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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 683 826 966
Rank change year-on-year +143 +140 -146
Permanent jobs citing PPP 1 59 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.060% 0.020%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.014% 0.43% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 17 12
10th Percentile - - £35,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £46,250 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £110,000
90th Percentile - - £146,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year -13.33% +62.16% -22.92%

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 6,936 13,623 16,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 13.85% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,252 9,516 8,186
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -

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
Top 3 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 30 April 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 +155 1 £65,000 -13.33% 8
England +131 1 £65,000 -13.33% 10
East of England +55 1 £65,000 -13.33% 4

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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 802.11
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) CDMA
1 1 (100.00%) GPRS
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) ISDN
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) LTE
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SDH
1 1 (100.00%) SS7
1 1 (100.00%) TACACS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Avaya
1 1 (100.00%) Extreme Networks
1 1 (100.00%) F5