IPv6 Contracts in London

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring IPv6 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IPv6 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 339 378 485
Rank change year-on-year +39 +107 +93
Contract jobs citing IPv6 14 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.073% 0.030%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.06% 0.76% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 6
10th Percentile £431 £392 £494
25th Percentile £463 £427 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -18.75% +9.09%
75th Percentile £510 £525 £650
90th Percentile £526 £534 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £388
% change year-on-year - +29.03% -28.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate - £37.50 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

IPv6 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%

IPv6
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing IPv6 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for IPv6 in London

IPv6
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPv6 in London.

Daily rate trend for IPv6 in London

IPv6
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IPv6 in London.

Hourly rate trend for IPv6 in London

IPv6
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 IPv6 within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 - 3 £500 - 3
IPv6
England

IPv6
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 (7.14%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) Broadband
2 9 (64.29%) BGP
2 9 (64.29%) OSPF
3 8 (57.14%) GPON
3 8 (57.14%) MPLS
3 8 (57.14%) VPN
4 6 (42.86%) Firewall
4 6 (42.86%) Multicast
5 4 (28.57%) DHCP
5 4 (28.57%) IPv4
5 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
5 4 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (21.43%) 802.11
6 3 (21.43%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (21.43%) DOCSIS
6 3 (21.43%) DSL
6 3 (21.43%) PPP
6 3 (21.43%) VoIP
7 2 (14.29%) DNS
7 2 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Gerrit
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Network Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) Principal Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) Principal Network Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Implementation Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Core Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) 802.1X
2 3 (21.43%) Yocto
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
1 3 (21.43%) Digital TV
1 3 (21.43%) STB
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (7.14%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (14.29%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Migration
1 9 (64.29%) Network Monitoring
2 8 (57.14%) Project Delivery
3 4 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.14%) High Availability
5 1 (7.14%) Network Design
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) C
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) C++
2 1 (7.14%) Go
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (57.14%) CCIE
3 5 (35.71%) CCIE Service Provider
4 1 (7.14%) CCNA
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) ZABBIX
2 1 (7.14%) CA Spectrum
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco LMS
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (7.14%) Nagios
2 1 (7.14%) Netcool
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Cisco
2 7 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 5 (35.71%) Nokia
4 1 (7.14%) Infoblox
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Riverbed
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) VMware