Catchpoint Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Catchpoint
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Catchpoint 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 406 - 405
Rank change year-on-year - - +64
Contract jobs citing Catchpoint 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - 0.010%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.033% - 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £421 - £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 - £555
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.12%
75th Percentile £458 - £558
90th Percentile £465 - -
UK median daily rate £440 - £555
% change year-on-year - - +12.12%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Catchpoint falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,994 4,387 5,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.92% 31.65% 29.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,204 2,911 4,186
10th Percentile £240 £237 £214
25th Percentile £375 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 107 205
10th Percentile £13.15 £15.96 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.62 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +26.19% +10.06%
75th Percentile £57.25 £41.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.41 £68.75 £69.77
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £23.61
% change year-on-year +9.09% +16.48% +4.33%

Catchpoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Catchpoint relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Catchpoint job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Catchpoint
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Catchpoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Catchpoint

Catchpoint
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Catchpoint within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland - 2 £440 -
Catchpoint
UK

Catchpoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Network Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Arista
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) AppNeta