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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 199 193
Rank change year-on-year -15 -6 +19
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 179 263 459
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.09% 1.74% 1.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.78% 13.67% 12.41%
Number of salaries quoted 120 164 403
10th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £31,050
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,786 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £74,144 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,125 £78,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £44,480
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.41% -1.16%

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 1,661 1,924 3,700
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.10% 12.74% 13.41%
Number of salaries quoted 946 1,151 3,217
10th Percentile £28,125 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,222 £55,384 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.93% +2.56% -3.57%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +12.24% -6.67%

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 February 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 50 (27.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (11.73%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) Apache
3 2 (1.12%) Confluence
3 2 (1.12%) nginx
4 1 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 86 (48.04%) Azure
2 71 (39.66%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (24.02%) Entra ID
4 42 (23.46%) AWS
5 20 (11.17%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (8.94%) Google Workspace
7 15 (8.38%) GCP
8 14 (7.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (7.82%) OneDrive
9 13 (7.26%) Amazon ECR
9 13 (7.26%) dbt
9 13 (7.26%) Pulumi
10 8 (4.47%) IaaS
10 8 (4.47%) PaaS
10 8 (4.47%) SaaS
11 7 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.91%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.35%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.35%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 91 (50.84%) DNS
2 80 (44.69%) DHCP
3 72 (40.22%) VPN
4 56 (31.28%) Firewall
5 54 (30.17%) WAN
6 38 (21.23%) LAN
7 31 (17.32%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (15.08%) VLAN
9 20 (11.17%) SD-WAN
10 18 (10.06%) VoIP
11 12 (6.70%) Network Security
12 10 (5.59%) BGP
12 10 (5.59%) SSL
13 9 (5.03%) Wireless
14 7 (3.91%) SNMP
15 6 (3.35%) HTTP
16 5 (2.79%) Remote Desktop
17 4 (2.23%) MPLS
17 4 (2.23%) SAN
17 4 (2.23%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.61%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.26%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (7.26%) Redis
4 11 (6.15%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.56%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 7 (3.91%) Burp Suite
1 7 (3.91%) Metasploit
2 6 (3.35%) JIRA
3 2 (1.12%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.56%) Git
4 1 (0.56%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.56%) Snyk
General
1 76 (42.46%) Social Skills
2 47 (26.26%) Finance
3 24 (13.41%) Banking
4 20 (11.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (10.06%) Investment Banking
6 14 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.59%) Public Sector
8 9 (5.03%) Retail
9 6 (3.35%) Back Office
9 6 (3.35%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.35%) Law
10 5 (2.79%) Front Office
10 5 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.12%) Local Government
13 1 (0.56%) Legal
13 1 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (23.46%) IT Support
2 40 (22.35%) Senior
2 40 (22.35%) Support Engineer
3 35 (19.55%) IT Engineer
3 35 (19.55%) IT Support Engineer
4 26 (14.53%) 2nd Line Support
5 25 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (12.85%) Developer
7 21 (11.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 21 (11.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 19 (10.61%) Linux Scripter
9 18 (10.06%) C++ Developer
9 18 (10.06%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 18 (10.06%) Linux Developer
9 18 (10.06%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 16 (8.94%) Analyst
11 12 (6.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (6.15%) Support Analyst
13 10 (5.59%) 3rd Line Support
13 10 (5.59%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.26%) Django
2 6 (3.35%) RESTful
3 4 (2.23%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (2.23%) Sass
3 4 (2.23%) ZeroMQ
4 3 (1.68%) .NET
5 2 (1.12%) LDAP
5 2 (1.12%) Middleware
6 1 (0.56%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.17%) FPGA
2 19 (10.61%) Onboarding
3 16 (8.94%) Driving Licence
4 15 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.59%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (5.03%) Cloud Native
6 9 (5.03%) Data Centre
6 9 (5.03%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (4.47%) CCTV
8 6 (3.35%) iPad
8 6 (3.35%) iPhone
8 6 (3.35%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.35%) NHS
9 5 (2.79%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.23%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.23%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (2.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 89 (49.72%) Windows
2 60 (33.52%) Windows Server
3 58 (32.40%) Linux
4 40 (22.35%) Windows 10
5 21 (11.73%) Mac OS
6 17 (9.50%) Apple iOS
7 15 (8.38%) Unix
7 15 (8.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (7.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (6.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.68%) Android
10 3 (1.68%) OpenWrt
10 3 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.12%) CentOS
11 2 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.56%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.56%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (34.64%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (17.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (16.76%) Customer Service
4 29 (16.20%) Agile
5 28 (15.64%) ITIL
6 26 (14.53%) CI/CD
6 26 (14.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 24 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (12.29%) Service Delivery
9 21 (11.73%) Performance Monitoring
10 20 (11.17%) DevOps
10 20 (11.17%) Observability
11 19 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (10.61%) Low Latency
12 18 (10.06%) Root Cause Analysis
13 16 (8.94%) Cybersecurity
14 13 (7.26%) Application Performance Monitoring
14 13 (7.26%) Clean Code
14 13 (7.26%) Identity Access Management
14 13 (7.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (20.67%) Python
2 33 (18.44%) Java
3 26 (14.53%) C
3 26 (14.53%) C++
4 25 (13.97%) PowerShell
5 17 (9.50%) SQL
6 6 (3.35%) Go
7 5 (2.79%) C#
8 4 (2.23%) Bash
8 4 (2.23%) Delphi
8 4 (2.23%) Pascal
8 4 (2.23%) PHP
9 2 (1.12%) Perl
10 1 (0.56%) Bicep
10 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (11.73%) Degree
2 18 (10.06%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.94%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (8.94%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.26%) CCNA
5 10 (5.59%) CCNP
6 9 (5.03%) Azure Certification
6 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.91%) CHECK Team Member
7 7 (3.91%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.91%) CREST Certified
7 7 (3.91%) Cyber Scheme
8 6 (3.35%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.79%) CISSP
9 5 (2.79%) DBS Check
10 4 (2.23%) GCIA
10 4 (2.23%) SANS
11 3 (1.68%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.91%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.35%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.35%) SOC 2
4 5 (2.79%) SLA
5 3 (1.68%) GRC
6 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.12%) NCSC
6 2 (1.12%) NIST
7 1 (0.56%) GxP
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 76 (42.46%) Active Directory
2 29 (16.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (13.97%) Hyper-V
4 14 (7.82%) Docker
5 7 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.23%) Firmware
6 4 (2.23%) vSphere
7 2 (1.12%) XenApp
8 1 (0.56%) NFS
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (18.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (15.08%) Terraform
3 13 (7.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (4.47%) Nessus
4 8 (4.47%) SCCM
5 7 (3.91%) Ansible
5 7 (3.91%) Nmap
6 5 (2.79%) Autotask
6 5 (2.79%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (1.68%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.68%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.12%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (1.12%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.12%) OpenView
8 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 2 (1.12%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 81 (45.25%) Microsoft
2 30 (16.76%) VMware
3 29 (16.20%) Google
4 12 (6.70%) Cisco
5 7 (3.91%) Fortinet
5 7 (3.91%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.35%) Dell
6 6 (3.35%) HP
7 5 (2.79%) Citrix
7 5 (2.79%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.23%) Oracle
8 4 (2.23%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.68%) Freshdesk
10 2 (1.12%) ArcSight
10 2 (1.12%) EMC
10 2 (1.12%) ExtraHop
10 2 (1.12%) InterSystems
10 2 (1.12%) Qualys
10 2 (1.12%) Riverbed
10 2 (1.12%) Symantec