The first table below looks at the demand for IPv6 skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IPv6 over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Rank - 218 235
Contract jobs citing IPv6 0 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.026% 0.010%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.198% 0.103%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £450 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £450 £290
% change year-on-year
-35.55% +55.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £52.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year
-39.04% +87.50%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
831 1010 969
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.15% 12.93% 10.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 685 634
Average daily rate £390 £413 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.45% +5.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £275 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 42 69
Average hourly rate £54.00 £22.00 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+145.45% +6.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £17.75 £13.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.25 £41.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
IPv6
London

IPv6
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IPv6 across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

City of London IPv6 Jobs Demand Trend

IPv6
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IPv6 across the City of London region.

City of London IPv6 Daily Rate Trend

IPv6
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing IPv6 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited IPv6.

1 7 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (57.14%) OpenView
3 4 (57.14%) HP
3 4 (57.14%) LAN
3 4 (57.14%) VoIP
3 4 (57.14%) WLAN
3 4 (57.14%) WAN
3 4 (57.14%) Ethernet
3 4 (57.14%) CMS
3 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 4 (57.14%) Banking
3 4 (57.14%) PKI
3 4 (57.14%) Wireshark
3 4 (57.14%) Avaya
3 4 (57.14%) Juniper
3 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
3 4 (57.14%) Infovista
3 4 (57.14%) Firewall
3 4 (57.14%) Wireless
3 4 (57.14%) OmniPeek
3 4 (57.14%) Network Management
3 4 (57.14%) Lync
3 4 (57.14%) Verint
4 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
4 3 (42.86%) Mitel
4 3 (42.86%) PSTN
4 3 (42.86%) Nortel

IPv6
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing IPv6 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited IPv6. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) CMS
1 4 (57.14%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
1 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) VoIP
1 4 (57.14%) WLAN
1 4 (57.14%) WAN
1 4 (57.14%) Ethernet
1 4 (57.14%) LAN
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) Wireless
1 4 (57.14%) Wireshark
1 4 (57.14%) OmniPeek
2 3 (42.86%) PSTN
3 2 (28.57%) MPLS
3 2 (28.57%) OSPF
3 2 (28.57%) BGP
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (14.29%) IPv4
General
1 7 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Voice Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Network Management
3 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCIE
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) CCDP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) OpenView
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) HP
2 4 (57.14%) Avaya
2 4 (57.14%) Juniper
2 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
2 4 (57.14%) Infovista
2 4 (57.14%) Verint
3 3 (42.86%) Mitel
3 3 (42.86%) Nortel