IP Engineer
UK

The median IP Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 824 971 1165
Rank change year-on-year +147 +194 -299
Permanent jobs requiring an IP Engineer 72 17 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.016% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.018% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 59 11 38
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £30,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £35,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -30.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £90,000 - £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £35,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +85.71% -30.00% +7.99%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,176 95,124 149,724
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,877 59,832 85,287
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,507
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

IP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured IP Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IP Engineer in the UK

IP Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IP Engineer in the UK

IP Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IP Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IP Engineer in the UK

IP Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IP Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +180 64 £65,000 +85.71% 2
UK excluding London +28 55 £65,000 +85.71% 2
North of England - 44 £65,000 -
North West - 40 £40,000 -
Work from Home +99 26 £65,000 +85.71% 1
South East +30 13 £80,000 +128.57% 2
London +128 8 £90,000 +57.89%
Yorkshire - 8 £80,000 -
West Midlands - 5 £80,000 -
Midlands - 5 £80,000 -
East of England - 4 £80,000 -
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

IP Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, IP Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring IP Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (94.44%) Juniper
2 53 (73.61%) MPLS
3 47 (65.28%) Nokia
4 45 (62.50%) BGP
5 43 (59.72%) JNCIA
6 38 (52.78%) Cisco
7 36 (50.00%) JNCIP
8 34 (47.22%) Fortinet
9 22 (30.56%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (29.17%) CCNA
10 21 (29.17%) OSPF
10 21 (29.17%) LAN
10 21 (29.17%) DHCP
11 20 (27.78%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (27.78%) Ethernet
11 20 (27.78%) TCP/IP
11 20 (27.78%) WAN
12 19 (26.39%) Internet
12 19 (26.39%) Wireless
12 19 (26.39%) DSL
12 19 (26.39%) Ruckus Wireless
12 19 (26.39%) Vyatta
12 19 (26.39%) VyOS
12 19 (26.39%) Customer Service
13 16 (22.22%) Palo Alto
14 12 (16.67%) JNCIE
15 11 (15.28%) Junos
16 9 (12.50%) Firewall
17 8 (11.11%) VPLS
18 7 (9.72%) RSVP

IP Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (1.39%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 53 (73.61%) MPLS
2 45 (62.50%) BGP
3 21 (29.17%) DHCP
3 21 (29.17%) LAN
3 21 (29.17%) OSPF
4 20 (27.78%) Ethernet
4 20 (27.78%) TCP/IP
4 20 (27.78%) WAN
4 20 (27.78%) Wi-Fi
5 19 (26.39%) DSL
5 19 (26.39%) Internet
5 19 (26.39%) Wireless
6 11 (15.28%) Junos
7 9 (12.50%) Firewall
8 8 (11.11%) VPLS
9 7 (9.72%) RSVP
10 1 (1.39%) Broadband
10 1 (1.39%) DNS
10 1 (1.39%) IPsec
10 1 (1.39%) VRRP
General
1 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
2 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.39%) VyOS
2 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.39%) Customer Service
2 6 (8.33%) Network Design
3 2 (2.78%) Test Automation
4 1 (1.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (1.39%) DDoS Mitigation
4 1 (1.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (1.39%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 43 (59.72%) JNCIA
2 36 (50.00%) JNCIP
3 22 (30.56%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (29.17%) CCNA
5 12 (16.67%) JNCIE
6 2 (2.78%) CCNP
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Ansible
1 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 68 (94.44%) Juniper
2 47 (65.28%) Nokia
3 38 (52.78%) Cisco
4 34 (47.22%) Fortinet
5 19 (26.39%) Ruckus Wireless
5 19 (26.39%) Vyatta
6 16 (22.22%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.39%) VMware