IPv4 Contracts in London

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for IPv4 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IPv4 over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 481 578
Rank change year-on-year +127 +97 -140
Contract jobs citing IPv4 37 18 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.066% 0.066%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.13% 0.66% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 13 23
10th Percentile £385 £550 £375
25th Percentile £463 £575 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +54.93%
75th Percentile £603 £639 £619
90th Percentile £613 £650 £625
England median daily rate £600 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +20.00% -7.06% +49.44%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

IPv4 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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,740 2,714 3,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.75% 9.89% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,909 2,645
10th Percentile £208 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 57 81
10th Percentile £14.48 £18.93 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.93 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +14.29% +52.17%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.50 £48.58
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPv4 in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IPv4 in London

IPv4
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPv4 within the London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Central London +46 5 £385 -40.77%
South London +11 1 £550 -8.33%
IPv4
England

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 3 (8.11%) Confluence
1 3 (8.11%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) AWS
2 9 (24.32%) Azure
3 5 (13.51%) OCI
4 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 26 (70.27%) MPLS
2 25 (67.57%) BGP
3 22 (59.46%) HSRP
4 19 (51.35%) RSVP
4 19 (51.35%) VRRP
5 18 (48.65%) VPLS
6 17 (45.95%) Ethernet VPN
6 17 (45.95%) SNMP
7 10 (27.03%) Firewall
8 9 (24.32%) Cisco IOS
8 9 (24.32%) DHCP
8 9 (24.32%) DNS
8 9 (24.32%) IOS XR
8 9 (24.32%) IPv6
9 8 (21.62%) OSPF
10 6 (16.22%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (16.22%) EIGRP
10 6 (16.22%) LAN
11 5 (13.51%) VLAN
11 5 (13.51%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Git
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.70%) Finance
2 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) IP Expert
2 9 (24.32%) Cisco Expert
3 7 (18.92%) Network Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Data Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Market Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Market Data Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (45.95%) Jinja
1 17 (45.95%) JSON
1 17 (45.95%) NETCONF
1 17 (45.95%) XML
1 17 (45.95%) YANG
2 5 (13.51%) 802.1X
3 3 (8.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (45.95%) Distributed Architecture
2 7 (18.92%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.70%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) DevOps
2 17 (45.95%) Test Planning
3 5 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (10.81%) Application Packaging
4 4 (10.81%) Application Security
4 4 (10.81%) Application Virtualisation
4 4 (10.81%) Batch Scripting
4 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
4 4 (10.81%) Load Balancing
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (8.11%) Software Engineering
5 3 (8.11%) Test Automation
6 2 (5.41%) Agile
6 2 (5.41%) Computer Science
6 2 (5.41%) Configuration Management
6 2 (5.41%) Project Management
6 2 (5.41%) Task Automation
7 1 (2.70%) IT Strategy
7 1 (2.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) Python
2 6 (16.22%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.81%) VBScript
4 3 (8.11%) C
4 3 (8.11%) C++
4 3 (8.11%) Go
4 3 (8.11%) Java
4 3 (8.11%) Rust
5 2 (5.41%) Bash
5 2 (5.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (43.24%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (29.73%) CCIE
3 9 (24.32%) CCIE Service Provider
4 8 (21.62%) AWS Certification
5 7 (18.92%) CCNP
6 5 (13.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (13.51%) Azure Certification
6 5 (13.51%) CCNA
7 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
7 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
8 2 (5.41%) JNCIE
8 2 (5.41%) JNCIP
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) Terraform
2 5 (13.51%) SolarWinds Orion
3 3 (8.11%) Consul
3 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.11%) Packer
4 2 (5.41%) Ansible
4 2 (5.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Nokia
2 15 (40.54%) Cisco
3 8 (21.62%) Fortinet
4 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
5 5 (13.51%) CheckPoint
5 5 (13.51%) F5
5 5 (13.51%) Google
5 5 (13.51%) Infoblox
5 5 (13.51%) Palo Alto
5 5 (13.51%) SolarWinds
6 3 (8.11%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.70%) Meraki
7 1 (2.70%) VMware