IPv4 Contracts with Work from Home Options

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for IPv4 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IPv4 over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 437 575
Rank change year-on-year +101 +138 -123
Contract jobs citing IPv4 5 30 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.12% 0.100%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% 1.04% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 35
10th Percentile £400 £352 £398
25th Percentile £425 £360 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -31.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £1,000 £630 £650
UK median daily rate £595 £475 £540
% change year-on-year +25.26% -12.04% +12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

IPv4 is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,554 2,895 4,322
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.34% 11.52% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,010 1,922 2,924
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 95 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £26.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +13.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.63 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

IPv4
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IPv4 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IPv4 trend for jobs with a WFH option

IPv4
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IPv4.

IPv4 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IPv4
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IPv4 over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

IPv4 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IPv4
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) WhatsApp
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Consul
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Packer
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft