Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring IPv6 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IPv6 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 676 845 946
Rank change year-on-year +169 +101 +47
Permanent jobs citing IPv6 16 51 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.052% 0.041%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.23% 0.37% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 9 43 26
10th Percentile £35,250 £34,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £49,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -26.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -30.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,964 13,635 16,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.38% 13.84% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,270 9,518 8,181
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,063 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,625 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.31% -3.06% -

IPv6
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IPv6 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IPv6 in the UK

IPv6
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IPv6.

Salary trend for IPv6 in the UK

IPv6
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPv6 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IPv6 in the UK

IPv6
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPv6 within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +207 14 £52,500 +10.53% 24
England +132 9 £52,500 +10.53% 25
South East +113 6 £52,500 -36.36% 11
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 3
Work from Home +175 3 £53,750 +13.16% 28
North of England +78 1 £32,500 -22.62%
London +76 1 £50,500 +1.00% 4
Yorkshire +73 1 £32,500 -31.58%
East of England - 1 £70,000 - 17

IPv6
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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (81.25%) Firewall
2 12 (75.00%) DNS
3 9 (56.25%) IPv4
3 9 (56.25%) VPN
4 8 (50.00%) MPLS
5 6 (37.50%) GPON
5 6 (37.50%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (31.25%) DHCP
7 4 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (25.00%) VXLAN
8 3 (18.75%) Broadband
9 2 (12.50%) BGP
9 2 (12.50%) DWDM
9 2 (12.50%) Ethernet
9 2 (12.50%) Internet
9 2 (12.50%) LAN
9 2 (12.50%) Multicast
9 2 (12.50%) Network Security
9 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
9 2 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Archiva
1 2 (12.50%) Artifactory
1 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (12.50%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Network Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Information Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (25.00%) HTML
1 4 (25.00%) HTML5
1 4 (25.00%) Node.js
1 4 (25.00%) Sass
1 4 (25.00%) WebRTC
2 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 4 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 2 (12.50%) PKI
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (31.25%) Information Security
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (25.00%) Business Process Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (25.00%) Scrum
3 4 (25.00%) SDLC
3 4 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 4 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 4 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (18.75%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 4 (25.00%) PhD
2 3 (18.75%) JNCIS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CCNA
3 1 (6.25%) CISA
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CISM
3 1 (6.25%) CISMP
3 1 (6.25%) CISSP
3 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Argo
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Kustomize
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Juniper
1 4 (25.00%) Veracode
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) Nokia
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds