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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 253 223
Rank change year-on-year +1 -30 +11
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 168 192 495
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 1.27% 1.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.79% 9.99% 9.68%
Number of salaries quoted 117 151 402
10th Percentile £30,200 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,061 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -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 2,156 1,921 5,112
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.08% 12.71% 14.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,090 1,150 3,323
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,377 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.94%

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 10 June 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 (26.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (22.02%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.57%) IIS
4 3 (1.79%) Confluence
4 3 (1.79%) SAS
5 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 89 (52.98%) Azure
2 83 (49.40%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (32.14%) Entra ID
4 40 (23.81%) AWS
5 13 (7.74%) Google Workspace
6 12 (7.14%) OneDrive
7 10 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (5.36%) GCP
9 8 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.98%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (2.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (2.98%) AWS CodeBuild
11 5 (2.98%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.98%) dbt
11 5 (2.98%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.98%) PaaS
11 5 (2.98%) Pulumi
11 5 (2.98%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 96 (57.14%) DNS
2 77 (45.83%) DHCP
3 59 (35.12%) Firewall
4 57 (33.93%) VPN
5 54 (32.14%) WAN
6 46 (27.38%) LAN
7 26 (15.48%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (12.50%) VLAN
9 17 (10.12%) SD-WAN
10 13 (7.74%) VoIP
11 11 (6.55%) BGP
11 11 (6.55%) Network Security
12 7 (4.17%) HTTP
12 7 (4.17%) OSPF
13 4 (2.38%) Internet
13 4 (2.38%) VXLAN
14 3 (1.79%) Ethernet
14 3 (1.79%) Modbus
14 3 (1.79%) SNMP
14 3 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.98%) Redis
5 4 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.79%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.79%) MySQL
7 2 (1.19%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.60%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 10 (5.95%) JIRA
2 2 (1.19%) Git
2 2 (1.19%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
General
1 67 (39.88%) Social Skills
2 48 (28.57%) Finance
3 29 (17.26%) Banking
4 20 (11.90%) Investment Banking
5 14 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.95%) Law
7 6 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.98%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.79%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.79%) Back Office
10 3 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.79%) Games
10 3 (1.79%) Legal
10 3 (1.79%) Retail
11 2 (1.19%) Electronics
11 2 (1.19%) Military
11 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 49 (29.17%) IT Support
2 44 (26.19%) Support Engineer
3 37 (22.02%) IT Engineer
4 36 (21.43%) IT Support Engineer
5 32 (19.05%) Senior
6 25 (14.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (13.10%) Developer
8 21 (12.50%) Analyst
9 20 (11.90%) C++ Developer
9 20 (11.90%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 20 (11.90%) Linux Developer
9 20 (11.90%) Linux Scripter
9 20 (11.90%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 19 (11.31%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 19 (11.31%) 2nd Line Support
10 19 (11.31%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 17 (10.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (6.55%) IT Analyst
12 11 (6.55%) Support Analyst
13 10 (5.95%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.57%) Middleware
2 5 (2.98%) .NET
2 5 (2.98%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.98%) Django
2 5 (2.98%) LDAP
2 5 (2.98%) REST
3 4 (2.38%) ADO
3 4 (2.38%) RESTful
4 3 (1.79%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.79%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.79%) gRPC
4 3 (1.79%) React
5 2 (1.19%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.19%) COM
5 2 (1.19%) DCOM
5 2 (1.19%) Node.js
5 2 (1.19%) Unreal Engine
5 2 (1.19%) Vue
6 1 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.60%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.90%) FPGA
2 10 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.36%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (4.17%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.57%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.38%) CCTV
8 4 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.38%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.79%) Blog
9 3 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.79%) Life Science
9 3 (1.79%) PKI
10 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (52.98%) Windows
2 54 (32.14%) Windows Server
3 46 (27.38%) Linux
4 33 (19.64%) Windows 10
5 27 (16.07%) Mac OS
6 13 (7.74%) Apple iOS
6 13 (7.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (6.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (4.76%) Unix
10 5 (2.98%) Android
11 1 (0.60%) CentOS
11 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.60%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 28 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 28 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (15.48%) Agile
4 26 (15.48%) Customer Service
5 23 (13.69%) ITIL
6 22 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (12.50%) Incident Response
7 21 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 20 (11.90%) DevOps
8 20 (11.90%) ITSM
8 20 (11.90%) Low Latency
8 20 (11.90%) Service Management
9 16 (9.52%) Containerisation
9 16 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (8.93%) CI/CD
11 13 (7.74%) Identity Access Management
11 13 (7.74%) Performance Monitoring
11 13 (7.74%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.67%) Java
2 26 (15.48%) PowerShell
3 23 (13.69%) C++
4 22 (13.10%) C
5 18 (10.71%) Python
6 14 (8.33%) SQL
7 7 (4.17%) C#
8 5 (2.98%) Bicep
9 4 (2.38%) Delphi
9 4 (2.38%) Pascal
9 4 (2.38%) PHP
10 3 (1.79%) Go
11 2 (1.19%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.60%) Bash
12 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (13.10%) Degree
2 20 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.93%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.74%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.17%) CCNP
5 7 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.57%) A+ Certification
6 6 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.57%) CCNA
7 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.19%) CCIE
8 2 (1.19%) HND
8 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.19%) MCSA
8 2 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.60%) CISM
9 1 (0.60%) CISSP
9 1 (0.60%) MBA
9 1 (0.60%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.31%) SLA
2 7 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.79%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.79%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.19%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.60%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 75 (44.64%) Active Directory
2 28 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 27 (16.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.17%) Docker
5 4 (2.38%) Firmware
6 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.19%) vSphere
8 1 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.60%) KVM
8 1 (0.60%) QEMU
8 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.60%) Xen
Systems Management
1 37 (22.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (14.88%) Terraform
3 16 (9.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (7.14%) Kubernetes
5 9 (5.36%) FortiGate
6 5 (2.98%) Ansible
6 5 (2.98%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (2.38%) SCCM
8 3 (1.79%) QRadar
8 3 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.19%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (1.19%) OpenView
9 2 (1.19%) Tivoli
9 2 (1.19%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.60%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.60%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 98 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 31 (18.45%) VMware
3 21 (12.50%) Cisco
4 18 (10.71%) ServiceNow
5 17 (10.12%) Google
6 10 (5.95%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.98%) Apple
7 5 (2.98%) ArcSight
7 5 (2.98%) Freshdesk
7 5 (2.98%) Meraki
7 5 (2.98%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.98%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.98%) Veeam
8 4 (2.38%) Okta
8 4 (2.38%) OneLogin
8 4 (2.38%) SonicWALL
8 4 (2.38%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.79%) Citrix
9 3 (1.79%) HP
9 3 (1.79%) Red Hat