Ethernet Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Ethernet
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Ethernet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 122 145
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 +52
Contract jobs citing Ethernet 1 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.058% 0.095% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.63% 0.88% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £634 £237
25th Percentile - £647 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £688 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +54.49% -19.09%
75th Percentile - £722 £574
90th Percentile - £731 £650
Central London median daily rate - £538 £450
% change year-on-year - +19.44% -22.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

Ethernet 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 160 227 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.30% 10.80% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 138 161
10th Percentile £275 £341 £263
25th Percentile £413 £426 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £664 £638 £619
90th Percentile £738 £746 £700
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £21.25 - £19.39
25th Percentile £22.86 £31.25 £20.09
Median hourly rate £34.75 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% +44.44% +8.43%
75th Percentile £52.02 £33.75 £50.63
90th Percentile £60.15 - £66.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.63% +44.44% +8.43%

Ethernet
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ethernet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Ethernet job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Ethernet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Ethernet

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Ethernet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Ethernet

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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%) HTTP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreaded Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java