UPnP Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring UPnP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing UPnP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.086% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £353 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £354 - -
75th Percentile £354 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £354 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

UPnP 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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 300 208 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.91% 16.09% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 87 104
10th Percentile £303 £225 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £700 £588
England median daily rate £500 £490 £510
% change year-on-year +2.04% -3.92% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 62 64
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £30.87 £19.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £44.28
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% +40.02% -31.88%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.50 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £57.35
% change year-on-year -21.59% -27.72% +1.52%

UPnP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing UPnP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

UPnP job vacancy trend in the East of England

UPnP
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing UPnP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing UPnP

UPnP
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 UPnP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Suffolk - 2 £354 - 5
UPnP
England

UPnP
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) 4G
1 2 (100.00%) 5G
1 2 (100.00%) Broadband
1 2 (100.00%) IPv4
1 2 (100.00%) IPv6
1 2 (100.00%) PPP
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) xDSL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Broadband Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker