IPv6 Contracts in England

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 590 710
Rank change year-on-year +75 +120 -132
Contract jobs citing IPv6 16 50 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.044% 0.10% 0.084%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.33% 0.85% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 29 40
10th Percentile £420 £231 £375
25th Percentile £463 £275 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -25.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £598 £525 £580
90th Percentile £617 £570 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +31.25% -27.27% +27.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,791 5,904 7,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.15% 12.25% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,878 3,859 5,188
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 419 313
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.90
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +0.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.13 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.60 £63.23
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%

IPv6
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing IPv6 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IPv6 in England

IPv6
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IPv6 in England.

Daily rate trend for IPv6 in England

IPv6
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPv6 in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IPv6 in England

IPv6
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IPv6 in England.

Hourly rate trend for IPv6 in England

IPv6
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPv6 within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
London +106 14 £513 -6.82% 7
South East +25 1 £625 +56.25% 8
IPv6
UK

IPv6
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (12.50%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (6.25%) IIS
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) OCI
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) BGP
2 9 (56.25%) DNS
2 9 (56.25%) IPv4
2 9 (56.25%) MPLS
2 9 (56.25%) OSPF
3 8 (50.00%) Firewall
4 7 (43.75%) LAN
5 6 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (37.50%) DHCP
5 6 (37.50%) EIGRP
5 6 (37.50%) IPsec
5 6 (37.50%) VLAN
5 6 (37.50%) VPN
5 6 (37.50%) Wireless
6 5 (31.25%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (31.25%) HSRP
6 5 (31.25%) TACACS
6 5 (31.25%) VXLAN
7 3 (18.75%) 4G
7 3 (18.75%) 5G
General
1 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
2 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Network Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Design Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Network Design Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Network Architect
5 2 (12.50%) RAN Design Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) RAN Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Broadband Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Core Network Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) 802.1X
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) NETCONF
2 1 (6.25%) XML
2 1 (6.25%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Network Design
2 3 (18.75%) Network Management
3 2 (12.50%) Bill of Materials
3 2 (12.50%) Business Case
3 2 (12.50%) Business Strategy
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) ERP
3 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 2 (12.50%) Logistics
3 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 2 (12.50%) Use Case
3 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security
4 1 (6.25%) Configuration Management
4 1 (6.25%) Migration
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architecture
4 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
4 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) CCNP
1 8 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (37.50%) AWS Certification
3 5 (31.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (31.25%) Azure Certification
3 5 (31.25%) CCNA
4 1 (6.25%) CCDP
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) JNCIS
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) SolarWinds Orion
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Cisco
2 7 (43.75%) Palo Alto
3 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 5 (31.25%) CheckPoint
4 5 (31.25%) F5
4 5 (31.25%) Google
4 5 (31.25%) Infoblox
4 5 (31.25%) SolarWinds
5 4 (25.00%) Nokia
6 3 (18.75%) Ericsson
7 2 (12.50%) Huawei
8 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
8 1 (6.25%) Juniper
8 1 (6.25%) Meraki
8 1 (6.25%) VMware