Contract Communications & Computer Network Statistics in the North West

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Firewall	49	Up 2 places+2	£500	-4.76%	163 4.11%	46
VPN	69	Up 48 places+48	£475	+16.70%	124 3.13%	17
Network Security	74	Up 5 places+5	£540	+2.85%	117 2.95%	15
DNS	80	Down 9 places-9	£512	+10.70%	105 2.65%	21
WAN	102	Down 6 places-6	£523	+58.33%	79 1.99%	17
Wireless	108	Up 12 places+12	£525	+73.55%	72 1.82%	18
BGP	119	Down 5 places-5	£450	-18.18%	60 1.51%	1
LAN	128	Down 21 places-21	£515	+288.67%	50 1.26%	11
TCP/IP	136	Down 30 places-30	£230	-54.45%	42 1.06%	18
OSPF	140	Down 5 places-5	£488	+9.06%	38 0.96%
Wi-Fi	140	Down 22 places-22	£505	-3.80%	38 0.96%	10
SSL	142	Down 24 places-24	£588	-2.65%	36 0.91%	4
DHCP	143	Down 20 places-20	£505	+12.97%	35 0.88%	15
F5 BIG-IP LTM	143	Down 32 places-32	£600	-	35 0.88%
VLAN	145	Down 26 places-26	£519	+9.28%	33 0.83%	15
SD-WAN	146	Down 10 places-10	£525	+47.88%	32 0.81%	9
DMZ	148	Down 38 places-38	£575	-	30 0.76%	3
Structured Cabling	149	Down 10 places-10	£550	+157.30%	29 0.73%	11
BIG-IP	149	Down 20 places-20	£650	-	29 0.73%
F5 BIG-IP GTM	149	Down 38 places-38	£650	-	29 0.73%
Cisco ASA	153	Down 16 places-16	£447	-25.18%	25 0.63%
Cisco IOS	155	Down 18 places-18	£608	-	23 0.58%	1
SAN	156	Down 34 places-34	£550	-	22 0.55%	1
Multicast	158	Down 20 places-20	£575	+4.54%	20 0.50%
NetScaler	159	Down 30 places-30	£310	-40.66%	19 0.48%	2
Skype	159	Down 31 places-31	£503	+0.50%	19 0.48%
Cisco Firepower	159	New entry-	£449	-	19 0.48%
NAS	159	Down 20 places-20	£575	+35.29%	19 0.48%	1
EIGRP	160	New entry-	£447	-	18 0.45%
HTTP	161	Down 34 places-34	£560	+49.33%	17 0.43%	22
MPLS	163	Down 32 places-32	£575	+31.80%	15 0.38%
Converged Networks	165	New entry-	£536	-	13 0.33%
Wireshark	165	Down 40 places-40	£513	+14.76%	13 0.33%	1
Broadband	165	New entry-	£536	-	13 0.33%	20
Internet	166	Down 40 places-40	£475	-19.14%	12 0.30%	8
NX-OS	166	Down 35 places-35	£610	+43.52%	12 0.30%
IPsec	168	Down 33 places-33	£500	+11.85%	10 0.25%	3
Ethernet VPN	170	Down 32 places-32	£575	+4.54%	8 0.20%
VXLAN	170	Down 36 places-36	£575	+35.29%	8 0.20%
WLAN	171	Down 34 places-34	£575	+35.29%	7 0.18%	1
DWDM	171	Down 31 places-31	£575	+90.08%	7 0.18%
Software-Defined Networking	171	Down 38 places-38	£225	-59.09%	7 0.18%
SSH	171	Down 41 places-41	£364	-19.37%	7 0.18%	1
Cisco Nexus	171	Down 32 places-32	£600	+79.10%	7 0.18%	1
IOS XR	171	New entry-	-	-	7 0.18%
SNMP	172	Down 35 places-35	£525	+30.35%	6 0.15%	3
Unified Communications	172	Down 45 places-45	£200	-29.51%	6 0.15%	2
PSTN	173	New entry-	£225	-	5 0.13%
Cisco ISE	173	Down 48 places-48	£413	-22.31%	5 0.13%	3
HSRP	173	New entry-	£505	-	5 0.13%