Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

tcp/ip

375 live US technical postings name tcp/ip in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 375 postings naming tcp/ip that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer59.5%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer23.2%
  3. 3Security Engineer15.2%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where tcp/ip is named
n = 238
10th
$115k
25th
$147k
Median
$175k
75th
$208k
90th
$226k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA17.3%
  2. 2Seattle, WA9.1%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA6.4%
  4. 4Washington, DC5.1%
  5. 5Remote4.8%
  6. 6Austin, TX3.5%
  7. 7New York, NY3.5%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2.9%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.