IPv6 Contracts with Work from Home Options

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
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 IPv6 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IPv6 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 444 580
Rank change year-on-year +112 +136 -131
Contract jobs citing IPv6 5 23 45
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.090% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% 0.78% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 34
10th Percentile - £350 £398
25th Percentile £553 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -30.43% +40.24%
75th Percentile £605 £497 £650
90th Percentile £613 £638 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +31.25% -30.43% +41.98%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

IPv6 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 1,565 2,953 4,336
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.33% 11.55% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,010 1,964 2,940
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £600
90th Percentile £704 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 97 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.70 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.50 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%

IPv6
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IPv6 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IPv6 trend for jobs with a WFH option

IPv6
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 IPv6.

IPv6 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IPv6
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 2 (40.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Catchpoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) BCP
1 2 (40.00%) Compliance Management
1 2 (40.00%) ERP
1 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCIE
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) AppNeta
1 2 (40.00%) Arista
1 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (40.00%) Tufin