Unicast Contracts in England

Unicast
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Unicast skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unicast over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 654 -
Rank change year-on-year +116 - -
Contract jobs citing Unicast 4 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.017% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.078% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 0
10th Percentile £571 £519 -
25th Percentile £584 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% - -
75th Percentile £633 £725 -
90th Percentile £643 £765 -
UK median daily rate £610 £650 -
% change year-on-year -6.15% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Unicast 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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,121 6,370 8,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.71% 12.28% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,091 4,190 5,315
10th Percentile £205 £231 £216
25th Percentile £350 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.50% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £734 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -5.34% +3.00% +12.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 470 303
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £13.58
25th Percentile £17.69 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.63
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% -

Unicast
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Unicast as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Unicast in England

Unicast
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Unicast in England

Unicast
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Unicast in England

Unicast
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unicast within the England region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
London +108 4 £610 -6.15% 1
Unicast
UK

Unicast
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Multicast
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (75.00%) Broadband
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (75.00%) IPsec
2 3 (75.00%) L2TP
2 3 (75.00%) MPLS
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) IP Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) IP Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Perl
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) F5
2 3 (75.00%) Nokia
3 1 (25.00%) Arista