ICMP Job Trends in England

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring ICMP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 618 706 699
Rank change year-on-year +88 -7 +362
Permanent jobs citing ICMP 5 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.012% 0.010% 0.008%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.084% 0.084% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - - £40,750
25th Percentile £88,750 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £55,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +68.18% -33.33% +243.75%
75th Percentile £96,250 - £86,250
90th Percentile - £61,250 -
UK median annual salary £92,500 £55,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +68.18% -33.33% +243.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

ICMP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,977 7,144 7,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.06% 11.54% 14.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,525 3,784 5,897
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,171 £28,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% - -
75th Percentile £62,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.62% +5.00% -4.76%

ICMP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ICMP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

ICMP job vacancy trend in England

ICMP
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing ICMP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing ICMP

ICMP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ICMP within the England region over the 6 months to 20 October 2025. 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
London +75 4 - -
South West - 1 £92,500 -
ICMP
UK

ICMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) nginx
1 4 (80.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Akamai
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (80.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Lead
1 4 (80.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (80.00%) Mobile Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Arduino
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Fintech
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) SDLC
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Business Development
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
2 4 (80.00%) Go
2 4 (80.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) HAProxy
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform