Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ICMP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ICMP over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 908 965 1245
Rank change year-on-year +57 +280 -340
Permanent jobs citing ICMP 3 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.003% 0.005%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.022% 0.019% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £47,000 - £24,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £77,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £85,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +41.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £58,750 £92,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £64,000 - £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £85,000 £24,000
% change year-on-year -42.65% +254.17% -58.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

ICMP 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 13,483 15,572 21,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.23% 15.88% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,405 7,838 11,757
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,654 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,742 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.80% -5.26% +5.56%

ICMP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ICMP in the UK

ICMP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for ICMP in the UK

ICMP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ICMP over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for ICMP in the UK

ICMP
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ICMP within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +57 3 £50,000 -41.18% 4
UK excluding London -4 2 £48,750 -42.65% 3
South West -13 2 £48,750 -42.65%
London +111 1 £65,000 - 2
Work from Home +53 1 £50,000 -41.18% 3

ICMP
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 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) SMTP
3 1 (33.33%) SNMP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CMDB
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) BitLocker
1 1 (33.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft