IPv4 Contracts in London

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 476 581
Rank change year-on-year +118 +105 -139
Contract jobs citing IPv4 32 17 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.066% 0.054%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.92% 0.66% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 12 17
10th Percentile £385 £429 £375
25th Percentile £463 £523 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £635 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +15.36% +52.78%
75th Percentile £603 £650 £625
90th Percentile £613 - -
England median daily rate £550 £475 £539
% change year-on-year +15.79% -11.87% +39.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
England median hourly rate - £23.50 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,664 2,589 3,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.53% 10.01% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,817 2,524
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +4.00% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 56 82
10th Percentile £14.46 £20.11 £20.90
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.72 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £43.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -47.09% +27.41% -32.03%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £47.35
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%

IPv4
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IPv4 in London

IPv4
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IPv4 in London

IPv4
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPv4 in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IPv4 in London

IPv4
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPv4 within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +39 5 £385 -40.77% 1
South London +7 1 £550 -8.33%
IPv4
England

IPv4
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
1 3 (9.38%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) AWS
2 9 (28.13%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) OCI
4 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.13%) GCP
6 1 (3.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 21 (65.63%) MPLS
2 20 (62.50%) BGP
3 19 (59.38%) HSRP
4 15 (46.88%) VPLS
5 14 (43.75%) Ethernet VPN
5 14 (43.75%) RSVP
5 14 (43.75%) SNMP
5 14 (43.75%) VRRP
6 10 (31.25%) Firewall
7 9 (28.13%) DHCP
7 9 (28.13%) DNS
8 7 (21.88%) Cisco IOS
8 7 (21.88%) IOS XR
8 7 (21.88%) IPv6
9 6 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (18.75%) EIGRP
9 6 (18.75%) LAN
9 6 (18.75%) OSPF
10 5 (15.63%) TACACS
10 5 (15.63%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Finance
2 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) IP Expert
2 7 (21.88%) Cisco Expert
3 5 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Network Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Senior
3 5 (15.63%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Market Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Market Data Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (43.75%) Jinja
1 14 (43.75%) JSON
1 14 (43.75%) NETCONF
1 14 (43.75%) XML
1 14 (43.75%) YANG
2 5 (15.63%) 802.1X
3 3 (9.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 14 (43.75%) Distributed Architecture
2 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.13%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) DevOps
2 14 (43.75%) Test Planning
3 5 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (12.50%) Application Packaging
4 4 (12.50%) Application Security
4 4 (12.50%) Application Virtualisation
4 4 (12.50%) Batch Scripting
4 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (12.50%) Load Balancing
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering
5 3 (9.38%) Test Automation
6 2 (6.25%) Agile
6 2 (6.25%) Computer Science
6 2 (6.25%) Configuration Management
6 2 (6.25%) Task Automation
7 1 (3.13%) Network Architecture
7 1 (3.13%) Network Management
7 1 (3.13%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (3.13%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) Python
2 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.50%) VBScript
4 3 (9.38%) C
4 3 (9.38%) C++
4 3 (9.38%) Go
4 3 (9.38%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) Rust
5 2 (6.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 7 (21.88%) CCIE
3 7 (21.88%) CCIE Service Provider
4 5 (15.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Azure Certification
4 5 (15.63%) CCNA
4 5 (15.63%) CCNP
5 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Terraform
2 5 (15.63%) SolarWinds Orion
3 3 (9.38%) Consul
3 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.38%) Packer
4 2 (6.25%) Ansible
4 2 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Nokia
2 13 (40.63%) Cisco
3 7 (21.88%) Fortinet
4 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
5 5 (15.63%) CheckPoint
5 5 (15.63%) F5
5 5 (15.63%) Google
5 5 (15.63%) Infoblox
5 5 (15.63%) Palo Alto
5 5 (15.63%) SolarWinds
6 3 (9.38%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.13%) Meraki
7 1 (3.13%) VMware