IPv6 Contracts in England

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for IPv6 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IPv6 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 606 729
Rank change year-on-year +89 +123 -163
Contract jobs citing IPv6 18 57 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.11% 0.070%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% 0.92% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 37 31
10th Percentile £400 £231 £390
25th Percentile £439 £263 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £540
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -30.56% +44.00%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £649
90th Percentile £619 £575 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +31.25% -30.43% +46.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £38.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £37.50 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

IPv6 is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,003 6,173 7,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.54% 12.21% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,061 5,228
10th Percentile £206 £231 £222
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 442 304
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.38 £48.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.46
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPv6 in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 27 April 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 +107 14 £488 -18.75% 6
South East +22 4 £625 +56.25% 5
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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (5.56%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) OCI
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (77.78%) BGP
2 13 (72.22%) IPv4
3 12 (66.67%) Firewall
3 12 (66.67%) OSPF
4 11 (61.11%) MPLS
5 10 (55.56%) VPN
6 9 (50.00%) VLAN
7 8 (44.44%) LAN
8 7 (38.89%) DHCP
8 7 (38.89%) DNS
8 7 (38.89%) IPsec
9 6 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (33.33%) EIGRP
10 5 (27.78%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (27.78%) HSRP
10 5 (27.78%) TACACS
10 5 (27.78%) VXLAN
10 5 (27.78%) Wireless
11 4 (22.22%) CATAPAN
12 3 (16.67%) VPLS
General
1 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Network Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Lead
3 4 (22.22%) Lead Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Design Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Network Design Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Broadband Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco Network Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Core Network Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) IT Security Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Juniper Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) NETCONF
2 1 (5.56%) XML
2 1 (5.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) Network Architecture
1 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (11.11%) Business Case
2 2 (11.11%) Business Strategy
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 2 (11.11%) DevOps
2 2 (11.11%) Network Design
2 2 (11.11%) Presales
2 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
2 2 (11.11%) Project Management
2 2 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
2 2 (11.11%) Traceability Matrix
2 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management
3 1 (5.56%) DDoS Mitigation
3 1 (5.56%) ERP
3 1 (5.56%) IT Strategy
3 1 (5.56%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) CCNP
1 13 (72.22%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 5 (27.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (27.78%) Azure Certification
3 5 (27.78%) CCNA
4 4 (22.22%) CCDP
4 4 (22.22%) JNCIS
4 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 2 (11.11%) CCIE
5 2 (11.11%) JNCIE
5 2 (11.11%) JNCIP
6 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) SolarWinds Orion
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Cisco
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) CheckPoint
3 5 (27.78%) F5
3 5 (27.78%) Google
3 5 (27.78%) Infoblox
3 5 (27.78%) Palo Alto
3 5 (27.78%) SolarWinds
4 4 (22.22%) Fortinet
4 4 (22.22%) Juniper
5 2 (11.11%) Huawei
5 2 (11.11%) Nokia
6 1 (5.56%) Meraki
6 1 (5.56%) VMware