IPv4 Contract Job Trends in England

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring IPv4 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 497 538
Rank change year-on-year -18 +41 +144
Contract jobs citing IPv4 2 32 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.10% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.061% 0.82% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 41
10th Percentile - £405 £413
25th Percentile £625 £493 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £505 £575
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -12.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £675
90th Percentile - £593 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +13.86% -8.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.75
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - +112.77% -
75th Percentile - - £24.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year - +112.77% -

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 3,295 3,883 5,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.66% 12.16% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,104 2,234 3,564
10th Percentile £216 £240 £220
25th Percentile £360 £384 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 147 311
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.87 £17.30
25th Percentile £20.00 £26.25 £23.05
Median hourly rate £34.00 £57.25 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.61% +1.35% +36.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.45
% change year-on-year -29.98% -13.97% +41.73%

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IPv4 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

IPv4 job vacancy trend in England

IPv4
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IPv4.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IPv4

IPv4
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IPv4.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IPv4

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 18 October 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 - 1 - - 47
IPv4
UK

IPv4
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) IPv6
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Munging
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Post-Production
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Apple
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Genesys
1 1 (50.00%) Isilon
1 1 (50.00%) QNAP