ICMP Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring ICMP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - 141
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing ICMP 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.14% - 0.071%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.01% - 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £511 - -
25th Percentile £512 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £553 - -
90th Percentile £557 - -
South East median daily rate £538 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -36.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.33
25th Percentile - - £24.44
Median hourly rate - - £24.75
75th Percentile - - £24.94
90th Percentile - - £24.98
South East median hourly rate - - £24.75
% change year-on-year - - +3.13%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

ICMP 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 395 279 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.16% 18.39% 23.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 137 323
10th Percentile £255 £242 £205
25th Percentile £370 £375 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £566
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 51
10th Percentile £16.01 - £18.00
25th Percentile £19.17 £14.20 £24.00
Median hourly rate £27.88 £16.60 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.95% -65.05% +41.79%
75th Percentile £49.03 £23.38 £85.65
90th Percentile £73.60 £45.01 £87.53
South East median hourly rate £42.71 £54.88 £57.35
% change year-on-year -22.18% -4.32% +27.44%

ICMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ICMP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

ICMP job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ICMP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ICMP

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ICMP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ICMP

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ICMP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 March 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
Buckinghamshire - 4 £538 - 2
ICMP
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 4 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) IPsec
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
1 4 (100.00%) NGFW
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) ITSM
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) F5
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow