Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ICMP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ICMP over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 709 826
Rank change year-on-year +130 +117 -157
Contract jobs citing ICMP 7 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.022% 0.006%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.12% 0.18% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 5
10th Percentile £738 £475 -
25th Percentile £775 £521 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £600 £350
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +71.43% -36.36%
75th Percentile £925 £612 -
90th Percentile - £648 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £600 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £24.25 - -
Median hourly rate £24.50 - -
75th Percentile £24.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

ICMP 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 5,688 7,405 9,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.03% 12.33% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,417 4,818 6,380
10th Percentile £205 £235 £228
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £432
% change year-on-year - +9.95% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 488 364
10th Percentile £13.57 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.69 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +4.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.40 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -11.34%

ICMP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ICMP in the UK

ICMP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ICMP in the UK

ICMP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ICMP over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ICMP in the UK

ICMP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ICMP in the UK

ICMP
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 ICMP within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +114 6 £850 +41.67% 5
London +104 5 £850 +59.62% 4
Work from Home +123 1 - - 3
UK excluding London +66 1 - -
South East +8 1 - -

ICMP
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Google Workspace
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
1 6 (85.71%) HTTP
2 5 (71.43%) FTP
2 5 (71.43%) POP3
2 5 (71.43%) SMTP
2 5 (71.43%) SSH
2 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) Internet
4 1 (14.29%) 3G
4 1 (14.29%) ATM
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) DSL
4 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
4 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
4 1 (14.29%) GSM
4 1 (14.29%) MPLS
4 1 (14.29%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) PPP
4 1 (14.29%) RIP
4 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) ArcSight Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Operations Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Loss Prevention
1 6 (85.71%) SIEM
2 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Process Management
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kibana
1 5 (71.43%) logstash
1 5 (71.43%) QRadar
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) ArcSight
1 5 (71.43%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) ADVA
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) Nokia
2 1 (14.29%) Nokia Networks
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Tellabs