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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 249 224
Rank change year-on-year +3 -25 +22
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 178 191 497
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.89% 1.24% 1.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.06% 9.96% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 125 150 398
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £50,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -3.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,622 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £77,875
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 2,209 1,917 5,129
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.06% 12.49% 14.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,121 1,149 3,308
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 £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,921 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -7.50%

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 17 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 43 (24.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (21.91%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.06%) IIS
4 3 (1.69%) Confluence
4 3 (1.69%) SAS
5 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (8.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 92 (51.69%) Azure
2 86 (48.31%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (32.58%) Entra ID
4 41 (23.03%) AWS
5 11 (6.18%) Google Workspace
5 11 (6.18%) OneDrive
6 10 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (4.49%) GCP
8 6 (3.37%) OpenShift
8 6 (3.37%) SaaS
9 5 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.81%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 5 (2.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (2.81%) AWS CodeBuild
9 5 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.81%) dbt
9 5 (2.81%) PaaS
9 5 (2.81%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 102 (57.30%) DNS
2 82 (46.07%) DHCP
3 65 (36.52%) Firewall
4 60 (33.71%) VPN
5 54 (30.34%) WAN
6 48 (26.97%) LAN
7 25 (14.04%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (12.92%) VLAN
9 16 (8.99%) SD-WAN
10 13 (7.30%) BGP
10 13 (7.30%) Network Security
10 13 (7.30%) VoIP
11 9 (5.06%) OSPF
12 8 (4.49%) HTTP
13 5 (2.81%) Internet
13 5 (2.81%) VXLAN
14 4 (2.25%) FTP
14 4 (2.25%) SMTP
15 3 (1.69%) Ethernet
15 3 (1.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (6.74%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.81%) Redis
4 4 (2.25%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.25%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.69%) MySQL
6 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 10 (5.62%) JIRA
2 3 (1.69%) Git
3 2 (1.12%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
General
1 75 (42.13%) Social Skills
2 47 (26.40%) Finance
3 29 (16.29%) Banking
4 19 (10.67%) Investment Banking
5 15 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.62%) Law
8 7 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.37%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.25%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.25%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.25%) Retail
11 3 (1.69%) Back Office
11 3 (1.69%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.69%) Games
12 2 (1.12%) Electronics
12 2 (1.12%) Legal
12 2 (1.12%) Military
13 1 (0.56%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 52 (29.21%) IT Support
2 49 (27.53%) Support Engineer
3 39 (21.91%) IT Engineer
4 38 (21.35%) IT Support Engineer
5 32 (17.98%) Senior
6 26 (14.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (12.92%) Analyst
8 21 (11.80%) Developer
9 20 (11.24%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 20 (11.24%) 2nd Line Support
9 20 (11.24%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 19 (10.67%) C++ Developer
10 19 (10.67%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
10 19 (10.67%) Linux Developer
10 19 (10.67%) Linux Scripter
10 19 (10.67%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 16 (8.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (6.74%) IT Analyst
12 12 (6.74%) Support Analyst
13 11 (6.18%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.06%) Middleware
2 7 (3.93%) LDAP
3 5 (2.81%) .NET
3 5 (2.81%) ARM Templates
3 5 (2.81%) Django
3 5 (2.81%) REST
4 4 (2.25%) ADO
4 4 (2.25%) RESTful
5 3 (1.69%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.69%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.69%) COM
5 3 (1.69%) DCOM
5 3 (1.69%) gRPC
5 3 (1.69%) React
6 2 (1.12%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.12%) Node.js
6 2 (1.12%) Unreal Engine
6 2 (1.12%) Vue
7 1 (0.56%) Sass
7 1 (0.56%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.67%) FPGA
2 12 (6.74%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.62%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.93%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.37%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.81%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.25%) CCTV
8 4 (2.25%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.25%) PKI
9 3 (1.69%) Blog
9 3 (1.69%) Life Science
9 3 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.69%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 96 (53.93%) Windows
2 59 (33.15%) Windows Server
3 46 (25.84%) Linux
4 32 (17.98%) Windows 10
5 27 (15.17%) Mac OS
6 12 (6.74%) Apple iOS
6 12 (6.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (6.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (5.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (3.93%) Unix
10 5 (2.81%) Android
11 3 (1.69%) Ubuntu
12 2 (1.12%) Debian
13 1 (0.56%) CentOS
13 1 (0.56%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.56%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (34.27%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (17.42%) Customer Service
2 31 (17.42%) Disaster Recovery
2 31 (17.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 28 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (14.61%) Agile
4 26 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (13.48%) ITIL
6 23 (12.92%) Incident Response
7 22 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
7 22 (12.36%) ITSM
8 21 (11.80%) DevOps
8 21 (11.80%) Service Delivery
9 19 (10.67%) Low Latency
9 19 (10.67%) Service Management
10 17 (9.55%) Containerisation
11 14 (7.87%) CI/CD
11 14 (7.87%) Roadmaps
12 13 (7.30%) Analytics
12 13 (7.30%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.29%) PowerShell
2 27 (15.17%) Java
3 22 (12.36%) C++
4 21 (11.80%) C
5 20 (11.24%) Python
6 17 (9.55%) SQL
7 7 (3.93%) C#
8 6 (3.37%) PHP
9 5 (2.81%) Bicep
10 4 (2.25%) Delphi
10 4 (2.25%) Pascal
11 3 (1.69%) Bash
11 3 (1.69%) Go
12 2 (1.12%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.12%) Ruby
13 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (14.61%) Degree
2 24 (13.48%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.30%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (4.49%) CCNP
5 8 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.93%) CCNA
6 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.37%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.12%) CCIE
9 2 (1.12%) HND
9 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.12%) MCSA
9 2 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CEH
10 1 (0.56%) CISM
10 1 (0.56%) CISSP
10 1 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.36%) SLA
2 7 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.25%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.69%) GDPR
4 3 (1.69%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.56%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 79 (44.38%) Active Directory
2 32 (17.98%) Hyper-V
3 29 (16.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.93%) Docker
5 4 (2.25%) Firmware
6 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.56%) KVM
8 1 (0.56%) QEMU
8 1 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 38 (21.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (13.48%) Terraform
3 15 (8.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 13 (7.30%) Kubernetes
5 10 (5.62%) FortiGate
6 7 (3.93%) Ansible
7 5 (2.81%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (2.25%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (2.25%) QRadar
8 4 (2.25%) SCCM
9 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.12%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (1.12%) OpenView
10 2 (1.12%) Tivoli
10 2 (1.12%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.56%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 104 (58.43%) Microsoft
2 34 (19.10%) VMware
3 22 (12.36%) Cisco
4 20 (11.24%) ServiceNow
5 15 (8.43%) Google
6 12 (6.74%) Fortinet
7 7 (3.93%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.37%) ArcSight
8 6 (3.37%) Veeam
9 5 (2.81%) Apple
9 5 (2.81%) Freshdesk
9 5 (2.81%) Meraki
9 5 (2.81%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.81%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.25%) Citrix
10 4 (2.25%) Okta
10 4 (2.25%) OneLogin
10 4 (2.25%) SonicWALL
10 4 (2.25%) Splunk
11 3 (1.69%) Aruba