IPv4 Contracts

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring IPv4 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IPv4 over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 552 608
Rank change year-on-year +10 +56 +150
Contract jobs citing IPv4 8 22 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.051% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.20% 0.41% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 18 40
10th Percentile £448 £412 £288
25th Percentile £481 £463 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £644 £599 £588
90th Percentile £663 £616 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £550 £350
% change year-on-year -18.18% +57.14% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.75
Median hourly rate - - £23.50
75th Percentile - - £24.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,941 5,422 7,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.39% 12.51% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,378 3,197 4,666
10th Percentile £231 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £502
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.30% +0.30%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 429 419
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.81 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +102.16% -23.40%
75th Percentile £60.41 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.35 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.55 £47.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -33.59% +94.08% +8.78%

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IPv4 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IPv4 in the UK

IPv4
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPv4.

Daily rate trend for IPv4 in the UK

IPv4
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPv4 over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IPv4 in the UK

IPv4
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IPv4.

Hourly rate trend for IPv4 in the UK

IPv4
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 July 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 +42 7 £613 +11.36% 51
UK excluding London +38 5 £450 -18.18% 34
North of England +6 3 - - 3
North West - 3 - - 1
London +36 2 £575 +9.52% 20
Work from Home +25 2 - - 17
Midlands - 1 - - 3
Wales - 1 £450 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 3

IPv4
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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) BGP
1 6 (75.00%) OSPF
2 5 (62.50%) MPLS
2 5 (62.50%) SD-WAN
2 5 (62.50%) WAN
3 4 (50.00%) EIGRP
4 2 (25.00%) DHCP
4 2 (25.00%) DNS
4 2 (25.00%) IPv6
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (12.50%) DNSSEC
5 1 (12.50%) Firewall
5 1 (12.50%) Multicast
5 1 (12.50%) Network Security
5 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (12.50%) VPN
5 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) IP Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Transmission Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) IP Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
1 5 (62.50%) Service Delivery
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Network Planning
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Server Building
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (75.00%) CCNP
3 2 (25.00%) CCIE
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (12.50%) CCNA
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (12.50%) HAProxy
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) BMC
2 4 (50.00%) Huawei
2 4 (50.00%) Remedy
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) Ekahau
4 1 (12.50%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) Genesys
4 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
4 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto