OPNET Contracts in the UK excluding London

Riverbed OPNET
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OPNET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OPNET over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 452 496
Rank change year-on-year +92 +44 -78
Contract jobs citing OPNET 25 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.017% 0.029%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.08% 0.11% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 5
10th Percentile £526 - £483
25th Percentile - £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £681 £538
90th Percentile £704 £693 -
UK median daily rate £545 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -16.15% +23.81% +5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

OPNET is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,315 3,517 4,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.28% 14.96% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,576 2,986
10th Percentile £213 £281 £237
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £654 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 136 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.92
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £14.44
Median hourly rate £28.75 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.93% +124.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £41.13
90th Percentile £70.28 £75.25 £51.66
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.04%

OPNET
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OPNET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OPNET in the UK excluding London

OPNET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OPNET in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OPNET in the UK excluding London

OPNET
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OPNET in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OPNET in the UK excluding London

OPNET
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OPNET within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South West +40 25 £545 -16.15%
OPNET
UK

OPNET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (8.00%) Confluence
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) AWS
1 4 (16.00%) Azure
1 4 (16.00%) GCP
1 4 (16.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) VPN
2 2 (8.00%) DHCP
2 2 (8.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) LAN
2 2 (8.00%) Skype
2 2 (8.00%) SMTP
2 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Military
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (4.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (8.00%) Architect
1 2 (8.00%) Automation Architect
1 2 (8.00%) Office Automation Architect
1 2 (8.00%) Service Desk Engineer
1 2 (8.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (4.00%) Developer
2 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) ModSecurity
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (92.00%) PKI
2 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
2 4 (16.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
1 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Change Control
2 15 (60.00%) Service Management
3 6 (24.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.00%) Project Management
5 4 (16.00%) ArchiMate
5 4 (16.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (16.00%) Business Strategy
5 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) IT Strategy
5 4 (16.00%) NsoIT
5 4 (16.00%) Office Automation
5 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (16.00%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (16.00%) TOGAF
6 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) DevSecOps
6 2 (8.00%) LLM
6 2 (8.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (68.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (64.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (44.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (16.00%) Degree
6 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (60.00%) JSP 440
2 2 (8.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 4 (16.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Ansible
1 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (8.00%) PowerCLI
2 2 (8.00%) SCCM
2 2 (8.00%) SCOM
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (92.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) VMware
3 4 (16.00%) Atlassian
3 4 (16.00%) Google
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco
4 2 (8.00%) Remedy
4 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds