Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring PPP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PPP over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 786 879 782
Rank change year-on-year +93 -97 +216
Permanent jobs citing PPP 56 8 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.010% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.50% 0.062% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 35
10th Percentile £42,500 - £46,100
25th Percentile £70,000 £35,000 £50,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +17.07%
75th Percentile £80,000 £105,938 £68,125
90th Percentile £93,000 £150,000 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £56,750
% change year-on-year +11.11% +18.94% -1.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

PPP 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 11,133 12,974 22,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 16.08% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,152 7,381 12,357
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £38,367
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,083 £70,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

PPP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PPP in the UK

PPP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PPP in the UK

PPP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PPP over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for PPP in the UK

PPP
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PPP within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 +88 56 £75,000 -14.29%
UK excluding London +18 49 £75,000 +11.11%
North of England - 39 - -
North West - 39 - -
South West -1 5 £75,000 -14.29%
East of England - 5 £75,000 -
London +83 4 £96,250 +10.00%

PPP
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (3.57%) AWS
1 2 (3.57%) dbt
1 2 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) BGP
1 3 (5.36%) DNS
1 3 (5.36%) GPON
1 3 (5.36%) OSPF
1 3 (5.36%) VLAN
1 3 (5.36%) Wireless
General
1 28 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.57%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 39 (69.64%) Senior
2 11 (19.64%) Commercial Manager
3 3 (5.36%) Wireless Engineer
4 2 (3.57%) Data Engineer
4 2 (3.57%) Lead
4 2 (3.57%) Research Scientist
4 2 (3.57%) Senior Commercial Manager
4 2 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (3.57%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Debian
1 3 (5.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (44.64%) Project Delivery
3 17 (30.36%) Mentoring
4 12 (21.43%) Kalman Filter
4 12 (21.43%) Sensor Fusion
4 12 (21.43%) Signal Processing
5 11 (19.64%) Risk Management
6 10 (17.86%) Agile
7 4 (7.14%) Probabilistic Estimation
8 3 (5.36%) Network Architecture
8 3 (5.36%) Network Monitoring
9 2 (3.57%) Coaching
9 2 (3.57%) Data Ingestion
9 2 (3.57%) Data Modelling
9 2 (3.57%) E-Commerce
9 2 (3.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Management
9 2 (3.57%) SDLC
9 2 (3.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) MATLAB
2 2 (3.57%) C++
2 2 (3.57%) Java
2 2 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (71.43%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) CCNP
2 3 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (5.36%) JNCIS
3 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Icinga
1 3 (5.36%) Nagios
2 2 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.36%) Juniper
1 3 (5.36%) MikroTik
1 3 (5.36%) TP-LINK
1 3 (5.36%) ZyXEL