IPv4 Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
Suffolk > Ipswich

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IPv4 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 6.30% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £351 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 - -
75th Percentile £352 - -
90th Percentile £353 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £351 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 59 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 46.46% 9.38% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 2 1
10th Percentile £303 £321 -
25th Percentile £350 £353 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £410 £215
Median % change year-on-year - +90.70% -52.22%
75th Percentile £498 £473 £233
90th Percentile £538 £507 -
Suffolk median daily rate £410 £300 £220
% change year-on-year +36.67% +36.36% -51.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - -
Median hourly rate £17.12 - -
75th Percentile £18.22 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £17.12 - £48.56

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

IPv4 job vacancy trend in Ipswich

IPv4
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing IPv4

IPv4
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Broadband
1 8 (100.00%) IPv6
1 8 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (62.50%) 4G
2 5 (62.50%) 5G
2 5 (62.50%) xDSL
3 4 (50.00%) PPP
3 4 (50.00%) UPnP
3 4 (50.00%) Wireless
4 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Git
1 8 (100.00%) GitLab
1 8 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Robot Framework
General
1 6 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Broadband Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Wiki
2 2 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (25.00%) IoT
2 2 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
2 5 (62.50%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
5 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
5 2 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Workflow
6 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Firmware