Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IPv6 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IPv6 over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 843 950 1001
Rank change year-on-year +107 +51 -225
Permanent jobs citing IPv6 51 43 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.041% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.37% 0.27% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 44 26 150
10th Percentile £34,750 £43,750 £49,125
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £59,063 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £94,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -30.00% +66.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

IPv6 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 13,628 16,029 20,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.88% 15.30% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,526 8,241 11,792
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

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 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IPv6 in the UK

IPv6
Top 11 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 26 April 2024. 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 +126 50 £47,500 -13.64% 12
London +155 34 £50,000 -33.33% 5
Work from Home +92 23 £47,500 -22.45% 7
UK excluding London -8 17 £47,500 -9.52% 10
North of England +49 8 £42,000 -11.58% 2
West Midlands +31 6 £47,500 -13.64%
Midlands +1 6 £47,500 -13.64%
North West +8 4 £36,500 -23.16% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £47,500 -
South East +30 2 £82,500 +43.48% 5
Scotland - 1 £50,000 - 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 2 (3.92%) IIS
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (58.82%) Azure
2 7 (13.73%) AWS
3 5 (9.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (9.80%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (9.80%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.92%) Azure App Service
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.92%) Datadog
6 2 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.92%) GCP
7 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.96%) IaaS
7 1 (1.96%) PaaS
7 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (80.39%) IPv4
2 33 (64.71%) DNS
3 31 (60.78%) Firewall
4 28 (54.90%) VPN
5 27 (52.94%) LAN
5 27 (52.94%) WAN
6 26 (50.98%) Wireless
7 25 (49.02%) DHCP
8 21 (41.18%) IPsec
8 21 (41.18%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (29.41%) BGP
10 11 (21.57%) OSPF
11 8 (15.69%) TCP/IP
12 5 (9.80%) MPLS
12 5 (9.80%) VLAN
13 3 (5.88%) IGMP
13 3 (5.88%) RIP
13 3 (5.88%) SNMP
13 3 (5.88%) VoIP
13 3 (5.88%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.92%) MySQL
1 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) GitLab
2 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.92%) MSBuild
2 2 (3.92%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (13.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.80%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.88%) Games
4 2 (3.92%) Finance
4 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.96%) Advertising
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (60.78%) Network Engineer
2 5 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (9.80%) Senior
3 4 (7.84%) ICT Support
3 4 (7.84%) Lead
3 4 (7.84%) Project Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Juniper Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Support Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Technical Support
4 3 (5.88%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Architect
5 2 (3.92%) Lead Architect
5 2 (3.92%) Lead Network Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Network Architect
5 2 (3.92%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) CSS
2 2 (3.92%) .NET
2 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET
2 2 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.92%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (41.18%) PKI
2 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.88%) Smart City
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Linux
2 4 (7.84%) Mac OS
2 4 (7.84%) Windows
2 4 (7.84%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.88%) Debian
4 2 (3.92%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.92%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.92%) Windows 7
4 2 (3.92%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
1 9 (17.65%) Customer Service
1 9 (17.65%) ITIL
1 9 (17.65%) Load Balancing
1 9 (17.65%) PRINCE2
2 7 (13.73%) DevOps
3 6 (11.76%) Containerisation
3 6 (11.76%) CRM
4 5 (9.80%) Auto-Scaling
4 5 (9.80%) Chaos Engineering
4 5 (9.80%) Immutable Infrastructure
4 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
4 5 (9.80%) Network Design
4 5 (9.80%) Zero Trust
5 4 (7.84%) CI/CD
5 4 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (5.88%) Critical Thinking
6 3 (5.88%) Customer Experience
6 3 (5.88%) Digital Identity
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.80%) Python
2 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.88%) Bash
4 2 (3.92%) C#
4 2 (3.92%) PHP
4 2 (3.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (33.33%) CCNA
1 17 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (9.80%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) MCT
3 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) MCSE
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) Docker
2 5 (9.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.84%) Hyper-V
3 4 (7.84%) vCloud
4 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.96%) PowerDNS
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (15.69%) Ansible
2 5 (9.80%) Terraform
3 3 (5.88%) Progress Chef
3 3 (5.88%) Salt
4 2 (3.92%) Kibana
4 2 (3.92%) Nagios
4 2 (3.92%) Packer
4 2 (3.92%) Puppet
5 1 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (31.37%) Cisco
2 11 (21.57%) Fortinet
3 9 (17.65%) SolarWinds
4 8 (15.69%) Juniper
5 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
6 5 (9.80%) HP
6 5 (9.80%) VMware
7 4 (7.84%) Datto
7 4 (7.84%) NETGEAR
7 4 (7.84%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (7.84%) Veeam
8 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
9 2 (3.92%) Apple
9 2 (3.92%) Black Duck
9 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
9 2 (3.92%) F5
9 2 (3.92%) Remedy
9 2 (3.92%) Riverbed
9 2 (3.92%) Ruckus Wireless
9 2 (3.92%) Splunk