IPv6 Contract Job Trends in the South East

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring IPv6 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 164 192
Rank change year-on-year -9 +28 +52
Contract jobs citing IPv6 6 10 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.14% 0.27% 0.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.97% 1.44% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 11
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £447 £493 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% -8.18% +29.41%
75th Percentile £498 £686 £650
90th Percentile £499 - -
England median daily rate £485 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +22.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 619 696 1,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.31% 18.49% 22.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 398 611
10th Percentile £204 £222 £200
25th Percentile £330 £393 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -6.72%
75th Percentile £575 £605 £563
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 25 73
10th Percentile £18.50 £25.94 £21.20
25th Percentile £32.77 £35.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £70.16 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.26% +4.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile £86.00 £67.02 £75.25
90th Percentile £89.63 £73.50 £77.71
England median hourly rate £34.50 £41.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -15.85% -27.36% +26.28%

IPv6
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

IPv6 job vacancy trend in the South East

IPv6
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IPv6

IPv6
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IPv6

IPv6
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 IPv6 within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Thames Valley -11 4 £438 -13.37%
Berkshire -9 3 £400 -39.16%
Hampshire - 2 £498 - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £475 -
IPv6
England

IPv6
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 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) LAN
2 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 5 (83.33%) WAN
3 4 (66.67%) DNS
4 3 (50.00%) Intranet
5 2 (33.33%) Internet
5 2 (33.33%) IPv4
5 2 (33.33%) VLAN
6 1 (16.67%) BGP
6 1 (16.67%) DHCP
6 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (16.67%) OSPF
6 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) SCADA
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Network Design
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Network Management
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) CCNA
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) JNCIS
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) JNCIA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) KVM
1 1 (16.67%) RHEV
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Nagios
2 1 (16.67%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) F5
1 2 (33.33%) Juniper
1 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Infoblox
2 1 (16.67%) VMware