IPv4 Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IPv4 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 544 654
Rank change year-on-year -100 +110 -95
Permanent jobs citing IPv4 8 9 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.026% 0.037%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.15% 0.15% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 15
10th Percentile £43,850 - £27,750
25th Percentile £47,750 £26,000 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £32,500 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year +86.15% -10.96% -39.17%
75th Percentile £73,250 £38,750 £48,750
90th Percentile - £46,186 -
UK median annual salary £80,250 £30,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +167.50% -36.84% -24.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

IPv4 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,309 5,810 7,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.89% 16.80% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,574 3,171 4,662
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £31,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £37,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.24% -17.78% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £69,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -4.76%

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IPv4 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

IPv4 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IPv4
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IPv4.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IPv4

IPv4
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPv4 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for IPv4 in the UK excluding London

IPv4
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPv4 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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
South West -62 4 £60,500 +61.33% 5
South East - 2 - - 5
Midlands -20 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £42,500 - 3
IPv4
UK

IPv4
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) IPv6
3 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (25.00%) WireGuard
4 1 (12.50%) DMZ
4 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
4 1 (12.50%) Modbus
4 1 (12.50%) OSPF
4 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Control Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) IoT
2 2 (25.00%) Robotics
3 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
2 4 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) API Integration
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) Logistics
4 2 (25.00%) Observability
4 2 (25.00%) Telematics
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (50.00%) CCNA
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (50.00%) OSCP
1 4 (50.00%) RHCE
1 4 (50.00%) RHCSA
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
1 4 (50.00%) Squid
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 4 (50.00%) vSphere
2 2 (25.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Packer
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
1 4 (50.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Splunk
2 4 (50.00%) VMware