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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 213 239 277
Rank change year-on-year +26 +38 -65
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 1,446 1,515 2,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.42% 1.55% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.72% 9.73% 11.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,155 1,043 1,363
10th Percentile £25,600 £26,750 £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% - -2.17%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,672 £75,650
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -2.44% -1.20%

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 13,485 15,570 22,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.20% 15.90% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,407 7,838 11,847
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,970 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,654 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,586 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -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 27 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 27 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 +38 1,287 £42,500 -5.56% 345
UK excluding London +15 1,088 £37,500 -6.25% 294
Work from Home +33 527 £52,500 +5.00% 149
London +55 326 £65,000 +13.04% 99
South East -39 244 £37,500 +7.14% 77
North of England -3 229 £40,000 -11.11% 72
Midlands +56 195 £36,500 -3.95% 48
South West 0 154 £32,750 -22.94% 39
East of England +36 140 £37,500 -11.76% 37
North West +12 118 £40,000 -14.89% 42
West Midlands +34 105 £34,500 -11.06% 22
Yorkshire +22 103 £38,500 -14.44% 26
East Midlands +27 90 £40,000 +9.59% 25
Scotland -57 62 £41,250 +3.13% 13
Northern Ireland +42 34 £32,500 - 4
Wales +6 31 £27,500 -20.48% 11
North East -8 8 £23,625 -29.48% 5

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
1 182 (12.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 149 (10.30%) SharePoint
3 46 (3.18%) WebLogic
4 35 (2.42%) IIS
5 17 (1.18%) Apache
6 14 (0.97%) 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 6 (0.41%) Confluence
11 4 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2003
12 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.14%) Moodle
14 1 (0.069%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.069%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.069%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 194 (13.42%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.21%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.069%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.069%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 46 (3.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 17 (1.18%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
3 5 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.28%) Epicor Tropos
5 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 540 (37.34%) Azure
2 435 (30.08%) Microsoft 365
3 235 (16.25%) AWS
4 142 (9.82%) Entra ID
5 52 (3.60%) SaaS
6 48 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
7 46 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
8 40 (2.77%) Cloud Computing
8 40 (2.77%) GCP
8 40 (2.77%) OpenShift
9 36 (2.49%) OneDrive
10 31 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
12 22 (1.52%) Mimecast
13 19 (1.31%) IaaS
14 18 (1.24%) WhatsApp
15 14 (0.97%) GitHub
15 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (0.83%) Amazon S3
17 9 (0.62%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 684 (47.30%) DNS
2 519 (35.89%) Firewall
3 504 (34.85%) DHCP
4 356 (24.62%) WAN
5 346 (23.93%) LAN
6 258 (17.84%) VPN
7 175 (12.10%) Wireless
8 166 (11.48%) VLAN
9 145 (10.03%) BGP
10 138 (9.54%) Wi-Fi
11 115 (7.95%) Network Security
12 112 (7.75%) HTTP
13 111 (7.68%) Internet
13 111 (7.68%) SSL
14 107 (7.40%) OSPF
15 96 (6.64%) VoIP
16 91 (6.29%) MPLS
17 87 (6.02%) Ethernet
18 63 (4.36%) SAN
19 58 (4.01%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (6.92%) SQL Server
2 67 (4.63%) Relational Database
3 58 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
4 48 (3.32%) RDBMS
5 46 (3.18%) Oracle Database
6 38 (2.63%) MySQL
7 23 (1.59%) 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 (0.41%) Power BI
13 4 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
13 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
15 2 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
15 2 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.14%) DTS
15 2 (0.14%) InfluxDB
15 2 (0.14%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 47 (3.25%) JIRA
2 42 (2.90%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.45%) Git
3 21 (1.45%) Visual Studio
4 19 (1.31%) 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
1 416 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 170 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 168 (11.62%) Finance
4 105 (7.26%) Telecoms
5 68 (4.70%) Electronics
6 49 (3.39%) Law
7 36 (2.49%) Banking
8 33 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (2.28%) Manufacturing
9 31 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (1.87%) Retail
11 24 (1.66%) Aerospace
11 24 (1.66%) Legal
11 24 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (1.24%) Public Sector
13 16 (1.11%) Marketing
14 15 (1.04%) Military
15 12 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (0.62%) Police
17 8 (0.55%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 251 (17.36%) Senior
2 178 (12.31%) Analyst
3 171 (11.83%) Support Engineer
4 155 (10.72%) IT Support
5 146 (10.10%) Network Engineer
6 140 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 139 (9.61%) IT Engineer
8 120 (8.30%) Lead
9 106 (7.33%) Software Engineer
10 73 (5.05%) IT Support Engineer
11 71 (4.91%) IT Technician
12 69 (4.77%) Architect
13 65 (4.50%) Support Technician
14 62 (4.29%) Developer
15 59 (4.08%) IT Analyst
16 56 (3.87%) Support Analyst
17 55 (3.80%) Linux Engineer
18 52 (3.60%) 2nd Line Support
19 50 (3.46%) Service Analyst
20 49 (3.39%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (4.91%) RabbitMQ
2 64 (4.43%) .NET
2 64 (4.43%) HTML
3 55 (3.80%) CSS
4 48 (3.32%) AngularJS
4 48 (3.32%) REST
5 47 (3.25%) Web Services
6 46 (3.18%) Spring Boot
7 32 (2.21%) WPF
8 30 (2.07%) React
9 28 (1.94%) LDAP
10 26 (1.80%) XML
11 24 (1.66%) FIX Protocol
12 22 (1.52%) Node.js
13 20 (1.38%) ASP.NET
14 19 (1.31%) 802.1X
14 19 (1.31%) ASP.NET MVC
14 19 (1.31%) jQuery
14 19 (1.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 19 (1.31%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 105 (7.26%) Data Centre
2 91 (6.29%) Management Information System
3 81 (5.60%) Self-Motivation
4 68 (4.70%) Driving Licence
5 59 (4.08%) IoT
6 58 (4.01%) Public Cloud
7 55 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (2.97%) Replication
9 39 (2.70%) Onboarding
10 33 (2.28%) Clustering
11 29 (2.01%) CCTV
11 29 (2.01%) Client/Server
12 24 (1.66%) Video Conferencing
13 22 (1.52%) Cyberattack
14 21 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 21 (1.45%) FPGA
14 21 (1.45%) PKI
15 18 (1.24%) Security Operations Centre
16 17 (1.18%) Eurex
17 15 (1.04%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 822 (56.85%) Windows
2 415 (28.70%) Linux
3 385 (26.63%) Windows Server
4 215 (14.87%) Windows 10
5 100 (6.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 98 (6.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 93 (6.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 83 (5.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 60 (4.15%) Apple iOS
9 60 (4.15%) Unix
10 59 (4.08%) Android
11 39 (2.70%) Ubuntu
12 37 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
13 32 (2.21%) CentOS
14 29 (2.01%) Mac OS
15 26 (1.80%) Windows 7
16 21 (1.45%) Mac OS X
17 19 (1.31%) Debian
18 18 (1.24%) Embedded Linux
18 18 (1.24%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
2 248 (17.15%) ITIL
3 247 (17.08%) Customer Service
4 207 (14.32%) Cybersecurity
5 202 (13.97%) Agile
6 160 (11.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 150 (10.37%) Software Engineering
8 129 (8.92%) DevOps
9 117 (8.09%) Computer Science
10 113 (7.81%) Migration
11 102 (7.05%) Actionable Insight
12 91 (6.29%) Collaborative Working
13 84 (5.81%) Project Management
14 81 (5.60%) Open Source
15 77 (5.33%) Disaster Recovery
15 77 (5.33%) Information Security
15 77 (5.33%) ITSM
15 77 (5.33%) Load Balancing
16 74 (5.12%) Mentoring
17 68 (4.70%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 248 (17.15%) PowerShell
2 240 (16.60%) Python
3 131 (9.06%) Bash
4 126 (8.71%) SQL
5 105 (7.26%) Java
6 90 (6.22%) C
7 75 (5.19%) C#
8 74 (5.12%) C++
9 58 (4.01%) Perl
10 54 (3.73%) JavaScript
11 21 (1.45%) Ruby
12 19 (1.31%) XAML
13 11 (0.76%) Embedded C
14 7 (0.48%) Go
15 6 (0.41%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
17 4 (0.28%) Bicep
17 4 (0.28%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.21%) Embedded C++
18 3 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 260 (17.98%) Degree
2 185 (12.79%) Security Cleared
3 184 (12.72%) Cisco Certification
4 136 (9.41%) CCNA
5 121 (8.37%) SC Cleared
6 95 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 65 (4.50%) Azure Certification
8 64 (4.43%) DV Cleared
9 57 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 56 (3.87%) CISSP
11 55 (3.80%) AWS Certification
12 51 (3.53%) CCNP
13 48 (3.32%) DBS Check
14 47 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 37 (2.56%) JNCIA
15 37 (2.56%) MCSA
16 33 (2.28%) 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 (6.43%) SLA
2 39 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (2.28%) QA
4 28 (1.94%) NIST
5 23 (1.59%) NCSC
6 19 (1.31%) GDPR
7 17 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.69%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.48%) JTAG
11 5 (0.35%) MISRA
11 5 (0.35%) PMO
12 4 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.069%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 508 (35.13%) Active Directory
2 246 (17.01%) Hyper-V
3 237 (16.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 86 (5.95%) Docker
5 39 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
6 37 (2.56%) Firmware
7 24 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (1.52%) vSphere
9 20 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (1.11%) Terminal Services
11 15 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
12 11 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
13 10 (0.69%) NFS
13 10 (0.69%) pfSense
14 8 (0.55%) XenApp
15 5 (0.35%) KVM
16 4 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.28%) vCloud
16 4 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 122 (8.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 93 (6.43%) Ansible
3 76 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 61 (4.22%) Puppet
5 57 (3.94%) SCCM
6 42 (2.90%) Terraform
7 34 (2.35%) Grafana
8 30 (2.07%) WSUS
9 22 (1.52%) Prometheus
9 22 (1.52%) vCenter Server
10 18 (1.24%) Nmap
11 15 (1.04%) Nagios
12 14 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
12 14 (0.97%) FortiGate
12 14 (0.97%) HAProxy
13 13 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
13 13 (0.90%) WMI
14 11 (0.76%) SCOM
14 11 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
14 11 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 559 (38.66%) Microsoft
2 350 (24.20%) VMware
3 222 (15.35%) Cisco
4 108 (7.47%) Oracle
5 89 (6.15%) Red Hat
6 76 (5.26%) Juniper
7 62 (4.29%) Citrix
8 56 (3.87%) Fortinet
9 53 (3.67%) Splunk
10 51 (3.53%) Meraki
11 48 (3.32%) Veeam
12 46 (3.18%) Sparx
13 40 (2.77%) Bloomberg
14 35 (2.42%) Palo Alto
14 35 (2.42%) SolarWinds
15 34 (2.35%) Apple
16 32 (2.21%) Google
17 30 (2.07%) HP
18 29 (2.01%) CheckPoint
18 29 (2.01%) Ruckus Wireless