IOS XR Contract Job Trends in the South East

Cisco IOS XR
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring IOS XR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 - 180
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs citing IOS XR 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.030% - 0.043%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.27% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £538 - £576
25th Percentile £556 - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £638
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.10%
75th Percentile £631 - £709
90th Percentile £643 - £719
England median daily rate £600 £535 £408
% change year-on-year +12.15% +31.29% -16.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

IOS XR 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 743 602 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.20% 17.18% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 417 459
10th Percentile £282 £204 £254
25th Percentile £405 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £608
90th Percentile £650 £638 £672
England median daily rate £500 £492 £508
% change year-on-year +1.63% -3.05% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 27 92
10th Percentile £18.64 £14.20 £27.00
25th Percentile £29.19 £28.00 £53.40
Median hourly rate £52.43 £55.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -4.68% -4.10% -4.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £89.63 £75.22
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.23 £57.35
% change year-on-year -21.16% -28.12% +1.52%

IOS XR
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IOS XR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

IOS XR job vacancy trend in the South East

IOS XR
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IOS XR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IOS XR

IOS XR
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IOS XR within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Berkshire - 2 £600 - 1
Thames Valley - 2 £600 - 1
IOS XR
England

IOS XR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (100.00%) Junos
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) NGFW
1 2 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) gRPC
1 2 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) JNCIE
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper