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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 218 210
Rank change year-on-year -20 -8 +22
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 163 192 489
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.90% 1.43% 1.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.25% 11.84% 9.48%
Number of salaries quoted 104 151 407
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,750 £40,750 £37,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,063 £71,622 £68,375
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
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 1,976 1,622 5,160
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.89% 12.04% 15.86%
Number of salaries quoted 948 1,193 3,434
10th Percentile £29,625 £25,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £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 2 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 45 (27.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (17.18%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.23%) Apache
3 2 (1.23%) Confluence
3 2 (1.23%) IIS
3 2 (1.23%) nginx
4 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (9.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 89 (54.60%) Azure
2 69 (42.33%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (28.22%) Entra ID
4 43 (26.38%) AWS
5 17 (10.43%) Google Workspace
6 15 (9.20%) OneDrive
7 11 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (5.52%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (5.52%) GCP
9 8 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.68%) PaaS
12 5 (3.07%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (3.07%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 5 (3.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (3.07%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (3.07%) dbt
12 5 (3.07%) Pulumi
12 5 (3.07%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 91 (55.83%) DNS
2 75 (46.01%) DHCP
3 59 (36.20%) WAN
4 58 (35.58%) VPN
5 49 (30.06%) Firewall
6 45 (27.61%) LAN
7 29 (17.79%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (14.11%) SD-WAN
9 19 (11.66%) VLAN
10 17 (10.43%) VoIP
11 12 (7.36%) BGP
12 9 (5.52%) HTTP
13 7 (4.29%) Network Security
13 7 (4.29%) OSPF
13 7 (4.29%) Wireless
14 6 (3.68%) SNMP
15 5 (3.07%) SAN
16 4 (2.45%) FTP
16 4 (2.45%) Internet
16 4 (2.45%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (6.13%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.07%) Redis
4 4 (2.45%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.84%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.61%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.61%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (3.68%) Burp Suite
1 6 (3.68%) Metasploit
2 3 (1.84%) JIRA
3 2 (1.23%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
General
1 61 (37.42%) Social Skills
2 51 (31.29%) Finance
3 27 (16.56%) Banking
4 19 (11.66%) Investment Banking
5 18 (11.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.52%) Law
8 8 (4.91%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.45%) Back Office
10 4 (2.45%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.45%) Retail
11 3 (1.84%) Front Office
11 3 (1.84%) Legal
11 3 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Military
13 1 (0.61%) Advertising
13 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 41 (25.15%) IT Support
2 38 (23.31%) Senior
3 35 (21.47%) Support Engineer
4 33 (20.25%) IT Engineer
4 33 (20.25%) IT Support Engineer
5 29 (17.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (14.11%) Developer
7 20 (12.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 20 (12.27%) 2nd Line Support
7 20 (12.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 20 (12.27%) Analyst
8 19 (11.66%) C++ Developer
8 19 (11.66%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
8 19 (11.66%) Linux Developer
8 19 (11.66%) Linux Scripter
8 19 (11.66%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 18 (11.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (7.36%) Support Analyst
11 9 (5.52%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.91%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.07%) ARM Templates
1 5 (3.07%) Django
1 5 (3.07%) RESTful
2 4 (2.45%) ADO
2 4 (2.45%) LDAP
3 3 (1.84%) .NET
3 3 (1.84%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.84%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.84%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (1.84%) gRPC
3 3 (1.84%) REST
3 3 (1.84%) Sass
3 3 (1.84%) ZeroMQ
4 2 (1.23%) Middleware
5 1 (0.61%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.61%) JWT
5 1 (0.61%) Next.js
5 1 (0.61%) OAuth
5 1 (0.61%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.88%) FPGA
2 12 (7.36%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.75%) Driving Licence
3 11 (6.75%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.52%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.68%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.68%) NHS
6 6 (3.68%) Security Posture
7 5 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.07%) iPad
7 5 (3.07%) iPhone
8 4 (2.45%) CCTV
8 4 (2.45%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.45%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.84%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 81 (49.69%) Windows
2 53 (32.52%) Windows Server
3 49 (30.06%) Linux
4 41 (25.15%) Windows 10
5 25 (15.34%) Mac OS
6 17 (10.43%) Apple iOS
7 16 (9.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (9.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (8.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (4.29%) Unix
11 4 (2.45%) Android
12 3 (1.84%) CentOS
13 2 (1.23%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.61%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.61%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.61%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (34.97%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (20.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 31 (19.02%) Disaster Recovery
4 26 (15.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (15.34%) Agile
6 20 (12.27%) DevOps
7 19 (11.66%) Customer Service
7 19 (11.66%) ITIL
7 19 (11.66%) Low Latency
7 19 (11.66%) Service Delivery
8 17 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (10.43%) Identity Access Management
8 17 (10.43%) Incident Response
8 17 (10.43%) Root Cause Analysis
9 16 (9.82%) CI/CD
10 15 (9.20%) Incident Management
11 14 (8.59%) Mentoring
12 13 (7.98%) Performance Monitoring
13 12 (7.36%) Change Management
13 12 (7.36%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (18.40%) Java
2 23 (14.11%) C
2 23 (14.11%) C++
3 22 (13.50%) Python
4 21 (12.88%) PowerShell
5 13 (7.98%) SQL
6 7 (4.29%) C#
7 5 (3.07%) Bicep
8 4 (2.45%) Delphi
8 4 (2.45%) Go
8 4 (2.45%) Pascal
8 4 (2.45%) PHP
9 3 (1.84%) Bash
10 2 (1.23%) Perl
11 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (7.36%) Degree
2 11 (6.75%) Azure Certification
2 11 (6.75%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.52%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.29%) CCNP
4 7 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.68%) CHECK Team Member
5 6 (3.68%) CREST Certified
5 6 (3.68%) Cyber Scheme
5 6 (3.68%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.45%) CCNA
8 2 (1.23%) CCIE
8 2 (1.23%) CEH
8 2 (1.23%) CISSP
8 2 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.61%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.52%) SLA
2 8 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.45%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.45%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.23%) GDPR
4 2 (1.23%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.61%) GRC
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.61%) NCSC
5 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 69 (42.33%) Active Directory
2 28 (17.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (16.56%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.91%) Docker
5 5 (3.07%) Firmware
5 5 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.23%) vSphere
7 1 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.61%) KVM
7 1 (0.61%) QEMU
7 1 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.61%) Xen
Systems Management
1 30 (18.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (16.56%) Terraform
3 19 (11.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 10 (6.13%) Kubernetes
5 9 (5.52%) Ansible
6 8 (4.91%) SCCM
7 7 (4.29%) Nessus
8 6 (3.68%) FortiGate
8 6 (3.68%) Nmap
9 5 (3.07%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (1.84%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.23%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (1.23%) OpenView
11 2 (1.23%) QRadar
11 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.23%) Tivoli
11 2 (1.23%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.61%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 84 (51.53%) Microsoft
2 30 (18.40%) VMware
3 21 (12.88%) Google
4 18 (11.04%) Cisco
5 9 (5.52%) Fortinet
6 8 (4.91%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.68%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.07%) Dell
8 5 (3.07%) HP
8 5 (3.07%) Palo Alto
8 5 (3.07%) SolarWinds
9 4 (2.45%) ArcSight
9 4 (2.45%) Freshdesk
9 4 (2.45%) Meraki
9 4 (2.45%) Okta
9 4 (2.45%) OneLogin
10 3 (1.84%) Citrix
10 3 (1.84%) Oracle
11 2 (1.23%) InterSystems
11 2 (1.23%) Juniper