IPv4 Contract Job Trends in London

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring IPv4 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 - 391
Rank change year-on-year - - +160
Contract jobs citing IPv4 5 0 32
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.036% - 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% - 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 27
10th Percentile - - £488
25th Percentile £525 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
75th Percentile £575 - £641
90th Percentile - - £675
England median daily rate £538 £505 £575
% change year-on-year +6.44% -12.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -

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 1,308 1,483 2,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.45% 9.50% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 922 1,467
10th Percentile £300 £258 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -1.88% -3.18%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £745
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 16 56
10th Percentile £19.60 £23.70 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.75 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +44.66% +3.00%
75th Percentile £36.38 £49.50 £60.44
90th Percentile £61.30 £74.10 £77.50
England median hourly rate £33.39 £49.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -31.87% -13.26% +25.53%

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

IPv4 job vacancy trend in London

IPv4
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IPv4

IPv4
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IPv4

IPv4
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 4 (80.00%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (80.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Capacity Management
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) ITSM
1 4 (80.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Munging
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Post-Production
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SCCM
1 4 (80.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) Isilon
2 1 (20.00%) QNAP