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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 217 210
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 +18
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 168 198 489
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 1.47% 1.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.59% 12.18% 9.49%
Number of salaries quoted 109 155 407
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £37,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,061 £68,375
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,500 £78,950
UK median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -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 1,955 1,625 5,155
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.82% 12.04% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 955 1,191 3,432
10th Percentile £29,250 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,295 £33,250 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,058 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% -2.75% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,200 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -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 26 April 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 44 (26.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (16.07%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.19%) Apache
3 2 (1.19%) Confluence
3 2 (1.19%) IIS
3 2 (1.19%) nginx
4 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 89 (52.98%) Azure
2 71 (42.26%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (27.38%) Entra ID
4 42 (25.00%) AWS
5 18 (10.71%) Google Workspace
6 15 (8.93%) OneDrive
7 11 (6.55%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (5.36%) GCP
9 8 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.57%) PaaS
12 5 (2.98%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 5 (2.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (2.98%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (2.98%) dbt
12 5 (2.98%) Pulumi
12 5 (2.98%) SaaS
12 5 (2.98%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 96 (57.14%) DNS
2 80 (47.62%) DHCP
3 61 (36.31%) VPN
3 61 (36.31%) WAN
4 49 (29.17%) Firewall
5 47 (27.98%) LAN
6 32 (19.05%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (13.69%) SD-WAN
8 21 (12.50%) VLAN
9 18 (10.71%) VoIP
10 12 (7.14%) BGP
11 9 (5.36%) HTTP
12 8 (4.76%) Network Security
12 8 (4.76%) Wireless
13 7 (4.17%) OSPF
14 6 (3.57%) SNMP
15 5 (2.98%) Internet
15 5 (2.98%) SAN
16 4 (2.38%) FTP
16 4 (2.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.98%) Redis
4 4 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.38%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.79%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.60%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.17%) Burp Suite
1 7 (4.17%) Metasploit
2 4 (2.38%) JIRA
3 2 (1.19%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
General
1 65 (38.69%) Social Skills
2 51 (30.36%) Finance
3 27 (16.07%) Banking
4 19 (11.31%) Investment Banking
5 17 (10.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.36%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.76%) Law
9 5 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.38%) Back Office
10 4 (2.38%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.38%) Retail
11 3 (1.79%) Front Office
11 3 (1.79%) Legal
11 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.19%) Military
13 1 (0.60%) Advertising
13 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 42 (25.00%) IT Support
2 39 (23.21%) Support Engineer
3 38 (22.62%) Senior
4 35 (20.83%) IT Engineer
4 35 (20.83%) IT Support Engineer
5 30 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (13.69%) Developer
7 22 (13.10%) 2nd Line Support
8 21 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 21 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 19 (11.31%) Analyst
9 19 (11.31%) C++ Developer
9 19 (11.31%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 19 (11.31%) Linux Developer
9 19 (11.31%) Linux Scripter
9 19 (11.31%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 18 (10.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (7.14%) Support Analyst
12 9 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (4.76%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.98%) ARM Templates
1 5 (2.98%) Django
1 5 (2.98%) RESTful
2 4 (2.38%) ADO
2 4 (2.38%) LDAP
3 3 (1.79%) .NET
3 3 (1.79%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.79%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (1.79%) gRPC
3 3 (1.79%) REST
3 3 (1.79%) Sass
3 3 (1.79%) ZeroMQ
4 2 (1.19%) Middleware
5 1 (0.60%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.60%) JWT
5 1 (0.60%) Next.js
5 1 (0.60%) OAuth
5 1 (0.60%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.50%) FPGA
2 13 (7.74%) Onboarding
3 12 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 12 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.36%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.57%) iPad
6 6 (3.57%) iPhone
6 6 (3.57%) NHS
7 5 (2.98%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.98%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.38%) CCTV
8 4 (2.38%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.79%) Blog
9 3 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 86 (51.19%) Windows
2 53 (31.55%) Windows Server
3 51 (30.36%) Linux
4 43 (25.60%) Windows 10
5 26 (15.48%) Mac OS
6 18 (10.71%) Apple iOS
7 17 (10.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (8.93%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (4.17%) Unix
11 4 (2.38%) Android
12 3 (1.79%) CentOS
13 2 (1.19%) OpenWrt
13 2 (1.19%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.60%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (36.31%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 29 (17.26%) Disaster Recovery
4 26 (15.48%) Agile
4 26 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 21 (12.50%) ITIL
6 20 (11.90%) DevOps
7 19 (11.31%) Low Latency
7 19 (11.31%) Service Delivery
8 18 (10.71%) CI/CD
9 17 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (10.12%) Identity Access Management
9 17 (10.12%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (8.93%) Incident Management
10 15 (8.93%) Incident Response
10 15 (8.93%) Mentoring
11 13 (7.74%) ITSM
11 13 (7.74%) Performance Monitoring
11 13 (7.74%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.86%) Java
2 25 (14.88%) PowerShell
3 24 (14.29%) C
3 24 (14.29%) C++
3 24 (14.29%) Python
4 13 (7.74%) SQL
5 7 (4.17%) C#
6 5 (2.98%) Bash
6 5 (2.98%) Bicep
7 4 (2.38%) Delphi
7 4 (2.38%) Go
7 4 (2.38%) Pascal
7 4 (2.38%) PHP
8 2 (1.19%) Perl
9 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (7.74%) Degree
2 11 (6.55%) Azure Certification
2 11 (6.55%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.36%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.76%) CCNP
4 8 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.17%) CHECK Team Member
5 7 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.17%) CREST Certified
5 7 (4.17%) Cyber Scheme
6 6 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.98%) CCNA
8 4 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.79%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.19%) CCIE
10 2 (1.19%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.60%) ACSP
11 1 (0.60%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (4.76%) SLA
2 4 (2.38%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.38%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.19%) GDPR
3 2 (1.19%) NIST
4 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.60%) GRC
4 1 (0.60%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.60%) NCSC
4 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 71 (42.26%) Active Directory
2 31 (18.45%) Hyper-V
3 30 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.76%) Docker
5 7 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.38%) Firmware
7 2 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.19%) vSphere
8 1 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.60%) KVM
8 1 (0.60%) QEMU
8 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.60%) Xen
Systems Management
1 32 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (16.07%) Terraform
3 19 (11.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 10 (5.95%) Kubernetes
5 9 (5.36%) Ansible
6 8 (4.76%) Nessus
6 8 (4.76%) SCCM
7 7 (4.17%) Nmap
8 6 (3.57%) FortiGate
9 5 (2.98%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.19%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (1.19%) OpenView
11 2 (1.19%) QRadar
11 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.19%) Tivoli
11 2 (1.19%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.60%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 87 (51.79%) Microsoft
2 32 (19.05%) VMware
3 22 (13.10%) Google
4 18 (10.71%) Cisco
5 9 (5.36%) Fortinet
5 9 (5.36%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.57%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.98%) Dell
7 5 (2.98%) Freshdesk
7 5 (2.98%) HP
7 5 (2.98%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.98%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.38%) ArcSight
8 4 (2.38%) Okta
8 4 (2.38%) OneLogin
9 3 (1.79%) Citrix
9 3 (1.79%) Meraki
9 3 (1.79%) Oracle
9 3 (1.79%) Veeam
10 2 (1.19%) EMC