Deep Packet Inspection Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Deep Packet Inspection
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Deep Packet Inspection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Deep Packet Inspection 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.021% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Deep Packet Inspection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,206 3,092 4,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.34% 86.90% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,789 1,757 2,705
10th Percentile £218 £263 £296
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 150 194
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £15.73
25th Percentile £19.67 £17.12 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £27.44 £30.03
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% -8.60% +33.44%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £68.90 £67.57 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%

Deep Packet Inspection
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Deep Packet Inspection relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Deep Packet Inspection job vacancy trend in the North of England

Deep Packet Inspection
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Deep Packet Inspection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Deep Packet Inspection

Deep Packet Inspection
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deep Packet Inspection within the North of England region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
North West - 1 - - 1
Deep Packet Inspection
England

Deep Packet Inspection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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 1 (100.00%) 802.11
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Escalation Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco