The first table below looks at the demand for IPv6 skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IPv6 over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Rank 735 834 807
Rank change year-on-year
+99 -27
Permanent jobs citing IPv6 127 65 74
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.118% 0.054% 0.059%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.608% 0.307% 0.376%
Number of salaries quoted 98 53 67
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £74,000 £72,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +25.00%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20871 21174 19668
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 19.31% 17.54% 15.81%
Number of salaries quoted 16834 17640 16289
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,127 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%

IPv6
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing IPv6 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

IPv6 Jobs Demand Trend

IPv6
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IPv6 within the UK.

IPv6 Salary Trend

IPv6
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IPv6 over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

IPv6 Salary Histogram

IPv6
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPv6 within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +92 125 £42,500 -2.29%
South East +44 56 £38,500 -14.44%
London +82 50 £42,500 -5.55%
Berkshire +21 22 £50,000 -23.07%
Basingstoke - 21 £36,000 -
Hampshire - 21 £36,000 -
City of London +10 17 £45,000 -14.28%
East of England +14 13 £70,000 +64.70%
Buckinghamshire -2 9 £45,000 -40.00%
Milton Keynes - 9 £45,000 -
Reading - 8 £52,500 -
Hertfordshire - 7 £75,000 -
Maidenhead +20 4 £44,500 +67.92%
Slough -3 4 £52,500 -19.23%
Surrey 0 3 £45,000 -
North West -2 3 £50,000 +19.04%
South West -6 3 £50,000 +21.21%
Manchester -23 3 £50,000 +19.04%
Bedfordshire - 3 £40,000 -
Gloucester +6 2 - -
Gloucestershire +5 2 - -
Suffolk -12 2 £42,500 -
Ipswich - 2 £42,500 -
Guildford - 2 - -
Watford - 2 £72,500 -
East Midlands - 2 £77,500 -
Cambridgeshire +12 1 £70,000 -
Wiltshire +5 1 £50,000 +16.27%
Swindon +2 1 £50,000 +14.94%
Cambridge 0 1 £70,000 -

IPv6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing IPv6 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited IPv6.

1 176 (62.63%) Cisco
2 146 (51.96%) OSPF
3 144 (51.25%) IPv4
4 135 (48.04%) MPLS
5 131 (46.62%) BGP
6 118 (41.99%) Cisco Certification
7 107 (38.08%) Telecoms
8 89 (31.67%) TCP/IP
9 84 (29.89%) CCIE
9 84 (29.89%) Juniper
10 81 (28.83%) CCNP
11 80 (28.47%) VLAN
12 70 (24.91%) Firewall
13 69 (24.56%) VPN
13 69 (24.56%) Internet
14 68 (24.20%) CCIP
15 66 (23.49%) Linux
16 64 (22.78%) Ethernet
16 64 (22.78%) Network Design
17 61 (21.71%) Network Architecture
18 60 (21.35%) WAN
19 58 (20.64%) DNS
20 51 (18.15%) HSRP
21 50 (17.79%) LAN
22 45 (16.01%) Network Security
23 44 (15.66%) IPsec
24 43 (15.30%) Windows
25 42 (14.95%) NFS
26 41 (14.59%) UNIX
26 41 (14.59%) Degree

IPv6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing IPv6 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited IPv6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (2.847%) SOAP
2 6 (2.135%) REST
3 5 (1.779%) CSS
4 4 (1.423%) STL
4 4 (1.423%) XML
4 4 (1.423%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 3 (1.068%) Silverlight
5 3 (1.068%) Web Services
5 3 (1.068%) .NET
5 3 (1.068%) CGI
6 2 (0.712%) Middleware
6 2 (0.712%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.712%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.356%) LINQ
7 1 (0.356%) WCF
7 1 (0.356%) WF
7 1 (0.356%) jQuery
7 1 (0.356%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.356%) JSON
7 1 (0.356%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 26 (9.253%) MS Exchange
2 22 (7.829%) Exchange Server 2010
3 21 (7.473%) Apache
4 6 (2.135%) Lync
4 6 (2.135%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (1.423%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.712%) IIS
6 2 (0.712%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (0.712%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.356%) Windows Azure
7 1 (0.356%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.847%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.068%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.068%) MS Office
3 1 (0.356%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 146 (51.96%) OSPF
2 144 (51.25%) IPv4
3 135 (48.04%) MPLS
4 131 (46.62%) BGP
5 89 (31.67%) TCP/IP
6 80 (28.47%) VLAN
7 70 (24.91%) Firewall
8 69 (24.56%) VPN
8 69 (24.56%) Internet
9 64 (22.78%) Ethernet
10 60 (21.35%) WAN
11 58 (20.64%) DNS
12 51 (18.15%) HSRP
13 50 (17.79%) LAN
14 45 (16.01%) Network Security
15 44 (15.66%) IPsec
16 39 (13.88%) Broadband
17 38 (13.52%) VPLS
18 37 (13.17%) EIGRP
19 34 (12.10%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.406%) MySQL
2 16 (5.694%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (1.423%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.068%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (0.356%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.356%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.356%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.356%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.356%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.356%) SQL CLR
5 1 (0.356%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.356%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.356%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (1.423%) GCC
1 4 (1.423%) GDB
2 3 (1.068%) Subversion
3 2 (0.712%) Git (software)
3 2 (0.712%) GNU Toolchain
4 1 (0.356%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.356%) Visual Studio
General
1 107 (38.08%) Telecoms
2 10 (3.559%) Finance
3 8 (2.847%) Electronics
4 7 (2.491%) Advertising
5 4 (1.423%) Banking
6 3 (1.068%) Multimedia
7 2 (0.712%) Billing
7 2 (0.712%) Law
8 1 (0.356%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.356%) French Language
8 1 (0.356%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.356%) Retail
Job Titles
1 86 (30.60%) Network Engineer
2 54 (19.22%) IP Engineer
3 48 (17.08%) Consultant
4 41 (14.59%) IP Network Engineer
5 27 (9.609%) Administrator
6 25 (8.897%) Systems Administrator
7 22 (7.829%) QA Engineer
8 19 (6.762%) Team Leader
8 19 (6.762%) Network Team Leader
9 15 (5.338%) Principal Consultant
10 14 (4.982%) Data Consultant
11 13 (4.626%) Network Consultant
12 12 (4.270%) Senior QA Engineer
12 12 (4.270%) Development Engineer
13 11 (3.915%) Test Engineer
14 10 (3.559%) Software Engineer
14 10 (3.559%) Systems Engineer
15 9 (3.203%) Network Design Engineer
15 9 (3.203%) Design Engineer
15 9 (3.203%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.694%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 16 (5.694%) Computer Science
2 15 (5.338%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (4.626%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (2.847%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.491%) Clustering
6 5 (1.779%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (1.779%) Video on Demand
6 5 (1.779%) Open Source
6 5 (1.779%) Device Driver
7 4 (1.423%) Blackberry
8 3 (1.068%) Mathematics
8 3 (1.068%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.068%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.068%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.712%) Streaming Video
9 2 (0.712%) Firmware
9 2 (0.712%) iPad
9 2 (0.712%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.712%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 66 (23.49%) Linux
2 43 (15.30%) Windows
3 41 (14.59%) UNIX
4 11 (3.915%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (3.915%) Debian
5 9 (3.203%) OpenBSD
6 7 (2.491%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (1.779%) CentOS
7 5 (1.779%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (1.779%) VxWorks
8 4 (1.423%) Windows XP
8 4 (1.423%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.423%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.712%) MVS
10 2 (0.712%) Solaris
11 1 (0.356%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.356%) Windows NT
11 1 (0.356%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (22.78%) Network Design
2 61 (21.71%) Network Architecture
3 25 (8.897%) Network Management
4 22 (7.829%) Agile Software Development
5 21 (7.473%) Project Management
6 16 (5.694%) Network Planning
6 16 (5.694%) Data Protection
7 15 (5.338%) System Testing
7 15 (5.338%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (5.338%) Business Continuity
8 14 (4.982%) Test Scripting
9 11 (3.915%) Software Engineering
9 11 (3.915%) BCP
10 10 (3.559%) ITIL
10 10 (3.559%) Load Balancing
11 9 (3.203%) Product Management
11 9 (3.203%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (2.847%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (2.847%) Performance Testing
13 7 (2.491%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.88%) Perl
2 30 (10.68%) PHP
3 28 (9.964%) Bash shell
4 20 (7.117%) Python
5 17 (6.050%) C
6 15 (5.338%) C++
7 13 (4.626%) SQL
8 5 (1.779%) Ruby
8 5 (1.779%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.423%) Tcl
10 3 (1.068%) Java
10 3 (1.068%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.712%) AWK
11 2 (0.712%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.712%) C#
11 2 (0.712%) sed
12 1 (0.356%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.356%) VBScript
12 1 (0.356%) VB
Qualifications
1 118 (41.99%) Cisco Certification
2 84 (29.89%) CCIE
3 81 (28.83%) CCNP
4 68 (24.20%) CCIP
5 41 (14.59%) Degree
6 29 (10.32%) CCNA
7 12 (4.270%) CCDP
8 11 (3.915%) SC Cleared
8 11 (3.915%) Security Cleared
9 8 (2.847%) JNCIS
10 4 (1.423%) CISSP
10 4 (1.423%) CISA
11 3 (1.068%) MCSE
11 3 (1.068%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.712%) CISM
12 2 (0.712%) GIAC
12 2 (0.712%) ISEB
12 2 (0.712%) Check Point Certification
12 2 (0.712%) MCP
12 2 (0.712%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.185%) QA
1 23 (8.185%) PCI DSS
2 5 (1.779%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.779%) SLA
3 3 (1.068%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.712%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.356%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (14.95%) NFS
2 26 (9.253%) Active Directory
3 18 (6.406%) Sendmail
4 16 (5.694%) Postfix
5 10 (3.559%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (2.135%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.135%) XenServer
7 5 (1.779%) Xen
8 3 (1.068%) ProxySG
8 3 (1.068%) Squid
8 3 (1.068%) FreeRADIUS
8 3 (1.068%) vSphere
8 3 (1.068%) Samba
9 2 (0.712%) Snort
10 1 (0.356%) Nmap
10 1 (0.356%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.356%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 20 (7.117%) Nagios
2 17 (6.050%) Legato
3 11 (3.915%) HP Quality Center
4 6 (2.135%) FortiGate
5 5 (1.779%) Cisco UCCE
6 4 (1.423%) Cacti
7 3 (1.068%) SCCM
8 2 (0.712%) CiscoWorks
8 2 (0.712%) MOM
8 2 (0.712%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.712%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.712%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.356%) SCOM
9 1 (0.356%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.356%) WSUS
9 1 (0.356%) Puppet
9 1 (0.356%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.356%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.356%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 176 (62.63%) Cisco
2 84 (29.89%) Juniper
3 26 (9.253%) HP
4 22 (7.829%) Microsoft
5 19 (6.762%) Red Hat
6 18 (6.406%) VMware
6 18 (6.406%) CheckPoint
7 17 (6.050%) Veritas
8 15 (5.338%) Huawei
9 14 (4.982%) Alcatel-Lucent
10 11 (3.915%) Citrix
11 10 (3.559%) Riverbed
12 8 (2.847%) Dell
13 7 (2.491%) Brocade
14 6 (2.135%) Fortinet
15 5 (1.779%) Verint
15 5 (1.779%) F5
15 5 (1.779%) Oracle
16 4 (1.423%) Hitachi
17 3 (1.068%) Polycom
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