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 16 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 713 702 945
Rank change year-on-year -11 +243 -67
Permanent jobs citing IPv6 52 39 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.066% 0.060%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.50% 0.47% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 16 32 49
10th Percentile £45,000 £30,275 £46,250
25th Percentile £49,903 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £85,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £47,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year +47.37% -19.15% -12.96%

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 10,474 8,273 13,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.09% 14.04% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,768 6,394 9,139
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -

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 16 January 2025.

Salary histogram for IPv6 in the UK

IPv6
Top 12 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 16 January 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 -10 43 £70,000 +47.37% 12
England -25 37 £57,500 -4.52% 20
Northern Ireland - 15 - -
Work from Home +31 14 £70,000 +16.67% 10
London +8 9 £55,000 -31.25% 7
North of England -18 9 - - 2
South East -22 9 £52,500 -14.98% 10
North West -26 8 - - 2
Midlands -26 5 - -
West Midlands -36 5 - -
East of England - 5 £70,000 - 4
Yorkshire +27 1 - -

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 10 (19.23%) Confluence
2 4 (7.69%) Apache
2 4 (7.69%) OpenStack
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) Azure
2 7 (13.46%) IaaS
2 7 (13.46%) PaaS
2 7 (13.46%) SaaS
3 6 (11.54%) AWS
3 6 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.69%) Figma
5 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.69%) Route 53
5 4 (7.69%) Serverless
6 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.77%) Mimecast
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (3.85%) GCP
7 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 37 (71.15%) DNS
2 35 (67.31%) Firewall
3 27 (51.92%) MPLS
4 24 (46.15%) VPN
5 21 (40.38%) BGP
6 20 (38.46%) TCP/IP
7 17 (32.69%) OSPF
7 17 (32.69%) WAN
8 15 (28.85%) DHCP
8 15 (28.85%) IPv4
8 15 (28.85%) LAN
8 15 (28.85%) Reverse Proxy
9 10 (19.23%) SNMP
10 7 (13.46%) Multicast
10 7 (13.46%) Network Security
11 6 (11.54%) GPON
11 6 (11.54%) Internet
11 6 (11.54%) VLAN
12 5 (9.62%) EIGRP
12 5 (9.62%) Frame Relay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (7.69%) Power BI
1 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (26.92%) Git
2 10 (19.23%) JIRA
3 4 (7.69%) Zephyr
4 2 (3.85%) Apache Archiva
4 2 (3.85%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.85%) GitLab
4 2 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (3.85%) Vagrant
General
1 25 (48.08%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (19.23%) Presentation Skills
3 10 (19.23%) Telecoms
4 6 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Retail
6 1 (1.92%) Aviation
6 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) Network Engineer
2 11 (21.15%) Senior
3 10 (19.23%) Architect
4 9 (17.31%) Software Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Principal Software Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Presales Solution Architect
7 4 (7.69%) QA Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Network Architect
9 2 (3.85%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Software QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.31%) AngularJS
1 9 (17.31%) HTML
1 9 (17.31%) HTML5
1 9 (17.31%) Node.js
1 9 (17.31%) Sass
2 8 (15.38%) WebdriverIO
3 7 (13.46%) WebRTC
4 4 (7.69%) Jest
4 4 (7.69%) LAPP Stack
4 4 (7.69%) RESTful
5 2 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Video\Live Streaming
2 6 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 5 (9.62%) PKI
3 5 (9.62%) Robotics
4 4 (7.69%) IoT
4 4 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.69%) Private Cloud
4 4 (7.69%) Replication
4 4 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (5.77%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.92%) Clustering
7 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Linux
1 7 (13.46%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) VMS
2 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 13 (25.00%) Information Security
2 13 (25.00%) Scrum
2 13 (25.00%) SDLC
2 13 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 12 (23.08%) Agile
4 9 (17.31%) Integration Testing
4 9 (17.31%) Load Balancing
4 9 (17.31%) Software Engineering
4 9 (17.31%) Unit Testing
4 9 (17.31%) User Stories
5 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (15.38%) ITIL
5 8 (15.38%) Use Case
6 7 (13.46%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (11.54%) Network Management
8 5 (9.62%) High Availability
8 5 (9.62%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.92%) PowerShell
2 12 (23.08%) Python
3 11 (21.15%) TypeScript
4 6 (11.54%) Bash
5 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (26.92%) Degree
2 13 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 7 (13.46%) CCIE
4 6 (11.54%) CCNA
5 5 (9.62%) PhD
6 3 (5.77%) CCNP
6 3 (5.77%) JNCIS
7 1 (1.92%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 1 (1.92%) CCIE Service Provider
7 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (28.85%) QA
2 4 (7.69%) ISO 9001
2 4 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.69%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.85%) Docker
4 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (23.08%) Ansible
2 8 (15.38%) Puppet
3 6 (11.54%) Kubernetes
4 5 (9.62%) FortiGate
5 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (7.69%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.85%) Argo
6 2 (3.85%) Kustomize
6 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.85%) Terraform
7 1 (1.92%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.92%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 14 (26.92%) Cisco
2 9 (17.31%) VMware
3 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 5 (9.62%) Juniper
4 5 (9.62%) SolarWinds
4 5 (9.62%) Veracode
5 4 (7.69%) Veeam
5 4 (7.69%) Zerto
6 2 (3.85%) Nokia
6 2 (3.85%) Splunk
7 1 (1.92%) F5
7 1 (1.92%) Google
7 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.92%) Red Hat