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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 189 197
Rank change year-on-year -21 +8 +25
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 170 303 356
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.13% 1.79% 1.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.30% 13.57% 12.52%
Number of salaries quoted 110 185 322
10th Percentile £31,088 £36,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £74,144 £72,433
90th Percentile £78,790 £84,000 £79,925
UK median annual salary £37,750 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -24.50% +5.26% +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 1,382 2,233 2,844
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.15% 13.21% 13.83%
Number of salaries quoted 904 1,269 2,402
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

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 January 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 35 (20.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (8.24%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.18%) Apache
3 2 (1.18%) nginx
4 1 (0.59%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.12%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.53%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.06%) Azure
2 51 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (18.82%) AWS
4 24 (14.12%) Entra ID
5 13 (7.65%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (6.47%) Google Workspace
7 10 (5.88%) GCP
8 9 (5.29%) GitHub
9 8 (4.71%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.71%) dbt
9 8 (4.71%) IaaS
9 8 (4.71%) OneDrive
9 8 (4.71%) Pulumi
10 5 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.94%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.94%) SaaS
10 5 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 70 (41.18%) DNS
2 63 (37.06%) DHCP
3 58 (34.12%) Firewall
4 53 (31.18%) VPN
5 42 (24.71%) WAN
6 34 (20.00%) LAN
7 22 (12.94%) VLAN
7 22 (12.94%) VoIP
8 18 (10.59%) SD-WAN
8 18 (10.59%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (8.24%) Network Security
10 11 (6.47%) BGP
10 11 (6.47%) HTTP
11 10 (5.88%) SSL
12 8 (4.71%) OSPF
12 8 (4.71%) Wireless
13 6 (3.53%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (3.53%) HSRP
13 6 (3.53%) SNMP
13 6 (3.53%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.65%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (6.47%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.71%) Redis
4 2 (1.18%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.59%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 7 (4.12%) Burp Suite
1 7 (4.12%) Git
1 7 (4.12%) Metasploit
2 4 (2.35%) JIRA
3 3 (1.76%) Snyk
4 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.59%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 69 (40.59%) Social Skills
2 43 (25.29%) Finance
3 22 (12.94%) Banking
4 19 (11.18%) Investment Banking
5 14 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.47%) Retail
7 10 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.29%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.35%) Front Office
9 4 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.76%) Back Office
10 3 (1.76%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.76%) Law
10 3 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Advertising
11 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Local Government
11 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (20.59%) Senior
2 25 (14.71%) Linux Scripter
2 25 (14.71%) Support Engineer
3 23 (13.53%) Developer
3 23 (13.53%) IT Support
4 21 (12.35%) 2nd Line Support
4 21 (12.35%) IT Engineer
4 21 (12.35%) IT Support Engineer
5 19 (11.18%) C++ Developer
5 19 (11.18%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
5 19 (11.18%) Linux Developer
5 19 (11.18%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 18 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (9.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 16 (9.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 13 (7.65%) Analyst
9 12 (7.06%) 3rd Line Support
9 12 (7.06%) Security Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) Consultant
10 9 (5.29%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.71%) Django
2 4 (2.35%) .NET
3 3 (1.76%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (1.76%) RESTful
3 3 (1.76%) Sass
3 3 (1.76%) ZeroMQ
4 2 (1.18%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.18%) FreeSWITCH
4 2 (1.18%) LDAP
4 2 (1.18%) Node.js
5 1 (0.59%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.35%) FPGA
2 17 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 14 (8.24%) Data Centre
3 14 (8.24%) Driving Licence
4 13 (7.65%) Management Information System
5 11 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (4.71%) Cloud Native
7 8 (4.71%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (3.53%) iPad
9 6 (3.53%) iPhone
10 5 (2.94%) e-Learning
11 4 (2.35%) Algorithms
11 4 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (2.35%) CCTV
11 4 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (2.35%) Mobile App
11 4 (2.35%) NHS
11 4 (2.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 71 (41.76%) Windows
2 54 (31.76%) Linux
3 45 (26.47%) Windows Server
4 29 (17.06%) Windows 10
5 11 (6.47%) Mac OS
6 10 (5.88%) Unix
6 10 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (5.29%) Apple iOS
7 9 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (5.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (5.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.76%) OpenWrt
9 2 (1.18%) CentOS
9 2 (1.18%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (24.71%) ITIL
3 28 (16.47%) Customer Service
4 27 (15.88%) Agile
5 26 (15.29%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (13.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (12.94%) DevOps
7 22 (12.94%) Low Latency
8 21 (12.35%) CI/CD
8 21 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (11.18%) Root Cause Analysis
10 18 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
12 16 (9.41%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (8.24%) Observability
14 13 (7.65%) Service Delivery
15 11 (6.47%) Information Security
15 11 (6.47%) Performance Monitoring
15 11 (6.47%) SIEM
16 10 (5.88%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (21.18%) Python
2 26 (15.29%) C
2 26 (15.29%) C++
2 26 (15.29%) Java
3 22 (12.94%) PowerShell
4 12 (7.06%) SQL
5 8 (4.71%) Bash
6 4 (2.35%) C#
7 3 (1.76%) Go
8 2 (1.18%) Perl
9 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (13.53%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (11.76%) Degree
3 17 (10.00%) CCNA
4 16 (9.41%) CCNP
4 16 (9.41%) Security Cleared
5 14 (8.24%) SC Cleared
6 10 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (5.29%) CISSP
8 8 (4.71%) GCIA
8 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (4.71%) SANS
9 7 (4.12%) CHECK Team Member
9 7 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (4.12%) CREST Certified
9 7 (4.12%) Cyber Scheme
10 5 (2.94%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.94%) DBS Check
10 5 (2.94%) Master's Degree
11 4 (2.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (6.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.53%) SLA
4 5 (2.94%) GRC
5 3 (1.76%) GDPR
5 3 (1.76%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.76%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.18%) NCSC
7 1 (0.59%) GxP
7 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (32.35%) Active Directory
2 26 (15.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (11.76%) Hyper-V
4 11 (6.47%) Docker
5 9 (5.29%) vSphere
6 7 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.53%) NFS
8 5 (2.94%) Firmware
9 2 (1.18%) pfSense
9 2 (1.18%) XenApp
10 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (16.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (14.71%) Terraform
3 13 (7.65%) Ansible
4 10 (5.88%) Kubernetes
5 8 (4.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (4.71%) Nessus
6 7 (4.12%) Nmap
7 6 (3.53%) SCCM
8 5 (2.94%) Autotask
9 2 (1.18%) Grafana
9 2 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 1 (0.59%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.59%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.59%) OpenView
10 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.59%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (34.71%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.88%) VMware
3 22 (12.94%) Cisco
4 20 (11.76%) Google
5 11 (6.47%) Red Hat
6 7 (4.12%) Commvault
6 7 (4.12%) Pure Storage
7 6 (3.53%) Avaya
7 6 (3.53%) Extreme Networks
8 5 (2.94%) Dell
8 5 (2.94%) HP
8 5 (2.94%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.35%) Citrix
9 4 (2.35%) Fortinet
9 4 (2.35%) Oracle
9 4 (2.35%) Qualys
10 3 (1.76%) Checkmarx
10 3 (1.76%) Freshdesk
10 3 (1.76%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.76%) Salesforce