%) Linux
4 30 (15.15%) Windows 10
5 25 (12.63%) Mac OS
6 10 (5.05%) Apple iOS
6 10 (5.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (4.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (3.54%) Unix
10 5 (2.53%) Android
11 4 (2.02%) Ubuntu
12 3 (1.52%) Debian
13 1 (0.51%) CentOS
13 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.51%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.51%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (35.86%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (18.69%) Customer Service
3 34 (17.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 33 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 31 (15.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (14.14%) Cybersecurity
8 27 (13.64%) ITIL
9 26 (13.13%) Agile
9 26 (13.13%) Incident Response
10 23 (11.62%) DevOps
10 23 (11.62%) ITSM
11 19 (9.60%) Containerisation
11 19 (9.60%) Service Delivery
12 18 (9.09%) Low Latency
12 18 (9.09%) Service Management
13 17 (8.59%) Change Management
14 16 (8.08%) Project Delivery
15 15 (7.58%) CI/CD
15 15 (7.58%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.68%) PowerShell
2 25 (12.63%) Java
2 25 (12.63%) Python
3 21 (10.61%) C++
3 21 (10.61%) SQL
4 20 (10.10%) C
5 7 (3.54%) C#
5 7 (3.54%) PHP
6 5 (2.53%) Bicep
7 4 (2.02%) Bash
7 4 (2.02%) Delphi
7 4 (2.02%) Pascal
8 3 (1.52%) Go
8 3 (1.52%) Ruby
9 2 (1.01%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (15.66%) Degree
2 27 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.60%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.57%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.05%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (4.55%) CCNA
6 9 (4.55%) CCNP
7 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.03%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.52%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.01%) CCIE
10 2 (1.01%) HND
10 2 (1.01%) MCSA
10 2 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.51%) CEH
11 1 (0.51%) CISM
11 1 (0.51%) CISSP
11 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.12%) SLA
2 8 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.02%) GDPR
4 4 (2.02%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.52%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.01%) NIST
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.51%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 85 (42.93%) Active Directory
2 35 (17.68%) Hyper-V
3 31 (15.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.04%) Docker
5 5 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.02%) Firmware
7 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.52%) vSphere
8 2 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.51%) KVM
9 1 (0.51%) QEMU
9 1 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.51%) Xen
Systems Management
1 39 (19.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (14.14%) Terraform
3 15 (7.58%) Kubernetes
4 13 (6.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 12 (6.06%) FortiGate
6 10 (5.05%) Ansible
7 5 (2.53%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (2.02%) QRadar
8 4 (2.02%) SCCM
9 3 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.01%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (1.01%) OpenView
10 2 (1.01%) Tivoli
10 2 (1.01%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.51%) Nessus
11 1 (0.51%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.51%) Nmap
11 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 115 (58.08%) Microsoft
2 37 (18.69%) VMware
3 24 (12.12%) Cisco
4 21 (10.61%) ServiceNow
5 15 (7.58%) Fortinet
6 13 (6.57%) Google
7 8 (4.04%) Meraki
7 8 (4.04%) Palo Alto
7 8 (4.04%) Veeam
8 7 (3.54%) SolarWinds
8 7 (3.54%) Zscaler
9 6 (3.03%) ArcSight
10 5 (2.53%) Apple
10 5 (2.53%) Freshdesk
10 5 (2.53%) SonicWALL
11 4 (2.02%) Citrix
11 4 (2.02%) Okta
11 4 (2.02%) OneLogin
11 4 (2.02%) Salesforce
11 4 (2.02%) Splunk