The first table below looks at the demand for IPv4 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IPv4 over the 3 months to 17 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
Rank 511 567 575
Rank change year-on-year
+56 +8
Contract jobs citing IPv4 19 11 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.041% 0.019% 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.280% 0.121% 0.165%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 6
Average daily rate £375 £313 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +0.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £259 £313 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £313 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 - £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
Average hourly rate £36.25 £52.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.95% +87.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.25 £24.85 £23.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.25 £55.30 £32.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.25 £52.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year
-30.95% +87.50%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6782 9103 7893
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.62% 15.62% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3331 4145 3588
Average daily rate £350 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 606 785
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%

IPv4
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

IPv4 Daily Rate Trend

IPv4
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IPv4 within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

IPv4 Daily Rate Histogram

IPv4
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing IPv4 within the UK.

IPv4 Hourly Rate Trend

IPv4
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPv4 within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +55 17 £438 +40.00%
South East +29 9 £295 -
Hampshire - 5 £295 -
London +24 4 £500 +60.00%
Berkshire +18 4 - -
Southampton - 3 £295 -
Reading - 2 - -
East of England +12 1 £265 -
West Midlands +8 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 £265 -
Swindon - 1 - -
Portsmouth - 1 - -

IPv4
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 20 (44.44%) 3G
2 19 (42.22%) 2G
2 19 (42.22%) Windows
3 18 (40.00%) Telecoms
4 16 (35.56%) IPv6
4 16 (35.56%) Citrix
5 15 (33.33%) ATM
5 15 (33.33%) SQL
6 14 (31.11%) OSPF
6 14 (31.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (28.89%) Cisco
7 13 (28.89%) Network Management
8 12 (26.67%) LTE
8 12 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (26.67%) BGP
9 11 (24.44%) Firewall
9 11 (24.44%) VPN
9 11 (24.44%) C
9 11 (24.44%) Oracle
9 11 (24.44%) Linux
9 11 (24.44%) Fault Management
9 11 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (24.44%) Radio Access Network
10 10 (22.22%) UNIX
10 10 (22.22%) Perl
10 10 (22.22%) HP
10 10 (22.22%) MPLS
11 9 (20.00%) VMware
11 9 (20.00%) Juniper
11 9 (20.00%) TCP/IP

IPv4
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 9 (20.00%) .NET
2 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET
3 2 (4.444%) WSH
3 2 (4.444%) Middleware
3 2 (4.444%) HTML5
4 1 (2.222%) HTML
4 1 (2.222%) LAMP
4 1 (2.222%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.444%) IIS
2 1 (2.222%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 20 (44.44%) 3G
2 19 (42.22%) 2G
3 16 (35.56%) IPv6
4 15 (33.33%) ATM
5 14 (31.11%) OSPF
6 12 (26.67%) BGP
6 12 (26.67%) LTE
7 11 (24.44%) Radio Access Network
7 11 (24.44%) Firewall
7 11 (24.44%) VPN
8 10 (22.22%) MPLS
9 9 (20.00%) TCP/IP
10 8 (17.78%) Ethernet
10 8 (17.78%) LAN
11 6 (13.33%) Internet
11 6 (13.33%) Extranet
11 6 (13.33%) IPsec
11 6 (13.33%) VLAN
12 5 (11.11%) SSL
12 5 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) NoSQL
1 8 (17.78%) Big Data
2 6 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.444%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.222%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.222%) JIRA
1 1 (2.222%) Mercurial
General
1 18 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (6.667%) Finance
3 2 (4.444%) Automotive
3 2 (4.444%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Architect
2 7 (15.56%) Network Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Technical Leader
3 6 (13.33%) OSS Architect
4 5 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.889%) Implementation Manager
6 3 (6.667%) Consultant
6 3 (6.667%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.444%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (4.444%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.444%) Team Leader
8 1 (2.222%) Network Manager
8 1 (2.222%) Perl Developer
8 1 (2.222%) Cisco Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) Administrator
8 1 (2.222%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) Telephony Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) Network Designer
8 1 (2.222%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.889%) Open Source
2 3 (6.667%) Data Integration
3 2 (4.444%) Telematics
3 2 (4.444%) MPEG
3 2 (4.444%) Clustering
4 1 (2.222%) IVR
4 1 (2.222%) Handset
4 1 (2.222%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 19 (42.22%) Windows
2 11 (24.44%) Linux
3 10 (22.22%) UNIX
4 3 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.444%) Windows 7
5 2 (4.444%) HPUX
5 2 (4.444%) Solaris
5 2 (4.444%) Windows XP
5 2 (4.444%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (4.444%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.222%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (28.89%) Network Management
3 11 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (24.44%) Fault Management
4 9 (20.00%) eTOM
4 9 (20.00%) ITIL
5 6 (13.33%) Resource Management
6 5 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 4 (8.889%) Incident Management
8 3 (6.667%) Data Architecture
8 3 (6.667%) Network Architecture
8 3 (6.667%) Data Modelling
8 3 (6.667%) ETL
8 3 (6.667%) TOGAF
9 2 (4.444%) SOA
9 2 (4.444%) Load Balancing
9 2 (4.444%) Scrum
9 2 (4.444%) Test Strategy
10 1 (2.222%) Time Management
10 1 (2.222%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) SQL
2 11 (24.44%) C
3 10 (22.22%) Perl
4 8 (17.78%) Java
5 5 (11.11%) Python
5 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.667%) Bash shell
6 3 (6.667%) Korn
7 2 (4.444%) MATLAB
8 1 (2.222%) FoxPro (VFP)
8 1 (2.222%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.222%) VB
8 1 (2.222%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (15.56%) CCIE
3 6 (13.33%) CCNP
4 5 (11.11%) CCNA
5 3 (6.667%) Degree
6 2 (4.444%) JNCIP
6 2 (4.444%) JNCIE
7 1 (2.222%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.222%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.222%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.222%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) SLA
2 3 (6.667%) QA
2 3 (6.667%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.444%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.444%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.444%) Xen
3 1 (2.222%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (4.444%) SCOM
2 1 (2.222%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (2.222%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (35.56%) Citrix
2 13 (28.89%) Cisco
3 11 (24.44%) Oracle
4 10 (22.22%) HP
5 9 (20.00%) VMware
5 9 (20.00%) Juniper
6 7 (15.56%) Sun
7 6 (13.33%) Business Objects
7 6 (13.33%) Greenplum
8 4 (8.889%) Nokia Siemens Networks
8 4 (8.889%) NEC
8 4 (8.889%) Ericsson
8 4 (8.889%) Huawei
9 3 (6.667%) Brocade
9 3 (6.667%) Radianz
9 3 (6.667%) Websense
9 3 (6.667%) BT
9 3 (6.667%) Nokia
9 3 (6.667%) Microsoft
10 2 (4.444%) Apple
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