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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 258 220
Rank change year-on-year +25 -38 -12
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 256 169 320
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.07% 1.04% 1.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.12% 9.24% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 188 125 215
10th Percentile £28,200 £29,300 £31,550
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 2,303 1,829 3,691
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.62% 11.23% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 1,061 1,649
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £48,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.25% -20.00% -1.96%

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 13 September 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 54 (21.09%) SharePoint
2 42 (16.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (5.08%) IIS
4 3 (1.17%) SAS
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.39%) Houdini
2 1 (0.39%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.39%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 118 (46.09%) Azure
2 110 (42.97%) Microsoft 365
3 85 (33.20%) Entra ID
4 49 (19.14%) AWS
5 20 (7.81%) GCP
6 16 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (5.08%) dbt
8 11 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (3.13%) OneDrive
10 7 (2.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 7 (2.73%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.34%) Serverless
12 5 (1.95%) SaaS
13 4 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (1.56%) Azure Storage
13 4 (1.56%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.56%) Power Automate
14 3 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (1.17%) GitHub
15 1 (0.39%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 145 (56.64%) DNS
2 124 (48.44%) Firewall
3 110 (42.97%) DHCP
4 79 (30.86%) VPN
5 47 (18.36%) LAN
6 46 (17.97%) WAN
7 42 (16.41%) VLAN
8 26 (10.16%) Network Security
9 20 (7.81%) BGP
9 20 (7.81%) OSPF
10 18 (7.03%) VoIP
11 17 (6.64%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (5.47%) HTTP
12 14 (5.47%) Wireless
13 11 (4.30%) SD-WAN
14 10 (3.91%) VXLAN
15 7 (2.73%) Internet
15 7 (2.73%) SSL
16 6 (2.34%) EIGRP
16 6 (2.34%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.72%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.17%) MySQL
2 3 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.39%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 12 (4.69%) Git
2 9 (3.52%) JIRA
3 4 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.39%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.39%) CMake
4 1 (0.39%) GDB
4 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.39%) Metasploit
General
1 129 (50.39%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.84%) Finance
3 24 (9.38%) Telecoms
4 21 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.20%) Banking
5 18 (7.03%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (5.86%) Retail
7 12 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.30%) Electronics
8 11 (4.30%) Law
8 11 (4.30%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.52%) Aerospace
9 9 (3.52%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.73%) Marketing
10 7 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.34%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.95%) Legal
13 3 (1.17%) Games
14 2 (0.78%) Automotive
15 1 (0.39%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 62 (24.22%) Support Engineer
2 61 (23.83%) IT Support
3 52 (20.31%) Senior
4 47 (18.36%) IT Engineer
5 42 (16.41%) IT Support Engineer
6 34 (13.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 31 (12.11%) Network Engineer
8 21 (8.20%) Analyst
9 19 (7.42%) 2nd Line Support
10 17 (6.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 17 (6.64%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 14 (5.47%) Infrastructure Support
11 14 (5.47%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 14 (5.47%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (5.08%) IT Analyst
12 13 (5.08%) Python Engineer
12 13 (5.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (5.08%) Site Engineer
12 13 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (4.69%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (17.97%) Terraform
2 12 (4.69%) Middleware
3 8 (3.13%) LDAP
4 7 (2.73%) React
4 7 (2.73%) XML
5 6 (2.34%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.56%) COM
6 4 (1.56%) DCOM
6 4 (1.56%) REST
6 4 (1.56%) YAML
7 3 (1.17%) .NET
7 3 (1.17%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.17%) ADO
7 3 (1.17%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (0.78%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.78%) gRPC
8 2 (0.78%) JWT
8 2 (0.78%) Node.js
8 2 (0.78%) RESTful
8 2 (0.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.42%) Onboarding
2 18 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.86%) Driving Licence
4 13 (5.08%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.91%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (3.52%) FPGA
6 9 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.13%) PKI
8 7 (2.73%) Client/Server
8 7 (2.73%) Life Science
8 7 (2.73%) SCADA
9 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.56%) PMI
9 4 (1.56%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 145 (56.64%) Windows
2 80 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 70 (27.34%) Linux
4 19 (7.42%) Unix
5 17 (6.64%) Mac OS
6 16 (6.25%) Windows 10
7 8 (3.13%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.56%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (1.17%) Android
9 3 (1.17%) Debian
9 3 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.78%) CentOS
10 2 (0.78%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.39%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.39%) Solaris
11 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (35.16%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
2 52 (20.31%) Cybersecurity
3 49 (19.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 48 (18.75%) Customer Service
5 44 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (14.84%) Incident Response
7 36 (14.06%) Mentoring
8 35 (13.67%) Disaster Recovery
9 34 (13.28%) ITIL
9 34 (13.28%) Software Engineering
10 32 (12.50%) DevOps
11 31 (12.11%) Change Management
12 28 (10.94%) CI/CD
13 25 (9.77%) Collaborative Culture
13 25 (9.77%) Project Delivery
14 23 (8.98%) ITSM
15 18 (7.03%) High Availability
16 17 (6.64%) Problem Management
16 17 (6.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 53 (20.70%) Python
2 48 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 16 (6.25%) C++
3 16 (6.25%) SQL
4 13 (5.08%) C
5 10 (3.91%) Bash
5 10 (3.91%) Bicep
6 9 (3.52%) Java
7 5 (1.95%) Go
7 5 (1.95%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.95%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.56%) C#
9 3 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.17%) PHP
9 3 (1.17%) Ruby
10 2 (0.78%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.39%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (17.97%) Degree
2 42 (16.41%) Security Cleared
3 30 (11.72%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 16 (6.25%) CCNA
4 16 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.91%) CCNP
7 9 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.73%) A+ Certification
9 5 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.95%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.56%) CEH
10 4 (1.56%) CISSP
10 4 (1.56%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.56%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.17%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.17%) GCIA
11 3 (1.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.11%) SLA
2 17 (6.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (3.13%) GDPR
4 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.78%) QA
7 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.39%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 100 (39.06%) Active Directory
2 46 (17.97%) Hyper-V
3 37 (14.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.73%) Docker
6 5 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.56%) Firmware
8 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.17%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.78%) KVM
9 2 (0.78%) QEMU
9 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.39%) vSphere
10 1 (0.39%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (19.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (9.38%) Ansible
3 14 (5.47%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.91%) FortiGate
5 6 (2.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.56%) QRadar
7 3 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.17%) SCCM
7 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.78%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (0.78%) Puppet
9 1 (0.39%) Nessus
9 1 (0.39%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.39%) Nmap
9 1 (0.39%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 137 (53.52%) Microsoft
2 46 (17.97%) VMware
3 41 (16.02%) Cisco
4 21 (8.20%) Fortinet
4 21 (8.20%) ServiceNow
5 20 (7.81%) Veeam
6 17 (6.64%) Google
7 11 (4.30%) Palo Alto
8 10 (3.91%) Zscaler
9 9 (3.52%) SolarWinds
10 8 (3.13%) Splunk
11 7 (2.73%) Apple
12 6 (2.34%) Meraki
12 6 (2.34%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.95%) F5
13 5 (1.95%) Freshdesk
13 5 (1.95%) SonicWALL
14 4 (1.56%) Juniper
14 4 (1.56%) Okta
14 4 (1.56%) Ubiquiti