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 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 703 989 871
Rank change year-on-year +286 -118 -213
Permanent jobs citing IPv6 38 87 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.070% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.47% 0.57% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 33 59 169
10th Percentile £30,871 £46,250 £36,100
25th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +3.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £85,500 £90,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £65,000 £62,250
% change year-on-year -26.92% +4.42% +38.33%

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 8,066 15,350 16,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.15% 12.38% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 6,330 10,317 11,453
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 £68,000 £72,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -

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 4 December 2023.

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 4 December 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 +279 33 £60,000 -17.24% 18
UK excluding London +221 20 £47,500 -26.92% 13
Work from Home +222 19 £57,500 -11.54% 10
London +239 13 £60,450 -19.40% 5
South East +156 6 £80,000 +28.00% 9
West Midlands +136 6 £30,000 -50.00%
Midlands +125 6 £30,000 -51.02%
North of England +142 4 £45,000 -47.06% 1
Scotland - 3 £50,000 -
North West +106 2 £54,000 +28.57%
Yorkshire +83 2 £45,000 -47.06%
South West +76 1 £39,289 -21.42% 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 (5.26%) IIS
1 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (7.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (23.68%) AWS
4 8 (21.05%) IaaS
5 6 (15.79%) Power Platform
6 5 (13.16%) Azure AKS
6 5 (13.16%) PaaS
6 5 (13.16%) SaaS
7 4 (10.53%) Azure Stack
7 4 (10.53%) GCP
8 3 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (7.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (7.89%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (7.89%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
8 3 (7.89%) Serverless
8 3 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (60.53%) Firewall
2 20 (52.63%) BGP
3 16 (42.11%) DNS
3 16 (42.11%) IPv4
4 14 (36.84%) VPN
5 12 (31.58%) TCP/IP
6 11 (28.95%) MPLS
6 11 (28.95%) OSPF
7 10 (26.32%) VoIP
8 8 (21.05%) SD-WAN
8 8 (21.05%) SNMP
9 7 (18.42%) VLAN
10 6 (15.79%) Multicast
10 6 (15.79%) Wireless
11 5 (13.16%) 802.11
11 5 (13.16%) IGMP
11 5 (13.16%) LAN
11 5 (13.16%) RIP
11 5 (13.16%) VRRP
11 5 (13.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Power BI
1 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) GitLab
2 2 (5.26%) MSBuild
General
1 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Telecoms
3 5 (13.16%) Advertising
3 5 (13.16%) Marketing
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Games
4 3 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Network Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Support Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Technical Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Technical Support
3 5 (13.16%) Technical Support Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Active Directory Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) IP Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) IP Network Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Service Desk Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Core Network Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Juniper Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Lead
5 3 (7.89%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Project Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) 802.1X
2 4 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (7.89%) JSON
3 3 (7.89%) YAML
4 2 (5.26%) .NET
4 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.26%) CSS
4 2 (5.26%) LDAP
5 1 (2.63%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.26%) Replication
4 2 (5.26%) Smart City
4 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (36.84%) Linux
2 13 (34.21%) Windows
3 9 (23.68%) Windows Server
4 5 (13.16%) Debian
5 4 (10.53%) Apple iOS
5 4 (10.53%) Windows 10
5 4 (10.53%) Windows 7
5 4 (10.53%) Windows 8
6 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) Customer Service
2 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (18.42%) Information Security
4 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
4 6 (15.79%) Migration
5 5 (13.16%) Capacity Management
5 5 (13.16%) Change Management
5 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
5 5 (13.16%) Customer Experience
5 5 (13.16%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (13.16%) SIEM
6 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.53%) Coaching
6 4 (10.53%) CRM
6 4 (10.53%) DevOps
6 4 (10.53%) Network Design
6 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
7 3 (7.89%) Log Aggregation
7 3 (7.89%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 7 (18.42%) SQL
3 6 (15.79%) Bash
4 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.89%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.26%) C#
6 2 (5.26%) PHP
7 1 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (2.63%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (18.42%) CCNA
3 6 (15.79%) CCIE
3 6 (15.79%) Degree
3 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
4 5 (13.16%) CCNP
4 5 (13.16%) CWAP
4 5 (13.16%) CWNA
5 4 (10.53%) MCT
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Certification
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 2 (5.26%) MCSE
7 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
8 1 (2.63%) CISA
8 1 (2.63%) CISM
8 1 (2.63%) CISSP
8 1 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.63%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Active Directory
2 7 (18.42%) Docker
3 6 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Ansible
2 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.53%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (7.89%) FortiGate
4 3 (7.89%) Grafana
4 3 (7.89%) Packer
4 3 (7.89%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.89%) Salt
4 3 (7.89%) Terraform
5 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) Cisco
2 17 (44.74%) Microsoft
3 10 (26.32%) Juniper
4 7 (18.42%) Palo Alto
4 7 (18.42%) VMware
5 6 (15.79%) Fortinet
6 5 (13.16%) HP
7 4 (10.53%) Apple
7 4 (10.53%) Meraki
7 4 (10.53%) Salesforce
8 3 (7.89%) Aruba
8 3 (7.89%) Red Hat
9 2 (5.26%) ArcSight
9 2 (5.26%) Remedy
10 1 (2.63%) FireEye
10 1 (2.63%) Splunk
10 1 (2.63%) Tanium