OPNET Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Riverbed OPNET
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring OPNET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OPNET 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.46% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 4.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £750 £585 £545
% change year-on-year +28.21% +7.34% -16.15%

All Systems Management Skills
Dorset

OPNET falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 23 30 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 10.65% 30.61% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 7
10th Percentile - £203 £333
25th Percentile £350 £383 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £449 £575 £519
90th Percentile £578 £584 £526
South West median daily rate £533 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -7.39% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.50 -
South West median hourly rate £51.00 £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -27.14% +75.00% -48.72%

OPNET
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

OPNET job vacancy trend in Dorset

OPNET
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OPNET within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Blandford Forum - 1 £575 - 2
OPNET
South West

OPNET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle