IPv4 Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IPv4 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 335 394
Rank change year-on-year -45 +59 +59
Contract jobs citing IPv4 2 34 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.092% 1.34% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 19
10th Percentile £428 £370 £335
25th Percentile £450 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £573 £575 £716
UK median daily rate £575 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +13.86% -8.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year - +112.77% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,166 2,533 3,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.50% 14.73% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 1,387 2,217
10th Percentile £199 £200 £207
25th Percentile £305 £343 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £480 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £649 £653 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 147 275
10th Percentile £15.31 £16.08 £16.50
25th Percentile £17.65 £24.97 £23.50
Median hourly rate £41.48 £52.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% -7.06% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.01 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.93
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.45
% change year-on-year -29.98% -13.97% +41.73%

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

IPv4 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IPv4
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IPv4.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IPv4

IPv4
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPv4 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IPv4 in the UK excluding London

IPv4
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IPv4.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IPv4

IPv4
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPv4 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Scotland +2 2 £500 +33.33% 2
IPv4
UK

IPv4
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (50.00%) Multicast
2 1 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds