Contract Communications & Computer Network Statistics in the South West

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Firewall	89	Down -52 places-52	£550	+0.73%	56 1.69%	41
DNS	96	Down -47 places-47	£538	-7.52%	49 1.48%	29
VPN	105	Down -34 places-34	£538	+2.38%	40 1.20%	26
Network Security	115	Down -35 places-35	£550	-	30 0.90%	12
DHCP	117	Down -42 places-42	£523	-15.04%	28 0.84%	18
VLAN	122	Down -20 places-20	£485	+36.14%	23 0.69%	13
BGP	125	Down -41 places-41	£525	-	20 0.60%	6
SNMP	126	New entry-	£314	-	19 0.57%	8
Ethernet	128	Down -18 places-18	£463	-	17 0.51%	11
TCP/IP	128	Down -40 places-40	£550	-10.56%	17 0.51%	29
Cisco Nexus	129	Down -33 places-33	£500	-9.90%	16 0.48%	6
LAN	129	Down -46 places-46	£500	-	16 0.48%	15
SAN	129	Down -23 places-23	£123	-71.17%	16 0.48%	2
OSPF	129	Down -35 places-35	£495	-13.91%	16 0.48%	6
Wireless	130	Down -36 places-36	£510	+23.63%	15 0.45%	28
5G	131	Down -41 places-41	£450	+5.88%	14 0.42%	2
Radio Access Network	131	Down -30 places-30	£450	+32.35%	14 0.42%
WAN	132	Down -54 places-54	£495	-1.00%	13 0.39%	21
VXLAN	134	Down -32 places-32	£495	-13.91%	11 0.33%	6
Cisco IOS	134	Down -36 places-36	£538	-2.27%	11 0.33%
MPLS	134	Down -33 places-33	£525	-	11 0.33%	2
Wi-Fi	135	Down -29 places-29	£275	-33.33%	10 0.30%	17
4G	135	Down -37 places-37	£450	+1.75%	10 0.30%	2
LTE	136	Down -30 places-30	£450	-	9 0.27%	1
Cisco ASA	137	Down -33 places-33	£531	+6.25%	8 0.24%	2
NX-OS	138	New entry-	£495	-	7 0.21%	3
3GPP	138	New entry-	£450	-	7 0.21%
3G	138	New entry-	£450	-	7 0.21%
Wireshark	139	Down -35 places-35	£450	+32.35%	6 0.18%	7
AMQP	139	New entry-	£563	-	6 0.18%
VoIP	139	Down -51 places-51	£533	-2.69%	6 0.18%	6
HTTP	139	Down -44 places-44	£550	-10.56%	6 0.18%	5
HTTPS	139	New entry-	£520	-	6 0.18%
Reverse Proxy	139	New entry-	£690	-	6 0.18%
TACACS	139	New entry-	£538	-	6 0.18%
Skype	140	Down -51 places-51	£490	-15.69%	5 0.15%	2
5G NR	140	New entry-	£450	-	5 0.15%
TETRA	141	New entry-	£770	-	4 0.12%
Unified Communications	141	Down -42 places-42	£425	-26.88%	4 0.12%	2
NGFW	142	Down -33 places-33	£525	+11.70%	3 0.090%	3
EIGRP	142	Down -32 places-32	£450	-	3 0.090%
DKIM	142	New entry-	-	-	3 0.090%
2G	143	Down -41 places-41	-	-	2 0.060%
Spanning Tree	143	Down -36 places-36	£533	+6.50%	2 0.060%
VSAN	143	Down -39 places-39	£505	-25.18%	2 0.060%
WLAN	143	Down -35 places-35	£356	-44.11%	2 0.060%	2
SMTP	143	Down -33 places-33	£550	-15.38%	2 0.060%
RIP	143	New entry-	-	-	2 0.060%
Cisco ISE	143	Down -36 places-36	£433	-10.12%	2 0.060%
SD-WAN	143	Down -40 places-40	£531	-11.45%	2 0.060%	3