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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 225 203
Rank change year-on-year -1 -22 +11
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 178 191 487
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.00% 1.43% 1.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.22% 11.58% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 115 153 408
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,175
25th Percentile £37,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,622 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £83,500 £77,875
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 1,930 1,649 5,176
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.83% 12.38% 15.95%
Number of salaries quoted 957 1,196 3,463
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,938 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,914 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% -1.12% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £44,360 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.28% +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 20 April 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 (24.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (14.04%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) Apache
3 2 (1.12%) Confluence
3 2 (1.12%) IIS
3 2 (1.12%) nginx
4 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (8.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 99 (55.62%) Azure
2 73 (41.01%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (28.09%) AWS
4 46 (25.84%) Entra ID
5 19 (10.67%) Amazon ECS
5 19 (10.67%) Google Workspace
6 15 (8.43%) GCP
6 15 (8.43%) OneDrive
7 13 (7.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (6.18%) Amazon ECR
8 11 (6.18%) dbt
8 11 (6.18%) Pulumi
9 10 (5.62%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (3.93%) SaaS
12 6 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.37%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.37%) PaaS
12 6 (3.37%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 97 (54.49%) DNS
2 84 (47.19%) DHCP
3 63 (35.39%) VPN
4 61 (34.27%) WAN
5 49 (27.53%) Firewall
6 47 (26.40%) LAN
7 34 (19.10%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (12.92%) SD-WAN
8 23 (12.92%) VLAN
9 19 (10.67%) VoIP
10 13 (7.30%) BGP
11 8 (4.49%) HTTP
11 8 (4.49%) Network Security
11 8 (4.49%) Wireless
12 6 (3.37%) OSPF
12 6 (3.37%) SNMP
13 5 (2.81%) Internet
13 5 (2.81%) SAN
14 4 (2.25%) FTP
14 4 (2.25%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.55%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.18%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (6.18%) Redis
3 11 (6.18%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.25%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.93%) Burp Suite
1 7 (3.93%) Metasploit
2 4 (2.25%) JIRA
3 2 (1.12%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
General
1 75 (42.13%) Social Skills
2 53 (29.78%) Finance
3 29 (16.29%) Banking
4 20 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (10.67%) Investment Banking
6 16 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.62%) Law
8 9 (5.06%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.37%) Back Office
9 6 (3.37%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.37%) Retail
10 5 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.25%) Front Office
12 3 (1.69%) Legal
12 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.12%) Military
14 1 (0.56%) Advertising
14 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 44 (24.72%) IT Support
2 43 (24.16%) Senior
3 42 (23.60%) Support Engineer
4 38 (21.35%) IT Engineer
4 38 (21.35%) IT Support Engineer
5 32 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (14.04%) 2nd Line Support
7 23 (12.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 23 (12.92%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 23 (12.92%) Developer
8 19 (10.67%) Analyst
8 19 (10.67%) C++ Developer
8 19 (10.67%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
8 19 (10.67%) Linux Developer
8 19 (10.67%) Linux Scripter
8 19 (10.67%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 18 (10.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (6.74%) Support Analyst
11 9 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.18%) Django
2 6 (3.37%) RESTful
3 5 (2.81%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.25%) ADO
4 4 (2.25%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (2.25%) LDAP
4 4 (2.25%) Sass
4 4 (2.25%) ZeroMQ
5 3 (1.69%) .NET
5 3 (1.69%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.69%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.69%) gRPC
5 3 (1.69%) REST
6 2 (1.12%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.80%) FPGA
2 14 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.30%) Onboarding
4 12 (6.74%) Driving Licence
4 12 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (6.18%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (3.93%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.37%) iPad
8 6 (3.37%) iPhone
8 6 (3.37%) NHS
9 5 (2.81%) CCTV
9 5 (2.81%) Security Posture
10 4 (2.25%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.25%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.25%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 88 (49.44%) Windows
2 59 (33.15%) Linux
3 56 (31.46%) Windows Server
4 46 (25.84%) Windows 10
5 27 (15.17%) Mac OS
6 18 (10.11%) Apple iOS
6 18 (10.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (9.55%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (8.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (7.30%) Unix
10 4 (2.25%) Android
11 3 (1.69%) CentOS
12 2 (1.12%) OpenWrt
12 2 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.56%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.56%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (36.52%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (20.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (18.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (17.42%) Disaster Recovery
5 26 (14.61%) Agile
5 26 (14.61%) CI/CD
5 26 (14.61%) DevOps
6 23 (12.92%) Customer Service
7 22 (12.36%) ITIL
8 19 (10.67%) Low Latency
8 19 (10.67%) Performance Monitoring
8 19 (10.67%) Service Delivery
9 17 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (9.55%) Identity Access Management
9 17 (9.55%) Observability
9 17 (9.55%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (8.43%) Incident Management
10 15 (8.43%) Incident Response
10 15 (8.43%) Mentoring
11 14 (7.87%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 33 (18.54%) Python
2 32 (17.98%) Java
3 27 (15.17%) PowerShell
4 25 (14.04%) C
4 25 (14.04%) C++
5 13 (7.30%) SQL
6 7 (3.93%) C#
7 6 (3.37%) Go
8 5 (2.81%) Bash
8 5 (2.81%) Bicep
9 4 (2.25%) Delphi
9 4 (2.25%) Pascal
9 4 (2.25%) PHP
10 2 (1.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (10.11%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.99%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.87%) Degree
4 13 (7.30%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (4.49%) CCNP
6 8 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
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 5 (2.81%) CCNA
9 4 (2.25%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.69%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.12%) CCIE
11 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.56%) ACSP
12 1 (0.56%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (4.49%) SLA
3 6 (3.37%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.37%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.12%) GDPR
4 2 (1.12%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.56%) GRC
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.56%) NCSC
5 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 74 (41.57%) Active Directory
2 32 (17.98%) Hyper-V
3 31 (17.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (7.30%) Docker
5 7 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.25%) Firmware
7 3 (1.69%) vSphere
8 2 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.56%) KVM
9 1 (0.56%) QEMU
9 1 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.56%) Xen
9 1 (0.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 35 (19.66%) Terraform
2 33 (18.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (11.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 9 (5.06%) Ansible
4 9 (5.06%) Kubernetes
5 8 (4.49%) Nessus
5 8 (4.49%) SCCM
6 7 (3.93%) Nmap
7 5 (2.81%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.81%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.25%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.12%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.12%) OpenView
9 2 (1.12%) QRadar
9 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (1.12%) Tivoli
9 2 (1.12%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 33 (18.54%) VMware
3 29 (16.29%) Google
4 18 (10.11%) Cisco
5 10 (5.62%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.49%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.37%) Freshdesk
7 6 (3.37%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.81%) Dell
8 5 (2.81%) HP
8 5 (2.81%) Okta
8 5 (2.81%) SolarWinds
9 4 (2.25%) ArcSight
9 4 (2.25%) Citrix
9 4 (2.25%) OneLogin
9 4 (2.25%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.69%) Meraki
10 3 (1.69%) Oracle
10 3 (1.69%) Veeam
11 2 (1.12%) Riverbed