IPv4 Contracts in England

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring IPv4 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IPv4 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 498 594
Rank change year-on-year +22 +96 +120
Contract jobs citing IPv4 9 44 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.28% 0.88% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 39 34
10th Percentile £457 £385 £288
25th Percentile £460 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +12.82% -9.55%
75th Percentile £519 £606 £629
90th Percentile £575 £613 £647
UK median daily rate £465 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -19.22% +21.05% -11.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.25 £22.75
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - +59.57% -
75th Percentile - £38.75 £24.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £37.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year - +59.57% -60.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

IPv4 falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing IPv4 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IPv4 in England

IPv4
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPv4 in England.

Daily rate trend for IPv4 in England

IPv4
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IPv4 in England.

Hourly rate trend for IPv4 in England

IPv4
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPv4 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +6 5 £475 -17.39% 2
North of England +21 3 - - 1
North West - 3 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1
IPv4
UK

IPv4
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) BGP
1 4 (44.44%) DHCP
1 4 (44.44%) EIGRP
1 4 (44.44%) IPv6
1 4 (44.44%) MPLS
1 4 (44.44%) OSPF
1 4 (44.44%) SD-WAN
1 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
1 4 (44.44%) WAN
2 3 (33.33%) 802.11
2 3 (33.33%) Broadband
2 3 (33.33%) DOCSIS
2 3 (33.33%) DSL
2 3 (33.33%) GPON
2 3 (33.33%) PPP
2 3 (33.33%) VoIP
2 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (22.22%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) DNSSEC
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Gerrit
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) IP Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Transmission Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) IP Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) 802.1X
1 3 (33.33%) Yocto
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (11.11%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 3 (33.33%) Digital TV
1 3 (33.33%) STB
2 1 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (22.22%) OpenWrt
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
2 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Network Planning
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) Release Management
3 1 (11.11%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Ruby
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (44.44%) CCNP
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) BMC
2 4 (44.44%) Huawei
2 4 (44.44%) Remedy
3 1 (11.11%) Infoblox
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) VMware