Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring IPv4 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IPv4 over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 838 882
Rank change year-on-year +164 +44 +223
Permanent jobs citing IPv4 28 69 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.067% 0.090%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.28% 0.51% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 15 50 52
10th Percentile £31,205 £31,225 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -24.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £53,750 £58,063 £73,750
90th Percentile £74,000 £80,125 £82,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £36,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year +16.44% -34.23% -23.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,094 13,581 15,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.08% 13.10% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,436 9,413 7,713
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £26,625 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IPv4 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IPv4 in the UK

IPv4
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IPv4.

Salary trend for IPv4 in the UK

IPv4
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPv4 over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IPv4 in the UK

IPv4
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPv4 within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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
England +132 26 £46,500 -2.11% 15
UK excluding London +171 17 £42,500 +16.44% 12
London +78 9 £50,500 +1.00% 3
Work from Home +98 8 £32,500 -31.58% 13
North of England +32 5 £42,500 +16.44% 1
South West +108 4 - - 3
South East +75 4 £52,500 -34.38% 4
North West +2 4 £42,500 +16.44% 1
East of England - 4 £42,475 - 3
Yorkshire +53 1 £32,500 -31.58%

IPv4
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.57%) IIS
3 1 (3.57%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (39.29%) Entra ID
3 9 (32.14%) AWS
4 8 (28.57%) Azure
5 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (14.29%) IaaS
5 4 (14.29%) OneDrive
5 4 (14.29%) PaaS
5 4 (14.29%) SaaS
5 4 (14.29%) Serverless
6 3 (10.71%) Mimecast
7 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 2 (7.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (71.43%) DNS
2 19 (67.86%) DHCP
3 16 (57.14%) VLAN
4 10 (35.71%) VPN
5 8 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (28.57%) Firewall
5 8 (28.57%) FTP
5 8 (28.57%) IPv6
5 8 (28.57%) PBX
5 8 (28.57%) SAN
5 8 (28.57%) SMTP
5 8 (28.57%) Structured Cabling
6 6 (21.43%) MPLS
7 4 (14.29%) GPON
7 4 (14.29%) LAN
7 4 (14.29%) NAS
7 4 (14.29%) OSPF
8 3 (10.71%) Broadband
8 3 (10.71%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (10.71%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Telecoms
4 4 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (14.29%) Retail
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Senior
2 7 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) IT Support
3 6 (21.43%) Network Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Desktop Support
4 4 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) IT Technician
6 2 (7.14%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) .NET
1 1 (3.57%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 4 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 4 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) IoT
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (75.00%) Windows
2 12 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 9 (32.14%) Android
3 9 (32.14%) Linux
3 9 (32.14%) Windows 10
4 4 (14.29%) Apple iOS
5 3 (10.71%) Unix
6 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 6 (21.43%) ITIL
3 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (14.29%) Change Control
4 4 (14.29%) Commercial Awareness
4 4 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 4 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
4 4 (14.29%) DevOps
4 4 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (14.29%) ITSM
4 4 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
4 4 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 3 (10.71%) Business Continuity
5 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (10.71%) ERP
5 3 (10.71%) Security Patching
6 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
6 2 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) PowerShell
2 9 (32.14%) Python
3 5 (17.86%) Bash
4 4 (14.29%) R
5 1 (3.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Degree
2 9 (32.14%) CCNA
2 9 (32.14%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (32.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (28.57%) Network+ Certification
4 5 (17.86%) AWS Certification
5 3 (10.71%) JNCIS
6 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.57%) CISA
7 1 (3.57%) CISM
7 1 (3.57%) CISMP
7 1 (3.57%) CISSP
7 1 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
7 1 (3.57%) MCSA
7 1 (3.57%) MCSE
7 1 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) Active Directory
2 12 (42.86%) Hyper-V
3 8 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) SCCM
1 8 (28.57%) WSUS
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (17.86%) Ansible
4 4 (14.29%) Puppet
5 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
5 1 (3.57%) HAProxy
5 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (42.86%) Cisco
3 11 (39.29%) Veeam
4 8 (28.57%) Citrix
4 8 (28.57%) VMware
5 3 (10.71%) Juniper
6 1 (3.57%) Datto
6 1 (3.57%) Draytek
6 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.57%) NETGEAR
6 1 (3.57%) Nokia
6 1 (3.57%) Splunk
6 1 (3.57%) Ubiquiti