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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 188 186
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +58
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 184 330 393
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.19% 1.67% 1.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.10% 13.65% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 125 200 355
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,375 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.58% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £69,800
90th Percentile £79,516 £78,875 £79,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -21.05% - +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 1,405 2,417 3,069
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.10% 12.20% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 977 1,394 2,568
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £85,977
UK median annual salary £37,625 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.01% +6.00% -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 16 November 2025.

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 29 (15.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.98%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.09%) nginx
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.54%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.26%) AutoCAD
2 6 (3.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 64 (34.78%) Azure
2 56 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (17.39%) AWS
4 20 (10.87%) Entra ID
5 16 (8.70%) GCP
6 13 (7.07%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (4.89%) GitHub
8 8 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
8 8 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (4.35%) dbt
8 8 (4.35%) IaaS
8 8 (4.35%) Pulumi
9 7 (3.80%) SaaS
10 6 (3.26%) OCI
11 5 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.72%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.72%) Google Workspace
11 5 (2.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.63%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 77 (41.85%) DNS
2 73 (39.67%) DHCP
3 65 (35.33%) Firewall
4 53 (28.80%) VPN
5 37 (20.11%) LAN
6 36 (19.57%) WAN
7 29 (15.76%) VLAN
8 23 (12.50%) Network Security
9 22 (11.96%) VoIP
10 17 (9.24%) BGP
10 17 (9.24%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (7.07%) OSPF
12 11 (5.98%) HTTP
13 10 (5.43%) SD-WAN
14 9 (4.89%) SSL
15 7 (3.80%) Wireless
16 6 (3.26%) Fibre Channel
16 6 (3.26%) HSRP
16 6 (3.26%) Internet
16 6 (3.26%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.07%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (5.98%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.35%) Redis
4 2 (1.09%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.54%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.54%) FileMaker
5 1 (0.54%) MySQL
5 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (4.35%) Git
2 4 (2.17%) JIRA
3 3 (1.63%) Burp Suite
3 3 (1.63%) Metasploit
3 3 (1.63%) Snyk
4 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.54%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.54%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 68 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.48%) Finance
3 23 (12.50%) Banking
4 20 (10.87%) Investment Banking
5 15 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.98%) Retail
8 8 (4.35%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.80%) Telecoms
10 6 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.72%) Advertising
12 3 (1.63%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.63%) Back Office
12 3 (1.63%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.63%) Front Office
12 3 (1.63%) Law
13 2 (1.09%) Electronics
13 2 (1.09%) Local Government
13 2 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (16.85%) Senior
2 26 (14.13%) Linux Scripter
3 24 (13.04%) Developer
4 22 (11.96%) IT Support
4 22 (11.96%) Support Engineer
5 20 (10.87%) C++ Developer
5 20 (10.87%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
5 20 (10.87%) Linux Developer
5 20 (10.87%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 17 (9.24%) IT Engineer
6 17 (9.24%) IT Support Engineer
7 16 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
8 15 (8.15%) Analyst
9 14 (7.61%) Network Engineer
10 13 (7.07%) 3rd Line Support
10 13 (7.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (7.07%) Support Technician
11 12 (6.52%) Security Engineer
12 11 (5.98%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 11 (5.98%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.35%) Django
2 5 (2.72%) .NET
3 4 (2.17%) RESTful
4 3 (1.63%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (1.63%) Node.js
5 2 (1.09%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.09%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.09%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.09%) Sass
5 2 (1.09%) ZeroMQ
6 1 (0.54%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.54%) LDAP
6 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.54%) OAuth
6 1 (0.54%) SAML
6 1 (0.54%) Web Services
6 1 (0.54%) YAML
6 1 (0.54%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.41%) FPGA
2 18 (9.78%) Driving Licence
3 17 (9.24%) Onboarding
4 15 (8.15%) Data Centre
4 15 (8.15%) Management Information System
5 11 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.89%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (4.35%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.17%) CCTV
9 4 (2.17%) e-Learning
9 4 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.17%) NHS
9 4 (2.17%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.63%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.63%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.63%) Replication
10 3 (1.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 73 (39.67%) Windows
2 56 (30.43%) Linux
3 36 (19.57%) Windows Server
4 21 (11.41%) Windows 10
5 10 (5.43%) Unix
6 8 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (3.80%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.72%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (2.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (2.17%) Apple iOS
9 4 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.63%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.54%) Android
11 1 (0.54%) CentOS
11 1 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (20.65%) ITIL
3 31 (16.85%) Customer Service
4 29 (15.76%) Agile
5 25 (13.59%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 23 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (12.50%) Low Latency
7 22 (11.96%) DevOps
7 22 (11.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (7.61%) Network Management
9 14 (7.61%) Observability
10 13 (7.07%) Penetration Testing
10 13 (7.07%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (6.52%) Information Security
11 12 (6.52%) SIEM
12 11 (5.98%) Security Operations
13 10 (5.43%) Containerisation
13 10 (5.43%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 37 (20.11%) Python
2 28 (15.22%) C
2 28 (15.22%) C++
3 26 (14.13%) Java
3 26 (14.13%) PowerShell
4 11 (5.98%) SQL
5 7 (3.80%) Bash
6 4 (2.17%) C#
7 3 (1.63%) Go
8 1 (0.54%) Perl
8 1 (0.54%) PHP
8 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (15.76%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (12.50%) Degree
3 22 (11.96%) CCNA
4 18 (9.78%) CCNP
5 17 (9.24%) Security Cleared
6 15 (8.15%) SC Cleared
7 11 (5.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (5.43%) Azure Certification
9 9 (4.89%) CISSP
10 8 (4.35%) A+ Certification
10 8 (4.35%) GCIA
10 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (4.35%) SANS
11 6 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (3.26%) DBS Check
12 5 (2.72%) AWS Certification
12 5 (2.72%) HND
13 4 (2.17%) HNC
13 4 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (5.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.72%) GRC
4 3 (1.63%) GDPR
4 3 (1.63%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.63%) SLA
4 3 (1.63%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.09%) NCSC
6 1 (0.54%) GxP
6 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 54 (29.35%) Active Directory
2 21 (11.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (10.87%) Hyper-V
4 12 (6.52%) Docker
5 9 (4.89%) vSphere
6 6 (3.26%) Firmware
6 6 (3.26%) NFS
7 3 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.09%) pfSense
8 2 (1.09%) XenApp
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (14.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (13.04%) Terraform
3 16 (8.70%) Ansible
4 12 (6.52%) Kubernetes
5 11 (5.98%) SCCM
6 5 (2.72%) Autotask
7 4 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.17%) Nessus
8 3 (1.63%) Nmap
8 3 (1.63%) WSUS
9 2 (1.09%) Grafana
9 2 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.09%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.54%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.54%) OpenView
10 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 63 (34.24%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.13%) Cisco
3 23 (12.50%) VMware
4 15 (8.15%) Google
5 8 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.80%) Commvault
6 7 (3.80%) Extreme Networks
6 7 (3.80%) Pure Storage
6 7 (3.80%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.26%) Avaya
7 6 (3.26%) Citrix
7 6 (3.26%) HP
8 4 (2.17%) Qualys
9 3 (1.63%) Dell
9 3 (1.63%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.63%) Freshdesk
9 3 (1.63%) Juniper
9 3 (1.63%) Oracle
9 3 (1.63%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.63%) Siemens