IPv6 Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring IPv6 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 126 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs citing IPv6 5 13 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.18% 0.49% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.29% 3.58% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £473 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £618 - -
England median daily rate £500 £505 £550
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +22.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 389 363 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.62% 13.68% 19.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 203 292
10th Percentile £163 £172 £201
25th Percentile £269 £295 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £504 £600 £538
90th Percentile £590 £675 £672
England median daily rate £486 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.75% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 30
10th Percentile £18.50 £21.15 £17.40
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.37 £22.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.35 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% +3.09% +53.98%
75th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £44.00 £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £56.13 £56.49
% change year-on-year -39.42% -0.65% +36.12%

IPv6
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IPv6 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

IPv6 job vacancy trend in the Midlands

IPv6
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IPv6.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IPv6

IPv6
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPv6 in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IPv6 in the Midlands

IPv6
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IPv6.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IPv6

IPv6
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPv6 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
West Midlands -18 5 £525 +5.00% 2
IPv6
England

IPv6
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 4 (80.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) IPv4
1 5 (100.00%) LAN
1 5 (100.00%) MPLS
1 5 (100.00%) OSPF
1 5 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 5 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
1 5 (100.00%) WLAN
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) EIGRP
2 4 (80.00%) VLAN
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) Wireless
3 3 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
1 5 (100.00%) Network Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 5 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Network Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Network Design
2 4 (80.00%) Network Management
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (80.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (60.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (80.00%) CCIE
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
1 4 (80.00%) CCSP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (80.00%) CISSP
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (60.00%) CCIE Security
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) JNCIE
3 2 (40.00%) JNCIP
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) GDPR
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (100.00%) NIST
1 5 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) F5
1 5 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 5 (100.00%) Meraki
1 5 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (80.00%) SolarWinds
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Forcepoint
3 2 (40.00%) Juniper