Contract Communications & Computer Network Statistics in the North West

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Firewall	58	Down 3 places-3	£500	-4.30%	154 3.81%	131
VPN	76	Up 39 places+39	£474	+7.23%	127 3.14%	64
Network Security	86	Down 7 places-7	£540	+13.08%	111 2.75%	54
DNS	91	Down 22 places-22	£500	-	106 2.62%	78
WAN	114	Down 22 places-22	£520	+55.08%	80 1.98%	63
Wireless	130	Down 13 places-13	£515	+56.06%	62 1.53%	68
BGP	137	Down 24 places-24	£450	-18.18%	55 1.36%	14
LAN	140	Down 37 places-37	£510	+284.90%	52 1.29%	43
Wi-Fi	148	Down 34 places-34	£505	-3.80%	44 1.09%	42
TCP/IP	151	Down 47 places-47	£230	-57.00%	41 1.01%	65
DHCP	154	Down 34 places-34	£500	-	38 0.94%	47
VLAN	154	Down 39 places-39	£505	+1.00%	38 0.94%	45
SSL	155	Down 40 places-40	£575	-4.72%	37 0.92%	14
OSPF	155	Down 21 places-21	£475	+6.26%	37 0.92%	10
F5 BIG-IP LTM	159	Down 53 places-53	£600	-	33 0.82%	3
SD-WAN	162	Down 27 places-27	£525	+47.88%	30 0.74%	25
DMZ	163	Down 56 places-56	£575	-	29 0.72%	2
F5 BIG-IP GTM	164	Down 58 places-58	£650	-	28 0.69%	3
BIG-IP	165	Down 39 places-39	£650	-	27 0.67%	2
Cisco ASA	167	Down 31 places-31	£447	-25.18%	25 0.62%	5
Structured Cabling	172	Down 34 places-34	£190	-11.11%	20 0.49%	23
NetScaler	172	Down 43 places-43	£310	-40.95%	20 0.49%	2
Cisco Firepower	173	New entry-	£449	-	19 0.47%	4
Cisco IOS	173	Down 37 places-37	£575	-	19 0.47%	2
EIGRP	174	New entry-	£447	-	18 0.45%	1
Multicast	174	Down 36 places-36	£575	+4.54%	18 0.45%
Skype	175	Down 49 places-49	£505	-26.81%	17 0.42%	2
HTTP	176	Down 57 places-57	£560	+49.33%	16 0.40%	23
SAN	177	Down 56 places-56	£525	-4.54%	15 0.37%	13
MPLS	177	Down 47 places-47	£575	+31.80%	15 0.37%	5
Wireshark	180	Down 59 places-59	£513	+14.76%	12 0.30%	4
Internet	180	Down 55 places-55	£475	-19.14%	12 0.30%	62
NAS	180	Down 42 places-42	£550	+29.41%	12 0.30%	6
IPsec	181	Down 47 places-47	£440	-1.56%	11 0.27%	4
Cisco Nexus	183	Down 45 places-45	£500	+49.25%	9 0.22%	3
Broadband	184	New entry-	£535	-	8 0.20%	42
Converged Networks	184	New entry-	£535	-	8 0.20%
Ethernet VPN	185	Down 47 places-47	£575	+4.54%	7 0.17%	3
Software-Defined Networking	185	Down 53 places-53	£225	-59.09%	7 0.17%	1
DWDM	185	Down 46 places-46	£575	+90.08%	7 0.17%
IOS XR	185	New entry-	-	-	7 0.17%
VXLAN	185	Down 53 places-53	£575	+35.29%	7 0.17%	3
SNMP	186	Down 50 places-50	£525	+30.35%	6 0.15%	5
Unified Communications	186	Down 58 places-58	£200	-29.51%	6 0.15%	10
NX-OS	186	Down 57 places-57	£602	+41.52%	6 0.15%
Remote Desktop	186	Down 49 places-49	£190	-50.64%	6 0.15%	10
Cisco ISE	186	Down 63 places-63	£425	-19.96%	6 0.15%	6
VoIP	187	Down 55 places-55	£300	-37.66%	5 0.12%	22
WLAN	187	Down 51 places-51	£575	+35.29%	5 0.12%	3
HSRP	187	New entry-	£505	-	5 0.12%	1