IPv4 Contracts in London

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring IPv4 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IPv4 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 348 354 476
Rank change year-on-year +6 +122 +100
Contract jobs citing IPv4 5 37 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.21% 0.063%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 2.15% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 36 11
10th Percentile £457 £385 £544
25th Percentile £460 £463 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £630
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -8.73% +14.55%
75th Percentile £519 £603 £645
90th Percentile £575 £613 £650
England median daily rate £475 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -13.64% +12.82% -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36.25 £22.75
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - +59.57% -
75th Percentile - £38.75 £24.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £37.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year - +59.57% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing IPv4 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for IPv4 in London

IPv4
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPv4 in London.

Daily rate trend for IPv4 in London

IPv4
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) IPv6
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) 802.11
2 3 (60.00%) Broadband
2 3 (60.00%) DOCSIS
2 3 (60.00%) DSL
2 3 (60.00%) GPON
2 3 (60.00%) PPP
2 3 (60.00%) VoIP
2 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 1 (20.00%) DNSSEC
4 1 (20.00%) Multicast
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Gerrit
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) 802.1X
1 3 (60.00%) Yocto
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (60.00%) Digital TV
1 3 (60.00%) STB
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (40.00%) OpenWrt
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (20.00%) Release Management
1 1 (20.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Ruby
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) VMware