Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IPv4 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IPv4 over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 841 849 1117
Rank change year-on-year +8 +268 -366
Permanent jobs citing IPv4 68 71 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.076% 0.098%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.50% 0.46% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 50 51 122
10th Percentile £31,225 £32,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -3.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £58,063 £73,750 £75,938
90th Percentile £80,125 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,500 £55,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -34.23% -20.71% +55.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

IPv4 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 13,710 15,279 22,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.68% 16.37% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,403 7,646 11,923
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,886 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.25% -5.26% +5.56%

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IPv4 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IPv4 in the UK

IPv4
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IPv4.

Salary trend for IPv4 in the UK

IPv4
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPv4 over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for IPv4 in the UK

IPv4
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPv4 within the UK over the 6 months to 8 June 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 +11 64 £47,500 -26.92% 15
London +89 36 £50,000 -25.93% 9
Work from Home +63 31 £47,500 -5.00% 13
UK excluding London -61 28 £36,500 -34.23% 6
North of England +13 11 £36,500 -37.07% 1
South West -39 8 £55,000 -12.00% 1
South East -4 7 £80,000 - 1
North West -14 4 £36,500 -37.07%
Yorkshire - 4 £47,500 - 1
North East -14 3 £29,500 -46.36%
West Midlands -3 2 £32,500 -40.91%
Midlands -46 2 £32,500 -40.91% 1

IPv4
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 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (7.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 40 (58.82%) Azure
2 14 (20.59%) AWS
3 13 (19.12%) Entra ID
4 7 (10.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (10.29%) AWS CloudTrail
4 7 (10.29%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (8.82%) Azure AKS
5 6 (8.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (8.82%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (8.82%) IaaS
5 6 (8.82%) PaaS
5 6 (8.82%) Serverless
6 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.41%) Datadog
7 1 (1.47%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 43 (63.24%) VPN
2 42 (61.76%) Firewall
2 42 (61.76%) IPv6
3 35 (51.47%) DNS
4 28 (41.18%) LAN
5 27 (39.71%) WAN
6 26 (38.24%) DHCP
7 24 (35.29%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (33.82%) Wireless
9 22 (32.35%) IPsec
10 11 (16.18%) TCP/IP
11 10 (14.71%) OSPF
12 9 (13.24%) VLAN
13 6 (8.82%) 5G
13 6 (8.82%) BGP
14 4 (5.88%) MPLS
15 3 (4.41%) Internet
15 3 (4.41%) VoIP
16 2 (2.94%) DNSSEC
16 2 (2.94%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Git
2 3 (4.41%) GitLab
2 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.41%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (14.71%) Telecoms
2 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.47%) Electronics
3 1 (1.47%) Finance
3 1 (1.47%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (51.47%) Network Engineer
2 14 (20.59%) Senior
3 12 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (16.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) ICT Support
7 4 (5.88%) Lead
7 4 (5.88%) Project Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Help Desk Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 22 (32.35%) PKI
2 6 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.94%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.53%) Linux
2 13 (19.12%) Windows
3 5 (7.35%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.88%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.94%) Unix
5 2 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.53%) DevOps
2 15 (22.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (20.59%) ITIL
4 13 (19.12%) Containerisation
5 12 (17.65%) Configuration Management
6 10 (14.71%) Capacity Planning
6 10 (14.71%) PRINCE2
7 9 (13.24%) Load Balancing
8 7 (10.29%) Auto-Scaling
8 7 (10.29%) Chaos Engineering
8 7 (10.29%) Customer Service
8 7 (10.29%) Immutable Infrastructure
8 7 (10.29%) Zero Trust
9 6 (8.82%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (8.82%) API Management
9 6 (8.82%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (8.82%) Task Automation
9 6 (8.82%) Validation
10 4 (5.88%) CRM
10 4 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.18%) PowerShell
2 10 (14.71%) Python
3 6 (8.82%) Bash
3 6 (8.82%) SQL
4 1 (1.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (26.47%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (25.00%) CCNA
2 17 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (22.06%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.82%) Degree
5 4 (5.88%) MCSE
5 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (4.41%) MCP
6 3 (4.41%) MCSA
6 3 (4.41%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (2.94%) CCNP
7 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.47%) CCDP
8 1 (1.47%) CCIE
8 1 (1.47%) Postgraduate
8 1 (1.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 13 (19.12%) Hyper-V
2 10 (14.71%) Active Directory
3 7 (10.29%) Docker
3 7 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (8.82%) pfSense
4 6 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (5.88%) vCloud
6 3 (4.41%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (4.41%) vSphere
7 2 (2.94%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 16 (23.53%) Terraform
2 13 (19.12%) Ansible
3 9 (13.24%) Puppet
4 6 (8.82%) Grafana
4 6 (8.82%) ZABBIX
5 3 (4.41%) Kibana
5 3 (4.41%) Packer
6 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.94%) SCCM
6 2 (2.94%) SCOM
7 1 (1.47%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (27.94%) Fortinet
2 17 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 13 (19.12%) VMware
4 10 (14.71%) Cisco
4 10 (14.71%) SolarWinds
5 8 (11.76%) Juniper
6 7 (10.29%) Datto
7 4 (5.88%) HP
7 4 (5.88%) NETGEAR
7 4 (5.88%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (5.88%) Veeam
8 3 (4.41%) Acronis
8 3 (4.41%) Black Duck
8 3 (4.41%) Draytek
8 3 (4.41%) Dynatrace
8 3 (4.41%) Google
8 3 (4.41%) SonicWALL
8 3 (4.41%) Sophos
8 3 (4.41%) Splunk
9 2 (2.94%) F5