Converged Networks Contracts

Network Convergence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Converged Networks skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Converged Networks over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 704 853
Rank change year-on-year +128 +149 -177
Contract jobs citing Converged Networks 15 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.005% 0.010%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.26% 0.040% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 8
10th Percentile £493 £465 £369
25th Percentile £583 £488 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £627 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -4.76% +28.95%
75th Percentile £657 £563 £593
90th Percentile £672 £585 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £627 £525 £578
% change year-on-year +19.33% -9.09% +35.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Converged Networks 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 5,718 7,429 9,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.10% 12.32% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,438 4,836 6,416
10th Percentile £205 £231 £227
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £604
90th Percentile £700 £721 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £433
% change year-on-year - +9.76% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 494 363
10th Percentile £13.78 £9.80 £14.83
25th Percentile £17.69 £10.63 £17.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -32.74% +6.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £60.66 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.12 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.39 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +150.76% -13.95% -11.34%

Converged Networks
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Converged Networks in the UK

Converged Networks
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Converged Networks in the UK

Converged Networks
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Converged Networks over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Converged Networks in the UK

Converged Networks
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Converged Networks in the UK

Converged Networks
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 Converged Networks within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England +127 15 £627 +19.33%
UK excluding London +68 14 £627 +19.33%
North of England - 14 £627 -
North West - 14 £627 -
Work from Home - 13 £625 -
London - 1 - -

Converged Networks
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 15 (100.00%) LAN
1 15 (100.00%) Network Security
1 15 (100.00%) WAN
2 12 (80.00%) ISDN
2 12 (80.00%) Skype
2 12 (80.00%) VoIP
3 3 (20.00%) Broadband
3 3 (20.00%) VPN
4 2 (13.33%) Firewall
4 2 (13.33%) Wireless
General
1 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Architect
1 12 (80.00%) Voice Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Impact Assessments
2 12 (80.00%) Service Design
3 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) CCNA
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco