IPv4 Contract Job Trends in the South East

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring IPv4 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 157 186
Rank change year-on-year -23 +29 +48
Contract jobs citing IPv4 4 7 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.091% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.65% 1.16% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile £495 - £488
25th Percentile £498 £493 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +32.13%
75th Percentile - £518 £575
90th Percentile - - £594
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 615 605 1,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.02% 18.03% 23.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 330 635
10th Percentile £206 £237 £203
25th Percentile £350 £400 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £561
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 71
10th Percentile £18.23 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £24.94 £35.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £56.80 £57.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% -7.60% +38.89%
75th Percentile £84.50 £62.50 £71.90
90th Percentile £89.63 £67.02 £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +121.53%

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

IPv4 job vacancy trend in the South East

IPv4
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IPv4.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IPv4

IPv4
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IPv4.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IPv4

IPv4
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPv4 within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Hampshire - 4 £500 - 2
IPv4
England

IPv4
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) IPv6
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Designer
1 3 (75.00%) Network Designer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Designer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Network Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Network Design
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Network Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNA
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) JNCIS
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIA
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) KVM
1 1 (25.00%) RHEV
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) F5
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper
1 4 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) VMware