OPNET Contracts

Riverbed OPNET
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 696 848
Rank change year-on-year +142 +152 -181
Contract jobs citing OPNET 25 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.007% 0.014%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.49% 0.041% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 5
10th Percentile £528 - £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 £613 £681 £538
90th Percentile £713 £693 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -16.15% +23.81% +5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,117 9,647 14,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.09% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,658 6,968 10,256
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £565 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.58% -0.03% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 213 188
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.31 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £23.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.14
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +159.71% -34.88%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.61
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £44.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -14.21% +124.38% -9.09%

OPNET
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OPNET in the UK

OPNET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OPNET in the UK

OPNET
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OPNET over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OPNET in the UK

OPNET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OPNET in the UK

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Top 4 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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 +135 25 £545 -16.15%
UK excluding London +89 24 £545 -16.15%
South West +43 24 £545 -16.15%
London - 1 £675 -

OPNET
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 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) AWS
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
1 3 (12.00%) GCP
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub
3 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DHCP
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
1 3 (12.00%) LAN
1 3 (12.00%) Skype
1 3 (12.00%) SMTP
1 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (12.00%) VPN
1 3 (12.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.00%) Military
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (4.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (12.00%) Service Desk Engineer
1 3 (12.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (4.00%) Architect
2 1 (4.00%) Automation Architect
2 1 (4.00%) Developer
2 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (4.00%) Office Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) ModSecurity
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (92.00%) PKI
2 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
1 3 (12.00%) Windows 10
1 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Change Control
2 16 (64.00%) Service Management
3 6 (24.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.00%) Project Management
5 4 (16.00%) Office Automation
6 3 (12.00%) ArchiMate
6 3 (12.00%) Change Management
6 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (12.00%) IT Strategy
6 3 (12.00%) ITIL
6 3 (12.00%) Matrix Management
6 3 (12.00%) NsoIT
6 3 (12.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2
6 3 (12.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (12.00%) Statistical Analysis
6 3 (12.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) 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 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (60.00%) JSP 440
2 3 (12.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (12.00%) Docker
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (12.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (12.00%) Ansible
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (12.00%) SCCM
1 3 (12.00%) SCOM
2 1 (4.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (92.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (12.00%) Google
3 3 (12.00%) Remedy
3 3 (12.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco