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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 205 196
Rank change year-on-year -20 -9 +17
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 174 202 487
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.04% 1.58% 1.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.27% 12.53% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 115 163 416
10th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £30,813
25th Percentile £34,500 £43,774 £37,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 £74,144 £68,563
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £48,754 £42,500
% change year-on-year -17.95% +14.71% -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 1,878 1,612 4,288
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.22% 12.58% 13.80%
Number of salaries quoted 952 1,195 3,458
10th Percentile £28,275 £27,000 £30,588
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £66,914
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £48,250
% change year-on-year -19.05% +8.81% -6.31%

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 1 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 47 (27.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (12.64%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.15%) Apache
3 2 (1.15%) Confluence
3 2 (1.15%) nginx
4 1 (0.57%) IIS
4 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 94 (54.02%) Azure
2 73 (41.95%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (28.74%) AWS
4 42 (24.14%) Entra ID
5 21 (12.07%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (10.92%) Google Workspace
7 17 (9.77%) GCP
8 15 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (8.62%) OneDrive
9 13 (7.47%) Amazon ECR
9 13 (7.47%) dbt
9 13 (7.47%) Pulumi
10 8 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (4.02%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (4.02%) SaaS
12 6 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.45%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.45%) PaaS
12 6 (3.45%) Route 53
12 6 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 95 (54.60%) DNS
2 84 (48.28%) DHCP
3 61 (35.06%) VPN
4 55 (31.61%) WAN
5 47 (27.01%) Firewall
6 39 (22.41%) LAN
7 35 (20.11%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (13.79%) VLAN
9 20 (11.49%) SD-WAN
9 20 (11.49%) VoIP
10 11 (6.32%) BGP
11 8 (4.60%) Network Security
11 8 (4.60%) Wireless
12 7 (4.02%) SNMP
13 6 (3.45%) HTTP
14 5 (2.87%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (2.87%) SAN
14 5 (2.87%) SSL
15 4 (2.30%) MPLS
15 4 (2.30%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.92%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.47%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (7.47%) Redis
4 10 (5.75%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.72%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.72%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.57%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.02%) Burp Suite
1 7 (4.02%) Metasploit
2 5 (2.87%) JIRA
3 2 (1.15%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.57%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 76 (43.68%) Social Skills
2 49 (28.16%) Finance
3 27 (15.52%) Banking
4 19 (10.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (10.92%) Investment Banking
5 15 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.75%) Law
7 9 (5.17%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.45%) Back Office
8 6 (3.45%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.45%) Retail
9 5 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.30%) Front Office
11 3 (1.72%) Legal
11 3 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.15%) Military
13 1 (0.57%) Advertising
13 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 47 (27.01%) IT Support
2 44 (25.29%) Support Engineer
3 41 (23.56%) IT Engineer
3 41 (23.56%) IT Support Engineer
4 39 (22.41%) Senior
5 29 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 28 (16.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (14.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 25 (14.37%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 23 (13.22%) Developer
9 19 (10.92%) C++ Developer
9 19 (10.92%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 19 (10.92%) Linux Developer
9 19 (10.92%) Linux Scripter
9 19 (10.92%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 17 (9.77%) Analyst
11 14 (8.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (6.90%) Support Analyst
13 9 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 8 (4.60%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.47%) Django
2 6 (3.45%) RESTful
3 4 (2.30%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (2.30%) Sass
3 4 (2.30%) ZeroMQ
4 3 (1.72%) .NET
4 3 (1.72%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.72%) gRPC
4 3 (1.72%) REST
5 2 (1.15%) ADO
5 2 (1.15%) LDAP
5 2 (1.15%) Middleware
6 1 (0.57%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.57%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.07%) FPGA
2 16 (9.20%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.05%) Driving Licence
4 13 (7.47%) Onboarding
5 11 (6.32%) Cloud Native
5 11 (6.32%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (5.75%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (4.02%) CCTV
7 7 (4.02%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.45%) iPad
8 6 (3.45%) iPhone
8 6 (3.45%) NHS
9 5 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.87%) Security Posture
10 4 (2.30%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.30%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (1.72%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 86 (49.43%) Windows
2 64 (36.78%) Linux
3 59 (33.91%) Windows Server
4 46 (26.44%) Windows 10
5 26 (14.94%) Mac OS
6 18 (10.34%) Apple iOS
6 18 (10.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 18 (10.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (8.62%) Unix
7 15 (8.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (2.30%) Android
9 3 (1.72%) CentOS
9 3 (1.72%) OpenWrt
10 2 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.57%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.57%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (36.21%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 29 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (16.09%) CI/CD
5 27 (15.52%) Agile
5 27 (15.52%) Disaster Recovery
6 26 (14.94%) Customer Service
7 25 (14.37%) DevOps
8 24 (13.79%) ITIL
9 21 (12.07%) Performance Monitoring
10 19 (10.92%) Low Latency
10 19 (10.92%) Observability
11 17 (9.77%) Root Cause Analysis
11 17 (9.77%) Service Delivery
12 15 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (8.62%) Identity Access Management
13 14 (8.05%) Incident Response
13 14 (8.05%) Mentoring
14 13 (7.47%) Application Performance Monitoring
14 13 (7.47%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 34 (19.54%) Python
2 32 (18.39%) Java
3 27 (15.52%) C
3 27 (15.52%) C++
4 26 (14.94%) PowerShell
5 12 (6.90%) SQL
6 7 (4.02%) C#
7 6 (3.45%) Go
8 5 (2.87%) Bash
9 4 (2.30%) Delphi
9 4 (2.30%) Pascal
9 4 (2.30%) PHP
10 3 (1.72%) Bicep
11 2 (1.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (10.92%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.47%) Degree
4 12 (6.90%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.02%) CHECK Team Member
7 7 (4.02%) CREST Certified
7 7 (4.02%) Cyber Scheme
7 7 (4.02%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.45%) CCNP
8 6 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.30%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.72%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.72%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.72%) CCNA
10 3 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.72%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.15%) CCIE
12 1 (0.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.45%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.45%) SLA
2 6 (3.45%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.15%) NIST
4 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.57%) GRC
4 1 (0.57%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.57%) NCSC
4 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 74 (42.53%) Active Directory
2 31 (17.82%) Hyper-V
3 30 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (8.05%) Docker
5 7 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.30%) vSphere
7 3 (1.72%) Firmware
8 2 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.15%) XenApp
9 1 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (17.82%) Microsoft Intune
1 31 (17.82%) Terraform
2 18 (10.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (4.60%) Ansible
3 8 (4.60%) Nessus
3 8 (4.60%) SCCM
4 7 (4.02%) Nmap
5 6 (3.45%) Kubernetes
6 5 (2.87%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.30%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.72%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.15%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.15%) OpenView
9 2 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.15%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (1.15%) Tivoli
9 2 (1.15%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.57%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (46.55%) Microsoft
2 32 (18.39%) VMware
3 31 (17.82%) Google
4 15 (8.62%) Cisco
5 9 (5.17%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.60%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.45%) Dell
7 6 (3.45%) HP
8 5 (2.87%) Citrix
8 5 (2.87%) Freshdesk
8 5 (2.87%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.30%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.72%) Okta
10 3 (1.72%) Oracle
10 3 (1.72%) Veeam
11 2 (1.15%) EMC
11 2 (1.15%) InterSystems
11 2 (1.15%) Juniper
11 2 (1.15%) Riverbed
11 2 (1.15%) Symantec