Ethernet Contracts in London

Ethernet
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Ethernet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethernet over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 383 427
Rank change year-on-year +21 +44 +138
Contract jobs citing Ethernet 10 8 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.074% 0.049% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.73% 0.52% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 32
10th Percentile £228 £215 £310
25th Percentile £262 £344 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £547 £490 £686
90th Percentile £631 £550 £773
England median daily rate £450 £408 £500
% change year-on-year +10.43% -18.50% +20.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - £18.57
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £19.38
75th Percentile £47.50 - £20.19
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.35 £37.50
% change year-on-year +13.34% +52.93% -16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

Ethernet 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,376 1,535 2,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.17% 9.47% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 1,021 1,730
10th Percentile £287 £250 £252
25th Percentile £400 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £619 £665
90th Percentile £716 £703 £750
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.96% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 31 39
10th Percentile £20.32 £16.24 £18.46
25th Percentile - £20.00 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -34.87% +40.54%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.25 £68.50
90th Percentile £62.05 £65.00 £80.60
England median hourly rate £43.00 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.64% -0.23% +69.23%

Ethernet
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Ethernet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Ethernet in London

Ethernet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethernet in London.

Daily rate trend for Ethernet in London

Ethernet
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethernet in London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethernet in London

Ethernet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ethernet in London.

Hourly rate trend for Ethernet in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet within the London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
East London - 2 £443 - 1
Central London - 1 - - 1
Ethernet
England

Ethernet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) MPLS
2 2 (20.00%) BGP
2 2 (20.00%) Junos
2 2 (20.00%) SDH
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) HTTP
3 1 (10.00%) Modbus
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) OSPF
3 1 (10.00%) RIP
3 1 (10.00%) SNMP
3 1 (10.00%) SONET
3 1 (10.00%) VPLS
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Advertising
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Support
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (10.00%) gRPC
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Signage
2 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) FPGA
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) PCIe
2 1 (10.00%) Verilog
2 1 (10.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
1 3 (30.00%) Network Management
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (10.00%) High Availability
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Observability
3 1 (10.00%) Runbook
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (10.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (10.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCNA
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) CCIE
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) JNCIE
3 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Nagios
1 1 (10.00%) OpenView
1 1 (10.00%) OPNET
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
1 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
1 2 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (10.00%) Apple
2 1 (10.00%) AVEVA
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Intel
2 1 (10.00%) Mellanox
2 1 (10.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (10.00%) Wonderware
2 1 (10.00%) Xilinx