DOCSIS Contracts in England

Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring DOCSIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DOCSIS over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 - 630
Rank change year-on-year - - +130
Contract jobs citing DOCSIS 12 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% - 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £402 - -
25th Percentile £424 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 - £580
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.45%
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £454 - £580
% change year-on-year - - -6.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

DOCSIS 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,178 4,791 5,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.06% 13.15% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,973 2,878 3,859
10th Percentile £220 £210 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £515
% change year-on-year -0.51% -4.85% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 389 419
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.09 £16.30 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £58.13
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.13 £74.60
UK median hourly rate £30.70 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -23.25% +116.22% -34.70%

DOCSIS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DOCSIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DOCSIS in England

DOCSIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DOCSIS in England.

Daily rate trend for DOCSIS in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DOCSIS in England.

Hourly rate trend for DOCSIS in England

DOCSIS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DOCSIS within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. 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
London - 9 £475 -
South East - 3 £400 - 7
DOCSIS
UK

DOCSIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Camunda
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Datadog
1 3 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (58.33%) DHCP
2 7 (58.33%) TCP/IP
3 6 (50.00%) GPON
3 6 (50.00%) VoIP
4 5 (41.67%) 802.11
4 5 (41.67%) Broadband
4 5 (41.67%) DNS
4 5 (41.67%) Wireless
5 3 (25.00%) 4G
5 3 (25.00%) DSL
5 3 (25.00%) IPv4
5 3 (25.00%) IPv6
5 3 (25.00%) LTE
5 3 (25.00%) MPLS
5 3 (25.00%) Network Security
5 3 (25.00%) PPP
5 3 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (25.00%) VLAN
5 3 (25.00%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) InfluxDB
1 3 (25.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Gerrit
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) OSS Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) 802.1X
2 4 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (25.00%) Yocto
4 1 (8.33%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
1 4 (33.33%) IoT
2 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (25.00%) Digital TV
2 3 (25.00%) STB
2 3 (25.00%) TM Forum
2 3 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (8.33%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (16.67%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (41.67%) Release Management
3 4 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Fault Management
4 3 (25.00%) Inventory Management
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Observability
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (25.00%) Sprint Review
4 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) C
2 4 (33.33%) C++
2 4 (33.33%) Go
2 4 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) OASIS TOSCA
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Grafana
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Splunk
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Amdocs
3 2 (16.67%) Ericsson
3 2 (16.67%) Huawei
3 2 (16.67%) NetCracker
3 2 (16.67%) Nokia