Contract Communications & Computer Network Statistics in the North East

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Firewall	49	Down -15 places-15	£625	-	22 2.95%	14
BIG-IP	58	New entry-	£650	-	13 1.74%
Wi-Fi	58	Down -24 places-24	£500	+150.00%	13 1.74%	6
VXLAN	58	New entry-	£650	-	13 1.74%
F5 BIG-IP LTM	58	New entry-	£650	-	13 1.74%
OSPF	58	Down -24 places-24	£650	+160.00%	13 1.74%
BGP	58	Down -24 places-24	£650	+160.00%	13 1.74%
SD-WAN	59	New entry-	£650	-	12 1.61%
Ethernet VPN	59	New entry-	£650	-	12 1.61%
WAN	60	Down -27 places-27	£650	+225.00%	11 1.47%	4
DNS	64	Down -38 places-38	£319	-7.60%	7 0.94%	7
WLAN	65	New entry-	-	-	6 0.80%
Wireless	66	Down -32 places-32	£420	-	5 0.67%	7
DHCP	66	Down -32 places-32	£225	-10.00%	5 0.67%	7
TCP/IP	67	Down -33 places-33	£306	+22.50%	4 0.54%	6
Intranet	67	New entry-	£429	-	4 0.54%	1
VPN	68	Down -35 places-35	£625	+108.33%	3 0.40%	7
Internet	68	New entry-	-	-	3 0.40%	7
Network Security	69	Down -35 places-35	£675	+8.00%	2 0.27%	2
ATM	69	Down -35 places-35	£155	-22.33%	2 0.27%	1
VoIP	69	Down -36 places-36	£249	-	2 0.27%	2
HTTP	69	New entry-	£419	-	2 0.27%	1
SSL	69	Down -35 places-35	£413	-20.67%	2 0.27%	2
SAN	69	New entry-	£200	-	2 0.27%	3
RTP	70	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%
Software-Defined Radio	70	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%
VLAN	70	Down -36 places-36	-	-	1 0.13%	4
Cisco Nexus	70	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%
IPsec	70	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%	1
Cisco ASA	70	New entry-	£200	-	1 0.13%
Wireshark	70	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%
NAS	70	New entry-	£200	-	1 0.13%	1
Broadband	70	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%	2
3GPP	70	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%
Kerberos	70	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%
4G	70	New entry-	£363	-	1 0.13%
Cisco ISE	70	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%
DMZ	70	New entry-	£500	-	1 0.13%	1
5G	70	New entry-	£363	-	1 0.13%
NGFW	70	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%