Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IPv4 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IPv4 over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 842 875 1084
Rank change year-on-year +33 +209 -338
Permanent jobs citing IPv4 69 86 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.089% 0.095%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.51% 0.55% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 50 52 116
10th Percentile £31,225 £32,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,938 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -5.66% +32.50%
75th Percentile £58,063 £73,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,125 £82,100 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,500 £55,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -34.23% -23.45% +53.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

IPv4 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 13,562 15,535 22,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.13% 15.99% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,412 7,743 11,780
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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%

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IPv4 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IPv4 in the UK

IPv4
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IPv4.

Salary trend for IPv4 in the UK

IPv4
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPv4 over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IPv4 in the UK

IPv4
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPv4 within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 +40 65 £47,500 -26.92% 19
London +112 36 £50,000 -23.08% 9
Work from Home +70 31 £47,500 -13.64% 12
UK excluding London -50 29 £36,500 -34.23% 10
North of England +30 11 £36,500 -37.07% 2
South West -23 8 £55,000 -12.00% 3
South East -16 7 £80,000 - 2
North West -8 4 £36,500 -37.07%
Yorkshire - 4 £47,500 - 2
West Midlands +2 3 £32,500 -40.91%
North East 0 3 £29,500 -46.36%
Midlands -23 3 £32,500 -40.91% 1

IPv4
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 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (7.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 41 (59.42%) Azure
2 14 (20.29%) Entra ID
3 13 (18.84%) AWS
4 7 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (10.14%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (10.14%) AWS CloudTrail
4 7 (10.14%) Azure AKS
4 7 (10.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (10.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (10.14%) IaaS
4 7 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (10.14%) PaaS
4 7 (10.14%) Serverless
5 3 (4.35%) Datadog
6 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 43 (62.32%) Firewall
1 43 (62.32%) IPv6
1 43 (62.32%) VPN
2 36 (52.17%) DNS
3 29 (42.03%) LAN
4 28 (40.58%) WAN
5 27 (39.13%) DHCP
6 24 (34.78%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (34.78%) Wireless
7 22 (31.88%) IPsec
8 12 (17.39%) TCP/IP
9 10 (14.49%) OSPF
10 8 (11.59%) VLAN
11 7 (10.14%) BGP
12 6 (8.70%) 5G
13 4 (5.80%) MPLS
14 3 (4.35%) Internet
14 3 (4.35%) VoIP
15 2 (2.90%) Ethernet
15 2 (2.90%) ISDN
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) Git
2 3 (4.35%) GitLab
2 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.35%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (14.49%) Telecoms
2 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.90%) Finance
4 1 (1.45%) Electronics
4 1 (1.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (52.17%) Network Engineer
2 14 (20.29%) Senior
3 12 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (15.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) ICT Support
7 4 (5.80%) Lead
7 4 (5.80%) Project Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Help Desk Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 22 (31.88%) PKI
2 5 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.80%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.90%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.74%) Linux
2 12 (17.39%) Windows
3 5 (7.25%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.80%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.90%) Unix
5 2 (2.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.19%) DevOps
2 15 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (20.29%) Containerisation
3 14 (20.29%) ITIL
4 11 (15.94%) Configuration Management
5 10 (14.49%) Capacity Planning
5 10 (14.49%) Load Balancing
5 10 (14.49%) PRINCE2
6 7 (10.14%) API Management
6 7 (10.14%) Auto-Scaling
6 7 (10.14%) Chaos Engineering
6 7 (10.14%) Customer Service
6 7 (10.14%) Immutable Infrastructure
6 7 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (10.14%) Zero Trust
7 6 (8.70%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (8.70%) Validation
8 5 (7.25%) Task Automation
9 4 (5.80%) Mentoring
9 4 (5.80%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.49%) PowerShell
2 9 (13.04%) Python
3 7 (10.14%) SQL
4 5 (7.25%) Bash
5 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (26.09%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (24.64%) CCNA
3 16 (23.19%) Security Cleared
4 15 (21.74%) SC Cleared
5 7 (10.14%) Degree
6 4 (5.80%) MCSE
6 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (4.35%) MCP
7 3 (4.35%) MCSA
7 3 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (2.90%) CCNP
8 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.45%) CCDP
9 1 (1.45%) CCIE
9 1 (1.45%) Postgraduate
9 1 (1.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) GDPR
2 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 13 (18.84%) Hyper-V
2 11 (15.94%) Active Directory
3 7 (10.14%) Docker
3 7 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (8.70%) pfSense
4 6 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (5.80%) vCloud
6 3 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (4.35%) vSphere
7 2 (2.90%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 16 (23.19%) Terraform
2 12 (17.39%) Ansible
3 8 (11.59%) Puppet
4 6 (8.70%) Grafana
4 6 (8.70%) ZABBIX
5 3 (4.35%) Kibana
5 3 (4.35%) Packer
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.90%) Nagios
6 2 (2.90%) SCCM
6 2 (2.90%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (27.54%) Fortinet
2 18 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 13 (18.84%) VMware
4 11 (15.94%) Cisco
5 10 (14.49%) SolarWinds
6 9 (13.04%) Juniper
7 7 (10.14%) Datto
8 4 (5.80%) HP
8 4 (5.80%) NETGEAR
8 4 (5.80%) Ubiquiti
8 4 (5.80%) Veeam
9 3 (4.35%) Acronis
9 3 (4.35%) Black Duck
9 3 (4.35%) Draytek
9 3 (4.35%) Dynatrace
9 3 (4.35%) F5
9 3 (4.35%) Google
9 3 (4.35%) SonicWALL
9 3 (4.35%) Sophos
9 3 (4.35%) Splunk