OpenConfig Contract Job Trends in the East of England

OpenConfig
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring OpenConfig skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenConfig 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.045% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

OpenConfig falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 252 169 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.26% 16.13% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 109 152
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £455 £415 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £490 £486
Median % change year-on-year +9.69% +0.77% -5.95%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £575
90th Percentile £717 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 63
10th Percentile £17.12 £63.50 -
25th Percentile £54.06 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - +51.16% -25.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £81.65 £66.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.87% -14.42%

OpenConfig
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenConfig within the East of England region over the 6 months to 23 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
Essex - 1 - -
OpenConfig
England

OpenConfig
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) TACACS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (100.00%) RESTCONF
1 1 (100.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIE
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft