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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 226 208
Rank change year-on-year -34 -18 +87
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 171 329 400
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.05% 1.40% 1.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.49% 8.80% 12.10%
Number of salaries quoted 126 211 348
10th Percentile £29,375 £31,250 £27,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £52,500 £50,125
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.74% +0.25%
75th Percentile £68,625 £71,250 £69,613
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -8.60% +3.33%

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 1,802 3,737 3,306
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.05% 15.93% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 1,613 2,769
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,750 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% -0.99% -3.81%

TCP/IP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

TCP/IP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

TCP/IP
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

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

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

TCP/IP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 24 (14.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.34%) IIS
4 2 (1.17%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.58%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (13.45%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.51%) AutoCAD
2 6 (3.51%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 57 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (26.32%) Azure
3 22 (12.87%) AWS
4 12 (7.02%) Entra ID
4 12 (7.02%) GCP
4 12 (7.02%) SaaS
5 10 (5.85%) IaaS
6 9 (5.26%) GitHub
7 7 (4.09%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (4.09%) PaaS
8 6 (3.51%) OCI
9 5 (2.92%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.17%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.17%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.17%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.17%) Serverless
10 2 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 62 (36.26%) DHCP
2 58 (33.92%) DNS
3 52 (30.41%) Firewall
4 36 (21.05%) VPN
5 26 (15.20%) LAN
6 22 (12.87%) Network Security
6 22 (12.87%) WAN
7 21 (12.28%) VLAN
8 17 (9.94%) BGP
9 16 (9.36%) OSPF
10 15 (8.77%) VoIP
11 7 (4.09%) HTTP
11 7 (4.09%) Modbus
11 7 (4.09%) SD-WAN
11 7 (4.09%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (3.51%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (3.51%) HSRP
12 6 (3.51%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (3.51%) VRRP
13 5 (2.92%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.19%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.17%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.58%) Couchbase
3 1 (0.58%) FileMaker
3 1 (0.58%) MySQL
3 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (5.26%) Git
2 3 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.75%) JIRA
3 2 (1.17%) JMeter
3 2 (1.17%) Snyk
4 1 (0.58%) Fiddler
General
1 46 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 34 (19.88%) Finance
3 19 (11.11%) Banking
4 18 (10.53%) Investment Banking
5 15 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.68%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.09%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.09%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.09%) Retail
8 6 (3.51%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.92%) Advertising
9 5 (2.92%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.34%) Law
11 2 (1.17%) Electronics
11 2 (1.17%) Marketing
11 2 (1.17%) Military
12 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 24 (14.04%) Senior
2 23 (13.45%) Linux Scripter
3 21 (12.28%) Developer
4 19 (11.11%) Analyst
4 19 (11.11%) C++ Developer
5 18 (10.53%) Linux Developer
5 18 (10.53%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 17 (9.94%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
7 16 (9.36%) Network Engineer
8 15 (8.77%) ICT Officer
8 15 (8.77%) ICT Support
8 15 (8.77%) ICT Support Officer
8 15 (8.77%) Support Officer
9 12 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (6.43%) IT Support
10 11 (6.43%) Support Technician
11 10 (5.85%) 1st Line Support
11 10 (5.85%) 3rd Line Support
11 10 (5.85%) Lead
12 9 (5.26%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (1.75%) .NET
2 3 (1.75%) ARM Templates
2 3 (1.75%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (1.75%) Node.js
3 2 (1.17%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.17%) HTML
3 2 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.58%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.58%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.58%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.58%) Jinja
4 1 (0.58%) JSON
4 1 (0.58%) Kafka
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.58%) OAuth
4 1 (0.58%) React
4 1 (0.58%) SAML
4 1 (0.58%) YAML
4 1 (0.58%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.11%) FPGA
2 18 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 16 (9.36%) Data Centre
4 14 (8.19%) Driving Licence
5 13 (7.60%) Onboarding
6 11 (6.43%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.92%) Device Driver
8 5 (2.92%) NHS
8 5 (2.92%) Replication
9 4 (2.34%) Clustering
9 4 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.75%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.75%) Life Science
10 3 (1.75%) PKI
10 3 (1.75%) Robotics
10 3 (1.75%) SCADA
11 2 (1.17%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 71 (41.52%) Windows
2 44 (25.73%) Linux
3 27 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (5.85%) Windows 10
5 7 (4.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (3.51%) Unix
7 5 (2.92%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.17%) Android
9 2 (1.17%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.17%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (1.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (19.30%) ITIL
3 28 (16.37%) Cybersecurity
4 23 (13.45%) Agile
5 22 (12.87%) Customer Service
6 20 (11.70%) Low Latency
7 18 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (9.94%) CI/CD
8 17 (9.94%) DevOps
9 14 (8.19%) High Availability
9 14 (8.19%) Network Management
10 13 (7.60%) Containerisation
10 13 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (7.60%) SIEM
11 12 (7.02%) Root Cause Analysis
12 11 (6.43%) Security Operations
13 10 (5.85%) Load Balancing
13 10 (5.85%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (5.26%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 32 (18.71%) PowerShell
2 24 (14.04%) Python
3 23 (13.45%) C++
4 22 (12.87%) C
5 18 (10.53%) Java
6 9 (5.26%) Bash
6 9 (5.26%) SQL
7 3 (1.75%) Bicep
8 2 (1.17%) C#
8 2 (1.17%) Perl
8 2 (1.17%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (15.20%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (12.28%) Degree
3 17 (9.94%) CCNA
4 16 (9.36%) CCNP
5 15 (8.77%) Security Cleared
6 10 (5.85%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.26%) Azure Certification
8 8 (4.68%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (4.68%) GCIA
9 7 (4.09%) CISSP
9 7 (4.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (4.09%) SANS
10 6 (3.51%) A+ Certification
10 6 (3.51%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (2.92%) DV Cleared
12 4 (2.34%) DBS Check
12 4 (2.34%) HNC
12 4 (2.34%) HND
12 4 (2.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.51%) SLA
4 4 (2.34%) GDPR
4 4 (2.34%) QA
5 2 (1.17%) GRC
6 1 (0.58%) GxP
6 1 (0.58%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 44 (25.73%) Active Directory
2 30 (17.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (13.45%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.26%) Firmware
5 7 (4.09%) vSphere
6 6 (3.51%) NFS
7 4 (2.34%) Docker
7 4 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.17%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (1.17%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 24 (14.04%) Ansible
2 17 (9.94%) SCCM
3 15 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (7.60%) Terraform
5 12 (7.02%) Kubernetes
6 5 (2.92%) WSUS
7 4 (2.34%) SCOM
8 3 (1.75%) Autotask
9 2 (1.17%) Grafana
9 2 (1.17%) Iperf
9 2 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.17%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.17%) Puppet
9 2 (1.17%) SCOrch
9 2 (1.17%) SCSM
9 2 (1.17%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.58%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (41.52%) Microsoft
2 38 (22.22%) VMware
3 24 (14.04%) Cisco
4 10 (5.85%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.09%) Commvault
5 7 (4.09%) Extreme Networks
5 7 (4.09%) Pure Storage
5 7 (4.09%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.51%) Avaya
7 5 (2.92%) Oracle
8 4 (2.34%) Citrix
8 4 (2.34%) EMC
8 4 (2.34%) TOWER Software
9 3 (1.75%) HP
9 3 (1.75%) Juniper
9 3 (1.75%) Siemens
9 3 (1.75%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.75%) Splunk
10 2 (1.17%) ArcSight
10 2 (1.17%) SAP