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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 583 710
Rank change year-on-year +61 +127 -116
Contract jobs citing IPv4 28 53 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.075% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.58% 0.89% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 61
10th Percentile £444 £285 £375
25th Percentile £472 £337 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +25.71%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £613 £650 -
UK median daily rate £550 £438 £545
% change year-on-year +25.71% -19.72% +13.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.50 -

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 4,823 5,925 8,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.86% 12.60% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 3,842 5,326
10th Percentile £213 £240 £228
25th Percentile £350 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £607 £645 £619
90th Percentile £690 £737 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 408 318
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.28 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.48
90th Percentile £72.66 £75.00 £63.63
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPv4 in England over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 21 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +89 22 £538 -10.42% 3
South West +4 3 £550 +10.00% 1
Yorkshire +15 2 £600 +60.00% 2
North of England -7 2 £600 +78.04% 2
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 3 (10.71%) Confluence
1 3 (10.71%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) Azure
3 5 (17.86%) OCI
4 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (50.00%) MPLS
2 13 (46.43%) BGP
2 13 (46.43%) HSRP
3 9 (32.14%) VPLS
4 8 (28.57%) Ethernet VPN
4 8 (28.57%) Firewall
4 8 (28.57%) OSPF
4 8 (28.57%) RSVP
4 8 (28.57%) SNMP
4 8 (28.57%) VLAN
4 8 (28.57%) VRRP
5 7 (25.00%) DNS
5 7 (25.00%) IPv6
6 6 (21.43%) DHCP
6 6 (21.43%) Wireless
7 5 (17.86%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (17.86%) EIGRP
7 5 (17.86%) IPsec
7 5 (17.86%) LAN
7 5 (17.86%) TACACS
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
1 3 (10.71%) JIRA
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) IP Expert
2 6 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Network Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 5 (17.86%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Cisco Expert
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Lead
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Site Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (3.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) Jinja
1 8 (28.57%) JSON
1 8 (28.57%) NETCONF
1 8 (28.57%) XML
1 8 (28.57%) YANG
2 5 (17.86%) 802.1X
3 3 (10.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.57%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) DevOps
2 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (28.57%) Test Planning
3 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
4 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (17.86%) Task Automation
5 4 (14.29%) Agile
5 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 3 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
7 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
7 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
7 2 (7.14%) Observability
7 2 (7.14%) Release Automation
7 2 (7.14%) Software Testing
8 1 (3.57%) Application Packaging
8 1 (3.57%) Application Virtualisation
8 1 (3.57%) DDoS Mitigation
8 1 (3.57%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) Bash
2 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.71%) C
3 3 (10.71%) C++
3 3 (10.71%) Go
3 3 (10.71%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) Rust
4 1 (3.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (28.57%) AWS Certification
3 5 (17.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Certification
3 5 (17.86%) CCNA
3 5 (17.86%) CCNP
3 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
4 4 (14.29%) CCIE
4 4 (14.29%) CCIE Service Provider
5 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
6 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.57%) GIAC
7 1 (3.57%) RHCE
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Puppet
2 5 (17.86%) SolarWinds Orion
3 4 (14.29%) Ansible
3 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 3 (10.71%) Consul
4 3 (10.71%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Cisco
2 8 (28.57%) Nokia
3 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 5 (17.86%) CheckPoint
4 5 (17.86%) F5
4 5 (17.86%) Google
4 5 (17.86%) Infoblox
4 5 (17.86%) Palo Alto
4 5 (17.86%) SolarWinds
5 4 (14.29%) Fortinet
6 3 (10.71%) Dynatrace
7 2 (7.14%) VMware
8 1 (3.57%) Ericsson
8 1 (3.57%) Oracle
8 1 (3.57%) Red Hat