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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 854 952 1017
Rank change year-on-year +98 +65 -218
Permanent jobs citing IPv6 50 41 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.040% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.37% 0.26% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 42 25 155
10th Percentile £35,900 £43,500 £50,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £62,188 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £94,500
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 13,628 15,972 20,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.82% 15.39% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,500 8,150 11,820
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -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 £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -

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 3 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 3 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 +96 50 £48,750 -11.36% 12
London +137 35 £50,000 -33.33% 5
Work from Home +99 23 £47,500 -13.64% 8
UK excluding London +10 15 £47,500 -9.52% 9
North of England +55 8 £42,000 -11.58%
West Midlands +20 5 £65,000 +18.18%
Midlands +7 5 £65,000 +18.18%
North West +8 4 £36,500 -23.16%
Yorkshire - 4 £47,500 -
South East +11 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 (4.00%) IIS
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (62.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) AWS
3 6 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (12.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (6.00%) Datadog
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.00%) Azure App Service
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.00%) IaaS
6 1 (2.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (82.00%) IPv4
2 34 (68.00%) DNS
3 31 (62.00%) Firewall
4 28 (56.00%) VPN
5 27 (54.00%) LAN
5 27 (54.00%) WAN
6 26 (52.00%) Wireless
7 25 (50.00%) DHCP
8 21 (42.00%) IPsec
8 21 (42.00%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (30.00%) BGP
10 11 (22.00%) OSPF
11 7 (14.00%) TCP/IP
12 5 (10.00%) VLAN
13 4 (8.00%) MPLS
14 3 (6.00%) IGMP
14 3 (6.00%) RIP
14 3 (6.00%) SNMP
14 3 (6.00%) VoIP
14 3 (6.00%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.00%) MySQL
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Git
2 3 (6.00%) GitLab
2 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.00%) MSBuild
4 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.00%) Games
3 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.00%) Advertising
5 1 (2.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Senior
4 4 (8.00%) ICT Support
4 4 (8.00%) Lead
4 4 (8.00%) Project Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Juniper Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Technical Support
5 3 (6.00%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Lead Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Lead Network Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Network Architect
7 1 (2.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) CSS
1 3 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.00%) .NET
2 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (4.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (42.00%) PKI
2 5 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.00%) Smart City
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.00%) Mac OS
2 4 (8.00%) Windows
2 4 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.00%) Debian
4 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 9 (18.00%) Capacity Planning
2 9 (18.00%) ITIL
2 9 (18.00%) PRINCE2
3 8 (16.00%) Customer Service
3 8 (16.00%) DevOps
4 7 (14.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (12.00%) Auto-Scaling
5 6 (12.00%) Chaos Engineering
5 6 (12.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
5 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (12.00%) Zero Trust
6 5 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.00%) CRM
6 5 (10.00%) Network Design
7 4 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (6.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 3 (6.00%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.00%) Python
2 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.00%) Bash
4 2 (4.00%) C#
4 2 (4.00%) PHP
4 2 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (32.00%) CCNA
1 16 (32.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) Degree
4 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.00%) MCT
6 2 (4.00%) MCSE
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
2 5 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (8.00%) vCloud
4 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.00%) PowerDNS
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) Ansible
2 6 (12.00%) Terraform
3 3 (6.00%) Kibana
3 3 (6.00%) Packer
3 3 (6.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (6.00%) Puppet
3 3 (6.00%) Salt
4 2 (4.00%) Nagios
5 1 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Cisco
2 11 (22.00%) Fortinet
3 9 (18.00%) SolarWinds
4 7 (14.00%) Juniper
5 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
6 5 (10.00%) HP
6 5 (10.00%) VMware
7 4 (8.00%) Datto
7 4 (8.00%) NETGEAR
7 4 (8.00%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (8.00%) Veeam
8 3 (6.00%) Black Duck
8 3 (6.00%) Dynatrace
8 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
8 3 (6.00%) Splunk
9 2 (4.00%) F5
9 2 (4.00%) Remedy
9 2 (4.00%) Riverbed
9 2 (4.00%) Ruckus Wireless
10 1 (2.00%) Apple