The first table below looks at the demand for IPv4 skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IPv4 over the 3 months to 26 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 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
26 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
Rank 373 414 436
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +22
Contract jobs citing IPv4 4 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.018% 0.004% 0.019%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.142% 0.027% 0.177%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
Average daily rate £500 £313 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £313 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £313 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
-18.46% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.25 £52.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year
-30.95% +87.50%
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2816 3693 3382
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.00% 13.71% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1707 2249 1938
Average daily rate £400 £388 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 145 221
Average hourly rate £21.34 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.17% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.27 £14.90 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
IPv4
England

IPv4
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IPv4 across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

London IPv4 Jobs Demand Trend

IPv4
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IPv4 across the London region.

London IPv4 Daily Rate Trend

IPv4
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IPv4 across the London region over the 3 months to 26 May 2013.

London IPv4 Daily Rate Histogram

IPv4
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing IPv4 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 IPv4.

1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 8 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (70.00%) CCIE
4 6 (60.00%) Extranet
4 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (60.00%) MPLS
4 6 (60.00%) OSPF
5 5 (50.00%) BGP
5 5 (50.00%) Firewall
5 5 (50.00%) VPN
5 5 (50.00%) IPv6
6 4 (40.00%) CCNP
6 4 (40.00%) CCNA
6 4 (40.00%) Internet
6 4 (40.00%) Juniper
6 4 (40.00%) LAN
6 4 (40.00%) WLAN
6 4 (40.00%) Wireless
6 4 (40.00%) EIGRP
6 4 (40.00%) VMware
6 4 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (30.00%) NetScaler
7 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
7 3 (30.00%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (30.00%) QA
7 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
7 3 (30.00%) Finance
7 3 (30.00%) IP Telephony
7 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
7 3 (30.00%) Intrusion Detection

IPv4
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing IPv4 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 IPv4. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (60.00%) Extranet
1 6 (60.00%) MPLS
1 6 (60.00%) OSPF
2 5 (50.00%) BGP
2 5 (50.00%) IPv6
2 5 (50.00%) VPN
2 5 (50.00%) Firewall
3 4 (40.00%) Wireless
3 4 (40.00%) EIGRP
3 4 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (40.00%) LAN
3 4 (40.00%) WLAN
3 4 (40.00%) Internet
4 3 (30.00%) ATM
4 3 (30.00%) SAN
4 3 (30.00%) Intranet
4 3 (30.00%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (30.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (30.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (70.00%) CCIE
3 4 (40.00%) CCNP
3 4 (40.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
1 3 (30.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) ISA Server
1 1 (10.00%) Xen
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Juniper
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) Brocade
3 3 (30.00%) Nokia
3 3 (30.00%) Radianz
3 3 (30.00%) Websense
3 3 (30.00%) BT
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) HP
3 3 (30.00%) Citrix
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle