Network as a Service (NaaS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for NaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NaaS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 712 -
Rank change year-on-year +115 - -
Contract jobs citing NaaS 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.002% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.053% 0.014% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £288 - -
25th Percentile £327 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% - -
75th Percentile £489 - -
90th Percentile £529 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £650 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

NaaS 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 5,643 7,361 9,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.94% 12.33% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,382 4,789 6,330
10th Percentile £205 £235 £228
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% +3.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 478 360
10th Percentile £13.57 £9.80 £14.87
25th Percentile £17.35 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £19.00 £27.88
Median % change year-on-year +102.63% -31.84% +1.36%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £50.77
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% -10.42%

NaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NaaS in the UK

NaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NaaS in the UK

NaaS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NaaS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NaaS in the UK

NaaS
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 NaaS within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
Work from Home +119 2 £538 -17.31%
England +106 2 £275 -57.69% 1
UK excluding London +66 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -

NaaS
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Audio Visual Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Signage
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Remedy