Contract Communications & Computer Network Statistics in Edinburgh

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Firewall	38	Up 9 places+9	£450	-8.62%	31 4.20%	10
Network Security	43	Up 14 places+14	£683	+51.66%	26 3.52%	11
VPN	51	Up 9 places+9	£413	-	18 2.44%	3
Wi-Fi	52	Up 9 places+9	£413	-2.94%	17 2.30%	4
DNS	52	Up 10 places+10	£550	+29.41%	17 2.30%	6
Cisco Nexus	53	Up 8 places+8	£415	-5.14%	16 2.17%	1
LAN	54	Up 2 places+2	£413	-2.94%	15 2.03%	2
WAN	56	No change0	£413	-5.71%	13 1.76%
SD-WAN	57	Up 3 places+3	£413	-5.71%	12 1.63%	2
Internet	60	Up 2 places+2	£500	+150.00%	9 1.22%	5
IPsec	61	No change0	£538	+26.47%	8 1.08%	2
DHCP	61	Up 4 places+4	£600	+150.00%	8 1.08%
HTTP	61	Up 4 places+4	£556	-5.44%	8 1.08%	1
Unified Communications	62	No change0	£375	-14.28%	7 0.95%	2
OSPF	64	New entry-	£456	-	5 0.68%
BGP	64	New entry-	£456	-	5 0.68%	1
SAN	65	New entry-	£450	-	4 0.54%
Intranet	65	Down -1 place-1	£188	-	4 0.54%
SSL	66	Down -2 places-2	£600	+2.12%	3 0.41%	1
Fibre Channel	66	New entry-	£438	-	3 0.41%
F5 BIG-IP LTM	66	New entry-	-	-	3 0.41%
TCP/IP	66	Down -6 places-6	£425	-17.07%	3 0.41%	3
HTTPS	67	New entry-	£220	-	2 0.27%	1
BIG-IP	67	New entry-	-	-	2 0.27%	1
F5 BIG-IP GTM	67	New entry-	-	-	2 0.27%
Wireless	67	Down -2 places-2	£313	-	2 0.27%	9
Broadband	67	Down -2 places-2	-	-	2 0.27%	15
WLAN	67	Down -3 places-3	-	-	2 0.27%
Ethernet	67	Down -2 places-2	-	-	2 0.27%	1
SSH	68	New entry-	£700	-	1 0.14%
VXLAN	68	New entry-	-	-	1 0.14%
NGFW	68	New entry-	-	-	1 0.14%	1
VLAN	68	New entry-	£450	-	1 0.14%	2
SMS	68	Down -4 places-4	-	-	1 0.14%