Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 655 781
Rank change year-on-year +71 +126 -167
Contract jobs citing IPv6 16 61 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.10% 0.092%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% 0.83% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 37 54
10th Percentile £425 £231 £392
25th Percentile £463 £288 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -30.43% +41.98%
75th Percentile £558 £525 £697
90th Percentile £615 £650 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £555 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +58.57% -17.65% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,525 7,311 9,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.80% 12.38% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,306 4,755 6,321
10th Percentile £205 £240 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 473 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.54% -31.56% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%

IPv6
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IPv6 in the UK

IPv6
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IPv6 in the UK

IPv6
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IPv6 over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IPv6 in the UK

IPv6
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IPv6 in the UK

IPv6
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IPv6 within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +80 13 £525 +31.25% 12
London +118 12 £513 -21.15% 5
Work from Home +110 5 £578 +44.44% 8
UK excluding London +15 3 £555 +58.57% 9
Scotland - 2 £555 -
South East +15 1 £625 +56.25% 6

IPv6
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 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 2 (12.50%) Catchpoint
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) BGP
1 10 (62.50%) Firewall
1 10 (62.50%) MPLS
2 8 (50.00%) DNS
2 8 (50.00%) IPv4
2 8 (50.00%) VPN
3 7 (43.75%) LAN
3 7 (43.75%) OSPF
4 6 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (37.50%) DHCP
4 6 (37.50%) EIGRP
4 6 (37.50%) IPsec
4 6 (37.50%) VLAN
4 6 (37.50%) VXLAN
5 5 (31.25%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (31.25%) HSRP
5 5 (31.25%) TACACS
5 5 (31.25%) Wireless
6 3 (18.75%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (18.75%) VPLS
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) 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 3 (18.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Design Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Broadband Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Core Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
5 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 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (12.50%) Agile
1 2 (12.50%) BCP
1 2 (12.50%) Business Case
1 2 (12.50%) Business Strategy
1 2 (12.50%) Compliance Management
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
1 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
1 2 (12.50%) DevOps
1 2 (12.50%) ERP
1 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (12.50%) Network Design
1 2 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
1 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security
2 1 (6.25%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
2 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (6.25%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) CCNP
1 10 (62.50%) 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 2 (12.50%) CCIE
5 1 (6.25%) CCDP
5 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) JNCIS
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 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 9 (56.25%) 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 2 (12.50%) AppNeta
5 2 (12.50%) Arista
5 2 (12.50%) Huawei
5 2 (12.50%) Nokia
5 2 (12.50%) Tufin
6 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
6 1 (6.25%) Juniper
6 1 (6.25%) Meraki
6 1 (6.25%) VMware