Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 240 277
Rank change year-on-year +28 +37 -66
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 1,444 1,533 2,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 1.55% 1.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.71% 9.81% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,163 1,060 1,345
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -0.55%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £42,419
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.70% +1.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

TCP/IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,478 15,631 21,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 15.76% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,397 7,898 11,750
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,580 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP.

Salary trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +41 1,288 £42,500 -5.56% 331
UK excluding London +19 1,089 £37,500 -6.25% 262
Work from Home +39 530 £52,500 +5.00% 130
London +68 324 £65,000 +13.04% 98
South East -44 249 £38,500 +10.00% 56
North of England +9 226 £40,000 -11.11% 71
Midlands +58 197 £36,500 -3.95% 58
South West 0 152 £34,000 -20.93% 28
East of England +39 142 £38,500 -9.41% 29
North West +11 121 £40,000 -14.89% 40
West Midlands +43 107 £34,500 -10.39% 26
Yorkshire +31 97 £37,500 -16.67% 30
East Midlands +35 90 £40,000 +9.59% 32
Scotland -54 61 £42,500 +6.25% 13
Northern Ireland +36 32 £32,500 - 5
Wales +6 31 £27,500 -17.91% 8
North East -11 8 £23,625 -29.48% 2

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 177 (12.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 149 (10.32%) SharePoint
3 46 (3.19%) WebLogic
4 34 (2.35%) IIS
5 17 (1.18%) Apache
6 15 (1.04%) nginx
7 11 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2013
8 10 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2010
8 10 (0.69%) Skype for Business
9 9 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2007
10 7 (0.48%) Confluence
11 4 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2003
12 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.14%) Moodle
13 2 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.069%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 193 (13.37%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.28%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.069%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.069%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 46 (3.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (1.11%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.28%) Epicor Tropos
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 534 (36.98%) Azure
2 433 (29.99%) Microsoft 365
3 231 (16.00%) AWS
4 140 (9.70%) Entra ID
5 49 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
6 48 (3.32%) SaaS
7 46 (3.19%) Amazon SQS
8 42 (2.91%) GCP
9 38 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
10 37 (2.56%) OneDrive
10 37 (2.56%) OpenShift
11 31 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
13 21 (1.45%) Mimecast
13 21 (1.45%) WhatsApp
14 18 (1.25%) IaaS
15 15 (1.04%) GitHub
16 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
17 12 (0.83%) Amazon S3
18 9 (0.62%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 679 (47.02%) DNS
2 517 (35.80%) Firewall
3 499 (34.56%) DHCP
4 354 (24.52%) WAN
5 347 (24.03%) LAN
6 260 (18.01%) VPN
7 176 (12.19%) Wireless
8 165 (11.43%) VLAN
9 146 (10.11%) BGP
10 139 (9.63%) Wi-Fi
11 119 (8.24%) Network Security
12 111 (7.69%) OSPF
12 111 (7.69%) SSL
13 108 (7.48%) Internet
14 105 (7.27%) HTTP
15 97 (6.72%) VoIP
16 89 (6.16%) MPLS
17 86 (5.96%) Ethernet
18 60 (4.16%) SAN
19 58 (4.02%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (6.79%) SQL Server
2 67 (4.64%) Relational Database
3 60 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
4 48 (3.32%) RDBMS
5 46 (3.19%) Oracle Database
6 40 (2.77%) MySQL
7 22 (1.52%) NoSQL
8 21 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (0.76%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.48%) Redis
12 6 (0.42%) Power BI
13 4 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
13 4 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.21%) InfluxDB
15 2 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.14%) DTS
15 2 (0.14%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 47 (3.25%) JIRA
2 42 (2.91%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.45%) Git
3 21 (1.45%) Visual Studio
4 19 (1.32%) GitLab
5 13 (0.90%) Eclipse
6 11 (0.76%) Subversion
7 5 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.35%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.28%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.28%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.14%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.14%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.14%) Hudson
9 2 (0.14%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.14%) Selenium
9 2 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.069%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.069%) Postman
10 1 (0.069%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 413 (28.60%) Social Skills
2 171 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
3 168 (11.63%) Finance
4 106 (7.34%) Telecoms
5 70 (4.85%) Electronics
6 52 (3.60%) Law
7 36 (2.49%) Banking
8 34 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 33 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (1.94%) Legal
12 27 (1.87%) Retail
13 24 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.45%) Aerospace
15 20 (1.39%) Public Sector
16 15 (1.04%) Marketing
16 15 (1.04%) Military
17 12 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (0.62%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.62%) Police
Job Titles
1 248 (17.17%) Senior
2 177 (12.26%) Analyst
3 169 (11.70%) Support Engineer
4 154 (10.66%) IT Support
5 150 (10.39%) Network Engineer
6 142 (9.83%) IT Engineer
7 134 (9.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 120 (8.31%) Lead
9 109 (7.55%) Software Engineer
10 74 (5.12%) IT Support Engineer
11 70 (4.85%) IT Technician
12 67 (4.64%) Architect
13 63 (4.36%) Developer
14 62 (4.29%) Support Technician
15 59 (4.09%) IT Analyst
16 55 (3.81%) Support Analyst
17 52 (3.60%) Linux Engineer
18 51 (3.53%) 2nd Line Support
19 50 (3.46%) Administrator
19 50 (3.46%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
2 65 (4.50%) HTML
3 64 (4.43%) .NET
4 55 (3.81%) CSS
5 48 (3.32%) REST
6 46 (3.19%) AngularJS
6 46 (3.19%) Spring Boot
7 44 (3.05%) Web Services
8 32 (2.22%) WPF
9 30 (2.08%) React
10 26 (1.80%) XML
11 24 (1.66%) LDAP
12 23 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
13 20 (1.39%) 802.1X
13 20 (1.39%) ASP.NET
13 20 (1.39%) Node.js
14 19 (1.32%) jQuery
14 19 (1.32%) Tailwind CSS
14 19 (1.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 19 (1.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.13%) Data Centre
2 91 (6.30%) Management Information System
3 80 (5.54%) Self-Motivation
4 69 (4.78%) Driving Licence
5 58 (4.02%) IoT
5 58 (4.02%) Public Cloud
6 55 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
7 41 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 41 (2.84%) Replication
8 30 (2.08%) Clustering
9 29 (2.01%) CCTV
9 29 (2.01%) Client/Server
10 24 (1.66%) Video Conferencing
11 23 (1.59%) PKI
12 22 (1.52%) Cyberattack
13 21 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 20 (1.39%) FPGA
15 18 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
16 16 (1.11%) Eurex
17 15 (1.04%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 818 (56.65%) Windows
2 416 (28.81%) Linux
3 386 (26.73%) Windows Server
4 214 (14.82%) Windows 10
5 101 (6.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 96 (6.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 93 (6.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 83 (5.75%) Windows Server 2012
9 63 (4.36%) Apple iOS
10 61 (4.22%) Android
11 58 (4.02%) Unix
12 37 (2.56%) Ubuntu
12 37 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
13 30 (2.08%) Mac OS
14 29 (2.01%) CentOS
15 26 (1.80%) Windows 7
16 21 (1.45%) Mac OS X
17 19 (1.32%) Debian
17 19 (1.32%) Embedded Linux
18 18 (1.25%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
2 250 (17.31%) ITIL
3 242 (16.76%) Customer Service
4 211 (14.61%) Cybersecurity
5 201 (13.92%) Agile
6 154 (10.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 151 (10.46%) Software Engineering
8 129 (8.93%) DevOps
9 115 (7.96%) Computer Science
10 112 (7.76%) Migration
11 102 (7.06%) Actionable Insight
12 89 (6.16%) Collaborative Working
13 85 (5.89%) Project Management
14 80 (5.54%) Open Source
15 79 (5.47%) Load Balancing
16 77 (5.33%) Disaster Recovery
16 77 (5.33%) ITSM
17 75 (5.19%) Information Security
18 74 (5.12%) Mentoring
19 68 (4.71%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 243 (16.83%) PowerShell
2 233 (16.14%) Python
3 129 (8.93%) Bash
4 124 (8.59%) SQL
5 100 (6.93%) Java
6 94 (6.51%) C
7 78 (5.40%) C++
8 76 (5.26%) C#
9 56 (3.88%) Perl
10 53 (3.67%) JavaScript
11 20 (1.39%) Ruby
12 19 (1.32%) XAML
13 11 (0.76%) Embedded C
14 7 (0.48%) Go
15 6 (0.42%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
17 4 (0.28%) Bicep
17 4 (0.28%) PHP
17 4 (0.28%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.21%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 259 (17.94%) Degree
2 188 (13.02%) Cisco Certification
3 181 (12.53%) Security Cleared
4 139 (9.63%) CCNA
5 117 (8.10%) SC Cleared
6 95 (6.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 66 (4.57%) Azure Certification
8 61 (4.22%) DV Cleared
9 58 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 56 (3.88%) CISSP
11 55 (3.81%) AWS Certification
12 51 (3.53%) CCNP
13 47 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 47 (3.25%) DBS Check
14 38 (2.63%) JNCIA
15 37 (2.56%) MCSA
16 32 (2.22%) CEH
17 29 (2.01%) MCSE
18 27 (1.87%) Master's Degree
19 22 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (6.44%) SLA
2 42 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (2.08%) QA
4 28 (1.94%) NIST
5 23 (1.59%) NCSC
6 21 (1.45%) GDPR
7 17 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 17 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.48%) JTAG
10 5 (0.35%) MISRA
10 5 (0.35%) PMO
11 4 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.069%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 507 (35.11%) Active Directory
2 242 (16.76%) Hyper-V
3 236 (16.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 84 (5.82%) Docker
5 39 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (2.63%) Firmware
7 25 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (1.52%) vSphere
9 20 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.97%) Terminal Services
10 14 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
11 11 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
12 10 (0.69%) NFS
12 10 (0.69%) pfSense
13 9 (0.62%) XenApp
14 5 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 4 (0.28%) KVM
15 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.28%) vCloud
15 4 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 121 (8.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 87 (6.02%) Ansible
3 72 (4.99%) Kubernetes
4 58 (4.02%) Puppet
5 55 (3.81%) SCCM
6 46 (3.19%) Terraform
7 35 (2.42%) Grafana
8 29 (2.01%) WSUS
9 23 (1.59%) Prometheus
10 22 (1.52%) vCenter Server
11 18 (1.25%) Nmap
12 15 (1.04%) Nagios
13 14 (0.97%) FortiGate
13 14 (0.97%) HAProxy
13 14 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
14 13 (0.90%) WMI
15 12 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
15 12 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
16 11 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 559 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 345 (23.89%) VMware
3 224 (15.51%) Cisco
4 104 (7.20%) Oracle
5 81 (5.61%) Red Hat
6 78 (5.40%) Juniper
7 64 (4.43%) Citrix
8 57 (3.95%) Fortinet
9 54 (3.74%) Splunk
10 53 (3.67%) Meraki
11 48 (3.32%) Veeam
12 46 (3.19%) Sparx
13 38 (2.63%) Bloomberg
14 36 (2.49%) Palo Alto
15 35 (2.42%) Apple
15 35 (2.42%) SolarWinds
16 31 (2.15%) Google
17 30 (2.08%) HP
18 29 (2.01%) CheckPoint
18 29 (2.01%) Ruckus Wireless