IP Specialist Contracts

IP Specialist
UK

As of 7 August 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median IP Specialist daily rate in the UK.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 568 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs requiring an IP Specialist 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.003% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% 0.003% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,091 36,260 50,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.44% 92.91% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,084 23,406 34,597
10th Percentile £283 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.02% -0.77%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,495 2,053 1,499
10th Percentile £13.62 £14.16 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%
75th Percentile £53.81 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.05 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.95 £37.93
% change year-on-year -42.78% +15.89% +79.15%

IP Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured IP Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IP Specialist in the UK

IP Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IP Specialist.

Daily rate trend for IP Specialist in the UK

IP Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IP Specialist.

Hourly rate trend for IP Specialist in the UK

IP Specialist
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IP Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 7 August 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
England +20 1 - - 2
UK excluding London +16 1 - - 2
South East - 1 - - 2

IP Specialist Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 August 2025, IP Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring IP Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIE
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (100.00%) YANG

IP Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIE
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible