Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 634 775
Rank change year-on-year +85 +141 -151
Contract jobs citing IPv4 41 69 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.095% 0.12% 0.096%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.74% 0.94% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 38 60
10th Percentile £385 £288 £372
25th Percentile £463 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -12.04% +12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £629 £625
90th Percentile - £650 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £363 £470
% change year-on-year +51.72% -22.87% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £23.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -60.83% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,561 7,346 9,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 12.40% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,324 4,780 6,318
10th Percentile £205 £242 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 476 359
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.86
25th Percentile £16.90 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%

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 3 May 2024.

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 8 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 3 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
England +105 40 £575 +15.00% 9
London +111 35 £600 -5.44% 3
Work from Home +98 5 £550 +23.94% 5
UK excluding London +20 5 £550 +51.72% 5
South West +18 3 £550 +29.41% 3
Yorkshire +20 1 - - 1
South East +11 1 £625 +51.52%
North of England +3 1 - - 2

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.32%) Confluence
1 3 (7.32%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) AWS
2 10 (24.39%) Azure
3 5 (12.20%) OCI
4 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.44%) GCP
6 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (58.54%) BGP
1 24 (58.54%) MPLS
2 22 (53.66%) HSRP
3 18 (43.90%) VPLS
4 17 (41.46%) Ethernet VPN
4 17 (41.46%) RSVP
4 17 (41.46%) SNMP
4 17 (41.46%) VRRP
5 12 (29.27%) Firewall
6 10 (24.39%) OSPF
7 9 (21.95%) Cisco IOS
7 9 (21.95%) DHCP
7 9 (21.95%) DNS
7 9 (21.95%) IOS XR
7 9 (21.95%) VLAN
8 8 (19.51%) IPv6
9 6 (14.63%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (14.63%) EIGRP
9 6 (14.63%) LAN
9 6 (14.63%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Git
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
General
1 17 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.44%) Finance
2 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) IP Expert
2 9 (21.95%) Cisco Expert
3 6 (14.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Network Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Senior
4 5 (12.20%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Data Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Lead
5 4 (9.76%) Market Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Market Data Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (41.46%) Jinja
1 17 (41.46%) JSON
1 17 (41.46%) NETCONF
1 17 (41.46%) XML
1 17 (41.46%) YANG
2 5 (12.20%) 802.1X
3 3 (7.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (41.46%) Distributed Architecture
2 5 (12.20%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.44%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.95%) Linux
2 4 (9.76%) Windows
3 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (60.98%) DevOps
2 17 (41.46%) Test Planning
3 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
4 5 (12.20%) Configuration Management
4 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (12.20%) Task Automation
5 4 (9.76%) Agile
5 4 (9.76%) Application Packaging
5 4 (9.76%) Application Security
5 4 (9.76%) Application Virtualisation
5 4 (9.76%) Batch Scripting
5 4 (9.76%) Load Balancing
6 3 (7.32%) Software Engineering
6 3 (7.32%) Test Automation
7 2 (4.88%) Computer Science
7 2 (4.88%) Containerisation
7 2 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (4.88%) Software Testing
8 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) Python
2 9 (21.95%) PowerShell
3 5 (12.20%) Bash
4 4 (9.76%) VBScript
5 3 (7.32%) C
5 3 (7.32%) C++
5 3 (7.32%) Go
5 3 (7.32%) Java
5 3 (7.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (21.95%) CCIE
2 9 (21.95%) CCIE Service Provider
3 8 (19.51%) AWS Certification
4 6 (14.63%) CCNP
4 6 (14.63%) Security Cleared
5 5 (12.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (12.20%) Azure Certification
5 5 (12.20%) CCNA
6 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
7 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.44%) CCDP
8 1 (2.44%) GIAC
8 1 (2.44%) JNCIS
8 1 (2.44%) RHCE
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (29.27%) Terraform
2 5 (12.20%) Puppet
2 5 (12.20%) SolarWinds Orion
3 4 (9.76%) Ansible
3 4 (9.76%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.32%) Consul
4 3 (7.32%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (41.46%) Nokia
2 16 (39.02%) Cisco
3 9 (21.95%) Fortinet
4 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
5 5 (12.20%) CheckPoint
5 5 (12.20%) F5
5 5 (12.20%) Google
5 5 (12.20%) Infoblox
5 5 (12.20%) Palo Alto
5 5 (12.20%) SolarWinds
6 3 (7.32%) Dynatrace
7 2 (4.88%) VMware
8 1 (2.44%) Juniper
8 1 (2.44%) Meraki
8 1 (2.44%) Oracle
8 1 (2.44%) Red Hat