ICMP Contract Job Trends in England

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring ICMP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 - 539
Rank change year-on-year - - +110
Contract jobs citing ICMP 6 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.016% - 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £482 - £588
25th Percentile £510 - £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £850
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.78%
75th Percentile £550 - £925
90th Percentile £556 - -
UK median daily rate £525 - £850
% change year-on-year - - +41.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.33
25th Percentile - - £24.44
Median hourly rate £72.54 - £24.75
75th Percentile - - £24.94
90th Percentile - - £24.98
UK median hourly rate £72.54 - £24.75
% change year-on-year - - +3.13%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

ICMP 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 3,762 3,218 5,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.91% 13.27% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,409 2,010 3,174
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £385 £363 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +1.54% +2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 120 378
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.91 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.09 £21.31 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.02 £35.75 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -8.92% +106.58%
75th Percentile £66.94 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.89% +96.89%

ICMP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

ICMP job vacancy trend in England

ICMP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ICMP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ICMP

ICMP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ICMP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ICMP

ICMP
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 ICMP within the England region over the 6 months to 28 March 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
South East - 4 £538 - 2
South West - 1 - - 1
London - 1 £475 -
ICMP
UK

ICMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (16.67%) nginx
1 1 (16.67%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) OSPF
1 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (66.67%) BGP
2 4 (66.67%) BIG-IP
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco Firepower
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) IPsec
2 4 (66.67%) Network Security
2 4 (66.67%) NGFW
2 4 (66.67%) Wireless
3 3 (50.00%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
4 1 (16.67%) L2TP
4 1 (16.67%) RIP
4 1 (16.67%) SNMP
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Network Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
1 4 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
1 4 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Environments
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) ITSM
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Service Management
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design
3 1 (16.67%) Network Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Go
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HAProxy
1 1 (16.67%) Istio
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) F5
1 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow