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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 256 223
Rank change year-on-year +15 -33 +19
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 211 194 474
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.00% 1.19% 1.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.93% 9.95% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 151 150 378
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,687 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -9.09% +4.50%
75th Percentile £64,375 £69,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £76,250 £75,750
UK median annual salary £38,000 £40,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -6.67%

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 2,364 1,950 4,892
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.19% 11.99% 14.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,261 1,192 3,104
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,068 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.83% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £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 8 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 44 (20.85%) SharePoint
2 42 (19.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (6.64%) IIS
4 3 (1.42%) Confluence
4 3 (1.42%) SAS
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (6.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.47%) Houdini
2 1 (0.47%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 101 (47.87%) Azure
2 95 (45.02%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (29.86%) Entra ID
4 48 (22.75%) AWS
5 10 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (4.74%) GCP
6 9 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (4.27%) OneDrive
7 8 (3.79%) Google Workspace
8 7 (3.32%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.32%) SaaS
9 6 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.37%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (2.37%) AWS CodeBuild
10 5 (2.37%) dbt
10 5 (2.37%) PaaS
10 5 (2.37%) Pulumi
10 5 (2.37%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 122 (57.82%) DNS
2 96 (45.50%) DHCP
3 89 (42.18%) Firewall
4 71 (33.65%) VPN
5 54 (25.59%) WAN
6 51 (24.17%) LAN
7 29 (13.74%) VLAN
8 23 (10.90%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (9.00%) BGP
9 19 (9.00%) Network Security
10 14 (6.64%) SD-WAN
11 13 (6.16%) HTTP
11 13 (6.16%) OSPF
12 12 (5.69%) VoIP
13 7 (3.32%) Wireless
14 6 (2.84%) Internet
14 6 (2.84%) VXLAN
15 5 (2.37%) MPLS
16 4 (1.90%) FTP
16 4 (1.90%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.48%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.37%) Redis
5 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.42%) MySQL
7 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 10 (4.74%) JIRA
2 4 (1.90%) Git
3 2 (0.95%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.47%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.47%) Metasploit
General
1 94 (44.55%) Social Skills
2 49 (23.22%) Finance
3 28 (13.27%) Banking
4 18 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.06%) Investment Banking
6 15 (7.11%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (6.16%) Law
8 8 (3.79%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.79%) Retail
9 6 (2.84%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.84%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.37%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.42%) Back Office
11 3 (1.42%) Electronics
11 3 (1.42%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.42%) Games
12 2 (0.95%) Legal
12 2 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (28.44%) IT Support
2 58 (27.49%) Support Engineer
3 43 (20.38%) IT Engineer
4 42 (19.91%) IT Support Engineer
5 34 (16.11%) Senior
6 28 (13.27%) Analyst
7 27 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (9.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 20 (9.48%) 2nd Line Support
8 20 (9.48%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 20 (9.48%) Network Engineer
9 19 (9.00%) Developer
10 17 (8.06%) C++ Developer
10 17 (8.06%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
10 17 (8.06%) Linux Developer
10 17 (8.06%) Linux Scripter
10 17 (8.06%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 16 (7.58%) IT Analyst
11 16 (7.58%) Support Analyst
12 15 (7.11%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.64%) Middleware
2 8 (3.79%) LDAP
3 6 (2.84%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.37%) .NET
4 5 (2.37%) Django
4 5 (2.37%) REST
4 5 (2.37%) RESTful
5 4 (1.90%) ADO
5 4 (1.90%) COM
5 4 (1.90%) DCOM
5 4 (1.90%) gRPC
6 3 (1.42%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.42%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.42%) React
6 3 (1.42%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (0.95%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.95%) Node.js
7 2 (0.95%) Vue
8 1 (0.47%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.47%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.00%) Onboarding
2 17 (8.06%) FPGA
3 14 (6.64%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (6.16%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.79%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.32%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.84%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.84%) Life Science
7 6 (2.84%) PKI
7 6 (2.84%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.90%) CCTV
9 4 (1.90%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.90%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.90%) Smartcard
10 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 115 (54.50%) Windows
2 66 (31.28%) Windows Server
3 59 (27.96%) Linux
4 29 (13.74%) Windows 10
5 24 (11.37%) Mac OS
6 9 (4.27%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (3.79%) Unix
7 8 (3.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (3.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (2.37%) Android
9 5 (2.37%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.42%) Debian
11 2 (0.95%) CentOS
12 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.47%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.47%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.47%) Solaris
12 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (36.02%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (18.48%) Customer Service
3 34 (16.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 34 (16.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 31 (14.69%) Cybersecurity
4 31 (14.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (13.74%) ITIL
7 28 (13.27%) Incident Response
8 26 (12.32%) Agile
8 26 (12.32%) DevOps
9 24 (11.37%) ITSM
10 20 (9.48%) Change Management
10 20 (9.48%) Low Latency
11 19 (9.00%) Containerisation
11 19 (9.00%) Service Delivery
12 18 (8.53%) Project Delivery
13 17 (8.06%) CI/CD
13 17 (8.06%) Service Management
14 16 (7.58%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 37 (17.54%) PowerShell
2 30 (14.22%) Python
3 25 (11.85%) Java
4 22 (10.43%) SQL
5 21 (9.95%) C++
6 20 (9.48%) C
7 7 (3.32%) C#
7 7 (3.32%) PHP
8 5 (2.37%) Bash
8 5 (2.37%) Bicep
9 4 (1.90%) Delphi
9 4 (1.90%) Pascal
10 3 (1.42%) Go
10 3 (1.42%) Ruby
11 2 (0.95%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (15.64%) Degree
2 27 (12.80%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.00%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.16%) Azure Certification
5 12 (5.69%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (5.21%) CCNA
7 10 (4.74%) CCNP
8 9 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.84%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.95%) CCIE
11 2 (0.95%) HND
11 2 (0.95%) MCSA
11 2 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.95%) RHCE
12 1 (0.47%) CEH
12 1 (0.47%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.47%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.37%) SLA
2 8 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.90%) GDPR
4 4 (1.90%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.42%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.95%) NIST
7 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.47%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 85 (40.28%) Active Directory
2 36 (17.06%) Hyper-V
3 32 (15.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.79%) Docker
5 6 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.90%) Firmware
7 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.42%) vSphere
8 2 (0.95%) KVM
8 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.95%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.47%) QEMU
9 1 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.47%) Xen
Systems Management
1 40 (18.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (13.74%) Terraform
3 15 (7.11%) Ansible
3 15 (7.11%) Kubernetes
4 12 (5.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (5.69%) FortiGate
5 5 (2.37%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (1.90%) QRadar
6 4 (1.90%) SCCM
7 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.95%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (0.95%) OpenView
8 2 (0.95%) Puppet
8 2 (0.95%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.95%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.47%) Nessus
9 1 (0.47%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.47%) Nmap
9 1 (0.47%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 119 (56.40%) Microsoft
2 39 (18.48%) VMware
3 27 (12.80%) Cisco
4 22 (10.43%) ServiceNow
5 16 (7.58%) Fortinet
6 12 (5.69%) Google
7 9 (4.27%) Palo Alto
8 8 (3.79%) Meraki
8 8 (3.79%) Veeam
9 7 (3.32%) SolarWinds
9 7 (3.32%) Zscaler
10 6 (2.84%) ArcSight
11 5 (2.37%) Apple
11 5 (2.37%) Citrix
11 5 (2.37%) Freshdesk
11 5 (2.37%) SonicWALL
12 4 (1.90%) F5
12 4 (1.90%) OneLogin
12 4 (1.90%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.90%) Splunk