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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 696 830 883
Rank change year-on-year +134 +53 +207
Permanent jobs citing IPv4 34 69 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.069% 0.087%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% 0.51% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 18 51 54
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,475 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -24.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £36,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.44% -33.64% -26.67%

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 9,375 13,481 15,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.79% 13.53% 15.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,367 9,406 7,898
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £43,742 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.98% -2.80% -4.26%

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 17 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 17 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 +106 32 £50,500 +6.32% 18
UK excluding London +169 19 £42,500 +16.44% 13
London +89 13 £72,750 +45.50% 5
Work from Home +106 8 £32,500 -31.58% 15
North of England +38 6 £42,500 +16.44%
South East +82 5 £52,500 -34.38% 7
North West +1 5 £42,500 +16.44%
South West +106 4 - - 2
East of England - 4 £42,475 - 1
Yorkshire +59 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 17 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.94%) IIS
3 1 (2.94%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (23.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (64.71%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (44.12%) Entra ID
3 13 (38.24%) AWS
4 11 (32.35%) Azure
5 8 (23.53%) IaaS
5 8 (23.53%) PaaS
5 8 (23.53%) SaaS
6 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (11.76%) OneDrive
6 4 (11.76%) Serverless
7 3 (8.82%) Mimecast
8 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (76.47%) DNS
2 25 (73.53%) DHCP
3 22 (64.71%) VLAN
4 12 (35.29%) Cisco IOS
4 12 (35.29%) FTP
4 12 (35.29%) PBX
4 12 (35.29%) SAN
4 12 (35.29%) SMTP
4 12 (35.29%) Structured Cabling
5 10 (29.41%) Firewall
5 10 (29.41%) VPN
6 8 (23.53%) IPv6
7 7 (20.59%) MPLS
8 6 (17.65%) LAN
9 5 (14.71%) GPON
10 4 (11.76%) NAS
10 4 (11.76%) OSPF
11 3 (8.82%) Broadband
11 3 (8.82%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (8.82%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Finance
3 7 (20.59%) Telecoms
4 6 (17.65%) Retail
5 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Senior
2 9 (26.47%) IT Engineer
3 8 (23.53%) Consultant
3 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 8 (23.53%) Senior Consultant
3 8 (23.53%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 7 (20.59%) Network Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) IT Support
6 4 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Desktop Support
6 4 (11.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) IT Technician
7 2 (5.88%) Lead
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) .NET
1 1 (2.94%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Public Cloud
2 8 (23.53%) Private Cloud
3 4 (11.76%) Driving Licence
3 4 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.94%) IoT
6 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (76.47%) Windows
2 17 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 13 (38.24%) Android
3 13 (38.24%) Windows 10
4 11 (32.35%) Linux
5 5 (14.71%) Unix
6 4 (11.76%) Apple iOS
7 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Incident Management
2 8 (23.53%) Commercial Awareness
3 7 (20.59%) ITIL
4 6 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (14.71%) Business Continuity
5 5 (14.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (11.76%) Change Control
6 4 (11.76%) Configuration Management
6 4 (11.76%) Cost Reduction
6 4 (11.76%) DevOps
6 4 (11.76%) DevSecOps
6 4 (11.76%) ITSM
6 4 (11.76%) Re-Platforming
6 4 (11.76%) Task Automation
7 3 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (8.82%) ERP
7 3 (8.82%) Security Patching
8 2 (5.88%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) PowerShell
2 14 (41.18%) Python
3 5 (14.71%) Bash
4 4 (11.76%) R
5 1 (2.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (41.18%) Degree
2 13 (38.24%) CCNA
2 13 (38.24%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (38.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (35.29%) Network+ Certification
4 5 (14.71%) AWS Certification
5 3 (8.82%) JNCIS
6 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.94%) CISA
7 1 (2.94%) CISM
7 1 (2.94%) CISMP
7 1 (2.94%) CISSP
7 1 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.94%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.94%) MCSA
7 1 (2.94%) MCSE
7 1 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
1 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (61.76%) Active Directory
2 17 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 12 (35.29%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (23.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) SCCM
1 12 (35.29%) WSUS
2 10 (29.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (17.65%) Ansible
4 4 (11.76%) Puppet
5 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.94%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 17 (50.00%) Veeam
3 15 (44.12%) Cisco
4 12 (35.29%) Citrix
5 11 (32.35%) VMware
6 3 (8.82%) Juniper
7 2 (5.88%) Nokia
7 2 (5.88%) Splunk
8 1 (2.94%) Fortinet