INAP Contract Job Trends in London

Intelligent Network Application Part (INAP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring INAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing INAP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.061% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £318 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - -
75th Percentile £353 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £351 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

INAP 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 1,637 1,359 1,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.16% 10.25% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,065 873 989
10th Percentile £300 £288 £250
25th Percentile £405 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £711 £723
England median daily rate £500 £490 £505
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.97% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 34 25
10th Percentile £19.39 £19.01 £20.00
25th Percentile £19.50 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +32.21% +4.01% -21.37%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.38 £51.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £61.95 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -34.71% -25.89% +1.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

INAP job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing INAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing INAP

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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 INAP within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London - 1 £335 - 1
INAP
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Network
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dialogic
1 1 (100.00%) Metaswitch