Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IPv4 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IPv4 over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 623 949 957
Rank change year-on-year +326 +8 -295
Permanent jobs citing IPv4 104 141 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.28% 0.89% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 64 114 108
10th Percentile £29,000 £44,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,625 £50,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £77,900 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +26.32% +5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

IPv4 is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,115 15,817 16,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.07% 12.52% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6,389 10,530 11,491
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -

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 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for IPv4 in the UK

IPv4
Top 12 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 30 November 2023. 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 +282 101 £67,500 -10.00% 18
UK excluding London +231 75 £67,500 +12.50% 9
Work from Home +262 64 £72,000 -4.00% 11
South West +62 31 £50,500 -15.83% 5
London +257 25 £69,750 -7.00% 8
South East +166 19 £72,500 - 2
North of England +150 15 £62,500 -26.47%
North West +118 13 £70,000 +133.33%
West Midlands +139 9 £32,500 -59.38%
Midlands +132 9 £32,500 -55.17%
Yorkshire +75 2 £45,000 -47.06%
Wales +16 1 - -

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 7 (6.73%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.92%) MS Exchange
3 1 (0.96%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.73%) AWS
2 24 (23.08%) Azure
3 15 (14.42%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 6 (5.77%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.81%) IaaS
6 5 (4.81%) Serverless
7 4 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.85%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.92%) GCP
9 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.96%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (0.96%) GitHub
9 1 (0.96%) PaaS
9 1 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 56 (53.85%) VPN
2 43 (41.35%) Firewall
3 37 (35.58%) VLAN
4 28 (26.92%) OSPF
5 24 (23.08%) LAN
6 20 (19.23%) MPLS
7 19 (18.27%) BGP
7 19 (18.27%) WAN
7 19 (18.27%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (16.35%) DNS
8 17 (16.35%) IPv6
8 17 (16.35%) TCP/IP
9 16 (15.38%) IPsec
10 13 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
10 13 (12.50%) DHCP
10 13 (12.50%) Ethernet
10 13 (12.50%) NGFW
11 12 (11.54%) Internet
12 11 (10.58%) Network Security
12 11 (10.58%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.69%) Apache Accumulo
2 7 (6.73%) Big Data
2 7 (6.73%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.96%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.96%) MySQL
4 1 (0.96%) MySQL Workbench
Development Applications
1 1 (0.96%) DBeaver
1 1 (0.96%) Git
1 1 (0.96%) GitLab
1 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.96%) Postman
1 1 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 19 (18.27%) Telecoms
2 14 (13.46%) Aerospace
2 14 (13.46%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.65%) Finance
4 4 (3.85%) Banking
4 4 (3.85%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.88%) Retail
6 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.92%) Local Government
6 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 26 (25.00%) Lead
2 16 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (14.42%) Network Engineer
4 14 (13.46%) Senior
5 12 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (11.54%) Lead DevOps
5 12 (11.54%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) IP Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Support Engineer
7 9 (8.65%) Analyst
7 9 (8.65%) Architect
8 8 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (7.69%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 8 (7.69%) Principal Architect
8 8 (7.69%) Principal Solutions Architect
8 8 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.77%) Technical Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Technical Support
9 6 (5.77%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.62%) HTML
2 9 (8.65%) HTML5
2 9 (8.65%) WebSockets
3 5 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.92%) LDAP
5 1 (0.96%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.96%) JSON
5 1 (0.96%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.96%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.96%) Swagger
5 1 (0.96%) XML
5 1 (0.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (28.85%) Public Cloud
2 13 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.73%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.85%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.88%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.92%) Handset
6 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.96%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.96%) PKI
7 1 (0.96%) Robotics
7 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.96%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 52 (50.00%) Windows
2 49 (47.12%) Linux
3 14 (13.46%) Unix
4 13 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.81%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.85%) Apple iOS
6 4 (3.85%) Windows 7
6 4 (3.85%) Windows 8
7 2 (1.92%) Debian
7 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.96%) CentOS
8 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.42%) Infrastructure as Code
2 39 (37.50%) Task Automation
3 36 (34.62%) Configuration Management
4 30 (28.85%) DevSecOps
5 21 (20.19%) Containerisation
6 20 (19.23%) Cost Reduction
6 20 (19.23%) DevOps
6 20 (19.23%) Re-Platforming
7 16 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (13.46%) Collaborative Working
9 13 (12.50%) Software Testing
10 12 (11.54%) Computer Science
10 12 (11.54%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 12 (11.54%) Information Security
11 11 (10.58%) Customer Service
11 11 (10.58%) SIEM
11 11 (10.58%) Vulnerability Management
12 10 (9.62%) Agile
12 10 (9.62%) Risk Assessment
13 9 (8.65%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 41 (39.42%) PowerShell
2 40 (38.46%) Bash
3 36 (34.62%) Python
4 6 (5.77%) SQL
5 1 (0.96%) C++
5 1 (0.96%) Java
5 1 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.96%) PHP
5 1 (0.96%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.31%) Degree
3 12 (11.54%) AWS Certification
4 11 (10.58%) GIAC
4 11 (10.58%) RHCE
5 8 (7.69%) CCNA
5 8 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.85%) CCNP
8 1 (0.96%) CISA
8 1 (0.96%) CISM
8 1 (0.96%) CISSP
8 1 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.96%) CWNA
8 1 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.92%) GDPR
2 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.96%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 29 (27.88%) Docker
2 15 (14.42%) Active Directory
3 14 (13.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.88%) vSphere
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.96%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.96%) KVM
7 1 (0.96%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 40 (38.46%) Ansible
2 39 (37.50%) Puppet
3 24 (23.08%) Kubernetes
4 9 (8.65%) Terraform
5 5 (4.81%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.92%) Grafana
8 1 (0.96%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.96%) Kibana
8 1 (0.96%) SCCM
8 1 (0.96%) SCOM
8 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (25.96%) Microsoft
2 22 (21.15%) Cisco
3 18 (17.31%) Fortinet
4 16 (15.38%) Juniper
5 15 (14.42%) Palo Alto
6 14 (13.46%) VMware
7 12 (11.54%) Red Hat
8 11 (10.58%) Oracle
9 8 (7.69%) Apple
10 6 (5.77%) Meraki
11 3 (2.88%) Aruba
12 2 (1.92%) ArcSight
12 2 (1.92%) BT
12 2 (1.92%) Citrix
12 2 (1.92%) Ekahau
12 2 (1.92%) Ruckus Wireless
12 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.92%) Virgin Media
13 1 (0.96%) Dell
13 1 (0.96%) HP