Ethernet Contract Job Trends in the South West

Ethernet
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Ethernet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 114 143
Rank change year-on-year -11 +29 +6
Contract jobs citing Ethernet 8 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.31% 0.36% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.20% 2.45% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile £463 - £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.15%
75th Percentile £488 - £526
90th Percentile - - £529
England median daily rate £381 £500 £210
% change year-on-year -23.75% +138.10% -50.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £53.75 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £67.02 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.47% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £62.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £33.22
% change year-on-year +1.96% +91.90% -48.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 250 286 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.83% 14.78% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 181 269
10th Percentile £263 £300 £255
25th Percentile £380 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £617 £623 £680
90th Percentile £725 £706 £738
England median daily rate £488 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -2.50% +1.52% -5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 66
10th Percentile £23.87 £11.88 £40.85
25th Percentile £37.25 £12.50 £48.32
Median hourly rate £50.00 £67.02 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +18.64% +476.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £69.62
90th Percentile £64.80 - £75.63
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -8.57% -36.36% +150.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Ethernet job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Ethernet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Ethernet

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Ethernet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Ethernet

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ethernet in the South West over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Ethernet in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet within the South West region over the 6 months to 22 January 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
Bristol -6 7 £475 - 8
Wiltshire - 1 - - 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Validation Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Validation Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) PCB Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) PCB Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) FPGA
1 6 (75.00%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Validation
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Twin
2 1 (12.50%) Schematic Capture
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Synthetic Environment
2 1 (12.50%) TDD
2 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
2 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C
2 2 (25.00%) Embedded C
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft