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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 257 206
Rank change year-on-year +24 -51 -2
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 262 170 338
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.05% 1.01% 1.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.82% 9.66% 9.94%
Number of salaries quoted 190 121 204
10th Percentile £28,400 £29,000 £33,150
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -18.66% -0.48%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £70,313
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -14.77% -6.38%

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 2,216 1,759 3,400
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.88% 10.46% 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 991 1,520
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,294 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -21.57% -0.97%

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 1 October 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 53 (20.23%) SharePoint
2 40 (15.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.96%) IIS
4 3 (1.15%) SAS
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.38%) Houdini
3 1 (0.38%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.38%) NUKE
3 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 115 (43.89%) Azure
2 108 (41.22%) Microsoft 365
3 87 (33.21%) Entra ID
4 51 (19.47%) AWS
5 24 (9.16%) GCP
6 15 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (4.96%) dbt
8 10 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (3.82%) SaaS
9 8 (3.05%) OneDrive
10 6 (2.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 6 (2.29%) Google Workspace
10 6 (2.29%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.29%) Serverless
11 5 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.91%) Google Compute Engine
11 5 (1.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (1.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.53%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 147 (56.11%) DNS
2 127 (48.47%) Firewall
3 114 (43.51%) DHCP
4 87 (33.21%) VPN
5 47 (17.94%) VLAN
6 44 (16.79%) LAN
6 44 (16.79%) WAN
7 28 (10.69%) Network Security
8 24 (9.16%) BGP
9 19 (7.25%) OSPF
10 17 (6.49%) VoIP
11 16 (6.11%) HTTP
12 15 (5.73%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (5.34%) Wireless
14 10 (3.82%) SD-WAN
14 10 (3.82%) VXLAN
15 9 (3.44%) Ethernet
15 9 (3.44%) SSL
16 7 (2.67%) Internet
17 6 (2.29%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.45%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.76%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.76%) MySQL
5 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (4.58%) Git
2 9 (3.44%) JIRA
3 5 (1.91%) TeamCity
4 4 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.38%) CMake
5 1 (0.38%) GDB
5 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.38%) Metasploit
General
1 132 (50.38%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.79%) Finance
3 24 (9.16%) Telecoms
4 22 (8.40%) Banking
5 20 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.87%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (6.87%) Retail
7 16 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.96%) Law
9 12 (4.58%) Public Sector
10 11 (4.20%) Electronics
11 9 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (3.05%) Aerospace
13 7 (2.67%) Investment Banking
13 7 (2.67%) Marketing
14 5 (1.91%) Back Office
14 5 (1.91%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.91%) Legal
14 5 (1.91%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.15%) Games
Job Titles
1 61 (23.28%) IT Support
2 60 (22.90%) Support Engineer
3 58 (22.14%) Senior
4 45 (17.18%) IT Engineer
5 40 (15.27%) IT Support Engineer
6 35 (13.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 31 (11.83%) Network Engineer
8 19 (7.25%) Analyst
9 18 (6.87%) 2nd Line Support
10 15 (5.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 15 (5.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 15 (5.73%) Software Engineer
11 14 (5.34%) Infrastructure Support
11 14 (5.34%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 14 (5.34%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (5.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (4.96%) Python Engineer
12 13 (4.96%) Site Engineer
12 13 (4.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (4.58%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (18.70%) Terraform
2 12 (4.58%) Middleware
3 8 (3.05%) LDAP
4 7 (2.67%) React
4 7 (2.67%) XML
5 5 (1.91%) ARM Templates
5 5 (1.91%) RESTful
6 4 (1.53%) COM
6 4 (1.53%) DCOM
6 4 (1.53%) YAML
7 3 (1.15%) ADO
7 3 (1.15%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.15%) REST
7 3 (1.15%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (0.76%) .NET
8 2 (0.76%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.76%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.76%) JWT
8 2 (0.76%) Node.js
8 2 (0.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.78%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (7.63%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.73%) Driving Licence
4 13 (4.96%) Data Centre
4 13 (4.96%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.82%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.05%) PKI
8 7 (2.67%) Client/Server
8 7 (2.67%) FPGA
8 7 (2.67%) Life Science
8 7 (2.67%) SCADA
9 6 (2.29%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.91%) Blog
10 5 (1.91%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.91%) PMI
10 5 (1.91%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.53%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 146 (55.73%) Windows
2 82 (31.30%) Windows Server
3 66 (25.19%) Linux
4 20 (7.63%) Unix
5 15 (5.73%) Mac OS
6 13 (4.96%) Windows 10
7 8 (3.05%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.53%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (1.15%) Android
9 3 (1.15%) Debian
9 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.76%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.38%) CentOS
11 1 (0.38%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (34.35%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 53 (20.23%) Cybersecurity
3 53 (20.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 47 (17.94%) Customer Service
5 44 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (16.03%) Disaster Recovery
7 38 (14.50%) Incident Response
8 37 (14.12%) Mentoring
9 36 (13.74%) Software Engineering
10 33 (12.60%) CI/CD
11 32 (12.21%) ITIL
12 31 (11.83%) Change Management
13 30 (11.45%) DevOps
14 26 (9.92%) Project Delivery
15 25 (9.54%) Collaborative Culture
16 23 (8.78%) ITSM
17 21 (8.02%) Clean Code
18 20 (7.63%) Service Delivery
19 18 (6.87%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 59 (22.52%) Python
2 46 (17.56%) PowerShell
3 20 (7.63%) SQL
4 17 (6.49%) C++
5 13 (4.96%) Bash
5 13 (4.96%) Java
6 11 (4.20%) C
6 11 (4.20%) Go
7 9 (3.44%) Bicep
8 5 (1.91%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.91%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.53%) C#
10 3 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.15%) PHP
10 3 (1.15%) Ruby
11 2 (0.76%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.38%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (17.56%) Degree
2 41 (15.65%) Security Cleared
3 29 (11.07%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.87%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (6.11%) Azure Certification
5 16 (6.11%) CCNA
6 12 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.82%) CCNP
8 8 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.67%) A+ Certification
10 6 (2.29%) CISSP
11 5 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.91%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.53%) CEH
13 3 (1.15%) CCNA CyberOps
13 3 (1.15%) CISM
13 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.15%) GCIA
13 3 (1.15%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.83%) SLA
2 17 (6.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.05%) GDPR
5 6 (2.29%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.91%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.15%) NIST
7 3 (1.15%) QA
8 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.38%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 101 (38.55%) Active Directory
2 47 (17.94%) Hyper-V
3 37 (14.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (6.87%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.05%) Docker
6 4 (1.53%) Firmware
6 4 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.15%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.76%) KVM
8 2 (0.76%) QEMU
8 2 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.38%) vSphere
9 1 (0.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 49 (18.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (8.78%) Ansible
3 17 (6.49%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.82%) FortiGate
5 6 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.91%) Grafana
7 4 (1.53%) QRadar
8 3 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.15%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.15%) SCCM
9 2 (0.76%) Cilium
9 2 (0.76%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.76%) Puppet
10 1 (0.38%) logstash
10 1 (0.38%) Nessus
10 1 (0.38%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.38%) Nmap
10 1 (0.38%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 140 (53.44%) Microsoft
2 48 (18.32%) VMware
3 39 (14.89%) Cisco
4 22 (8.40%) Fortinet
4 22 (8.40%) Veeam
5 21 (8.02%) Google
6 19 (7.25%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.96%) Palo Alto
8 10 (3.82%) Zscaler
9 8 (3.05%) SolarWinds
9 8 (3.05%) Splunk
10 7 (2.67%) Apple
10 7 (2.67%) F5
11 6 (2.29%) Dell
11 6 (2.29%) Meraki
12 5 (1.91%) Juniper
12 5 (1.91%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.91%) SonicWALL
12 5 (1.91%) Sophos
12 5 (1.91%) WatchGuard