Converged Networks Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Convergence
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Converged Networks skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Converged Networks over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 - 441
Rank change year-on-year - - +53
Contract jobs citing Converged Networks 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% - 0.013%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.35% - 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £410 - £465
25th Percentile £456 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 - £563
90th Percentile - - £585
UK median daily rate £575 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Converged Networks 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,005 3,251 3,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.75% 16.05% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,223 1,848 2,186
10th Percentile £200 £202 £208
25th Percentile £306 £335 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £583
90th Percentile £630 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £488 £515
% change year-on-year - -5.34% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 355 307
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £15.22 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £25.00 £45.88 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.51% +154.89% -16.28%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £59.54
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.40 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -8.39% +116.22% -30.84%

Converged Networks
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Converged Networks as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Converged Networks in the UK excluding London

Converged Networks
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Converged Networks in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Converged Networks in the UK excluding London

Converged Networks
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Converged Networks in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Converged Networks in the UK excluding London

Converged Networks
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Converged Networks in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Converged Networks in the UK excluding London

Converged Networks
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 Converged Networks within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
North West - 4 £575 -
North of England - 4 £575 -
South East - 2 £410 - 8
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Converged Networks
UK

Converged Networks
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Camunda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) BGP
1 4 (57.14%) Broadband
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Firepower
1 4 (57.14%) HSRP
1 4 (57.14%) IPsec
1 4 (57.14%) LAN
1 4 (57.14%) NetScaler
1 4 (57.14%) Network Security
1 4 (57.14%) OSPF
1 4 (57.14%) VPN
1 4 (57.14%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) 4G
2 2 (28.57%) 5G
2 2 (28.57%) DOCSIS
2 2 (28.57%) GPON
2 2 (28.57%) LTE
2 2 (28.57%) MPLS
2 2 (28.57%) VoIP
2 2 (28.57%) xDSL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) OSS Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) TM Forum
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Load Balancing
2 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) eTOM
2 2 (28.57%) Fault Management
2 2 (28.57%) Inventory Management
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Test Assurance
3 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CCNA
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) OASIS TOSCA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
1 4 (57.14%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Amdocs
2 1 (14.29%) Ericsson
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Huawei
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) NetCracker
2 1 (14.29%) Nokia
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle