IPv6 Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IPv6 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 523 553
Rank change year-on-year +24 +30 +186
Permanent jobs citing IPv6 10 43 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.12% 0.058%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% 0.87% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 16
10th Percentile £42,350 £45,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,239 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.37% +47.37% -20.83%
75th Percentile £58,750 - £58,875
90th Percentile £64,000 £87,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

IPv6 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 7,571 4,931 5,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.85% 13.73% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,822 2,461 4,336
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,694 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £71,250
UK median annual salary £38,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +10.00% -4.76%

IPv6
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IPv6 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

IPv6 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IPv6
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IPv6.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IPv6

IPv6
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPv6 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for IPv6 in the UK excluding London

IPv6
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 IPv6 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 East +30 3 £55,000 +4.76% 14
East of England +23 3 £43,000 -38.57% 7
North of England +1 2 £62,500 - 9
Yorkshire -10 2 £62,500 - 4
Midlands +18 1 £49,479 - 9
East Midlands - 1 £49,479 - 5
South West - 1 £45,000 - 6
IPv6
UK

IPv6
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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (10.00%) IaaS
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (10.00%) PaaS
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) IPv4
2 7 (70.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (70.00%) WAN
3 6 (60.00%) Firewall
3 6 (60.00%) LAN
3 6 (60.00%) VPN
4 4 (40.00%) Network Security
5 3 (30.00%) DHCP
5 3 (30.00%) MPLS
5 3 (30.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (30.00%) VLAN
6 2 (20.00%) 3GPP
6 2 (20.00%) 4G
6 2 (20.00%) 5G
6 2 (20.00%) BGP
6 2 (20.00%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (20.00%) DNS
6 2 (20.00%) ICMP
6 2 (20.00%) OSPF
6 2 (20.00%) SCTP
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Design Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Design Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Design Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Network Design Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Support
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Operations Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) OpenWrt
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Network Design
2 3 (30.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Network Management
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (10.00%) API Management
4 1 (10.00%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (10.00%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C
1 1 (10.00%) C++
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CCNP
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (30.00%) CCNA
3 2 (20.00%) JNCIA
3 2 (20.00%) JNCIS
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) KVM
1 2 (20.00%) RHEV
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (20.00%) Xen
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Nagios
1 2 (20.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Juniper
3 2 (20.00%) F5
3 2 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (20.00%) Meraki
3 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) Aruba
4 1 (10.00%) Huawei
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft