IPv4 Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring IPv4 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - 92
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing IPv4 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.30% - 0.073%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.42% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £495 - -
25th Percentile £498 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £550
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +37.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 165 150 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 12.35% 19.16% 26.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 97 95
10th Percentile £446 £358 £200
25th Percentile - £440 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -15.09%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £556
90th Percentile £696 £684 £645
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 40
10th Percentile £47.99 - £27.50
25th Percentile £52.69 £35.00 £51.38
Median hourly rate £56.80 £60.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -0.82% +27.08%
75th Percentile £60.90 £62.50 £66.44
90th Percentile £68.16 £67.50 £70.80
South East median hourly rate £56.00 £57.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year -3.03% -6.85% +37.78%

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

IPv4 job vacancy trend in Hampshire

IPv4
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing IPv4

IPv4
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing IPv4

IPv4
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPv4 within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 18 January 2026. 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
Basingstoke - 4 £500 - 1
IPv4
South East

IPv4
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) IPv6
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Designer
1 3 (75.00%) Network Designer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Designer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Network Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Network Design
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Network Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNA
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) JNCIS
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIA
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) KVM
1 1 (25.00%) RHEV
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) F5
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper
1 4 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) VMware