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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 240 212
Rank change year-on-year -5 -28 +23
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 159 195 486
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 1.33% 1.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.94% 11.23% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 104 154 406
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,075 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,188 £38,038
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,622 £68,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,625 £80,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £47,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -14.89% +10.59% -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 2,002 1,737 5,085
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.86% 11.88% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 973 1,201 3,367
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 11 May 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 (27.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (18.87%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.26%) Apache
3 2 (1.26%) Confluence
3 2 (1.26%) IIS
3 2 (1.26%) nginx
4 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (9.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 87 (54.72%) Azure
2 69 (43.40%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (28.93%) Entra ID
4 41 (25.79%) AWS
5 15 (9.43%) OneDrive
6 14 (8.81%) Google Workspace
7 10 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (5.66%) GCP
9 8 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.40%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.14%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (3.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (3.14%) AWS CodeBuild
11 5 (3.14%) dbt
11 5 (3.14%) PaaS
11 5 (3.14%) Pulumi
11 5 (3.14%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 90 (56.60%) DNS
2 72 (45.28%) DHCP
3 57 (35.85%) WAN
4 56 (35.22%) VPN
5 50 (31.45%) Firewall
6 43 (27.04%) LAN
7 25 (15.72%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (14.47%) SD-WAN
9 18 (11.32%) VLAN
10 14 (8.81%) VoIP
11 12 (7.55%) BGP
12 9 (5.66%) HTTP
13 8 (5.03%) Network Security
13 8 (5.03%) OSPF
14 6 (3.77%) SNMP
14 6 (3.77%) Wireless
15 5 (3.14%) SAN
16 4 (2.52%) FTP
16 4 (2.52%) MPLS
16 4 (2.52%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.66%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.14%) Redis
5 4 (2.52%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.52%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.89%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.89%) MySQL
7 2 (1.26%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.63%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Burp Suite
1 5 (3.14%) Metasploit
2 2 (1.26%) JIRA
2 2 (1.26%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
General
1 59 (37.11%) Social Skills
2 50 (31.45%) Finance
3 26 (16.35%) Banking
4 19 (11.95%) Investment Banking
5 15 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.03%) Law
8 7 (4.40%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.89%) Back Office
10 3 (1.89%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.89%) Legal
10 3 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.89%) Retail
11 2 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.26%) Front Office
11 2 (1.26%) Military
12 1 (0.63%) Advertising
12 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 39 (24.53%) IT Support
2 38 (23.90%) Senior
3 32 (20.13%) Support Engineer
4 30 (18.87%) IT Engineer
4 30 (18.87%) IT Support Engineer
5 28 (17.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (13.84%) Developer
7 20 (12.58%) Analyst
8 19 (11.95%) C++ Developer
8 19 (11.95%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
8 19 (11.95%) Linux Developer
8 19 (11.95%) Linux Scripter
8 19 (11.95%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 18 (11.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (10.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 17 (10.69%) 2nd Line Support
10 17 (10.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 12 (7.55%) Support Analyst
12 9 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (5.03%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.14%) .NET
1 5 (3.14%) ARM Templates
1 5 (3.14%) Django
1 5 (3.14%) REST
2 4 (2.52%) ADO
2 4 (2.52%) LDAP
2 4 (2.52%) RESTful
3 3 (1.89%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.89%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.89%) gRPC
3 3 (1.89%) React
4 2 (1.26%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.26%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.26%) Middleware
4 2 (1.26%) Node.js
4 2 (1.26%) Sass
4 2 (1.26%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (1.26%) Vue
4 2 (1.26%) ZeroMQ
5 1 (0.63%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.21%) FPGA
2 11 (6.92%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.29%) Driving Licence
3 10 (6.29%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.03%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.40%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.77%) Security Posture
7 5 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (3.14%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.14%) NHS
8 4 (2.52%) CCTV
8 4 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.52%) iPad
8 4 (2.52%) iPhone
8 4 (2.52%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.52%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.89%) Blog
9 3 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 79 (49.69%) Windows
2 51 (32.08%) Windows Server
3 47 (29.56%) Linux
4 37 (23.27%) Windows 10
5 23 (14.47%) Mac OS
6 16 (10.06%) Apple iOS
7 14 (8.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (8.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (7.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (4.40%) Unix
11 4 (2.52%) Android
12 3 (1.89%) CentOS
13 2 (1.26%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.63%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.63%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (32.70%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (18.87%) Disaster Recovery
4 26 (16.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (15.09%) Agile
6 20 (12.58%) DevOps
6 20 (12.58%) Service Delivery
7 19 (11.95%) ITIL
7 19 (11.95%) Low Latency
8 18 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (10.69%) Customer Service
9 17 (10.69%) Identity Access Management
9 17 (10.69%) Incident Response
9 17 (10.69%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (9.43%) CI/CD
10 15 (9.43%) Incident Management
11 14 (8.81%) Mentoring
12 13 (8.18%) Containerisation
12 13 (8.18%) Performance Monitoring
13 12 (7.55%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (18.24%) Java
2 22 (13.84%) PowerShell
3 21 (13.21%) C
3 21 (13.21%) C++
4 20 (12.58%) Python
5 12 (7.55%) SQL
6 8 (5.03%) C#
7 5 (3.14%) Bicep
8 4 (2.52%) Delphi
8 4 (2.52%) Pascal
8 4 (2.52%) PHP
9 3 (1.89%) Bash
9 3 (1.89%) Go
10 2 (1.26%) Perl
11 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (6.92%) Azure Certification
1 11 (6.92%) Degree
1 11 (6.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.66%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.40%) CCNP
3 7 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.14%) CHECK Team Member
5 5 (3.14%) CREST Certified
5 5 (3.14%) Cyber Scheme
5 5 (3.14%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.52%) CCNA
7 2 (1.26%) CCIE
7 2 (1.26%) CEH
7 2 (1.26%) CISSP
7 2 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.63%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.29%) SLA
2 7 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.89%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.89%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.26%) GDPR
4 2 (1.26%) NIST
5 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.63%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 68 (42.77%) Active Directory
2 29 (18.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (16.35%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.03%) Docker
5 5 (3.14%) Firmware
5 5 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.26%) vSphere
7 1 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.63%) KVM
7 1 (0.63%) QEMU
7 1 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.63%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (18.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (16.35%) Terraform
3 17 (10.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 11 (6.92%) Kubernetes
5 9 (5.66%) Ansible
6 7 (4.40%) FortiGate
6 7 (4.40%) SCCM
7 6 (3.77%) Nessus
8 5 (3.14%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (3.14%) Nmap
9 2 (1.26%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.26%) OpenView
9 2 (1.26%) QRadar
9 2 (1.26%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.26%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.26%) Tivoli
9 2 (1.26%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 83 (52.20%) Microsoft
2 31 (19.50%) VMware
3 18 (11.32%) Cisco
3 18 (11.32%) Google
4 10 (6.29%) Fortinet
5 7 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.77%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.77%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.14%) Dell
7 5 (3.14%) HP
7 5 (3.14%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.52%) ArcSight
8 4 (2.52%) Meraki
8 4 (2.52%) Okta
8 4 (2.52%) OneLogin
9 3 (1.89%) Citrix
9 3 (1.89%) Freshdesk
9 3 (1.89%) Oracle
10 2 (1.26%) EMC
10 2 (1.26%) Juniper