IPv6 Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring IPv6 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 119 128
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 +44
Contract jobs citing IPv6 5 10 14
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.28% 0.47% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.78% 2.71% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 10
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £450 £493 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +29.41%
75th Percentile - £686 £650
90th Percentile - - £655
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £550
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +29.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 281 369 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.61% 17.16% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 189 347
10th Percentile £219 £250 £204
25th Percentile £293 £400 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -4.52%
75th Percentile £538 £606 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £461
% change year-on-year -2.50% +8.42% +0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 26
10th Percentile £18.18 - £17.88
25th Percentile £46.00 £56.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £83.32 £57.50 £49.32
Median % change year-on-year +44.90% +16.60% +208.22%
75th Percentile £89.63 £58.75 £75.67
90th Percentile £90.87 - £80.05
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £57.99
% change year-on-year -21.43% +20.71% +28.87%

IPv6
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

IPv6 job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

IPv6
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IPv6

IPv6
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IPv6

IPv6
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPv6 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire +8 5 £500 -23.95% 2
IPv6
South East

IPv6
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (100.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) Intranet
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) BGP
3 2 (40.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (40.00%) Internet
3 2 (40.00%) OSPF
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 2 (40.00%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (40.00%) TACACS
3 2 (40.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Network Design
2 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Ceph
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Dell