Hybrid/Remote IGMP Job Trends

Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring IGMP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 - 467
Rank change year-on-year - - +269
Permanent jobs citing IGMP 4 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.026% - 0.044%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% - 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile £84,250 - -
25th Percentile £94,375 - £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 - £91,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.06%
75th Percentile £150,000 - £95,000
90th Percentile - - £95,375
UK median annual salary £100,000 £73,750 £87,500
% change year-on-year +35.59% -15.71% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

IGMP 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,369 2,242 2,845
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.01% 13.12% 13.87%
Number of salaries quoted 912 1,283 2,406
10th Percentile £27,540 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,238 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IGMP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IGMP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IGMP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IGMP

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IGMP over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

IGMP salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) Multicast
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (25.00%) LAN
4 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cisco Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Exchange Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Arista
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds