CATAPAN Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

CATAPAN
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring CATAPAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CATAPAN 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
South East median daily rate £560 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

CATAPAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 76 40 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 9.57% 16.67% 19.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 27 72
10th Percentile £306 £174 £210
25th Percentile £512 £375 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £632 £622 £603
90th Percentile £653 £630 £825
South East median daily rate £505 £475 £484
% change year-on-year +6.32% -1.86% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 15
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £14.20 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +153.52% -40.21% -
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £54.94 £57.35
% change year-on-year -11.32% -4.21% +10.29%

CATAPAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CATAPAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

CATAPAN job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

CATAPAN
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing CATAPAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing CATAPAN

CATAPAN
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CATAPAN within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 1 £560 -
CATAPAN
South East

CATAPAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Becrypt
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware