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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 206 198
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 +9
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 181 222 492
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.06% 1.65% 1.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.84% 13.01% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 119 166 420
10th Percentile £31,000 £36,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 £74,144 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £83,125 £77,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% +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 1,839 1,707 4,186
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.76% 12.69% 13.68%
Number of salaries quoted 965 1,204 3,462
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £30,513
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £67,375
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £42,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.25% -7.62%

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 23 March 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 49 (27.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (12.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.10%) Apache
3 2 (1.10%) Confluence
3 2 (1.10%) IIS
3 2 (1.10%) nginx
4 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (8.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 94 (51.93%) Azure
2 72 (39.78%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (27.62%) AWS
4 42 (23.20%) Entra ID
5 21 (11.60%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (10.50%) Google Workspace
7 18 (9.94%) GCP
8 15 (8.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (8.29%) OneDrive
9 13 (7.18%) Amazon ECR
9 13 (7.18%) dbt
9 13 (7.18%) Pulumi
10 8 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.42%) PaaS
10 8 (4.42%) SaaS
11 7 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.31%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.31%) Route 53
12 6 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 99 (54.70%) DNS
2 86 (47.51%) DHCP
3 67 (37.02%) VPN
4 57 (31.49%) WAN
5 51 (28.18%) Firewall
6 41 (22.65%) LAN
7 35 (19.34%) Wi-Fi
8 26 (14.36%) VLAN
9 21 (11.60%) VoIP
10 20 (11.05%) SD-WAN
11 11 (6.08%) BGP
12 8 (4.42%) Network Security
12 8 (4.42%) SNMP
12 8 (4.42%) Wireless
13 7 (3.87%) HTTP
13 7 (3.87%) SSL
14 5 (2.76%) MPLS
14 5 (2.76%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (2.76%) SAN
15 4 (2.21%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.50%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.18%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (7.18%) Redis
4 12 (6.63%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.76%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.66%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.66%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.55%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.55%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.87%) Burp Suite
1 7 (3.87%) Metasploit
2 6 (3.31%) JIRA
3 2 (1.10%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.55%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.55%) Snyk
General
1 77 (42.54%) Social Skills
2 49 (27.07%) Finance
3 27 (14.92%) Banking
4 20 (11.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (11.05%) Investment Banking
5 16 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.08%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.42%) Law
8 7 (3.87%) Retail
9 6 (3.31%) Back Office
9 6 (3.31%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.76%) Front Office
10 5 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.10%) Legal
13 2 (1.10%) Local Government
13 2 (1.10%) Military
14 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 45 (24.86%) IT Support
2 42 (23.20%) Support Engineer
3 40 (22.10%) Senior
4 39 (21.55%) IT Engineer
4 39 (21.55%) IT Support Engineer
5 28 (15.47%) 2nd Line Support
5 28 (15.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (13.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 24 (13.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 24 (13.26%) Developer
7 20 (11.05%) C++ Developer
7 20 (11.05%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
7 20 (11.05%) Linux Developer
7 20 (11.05%) Linux Scripter
7 20 (11.05%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 18 (9.94%) Analyst
9 14 (7.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (6.08%) Support Analyst
11 9 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (4.42%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.18%) Django
2 6 (3.31%) RESTful
3 5 (2.76%) .NET
4 4 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (2.21%) Sass
4 4 (2.21%) ZeroMQ
5 3 (1.66%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.66%) gRPC
5 3 (1.66%) REST
6 2 (1.10%) LDAP
6 2 (1.10%) Middleware
7 1 (0.55%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.55%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.55%) ADO
7 1 (0.55%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.15%) FPGA
2 16 (8.84%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.84%) Onboarding
3 13 (7.18%) Driving Licence
4 12 (6.63%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.52%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (5.52%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (4.42%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.87%) CCTV
8 6 (3.31%) iPad
8 6 (3.31%) iPhone
8 6 (3.31%) NHS
8 6 (3.31%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.76%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.21%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.21%) Replication
10 4 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 90 (49.72%) Windows
2 65 (35.91%) Linux
3 61 (33.70%) Windows Server
4 45 (24.86%) Windows 10
5 26 (14.36%) Mac OS
6 18 (9.94%) Apple iOS
6 18 (9.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 18 (9.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (8.29%) Unix
7 15 (8.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (2.21%) Android
9 3 (1.66%) CentOS
9 3 (1.66%) OpenWrt
10 2 (1.10%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.55%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.55%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (34.81%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (18.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (16.57%) Agile
4 29 (16.02%) CI/CD
4 29 (16.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (15.47%) Disaster Recovery
6 27 (14.92%) Customer Service
7 25 (13.81%) DevOps
7 25 (13.81%) ITIL
8 21 (11.60%) Low Latency
8 21 (11.60%) Performance Monitoring
9 20 (11.05%) Observability
10 19 (10.50%) Service Delivery
11 17 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (9.39%) Root Cause Analysis
12 15 (8.29%) Incident Response
12 15 (8.29%) Mentoring
13 14 (7.73%) Identity Access Management
14 13 (7.18%) Application Performance Monitoring
14 13 (7.18%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 36 (19.89%) Python
2 34 (18.78%) Java
3 28 (15.47%) C
3 28 (15.47%) C++
4 27 (14.92%) PowerShell
5 17 (9.39%) SQL
6 7 (3.87%) C#
7 6 (3.31%) Go
8 5 (2.76%) Bash
9 4 (2.21%) Delphi
9 4 (2.21%) Pascal
9 4 (2.21%) PHP
10 3 (1.66%) Bicep
11 2 (1.10%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (11.05%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.94%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.29%) Degree
4 11 (6.08%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.97%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.87%) CCNP
7 7 (3.87%) CHECK Team Member
7 7 (3.87%) CREST Certified
7 7 (3.87%) Cyber Scheme
7 7 (3.87%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.31%) CCNA
9 4 (2.21%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.21%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.66%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.66%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.66%) CCIE
10 3 (1.66%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.10%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.31%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.31%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.76%) SLA
4 3 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.66%) GRC
5 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.10%) NCSC
5 2 (1.10%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 75 (41.44%) Active Directory
2 31 (17.13%) Hyper-V
2 31 (17.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (7.73%) Docker
4 7 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.21%) vSphere
6 3 (1.66%) Firmware
7 2 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.10%) XenApp
8 1 (0.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (17.13%) Microsoft Intune
1 31 (17.13%) Terraform
2 17 (9.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (4.42%) Ansible
3 8 (4.42%) Nessus
3 8 (4.42%) SCCM
4 7 (3.87%) Nmap
5 5 (2.76%) AWS Copilot
5 5 (2.76%) Kubernetes
6 4 (2.21%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.66%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.66%) OpenView
7 3 (1.66%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.10%) Autotask
8 2 (1.10%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 2 (1.10%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.55%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (45.86%) Microsoft
2 33 (18.23%) VMware
3 32 (17.68%) Google
4 16 (8.84%) Cisco
5 8 (4.42%) Fortinet
5 8 (4.42%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.87%) HP
7 6 (3.31%) Dell
8 5 (2.76%) Citrix
8 5 (2.76%) Oracle
8 5 (2.76%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.21%) Freshdesk
9 4 (2.21%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.66%) ArcSight
10 3 (1.66%) EMC
10 3 (1.66%) ExtraHop
10 3 (1.66%) Riverbed
10 3 (1.66%) Veeam
11 2 (1.10%) Juniper
11 2 (1.10%) Qualys