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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 189 189
Rank change year-on-year -14 0 +44
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 182 336 378
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.19% 1.69% 1.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.18% 13.72% 12.76%
Number of salaries quoted 121 202 343
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £53,025 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.85% +1.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,790 £78,625 £78,500
UK median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +3.26% +2.22%

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 1,381 2,449 2,963
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.06% 12.32% 14.09%
Number of salaries quoted 964 1,415 2,514
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,375 £84,478 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.30% +6.00% -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 26 November 2025.

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 29 (15.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.10%) nginx
4 1 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.55%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.30%) AutoCAD
2 6 (3.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 63 (34.62%) Azure
2 55 (30.22%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (16.48%) AWS
4 23 (12.64%) Entra ID
5 13 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (7.14%) GCP
6 9 (4.95%) GitHub
7 8 (4.40%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (4.40%) dbt
7 8 (4.40%) IaaS
7 8 (4.40%) Pulumi
8 7 (3.85%) SaaS
9 5 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.75%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.75%) Google Workspace
9 5 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.20%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 77 (42.31%) DNS
2 73 (40.11%) DHCP
3 64 (35.16%) Firewall
4 53 (29.12%) VPN
5 37 (20.33%) WAN
6 36 (19.78%) LAN
7 27 (14.84%) VLAN
8 22 (12.09%) VoIP
9 21 (11.54%) Network Security
10 17 (9.34%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (7.69%) BGP
12 13 (7.14%) SD-WAN
13 11 (6.04%) OSPF
14 10 (5.49%) HTTP
15 9 (4.95%) Wireless
16 8 (4.40%) SSL
17 6 (3.30%) Fibre Channel
17 6 (3.30%) HSRP
17 6 (3.30%) Internet
17 6 (3.30%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (6.04%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.40%) Redis
4 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.55%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.55%) FileMaker
5 1 (0.55%) MySQL
5 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.85%) Git
2 5 (2.75%) Burp Suite
2 5 (2.75%) Metasploit
3 4 (2.20%) JIRA
4 3 (1.65%) Snyk
5 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.55%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.55%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 72 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.78%) Finance
3 22 (12.09%) Banking
4 19 (10.44%) Investment Banking
5 15 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (6.04%) Retail
7 10 (5.49%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.85%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (3.30%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.75%) Advertising
11 3 (1.65%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.65%) Back Office
11 3 (1.65%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.65%) Front Office
11 3 (1.65%) Law
12 2 (1.10%) Electronics
12 2 (1.10%) Local Government
12 2 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (17.58%) Senior
2 25 (13.74%) Linux Scripter
3 23 (12.64%) Developer
4 22 (12.09%) Support Engineer
5 20 (10.99%) IT Support
6 19 (10.44%) C++ Developer
6 19 (10.44%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
6 19 (10.44%) Linux Developer
6 19 (10.44%) Low Latency C++ Developer
7 17 (9.34%) Analyst
7 17 (9.34%) IT Engineer
7 17 (9.34%) IT Support Engineer
8 16 (8.79%) 2nd Line Support
9 13 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
9 13 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (7.14%) Support Technician
10 12 (6.59%) Security Engineer
11 11 (6.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 11 (6.04%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 10 (5.49%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.40%) Django
2 5 (2.75%) .NET
3 4 (2.20%) RESTful
4 3 (1.65%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (1.65%) Node.js
5 2 (1.10%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.10%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.10%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.10%) Sass
5 2 (1.10%) ZeroMQ
6 1 (0.55%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.55%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.55%) LDAP
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.55%) OAuth
6 1 (0.55%) OpenID
6 1 (0.55%) SAML
6 1 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.99%) FPGA
2 19 (10.44%) Onboarding
3 18 (9.89%) Driving Licence
4 15 (8.24%) Management Information System
5 13 (7.14%) Data Centre
6 11 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (4.95%) Security Operations Centre
7 9 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (4.40%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.75%) e-Learning
9 5 (2.75%) iPad
9 5 (2.75%) iPhone
10 4 (2.20%) CCTV
10 4 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.20%) NHS
10 4 (2.20%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.65%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 74 (40.66%) Windows
2 55 (30.22%) Linux
3 39 (21.43%) Windows Server
4 23 (12.64%) Windows 10
5 10 (5.49%) Unix
6 8 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (3.85%) Mac OS
8 6 (3.30%) Apple iOS
9 5 (2.75%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (2.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.65%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.55%) Android
12 1 (0.55%) CentOS
12 1 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (21.98%) ITIL
3 33 (18.13%) Customer Service
4 28 (15.38%) Agile
5 26 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (12.09%) CI/CD
6 22 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (12.09%) Low Latency
7 21 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (11.54%) DevOps
8 16 (8.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (8.79%) Root Cause Analysis
9 15 (8.24%) Penetration Testing
10 14 (7.69%) Observability
11 13 (7.14%) Network Management
12 12 (6.59%) Information Security
12 12 (6.59%) SIEM
13 11 (6.04%) Security Operations
14 10 (5.49%) Containerisation
14 10 (5.49%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 34 (18.68%) Python
2 27 (14.84%) C
2 27 (14.84%) C++
3 26 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 25 (13.74%) Java
5 11 (6.04%) SQL
6 8 (4.40%) Bash
7 4 (2.20%) C#
8 3 (1.65%) Go
9 1 (0.55%) Perl
9 1 (0.55%) PHP
9 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (16.48%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (13.19%) Degree
3 22 (12.09%) CCNA
4 19 (10.44%) CCNP
5 17 (9.34%) Security Cleared
6 15 (8.24%) SC Cleared
7 11 (6.04%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (5.49%) Azure Certification
9 9 (4.95%) CISSP
10 8 (4.40%) A+ Certification
10 8 (4.40%) GCIA
10 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (4.40%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (4.40%) SANS
11 7 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (3.30%) DBS Check
13 5 (2.75%) AWS Certification
13 5 (2.75%) CHECK Team Member
13 5 (2.75%) CREST Certified
13 5 (2.75%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (6.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.75%) GRC
3 5 (2.75%) SLA
4 3 (1.65%) GDPR
4 3 (1.65%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.65%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.10%) NCSC
6 1 (0.55%) GxP
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 54 (29.67%) Active Directory
2 23 (12.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (10.99%) Hyper-V
4 11 (6.04%) Docker
5 9 (4.95%) vSphere
6 6 (3.30%) Firmware
6 6 (3.30%) NFS
7 5 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.10%) pfSense
8 2 (1.10%) XenApp
9 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (13.74%) Terraform
3 13 (7.14%) Ansible
4 11 (6.04%) Kubernetes
5 9 (4.95%) SCCM
6 6 (3.30%) Nessus
7 5 (2.75%) Autotask
7 5 (2.75%) Nmap
8 4 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.10%) Grafana
9 2 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.10%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.55%) OpenView
10 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 1 (0.55%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 63 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.29%) Cisco
3 25 (13.74%) VMware
4 15 (8.24%) Google
5 8 (4.40%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.85%) Commvault
6 7 (3.85%) Extreme Networks
6 7 (3.85%) Pure Storage
6 7 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.30%) Avaya
7 6 (3.30%) Citrix
7 6 (3.30%) HP
8 4 (2.20%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.20%) Qualys
9 3 (1.65%) Dell
9 3 (1.65%) Freshdesk
9 3 (1.65%) Juniper
9 3 (1.65%) Oracle
9 3 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.65%) Siemens