ICMP Job Trends in the South West

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West 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 168 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing ICMP 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.028% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.17% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £88,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 - -
75th Percentile £96,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England 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
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 585 672 796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.22% 10.47% 17.09%
Number of salaries quoted 368 396 624
10th Percentile £26,888 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +5.26% +0.53%
75th Percentile £52,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £84,375 £77,715
England median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% - -

ICMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

ICMP job vacancy trend in the South West

ICMP
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing ICMP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing ICMP

ICMP
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ICMP within the South West 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
Gloucestershire - 1 £92,500 -
ICMP
England

ICMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Arduino
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Development
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared