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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 246 206
Rank change year-on-year -10 -40 +28
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 157 181 482
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 1.24% 1.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.61% 9.64% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 106 143 402
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,622 £68,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -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 2,063 1,877 5,044
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.89% 12.90% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,019 1,121 3,318
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £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 £87,750 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £48,875 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.93% +2.89% -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 26 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 (28.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (21.66%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.91%) Confluence
3 3 (1.91%) IIS
3 3 (1.91%) SAS
4 1 (0.64%) Apache
4 1 (0.64%) nginx
4 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (10.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 86 (54.78%) Azure
2 73 (46.50%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (29.30%) Entra ID
4 40 (25.48%) AWS
5 14 (8.92%) Google Workspace
6 12 (7.64%) OneDrive
7 10 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (5.73%) GCP
9 8 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.18%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (3.18%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (3.18%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 5 (3.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (3.18%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (3.18%) dbt
12 5 (3.18%) PaaS
12 5 (3.18%) Pulumi
12 5 (3.18%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 92 (58.60%) DNS
2 74 (47.13%) DHCP
3 55 (35.03%) VPN
3 55 (35.03%) WAN
4 54 (34.39%) Firewall
5 44 (28.03%) LAN
6 25 (15.92%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (12.10%) SD-WAN
7 19 (12.10%) VLAN
8 14 (8.92%) VoIP
9 11 (7.01%) BGP
10 9 (5.73%) HTTP
10 9 (5.73%) Network Security
11 7 (4.46%) OSPF
12 6 (3.82%) SNMP
13 5 (3.18%) FTP
13 5 (3.18%) SMTP
14 4 (2.55%) Internet
14 4 (2.55%) SAN
14 4 (2.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.10%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.18%) Redis
4 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.55%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.91%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.91%) MySQL
6 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.64%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.64%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 7 (4.46%) JIRA
2 2 (1.27%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.27%) Metasploit
2 2 (1.27%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
General
1 56 (35.67%) Social Skills
2 49 (31.21%) Finance
3 26 (16.56%) Banking
4 19 (12.10%) Investment Banking
5 16 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (9.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (5.73%) Law
8 5 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.55%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.91%) Back Office
10 3 (1.91%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.91%) Games
10 3 (1.91%) Legal
10 3 (1.91%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Retail
11 2 (1.27%) Front Office
11 2 (1.27%) Military
12 1 (0.64%) Advertising
12 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 46 (29.30%) IT Support
2 36 (22.93%) Support Engineer
3 35 (22.29%) Senior
4 33 (21.02%) IT Engineer
4 33 (21.02%) IT Support Engineer
5 28 (17.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (14.01%) Analyst
6 22 (14.01%) Developer
7 19 (12.10%) C++ Developer
7 19 (12.10%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
7 19 (12.10%) Linux Developer
7 19 (12.10%) Linux Scripter
7 19 (12.10%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 18 (11.46%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 18 (11.46%) 2nd Line Support
8 18 (11.46%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 18 (11.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (7.64%) Support Analyst
10 11 (7.01%) IT Analyst
11 10 (6.37%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.18%) .NET
1 5 (3.18%) ARM Templates
1 5 (3.18%) Django
1 5 (3.18%) LDAP
1 5 (3.18%) REST
2 4 (2.55%) ADO
2 4 (2.55%) RESTful
3 3 (1.91%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.91%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.91%) gRPC
3 3 (1.91%) Middleware
3 3 (1.91%) React
4 2 (1.27%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.27%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.27%) Node.js
4 2 (1.27%) Sass
4 2 (1.27%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (1.27%) Vue
4 2 (1.27%) ZeroMQ
5 1 (0.64%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.74%) FPGA
2 9 (5.73%) Driving Licence
2 9 (5.73%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.46%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (3.82%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.82%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.55%) CCTV
6 4 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.91%) Blog
7 3 (1.91%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (1.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.91%) NHS
8 2 (1.27%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 78 (49.68%) Windows
2 47 (29.94%) Linux
2 47 (29.94%) Windows Server
3 35 (22.29%) Windows 10
4 25 (15.92%) Mac OS
5 14 (8.92%) Apple iOS
5 14 (8.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (8.28%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (7.64%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (4.46%) Unix
9 5 (3.18%) Android
10 2 (1.27%) CentOS
11 1 (0.64%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.64%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.64%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (32.48%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (21.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 27 (17.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (16.56%) Disaster Recovery
5 25 (15.92%) Agile
6 21 (13.38%) ITIL
7 20 (12.74%) DevOps
8 19 (12.10%) Customer Service
8 19 (12.10%) Low Latency
9 18 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (11.46%) Incident Response
9 18 (11.46%) Service Delivery
10 17 (10.83%) Service Management
11 15 (9.55%) CI/CD
12 14 (8.92%) Containerisation
12 14 (8.92%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (8.28%) Identity Access Management
13 13 (8.28%) Incident Management
13 13 (8.28%) Performance Monitoring
14 12 (7.64%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.83%) Java
2 21 (13.38%) C
2 21 (13.38%) C++
2 21 (13.38%) PowerShell
3 17 (10.83%) Python
4 13 (8.28%) SQL
5 8 (5.10%) C#
6 5 (3.18%) Bicep
7 4 (2.55%) Delphi
7 4 (2.55%) Pascal
7 4 (2.55%) PHP
8 3 (1.91%) Go
9 1 (0.64%) Bash
9 1 (0.64%) Perl
9 1 (0.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (9.55%) Degree
2 14 (8.92%) Azure Certification
3 13 (8.28%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.73%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.18%) CCNP
5 5 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.55%) A+ Certification
6 4 (2.55%) CCNA
6 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.91%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.27%) CCIE
8 2 (1.27%) CHECK Team Member
8 2 (1.27%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.27%) Cyber Scheme
8 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.64%) ACSP
9 1 (0.64%) CEH
9 1 (0.64%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.01%) SLA
2 7 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.91%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.91%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.27%) GDPR
5 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.64%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.64%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.64%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.64%) NIST
5 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 72 (45.86%) Active Directory
2 25 (15.92%) Hyper-V
2 25 (15.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.10%) Docker
4 5 (3.18%) Firmware
5 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.91%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.27%) vSphere
7 1 (0.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.64%) KVM
7 1 (0.64%) QEMU
7 1 (0.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.64%) Xen
Systems Management
1 30 (19.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (15.29%) Terraform
3 17 (10.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (7.64%) Kubernetes
5 9 (5.73%) FortiGate
6 6 (3.82%) Ansible
7 5 (3.18%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (3.18%) SCCM
8 3 (1.91%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.91%) QRadar
9 2 (1.27%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.27%) Nessus
9 2 (1.27%) Nmap
9 2 (1.27%) OpenView
9 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.27%) Tivoli
9 2 (1.27%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.64%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.64%) Puppet
10 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 86 (54.78%) Microsoft
2 27 (17.20%) VMware
3 20 (12.74%) Cisco
4 18 (11.46%) Google
5 10 (6.37%) Fortinet
6 8 (5.10%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.18%) ArcSight
7 5 (3.18%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.18%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.18%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.55%) Dell
8 4 (2.55%) Freshdesk
8 4 (2.55%) HP
8 4 (2.55%) Meraki
8 4 (2.55%) Okta
8 4 (2.55%) OneLogin
9 3 (1.91%) Citrix
9 3 (1.91%) SonicWALL
9 3 (1.91%) Splunk
9 3 (1.91%) Zscaler