IOS XR Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cisco IOS XR
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring IOS XR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IOS XR 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.68% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

IOS XR 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 148 106 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.49% 16.77% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 66 27
10th Percentile £200 £314 £247
25th Percentile £375 £375 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -9.52% -6.25%
75th Percentile £599 £538 £706
90th Percentile £649 £688 £765
North West median daily rate £472 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +4.89% -14.29% +8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.25 £15.50 -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £41.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.58% - -
75th Percentile £17.75 £67.25 -
90th Percentile £27.45 - -
North West median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -12.50% -58.81% +191.13%

IOS XR
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IOS XR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

IOS XR job vacancy trend in Cheshire

IOS XR
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IOS XR within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Chester - 1 - -
IOS XR
North West

IOS XR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) DWDM
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) IPv4
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Core Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Core Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) YANG
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco