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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 250 221
Rank change year-on-year +10 -29 +26
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 191 190 491
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 1.21% 1.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.47% 9.89% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 137 147 394
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,875 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £48,507 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% -7.61% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,250 £78,375
UK median annual salary £40,000 £42,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.18% -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 2,254 1,921 5,014
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.06% 12.28% 14.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,173 1,160 3,211
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,776 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -6.86%

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 June 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 43 (22.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (21.47%) SharePoint
3 12 (6.28%) IIS
4 3 (1.57%) Confluence
4 3 (1.57%) SAS
5 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (7.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 97 (50.79%) Azure
2 89 (46.60%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (31.41%) Entra ID
4 44 (23.04%) AWS
5 10 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (5.24%) Google Workspace
5 10 (5.24%) OneDrive
6 8 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (4.19%) GCP
7 7 (3.66%) OpenShift
7 7 (3.66%) SaaS
8 6 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.62%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (2.62%) AWS CodeBuild
9 5 (2.62%) dbt
9 5 (2.62%) PaaS
9 5 (2.62%) Pulumi
9 5 (2.62%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 112 (58.64%) DNS
2 90 (47.12%) DHCP
3 76 (39.79%) Firewall
4 66 (34.55%) VPN
5 56 (29.32%) WAN
6 51 (26.70%) LAN
7 27 (14.14%) VLAN
8 24 (12.57%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (8.90%) Network Security
10 16 (8.38%) BGP
11 15 (7.85%) SD-WAN
12 13 (6.81%) VoIP
13 12 (6.28%) OSPF
14 9 (4.71%) HTTP
15 6 (3.14%) Internet
15 6 (3.14%) VXLAN
15 6 (3.14%) Wireless
16 4 (2.09%) FTP
16 4 (2.09%) MPLS
16 4 (2.09%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.85%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.62%) Redis
5 4 (2.09%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.09%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.57%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.57%) MySQL
7 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.52%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.52%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 10 (5.24%) JIRA
2 4 (2.09%) Git
3 2 (1.05%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.52%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.52%) Metasploit
General
1 82 (42.93%) Social Skills
2 46 (24.08%) Finance
3 28 (14.66%) Banking
4 18 (9.42%) Investment Banking
5 17 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.76%) Law
8 10 (5.24%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.66%) Manufacturing
10 6 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.62%) Aerospace
12 4 (2.09%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.09%) Retail
13 3 (1.57%) Back Office
13 3 (1.57%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.57%) Games
14 2 (1.05%) Electronics
14 2 (1.05%) Legal
14 2 (1.05%) Military
15 1 (0.52%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 55 (28.80%) IT Support
2 54 (28.27%) Support Engineer
3 41 (21.47%) IT Engineer
4 40 (20.94%) IT Support Engineer
5 34 (17.80%) Senior
6 27 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (13.09%) Analyst
8 20 (10.47%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 20 (10.47%) 2nd Line Support
8 20 (10.47%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 20 (10.47%) Developer
9 18 (9.42%) C++ Developer
9 18 (9.42%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 18 (9.42%) Linux Developer
9 18 (9.42%) Linux Scripter
9 18 (9.42%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 16 (8.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (7.33%) Network Engineer
12 13 (6.81%) IT Analyst
12 13 (6.81%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.28%) Middleware
2 8 (4.19%) LDAP
3 6 (3.14%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.62%) .NET
4 5 (2.62%) Django
4 5 (2.62%) REST
5 4 (2.09%) ADO
5 4 (2.09%) COM
5 4 (2.09%) DCOM
5 4 (2.09%) RESTful
6 3 (1.57%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.57%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.57%) gRPC
6 3 (1.57%) React
7 2 (1.05%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.05%) Node.js
7 2 (1.05%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (1.05%) Vue
8 1 (0.52%) Sass
8 1 (0.52%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.42%) FPGA
2 14 (7.33%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.76%) Driving Licence
4 9 (4.71%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.14%) PKI
6 6 (3.14%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.62%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.62%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.09%) CCTV
8 4 (2.09%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.09%) Life Science
8 4 (2.09%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.09%) Smartcard
9 3 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 103 (53.93%) Windows
2 63 (32.98%) Windows Server
3 49 (25.65%) Linux
4 31 (16.23%) Windows 10
5 26 (13.61%) Mac OS
6 11 (5.76%) Apple iOS
6 11 (5.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (5.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (4.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (3.66%) Unix
10 5 (2.62%) Android
11 4 (2.09%) Ubuntu
12 3 (1.57%) Debian
13 1 (0.52%) CentOS
13 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.52%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.52%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.52%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (35.08%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (17.80%) Customer Service
3 33 (17.28%) Disaster Recovery
3 33 (17.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 30 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (13.61%) Agile
7 25 (13.09%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (13.09%) ITIL
8 24 (12.57%) Incident Response
9 22 (11.52%) DevOps
9 22 (11.52%) ITSM
10 20 (10.47%) Service Delivery
11 18 (9.42%) Containerisation
11 18 (9.42%) Low Latency
11 18 (9.42%) Service Management
12 15 (7.85%) Roadmaps
13 14 (7.33%) Analytics
13 14 (7.33%) CI/CD
13 14 (7.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.80%) PowerShell
2 26 (13.61%) Java
3 23 (12.04%) Python
4 22 (11.52%) C++
5 21 (10.99%) C
6 20 (10.47%) SQL
7 7 (3.66%) C#
7 7 (3.66%) PHP
8 5 (2.62%) Bicep
9 4 (2.09%) Bash
9 4 (2.09%) Delphi
9 4 (2.09%) Pascal
10 3 (1.57%) Go
10 3 (1.57%) Ruby
11 2 (1.05%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (15.18%) Degree
2 25 (13.09%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.90%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.81%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.24%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (4.71%) CCNA
6 9 (4.71%) CCNP
7 8 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.14%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.05%) CCIE
10 2 (1.05%) HND
10 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.05%) MCSA
10 2 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.52%) CEH
11 1 (0.52%) CISM
11 1 (0.52%) CISSP
11 1 (0.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.52%) SLA
2 8 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.09%) GDPR
3 4 (2.09%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.57%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.05%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.52%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 83 (43.46%) Active Directory
2 34 (17.80%) Hyper-V
3 30 (15.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.66%) Docker
5 5 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.09%) Firmware
7 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.57%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.05%) vSphere
9 1 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.52%) KVM
9 1 (0.52%) QEMU
9 1 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.52%) Xen
Systems Management
1 38 (19.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (13.61%) Terraform
3 14 (7.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 14 (7.33%) Kubernetes
4 12 (6.28%) FortiGate
5 9 (4.71%) Ansible
6 5 (2.62%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.09%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (2.09%) QRadar
7 4 (2.09%) SCCM
8 3 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.05%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (1.05%) OpenView
9 2 (1.05%) Tivoli
9 2 (1.05%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.52%) Nessus
10 1 (0.52%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.52%) Nmap
10 1 (0.52%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 111 (58.12%) Microsoft
2 35 (18.32%) VMware
3 24 (12.57%) Cisco
4 20 (10.47%) ServiceNow
5 15 (7.85%) Fortinet
6 14 (7.33%) Google
7 8 (4.19%) Meraki
7 8 (4.19%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.66%) SolarWinds
8 7 (3.66%) Veeam
9 6 (3.14%) ArcSight
9 6 (3.14%) Zscaler
10 5 (2.62%) Apple
10 5 (2.62%) Freshdesk
10 5 (2.62%) SonicWALL
11 4 (2.09%) Citrix
11 4 (2.09%) Okta
11 4 (2.09%) OneLogin
11 4 (2.09%) Salesforce
11 4 (2.09%) Splunk