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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 259 215
Rank change year-on-year +5 -44 +28
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 155 193 483
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 1.28% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.58% 10.01% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 105 151 403
10th Percentile £31,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,375 £38,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,436 £68,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £79,850
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,319 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.74% +6.63% -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 2,044 1,928 5,052
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.91% 12.77% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 1,186 3,332
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,599 £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% -5.47%

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 19 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 (28.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (20.65%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.94%) Confluence
4 2 (1.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.65%) Apache
5 1 (0.65%) nginx
5 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (10.32%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 85 (54.84%) Azure
2 71 (45.81%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (28.39%) Entra ID
4 41 (26.45%) AWS
5 14 (9.03%) Google Workspace
6 13 (8.39%) OneDrive
7 10 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (5.81%) GCP
9 8 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (4.52%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.23%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (3.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (3.23%) AWS CodeBuild
11 5 (3.23%) dbt
11 5 (3.23%) PaaS
11 5 (3.23%) Pulumi
11 5 (3.23%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 89 (57.42%) DNS
2 71 (45.81%) DHCP
3 56 (36.13%) WAN
4 54 (34.84%) VPN
5 49 (31.61%) Firewall
6 44 (28.39%) LAN
7 25 (16.13%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (12.90%) SD-WAN
9 18 (11.61%) VLAN
10 14 (9.03%) VoIP
11 12 (7.74%) BGP
12 9 (5.81%) HTTP
13 8 (5.16%) Network Security
13 8 (5.16%) OSPF
14 5 (3.23%) FTP
14 5 (3.23%) SMTP
14 5 (3.23%) SNMP
15 4 (2.58%) Internet
15 4 (2.58%) SAN
15 4 (2.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.16%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.23%) Redis
4 4 (2.58%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.58%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.94%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.94%) MySQL
6 2 (1.29%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.65%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.65%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Burp Suite
1 4 (2.58%) JIRA
1 4 (2.58%) Metasploit
2 2 (1.29%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
General
1 55 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 46 (29.68%) Finance
3 25 (16.13%) Banking
4 18 (11.61%) Investment Banking
5 15 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.16%) Law
8 6 (3.87%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.94%) Back Office
10 3 (1.94%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.94%) Legal
10 3 (1.94%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.94%) Retail
11 2 (1.29%) Front Office
11 2 (1.29%) Military
12 1 (0.65%) Advertising
12 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 43 (27.74%) IT Support
2 36 (23.23%) Senior
3 34 (21.94%) Support Engineer
4 32 (20.65%) IT Engineer
4 32 (20.65%) IT Support Engineer
5 28 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (13.55%) Developer
7 20 (12.90%) Analyst
8 18 (11.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 18 (11.61%) 2nd Line Support
8 18 (11.61%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 18 (11.61%) C++ Developer
8 18 (11.61%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
8 18 (11.61%) Linux Developer
8 18 (11.61%) Linux Scripter
8 18 (11.61%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 18 (11.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (7.10%) Support Analyst
10 9 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (5.81%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.23%) .NET
1 5 (3.23%) ARM Templates
1 5 (3.23%) Django
1 5 (3.23%) REST
2 4 (2.58%) ADO
2 4 (2.58%) LDAP
2 4 (2.58%) RESTful
3 3 (1.94%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.94%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.94%) gRPC
3 3 (1.94%) React
4 2 (1.29%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.29%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.29%) Middleware
4 2 (1.29%) Node.js
4 2 (1.29%) Sass
4 2 (1.29%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (1.29%) Vue
4 2 (1.29%) ZeroMQ
5 1 (0.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.26%) FPGA
2 10 (6.45%) Driving Licence
3 9 (5.81%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.52%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.52%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.87%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.23%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.23%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.58%) CCTV
7 4 (2.58%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.58%) NHS
8 3 (1.94%) Blog
8 3 (1.94%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.29%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (50.32%) Windows
2 48 (30.97%) Windows Server
3 45 (29.03%) Linux
4 35 (22.58%) Windows 10
5 25 (16.13%) Mac OS
6 15 (9.68%) Apple iOS
7 14 (9.03%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (8.39%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (7.74%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (4.52%) Unix
11 5 (3.23%) Android
12 2 (1.29%) CentOS
13 1 (0.65%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.65%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.65%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (31.61%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (21.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 27 (17.42%) Disaster Recovery
3 27 (17.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (14.84%) Agile
5 20 (12.90%) DevOps
6 19 (12.26%) ITIL
6 19 (12.26%) Service Delivery
7 18 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (11.61%) Low Latency
8 17 (10.97%) Incident Response
9 16 (10.32%) Customer Service
10 15 (9.68%) CI/CD
11 14 (9.03%) Containerisation
11 14 (9.03%) Identity Access Management
11 14 (9.03%) Incident Management
11 14 (9.03%) Service Management
12 13 (8.39%) Mentoring
12 13 (8.39%) Performance Monitoring
12 13 (8.39%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 27 (17.42%) Java
2 21 (13.55%) PowerShell
3 20 (12.90%) C
3 20 (12.90%) C++
4 18 (11.61%) Python
5 12 (7.74%) SQL
6 8 (5.16%) C#
7 5 (3.23%) Bicep
8 4 (2.58%) Delphi
8 4 (2.58%) Pascal
8 4 (2.58%) PHP
9 3 (1.94%) Go
10 2 (1.29%) Bash
11 1 (0.65%) Perl
11 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (7.74%) Azure Certification
1 12 (7.74%) Degree
1 12 (7.74%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.81%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.87%) CCNP
3 6 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.58%) CCNA
5 4 (2.58%) CHECK Team Member
5 4 (2.58%) CREST Certified
5 4 (2.58%) Cyber Scheme
5 4 (2.58%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.29%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.29%) CCIE
6 2 (1.29%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.65%) ACSP
7 1 (0.65%) CEH
7 1 (0.65%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.45%) SLA
2 6 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.94%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.94%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.29%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.65%) NIST
5 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 69 (44.52%) Active Directory
2 26 (16.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (15.48%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.16%) Docker
5 5 (3.23%) Firmware
6 3 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.29%) vSphere
8 1 (0.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.65%) KVM
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.65%) QEMU
8 1 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.65%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (18.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (16.13%) Terraform
3 17 (10.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (7.74%) Kubernetes
5 8 (5.16%) FortiGate
6 7 (4.52%) Ansible
7 6 (3.87%) SCCM
8 5 (3.23%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (2.58%) Nessus
9 4 (2.58%) Nmap
10 3 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.94%) QRadar
11 2 (1.29%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (1.29%) OpenView
11 2 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.29%) Tivoli
11 2 (1.29%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.65%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 83 (53.55%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.06%) VMware
3 18 (11.61%) Cisco
3 18 (11.61%) Google
4 10 (6.45%) Fortinet
5 7 (4.52%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.87%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.23%) ArcSight
7 5 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.23%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.58%) Dell
8 4 (2.58%) HP
8 4 (2.58%) Meraki
8 4 (2.58%) Okta
8 4 (2.58%) OneLogin
9 3 (1.94%) Citrix
9 3 (1.94%) Freshdesk
9 3 (1.94%) Splunk
9 3 (1.94%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.29%) EMC