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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 247 236
Rank change year-on-year +24 -11 -12
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 247 197 322
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.09% 1.19% 1.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.35% 9.96% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 187 152 247
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,625 £31,438 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £46,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% -11.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,000 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 2,386 1,977 3,814
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.55% 11.99% 15.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,318 1,207 2,045
10th Percentile £29,713 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -4.76%

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 7 August 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 46 (18.62%) SharePoint
2 44 (17.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (5.67%) IIS
4 3 (1.21%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) Confluence
5 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.40%) Houdini
2 1 (0.40%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.40%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 119 (48.18%) Azure
2 105 (42.51%) Microsoft 365
3 72 (29.15%) Entra ID
4 59 (23.89%) AWS
5 26 (10.53%) GCP
6 22 (8.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (7.29%) dbt
8 10 (4.05%) OneDrive
9 9 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.24%) Google Workspace
11 7 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.83%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.02%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (2.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (2.02%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (2.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 5 (2.02%) PaaS
12 5 (2.02%) Pulumi
12 5 (2.02%) SaaS
12 5 (2.02%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 132 (53.44%) DNS
2 110 (44.53%) Firewall
3 101 (40.89%) DHCP
4 74 (29.96%) VPN
5 51 (20.65%) LAN
6 48 (19.43%) WAN
7 33 (13.36%) VLAN
8 25 (10.12%) Network Security
9 21 (8.50%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (6.88%) BGP
11 16 (6.48%) OSPF
11 16 (6.48%) VoIP
12 14 (5.67%) HTTP
12 14 (5.67%) Wireless
13 10 (4.05%) SD-WAN
14 7 (2.83%) SSL
15 6 (2.43%) Internet
15 6 (2.43%) MPLS
15 6 (2.43%) VXLAN
16 4 (1.62%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.02%) Redis
4 4 (1.62%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.21%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.21%) MySQL
5 3 (1.21%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.40%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 9 (3.64%) JIRA
2 8 (3.24%) Git
3 1 (0.40%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.40%) CMake
3 1 (0.40%) GDB
3 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.40%) Metasploit
General
1 119 (48.18%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.41%) Finance
3 23 (9.31%) Banking
4 18 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.48%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (5.67%) Investment Banking
7 14 (5.67%) Telecoms
8 12 (4.86%) Law
9 9 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.24%) Aerospace
10 8 (3.24%) Manufacturing
10 8 (3.24%) Retail
11 7 (2.83%) Public Sector
12 6 (2.43%) Electronics
13 4 (1.62%) Legal
14 3 (1.21%) Games
14 3 (1.21%) Marketing
15 2 (0.81%) Military
16 1 (0.40%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 66 (26.72%) IT Support
2 61 (24.70%) Support Engineer
3 51 (20.65%) Senior
4 47 (19.03%) IT Engineer
5 44 (17.81%) IT Support Engineer
6 28 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 27 (10.93%) Network Engineer
8 25 (10.12%) Analyst
9 20 (8.10%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 20 (8.10%) 2nd Line Support
9 20 (8.10%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 16 (6.48%) Developer
10 16 (6.48%) IT Analyst
11 15 (6.07%) IT Support Analyst
11 15 (6.07%) Support Analyst
12 14 (5.67%) C++ Developer
12 14 (5.67%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
12 14 (5.67%) Linux Scripter
12 14 (5.67%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 14 (5.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.86%) Middleware
2 8 (3.24%) LDAP
3 6 (2.43%) ARM Templates
3 6 (2.43%) React
4 5 (2.02%) .NET
4 5 (2.02%) Django
4 5 (2.02%) REST
5 4 (1.62%) ADO
5 4 (1.62%) COM
5 4 (1.62%) DCOM
5 4 (1.62%) gRPC
6 3 (1.21%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.21%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.21%) Unreal Engine
6 3 (1.21%) XML
7 2 (0.81%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.81%) Node.js
7 2 (0.81%) RESTful
7 2 (0.81%) Vue
8 1 (0.40%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
1 19 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.67%) Driving Licence
3 14 (5.67%) FPGA
4 12 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.05%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (3.24%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.24%) Life Science
7 7 (2.83%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.43%) PKI
9 4 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.62%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.62%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.62%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.62%) Replication
9 4 (1.62%) Smartcard
10 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 136 (55.06%) Windows
2 79 (31.98%) Linux
2 79 (31.98%) Windows Server
3 24 (9.72%) Mac OS
4 23 (9.31%) Unix
5 22 (8.91%) Windows 10
6 7 (2.83%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.02%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.21%) Android
10 3 (1.21%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.21%) Debian
11 2 (0.81%) CentOS
11 2 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.40%) Solaris
12 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (34.41%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (19.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (19.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 43 (17.41%) Incident Response
5 42 (17.00%) Customer Service
6 41 (16.60%) DevOps
7 39 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 38 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
8 38 (15.38%) ITIL
9 32 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
9 32 (12.96%) Mentoring
10 31 (12.55%) Software Engineering
11 30 (12.15%) CI/CD
12 26 (10.53%) Project Delivery
13 25 (10.12%) Agile
13 25 (10.12%) Change Management
13 25 (10.12%) Collaborative Culture
14 24 (9.72%) ITSM
15 21 (8.50%) Clean Code
16 20 (8.10%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 50 (20.24%) Python
2 48 (19.43%) PowerShell
3 20 (8.10%) SQL
4 19 (7.69%) Java
5 18 (7.29%) C++
6 17 (6.88%) C
7 9 (3.64%) Bash
7 9 (3.64%) Bicep
8 6 (2.43%) C#
8 6 (2.43%) PHP
9 4 (1.62%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.21%) Delphi
10 3 (1.21%) Go
10 3 (1.21%) Pascal
10 3 (1.21%) Ruby
10 3 (1.21%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.81%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.40%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 44 (17.81%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.98%) Degree
3 36 (14.57%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.88%) CCNA
4 17 (6.88%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (6.48%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (4.45%) CCNP
7 8 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.43%) A+ Certification
9 4 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.21%) CEH
10 3 (1.21%) CISSP
10 3 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.21%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.21%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.81%) GCIA
11 2 (0.81%) GIAC
11 2 (0.81%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.15%) SLA
2 10 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.62%) GDPR
5 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.81%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.40%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 89 (36.03%) Active Directory
2 42 (17.00%) Hyper-V
3 34 (13.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.45%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (3.64%) Docker
6 3 (1.21%) Firmware
6 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.21%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.21%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.81%) KVM
7 2 (0.81%) vSphere
8 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.40%) QEMU
8 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 45 (18.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 45 (18.22%) Terraform
2 19 (7.69%) Ansible
3 15 (6.07%) Kubernetes
4 11 (4.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 11 (4.45%) FortiGate
5 5 (2.02%) AWS Copilot
5 5 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (2.02%) SCCM
6 4 (1.62%) QRadar
7 3 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.81%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.81%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (0.81%) OpenView
8 2 (0.81%) Puppet
8 2 (0.81%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.40%) Nessus
9 1 (0.40%) Nmap
9 1 (0.40%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 129 (52.23%) Microsoft
2 44 (17.81%) VMware
3 37 (14.98%) Cisco
4 25 (10.12%) Google
5 21 (8.50%) ServiceNow
6 17 (6.88%) Fortinet
7 14 (5.67%) Veeam
8 10 (4.05%) Zscaler
9 9 (3.64%) Palo Alto
9 9 (3.64%) SolarWinds
10 8 (3.24%) Meraki
11 7 (2.83%) HP
11 7 (2.83%) Splunk
12 6 (2.43%) Apple
12 6 (2.43%) ArcSight
13 5 (2.02%) F5
13 5 (2.02%) Freshdesk
13 5 (2.02%) Okta
13 5 (2.02%) Red Hat
13 5 (2.02%) SonicWALL