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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 246 233
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 -2
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 170 191 489
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 1.28% 1.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.99% 9.98% 9.60%
Number of salaries quoted 119 150 400
10th Percentile £30,600 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £35,688 £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 £69,375 £72,281 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £78,875
UK median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -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 2,128 1,913 5,094
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.96% 12.77% 15.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,074 1,151 3,319
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £47,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.05% - -5.94%

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 7 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 47 (27.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (22.35%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.94%) IIS
4 3 (1.76%) Confluence
4 3 (1.76%) SAS
5 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (9.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 91 (53.53%) Azure
2 82 (48.24%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (31.18%) Entra ID
4 40 (23.53%) AWS
5 13 (7.65%) Google Workspace
5 13 (7.65%) OneDrive
6 10 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (5.29%) GCP
8 8 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 5 (2.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (2.94%) AWS CodeBuild
10 5 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.94%) dbt
10 5 (2.94%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.94%) PaaS
10 5 (2.94%) Pulumi
10 5 (2.94%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 98 (57.65%) DNS
2 79 (46.47%) DHCP
3 60 (35.29%) Firewall
4 57 (33.53%) VPN
5 55 (32.35%) WAN
6 45 (26.47%) LAN
7 26 (15.29%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (12.94%) VLAN
9 18 (10.59%) SD-WAN
10 13 (7.65%) VoIP
11 12 (7.06%) BGP
11 12 (7.06%) Network Security
12 9 (5.29%) HTTP
13 8 (4.71%) OSPF
14 5 (2.94%) FTP
14 5 (2.94%) SMTP
14 5 (2.94%) SNMP
15 4 (2.35%) Internet
15 4 (2.35%) VXLAN
15 4 (2.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.29%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.94%) Redis
5 4 (2.35%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.35%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.76%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.76%) MySQL
7 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.59%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.59%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 10 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (1.18%) Git
2 2 (1.18%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
General
1 65 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 50 (29.41%) Finance
3 29 (17.06%) Banking
4 20 (11.76%) Investment Banking
5 16 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.88%) Law
8 6 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.94%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.76%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.76%) Back Office
10 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.76%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.76%) Games
10 3 (1.76%) Legal
10 3 (1.76%) Retail
11 2 (1.18%) Front Office
11 2 (1.18%) Military
11 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 49 (28.82%) IT Support
2 43 (25.29%) Support Engineer
3 37 (21.76%) IT Engineer
4 36 (21.18%) IT Support Engineer
5 34 (20.00%) Senior
6 29 (17.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (13.53%) Developer
8 21 (12.35%) Analyst
9 20 (11.76%) C++ Developer
9 20 (11.76%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 20 (11.76%) Linux Developer
9 20 (11.76%) Linux Scripter
9 20 (11.76%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 19 (11.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 19 (11.18%) 2nd Line Support
10 19 (11.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 18 (10.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (6.47%) IT Analyst
12 11 (6.47%) Support Analyst
13 10 (5.88%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.94%) .NET
1 5 (2.94%) ARM Templates
1 5 (2.94%) Django
1 5 (2.94%) LDAP
1 5 (2.94%) Middleware
1 5 (2.94%) REST
2 4 (2.35%) ADO
2 4 (2.35%) RESTful
3 3 (1.76%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.76%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.76%) gRPC
3 3 (1.76%) React
4 2 (1.18%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.18%) COM
4 2 (1.18%) DCOM
4 2 (1.18%) Node.js
4 2 (1.18%) Sass
4 2 (1.18%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (1.18%) Vue
4 2 (1.18%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.76%) FPGA
2 10 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.71%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.71%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (4.12%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.53%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.35%) CCTV
7 4 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.76%) Blog
8 3 (1.76%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.76%) Life Science
8 3 (1.76%) PKI
9 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (52.35%) Windows
2 53 (31.18%) Windows Server
3 47 (27.65%) Linux
4 33 (19.41%) Windows 10
5 27 (15.88%) Mac OS
6 13 (7.65%) Apple iOS
6 13 (7.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (7.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (6.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (4.71%) Unix
10 5 (2.94%) Android
11 1 (0.59%) CentOS
11 1 (0.59%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.59%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 29 (17.06%) Disaster Recovery
4 28 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (15.29%) Agile
6 24 (14.12%) Customer Service
6 24 (14.12%) ITIL
7 22 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (12.35%) DevOps
8 21 (12.35%) Incident Response
9 20 (11.76%) Low Latency
9 20 (11.76%) Service Delivery
9 20 (11.76%) Service Management
10 18 (10.59%) ITSM
11 17 (10.00%) Containerisation
11 17 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (8.82%) CI/CD
13 13 (7.65%) Mentoring
13 13 (7.65%) Performance Monitoring
13 13 (7.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.47%) Java
2 26 (15.29%) PowerShell
3 24 (14.12%) C++
4 23 (13.53%) C
5 19 (11.18%) Python
6 15 (8.82%) SQL
7 8 (4.71%) C#
8 5 (2.94%) Bicep
9 4 (2.35%) Delphi
9 4 (2.35%) Pascal
9 4 (2.35%) PHP
10 3 (1.76%) Go
11 2 (1.18%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.59%) Bash
12 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (12.35%) Degree
2 19 (11.18%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.24%) Azure Certification
3 14 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.53%) A+ Certification
5 6 (3.53%) CCNP
5 6 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.94%) CCNA
7 4 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.18%) CCIE
9 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.18%) HND
9 2 (1.18%) MCSA
9 2 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.59%) ACSP
10 1 (0.59%) CEH
10 1 (0.59%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.00%) SLA
2 7 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.76%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.76%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.18%) GDPR
5 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.59%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.59%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.59%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.59%) NIST
5 1 (0.59%) QA
System Software
1 79 (46.47%) Active Directory
2 27 (15.88%) Hyper-V
2 27 (15.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.71%) Docker
4 6 (3.53%) Firmware
5 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.76%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.59%) KVM
7 1 (0.59%) QEMU
7 1 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.59%) Xen
Systems Management
1 36 (21.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (14.71%) Terraform
3 16 (9.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 13 (7.65%) Kubernetes
5 10 (5.88%) FortiGate
6 5 (2.94%) Ansible
6 5 (2.94%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.35%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (2.35%) SCCM
8 3 (1.76%) QRadar
8 3 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.18%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.18%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (1.18%) OpenView
9 2 (1.18%) Tivoli
9 2 (1.18%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.59%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 99 (58.24%) Microsoft
2 31 (18.24%) VMware
3 22 (12.94%) Cisco
4 17 (10.00%) Google
5 16 (9.41%) ServiceNow
6 12 (7.06%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.53%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.94%) Apple
8 5 (2.94%) ArcSight
8 5 (2.94%) Freshdesk
8 5 (2.94%) Meraki
8 5 (2.94%) SolarWinds
8 5 (2.94%) Veeam
9 4 (2.35%) Okta
9 4 (2.35%) OneLogin
9 4 (2.35%) SonicWALL
9 4 (2.35%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.76%) HP
10 3 (1.76%) Splunk
10 3 (1.76%) Symantec