IP Engineer Contracts

IP Engineer
UK

The median IP Engineer daily rate in the UK is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 663 803
Rank change year-on-year +97 +140 -106
Contract jobs requiring an IP Engineer 9 19 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.034% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.036% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 14
10th Percentile £273 £299 £413
25th Percentile £288 £363 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -16.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £363 £488 £534
90th Percentile £378 £558 £546
UK excluding London median daily rate - £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% +2.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

IP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured IP Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IP Engineer in the UK

IP Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IP Engineer in the UK

IP Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IP Engineer in the UK

IP Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IP Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +76 7 - - 3
UK excluding London +31 7 - - 2
South East +12 6 - - 1
Work from Home +104 3 £325 -27.78% 2
East of England - 1 - -

IP Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, IP Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring IP Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Juniper
1 7 (77.78%) MPLS
1 7 (77.78%) BGP
1 7 (77.78%) Migration
2 6 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 6 (66.67%) MoSCoW
2 6 (66.67%) JIRA
2 6 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
3 2 (22.22%) CCNP
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (22.22%) 5G
3 2 (22.22%) 4G
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (11.11%) GPON
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) CCIE
4 1 (11.11%) Broadband
4 1 (11.11%) VoIP
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Firewall
4 1 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) IGMP
4 1 (11.11%) Network Design

IP Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) BGP
1 7 (77.78%) MPLS
2 2 (22.22%) 4G
2 2 (22.22%) 5G
3 1 (11.11%) Broadband
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) GPON
3 1 (11.11%) IGMP
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) VoIP
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) IPTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Migration
2 6 (66.67%) MoSCoW
2 6 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) Network Design
3 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CCNP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCIE
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Juniper
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco