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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 842 955 1022
Rank change year-on-year +113 +67 -222
Permanent jobs citing IPv6 46 40 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.039% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.34% 0.25% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 38 24 155
10th Percentile £42,800 £43,250 £50,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,188 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £50,000 £72,188 £90,000
90th Percentile £88,375 £87,500 £97,250
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 13,535 15,801 20,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.65% 15.56% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,435 8,018 11,727
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IPv6 in the UK

IPv6
Top 10 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 8 May 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 +85 46 £47,500 -13.64% 11
London +138 32 £50,000 -29.82% 5
Work from Home +76 22 £47,500 -13.64% 6
UK excluding London -17 14 £47,500 -9.52% 9
North of England +45 8 £42,000 -11.58%
West Midlands +14 4 £65,000 +18.18%
North West +7 4 £36,500 -23.16%
Midlands -4 4 £65,000 +18.18%
Yorkshire - 4 £47,500 -
South East +18 2 £82,500 +43.48% 6

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 (4.35%) IIS
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (65.22%) Azure
2 8 (17.39%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (13.04%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (6.52%) Datadog
5 2 (4.35%) Azure App Service
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.35%) GCP
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (86.96%) IPv4
2 33 (71.74%) DNS
3 28 (60.87%) Firewall
4 27 (58.70%) LAN
4 27 (58.70%) WAN
5 26 (56.52%) VPN
5 26 (56.52%) Wireless
6 25 (54.35%) DHCP
7 21 (45.65%) IPsec
7 21 (45.65%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (26.09%) BGP
9 11 (23.91%) OSPF
10 6 (13.04%) TCP/IP
11 5 (10.87%) VLAN
12 4 (8.70%) MPLS
13 3 (6.52%) IGMP
13 3 (6.52%) RIP
13 3 (6.52%) SNMP
13 3 (6.52%) VoIP
13 3 (6.52%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.35%) MySQL
1 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) GitLab
2 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.52%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.35%) MSBuild
4 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (8.70%) Social Skills
1 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
2 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (2.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (60.87%) Network Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) ICT Support
3 4 (8.70%) Project Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Senior
4 3 (6.52%) Lead
4 3 (6.52%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Technical Support
4 3 (6.52%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Lead Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Network Architect
6 1 (2.17%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Logistics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) CSS
1 3 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.35%) .NET
2 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (45.65%) PKI
2 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.52%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Mac OS
3 3 (6.52%) Windows
3 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.74%) Load Balancing
2 9 (19.57%) Capacity Planning
2 9 (19.57%) ITIL
2 9 (19.57%) PRINCE2
3 8 (17.39%) DevOps
4 7 (15.22%) Customer Service
5 6 (13.04%) Auto-Scaling
5 6 (13.04%) Chaos Engineering
5 6 (13.04%) Containerisation
5 6 (13.04%) Immutable Infrastructure
5 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
5 6 (13.04%) Zero Trust
6 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.70%) CRM
7 4 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (6.52%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 3 (6.52%) Critical Thinking
8 3 (6.52%) Network Design
8 3 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.70%) Python
3 2 (4.35%) C#
3 2 (4.35%) PHP
3 2 (4.35%) SQL
4 1 (2.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) CCNA
1 16 (34.78%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) Degree
4 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.52%) MCT
6 2 (4.35%) MCSE
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) Hyper-V
2 4 (8.70%) vCloud
2 4 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.17%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Ansible
2 6 (13.04%) Terraform
3 3 (6.52%) Kibana
3 3 (6.52%) Packer
3 3 (6.52%) Puppet
4 2 (4.35%) Nagios
5 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.17%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Cisco
2 11 (23.91%) Fortinet
3 9 (19.57%) SolarWinds
4 5 (10.87%) Juniper
5 4 (8.70%) Datto
5 4 (8.70%) HP
5 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
5 4 (8.70%) NETGEAR
5 4 (8.70%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (8.70%) Veeam
5 4 (8.70%) VMware
6 3 (6.52%) Black Duck
6 3 (6.52%) Dynatrace
6 3 (6.52%) Splunk
7 2 (4.35%) F5
7 2 (4.35%) Remedy
7 2 (4.35%) Riverbed
7 2 (4.35%) Ruckus Wireless
8 1 (2.17%) BT
8 1 (2.17%) Red Hat