NETCONF Contract Job Trends in the South East

NETCONF
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring NETCONF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 154 214
Rank change year-on-year -14 +60 +49
Contract jobs citing NETCONF 10 23 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.25% 0.56% 0.057%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.49% 3.44% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £724 £535 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £748 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.91% - -
75th Percentile £771 £565 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £633 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

NETCONF falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 672 669 869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.56% 16.25% 16.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 437 502
10th Percentile £286 £325 £313
25th Percentile £381 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £625 £675 £680
England median daily rate £507 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.82% - -4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 40
10th Percentile £27.50 £27.60 £49.46
25th Percentile £44.69 £59.13 £53.69
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £71.63
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.97 £78.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

NETCONF
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

NETCONF job vacancy trend in the South East

NETCONF
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

NETCONF
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing NETCONF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing NETCONF

NETCONF
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 NETCONF within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Berkshire -3 10 £748 - 1
Thames Valley -12 10 £748 +35.91% 1
NETCONF
England

NETCONF
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (20.00%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) BGP
1 8 (80.00%) MPLS
2 7 (70.00%) WAN
3 6 (60.00%) LAN
4 1 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (10.00%) SNMP
4 1 (10.00%) TACACS
4 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (20.00%) Robot Framework
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) IP Specialist
2 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 6 (60.00%) IP Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Head of Development
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) YANG
2 7 (70.00%) REST
3 3 (30.00%) JSON
3 3 (30.00%) XML
4 2 (20.00%) Jinja
4 2 (20.00%) RESTCONF
5 1 (10.00%) OpenConfig
5 1 (10.00%) SOAP
5 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (60.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) CentOS
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Microservices
2 7 (70.00%) Network Design
2 7 (70.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (70.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (60.00%) Network Architecture
3 6 (60.00%) Network Segmentation
3 6 (60.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (60.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Workflow
5 2 (20.00%) AI
5 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) B2B
6 1 (10.00%) Open Source
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) CCIE
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (70.00%) JNCIE
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Veracode
3 1 (10.00%) F5
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft