IPv6 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IPv6 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IPv6 over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 394 399
Rank change year-on-year +62 +5 +90
Contract jobs citing IPv6 7 5 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.024% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.35% 0.15% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 29
10th Percentile £496 - £231
25th Percentile £500 £553 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £330
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +68.18% -22.35%
75th Percentile £538 £598 £425
90th Percentile - £622 £530
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -4.76% +31.25% -30.43%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,973 3,448 3,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 16.62% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,978 2,282
10th Percentile £200 £203 £210
25th Percentile £305 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £584
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £518
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.39% +3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 360 327
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.48 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £30.04 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -24.90% +110.53% -32.74%

IPv6
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IPv6 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IPv6 in the UK excluding London

IPv6
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPv6 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IPv6 in the UK excluding London

IPv6
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IPv6 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IPv6 in the UK excluding London

IPv6
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 IPv6 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
North of England - 4 £525 -
South West - 4 £525 - 3
North West - 4 £525 -
South East +46 3 £500 -20.00% 11
IPv6
UK

IPv6
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
2 5 (71.43%) MPLS
2 5 (71.43%) OSPF
3 3 (42.86%) Broadband
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (42.86%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (28.57%) GPON
4 2 (28.57%) Multicast
4 2 (28.57%) SAN
4 2 (28.57%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (28.57%) TACACS
4 2 (28.57%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Principal Network Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Core Network Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Principal Security Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (28.57%) Runbook
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CCIE
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Argo
1 2 (28.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Dell
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds