IPv4 Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring IPv4 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IPv4 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 3.76% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £351 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 - -
75th Percentile £352 - -
90th Percentile £353 - -
East of England median daily rate £351 - £224
% change year-on-year - - -31.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 66 7 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 30.99% 12.96% 24.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 3 13
10th Percentile £303 £230 £181
25th Percentile £350 £256 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £300 £220
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% +36.36% -51.11%
75th Percentile £498 £415 -
90th Percentile £538 £484 £232
East of England median daily rate £494 £525 £413
% change year-on-year -6.00% +27.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - £45.22
Median hourly rate £17.12 - £48.56
75th Percentile £18.22 - £52.83
90th Percentile - - £53.38
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.00 £49.28
% change year-on-year +8.87% +25.81% -24.18%

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

IPv4 job vacancy trend in Suffolk

IPv4
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing IPv4.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing IPv4

IPv4
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPv4 within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Ipswich - 8 £351 - 16
IPv4
East of England

IPv4
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Broadband
1 8 (100.00%) IPv6
1 8 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (62.50%) 4G
2 5 (62.50%) 5G
2 5 (62.50%) xDSL
3 4 (50.00%) PPP
3 4 (50.00%) UPnP
3 4 (50.00%) Wireless
4 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Git
1 8 (100.00%) GitLab
1 8 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Robot Framework
General
1 6 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Broadband Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Wiki
2 2 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (25.00%) IoT
2 2 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
2 5 (62.50%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
5 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
5 2 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Workflow
6 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Firmware