IPv6 Contracts in England

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring IPv6 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IPv6 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 464 526 597
Rank change year-on-year +62 +71 +136
Contract jobs citing IPv6 21 16 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.043% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.66% 0.32% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 36
10th Percentile £451 £400 £231
25th Percentile £483 £439 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year - +29.03% -28.24%
75th Percentile £532 £525 £525
90th Percentile £538 £619 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -4.76% +31.25% -30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £37.50 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

IPv6 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%

IPv6
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing IPv6 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IPv6 in England

IPv6
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPv6 in England.

Daily rate trend for IPv6 in England

IPv6
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IPv6 in England.

Hourly rate trend for IPv6 in England

IPv6
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 IPv6 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 +39 14 £500 +2.56% 4
North West - 4 £525 -
South West - 4 £525 - 3
North of England - 4 £525 -
South East +46 3 £500 -20.00% 11
IPv6
UK

IPv6
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 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) GitHub
1 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (76.19%) BGP
2 14 (66.67%) Broadband
2 14 (66.67%) OSPF
3 13 (61.90%) MPLS
4 11 (52.38%) VPN
5 10 (47.62%) GPON
6 8 (38.10%) Multicast
7 6 (28.57%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (28.57%) Firewall
8 4 (19.05%) DHCP
8 4 (19.05%) DNS
8 4 (19.05%) IPv4
8 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
8 4 (19.05%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (14.29%) 802.11
9 3 (14.29%) DOCSIS
9 3 (14.29%) DSL
9 3 (14.29%) PPP
9 3 (14.29%) VoIP
10 2 (9.52%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Gerrit
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Network Engineer
2 11 (52.38%) Principal Engineer
2 11 (52.38%) Principal Network Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Implementation Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Core Network Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Principal Security Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) 802.1X
2 3 (14.29%) Yocto
3 2 (9.52%) YAML
4 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.76%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 3 (14.29%) Digital TV
1 3 (14.29%) STB
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (9.52%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Migration
1 12 (57.14%) Network Monitoring
2 9 (42.86%) Project Delivery
3 4 (19.05%) ITIL
4 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (9.52%) Runbook
6 1 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (4.76%) Computer Science
6 1 (4.76%) Containerisation
6 1 (4.76%) Customer Service
6 1 (4.76%) High Availability
6 1 (4.76%) Network Design
6 1 (4.76%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.76%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) C
1 3 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) C++
2 1 (4.76%) Go
2 1 (4.76%) Java
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (52.38%) CCIE
3 5 (23.81%) CCIE Service Provider
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Ceph
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) ZABBIX
2 3 (14.29%) Nagios
3 2 (9.52%) Argo
4 1 (4.76%) CA Spectrum
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco LMS
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (4.76%) Netcool
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Cisco
2 9 (42.86%) SolarWinds
3 5 (23.81%) Nokia
4 2 (9.52%) Dell
4 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.76%) Juniper
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.76%) Riverbed
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) VMware