Ethernet Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ethernet
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ethernet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethernet over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 238 342
Rank change year-on-year -54 +104 +63
Contract jobs citing Ethernet 75 139 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.76% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.45% 4.97% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 50 39
10th Percentile £200 £313 £210
25th Percentile £373 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £416 £486
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -14.35% +21.50%
75th Percentile £491 £523 £525
90th Percentile £581 £538 £580
UK median daily rate £450 £408 £493
% change year-on-year +10.43% -17.26% +9.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 63 16
10th Percentile £32.81 - £16.25
25th Percentile £63.13 £53.40 £23.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.35 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.34% +39.03% -8.33%
75th Percentile £83.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 - £72.10
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.35 £37.50
% change year-on-year +13.34% +52.93% -16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,176 2,795 3,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.19% 15.27% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,285 1,640 2,140
10th Percentile £204 £206 £205
25th Percentile £331 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £457
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.36% +1.60%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £575
90th Percentile £640 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 276 190
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.56 £20.50
Median hourly rate £43.25 £54.88 £56.91
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% -3.58% +116.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £76.19
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £49.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -5.61% -9.26% +54.29%

Ethernet
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethernet in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Ethernet in the UK excluding London

Ethernet
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethernet in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethernet in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Ethernet in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ethernet in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Ethernet in the UK excluding London

Ethernet
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 Ethernet within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
East of England +18 29 £318 - 21
North of England -14 17 £482 +37.79% 24
South East -13 15 £450 -10.00% 39
Yorkshire -3 13 £478 +17.18% 9
Midlands -30 9 £450 +12.50% 34
West Midlands -27 8 £450 +12.50% 20
South West +13 5 - - 18
North West -19 3 £563 +73.08% 13
Scotland - 2 £325 - 10
East Midlands -4 1 £165 -21.43% 14
North East - 1 £200 - 2
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UK

Ethernet
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:

Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Simulink
2 2 (2.67%) CANalyzer
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.33%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.33%) WAN
2 18 (24.00%) TCP/IP
3 16 (21.33%) MPLS
4 15 (20.00%) LAN
5 14 (18.67%) SDH
5 14 (18.67%) SD-WAN
5 14 (18.67%) Wireshark
6 12 (16.00%) VPN
7 11 (14.67%) ATM
7 11 (14.67%) Frame Relay
7 11 (14.67%) GPRS
7 11 (14.67%) GSM
7 11 (14.67%) LTE
7 11 (14.67%) SAN
7 11 (14.67%) UMTS
8 10 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (13.33%) Firewall
9 5 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (6.67%) Wireless
10 3 (4.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 15 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (4.00%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (2.67%) CANoe
4 1 (1.33%) Git
General
1 35 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Military
2 15 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 14 (18.67%) Telecoms
4 12 (16.00%) Electronics
5 8 (10.67%) Games
6 4 (5.33%) Automotive
7 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.67%) Law
9 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (32.00%) Network Engineer
2 17 (22.67%) Software Engineer
3 15 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
4 14 (18.67%) Test Engineer
5 12 (16.00%) C++ Software Engineer
6 10 (13.33%) IP Engineer
7 8 (10.67%) Implementation Engineer
7 8 (10.67%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 6 (8.00%) Firmware Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) IP Network Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Embedded Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) FPGA Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Senior
10 4 (5.33%) Senior Network Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) IT Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.00%) Node.js
1 15 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (1.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.33%) Next.js
2 1 (1.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Data Centre
1 12 (16.00%) PCIe
1 12 (16.00%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 9 (12.00%) FPGA
4 8 (10.67%) Verilog
5 4 (5.33%) Driving Licence
5 4 (5.33%) SCADA
6 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 27 (36.00%) Linux
2 17 (22.67%) Windows
3 11 (14.67%) Unix
4 3 (4.00%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (2.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
1 18 (24.00%) Software Engineering
2 16 (21.33%) Agile
2 16 (21.33%) Validation
3 15 (20.00%) Synthetic Environment
3 15 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 15 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
3 15 (20.00%) Visualisation
4 14 (18.67%) CI/CD
4 14 (18.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 14 (18.67%) Continuous Integration
4 14 (18.67%) Digital Twin
4 14 (18.67%) TDD
4 14 (18.67%) Unit Testing
5 12 (16.00%) Project Management
6 11 (14.67%) Fault Management
6 11 (14.67%) Regression Testing
7 9 (12.00%) Analytics
7 9 (12.00%) Computer Science
7 9 (12.00%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.00%) C#
1 15 (20.00%) C++
1 15 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (14.67%) Java
2 11 (14.67%) MATLAB
3 8 (10.67%) SystemVerilog
3 8 (10.67%) Tcl
4 5 (6.67%) Python
5 4 (5.33%) Bash
6 3 (4.00%) C
7 1 (1.33%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (36.00%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (26.67%) SC Cleared
2 20 (26.67%) Security Cleared
3 15 (20.00%) CCNP
3 15 (20.00%) Degree
4 11 (14.67%) ISEB
4 11 (14.67%) ISTQB
4 11 (14.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 9 (12.00%) HNC
5 9 (12.00%) HND
6 7 (9.33%) CCNA
7 2 (2.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) DO-254
2 2 (2.67%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (2.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) NCSC
3 1 (1.33%) NIST
3 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.33%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (14.67%) Firmware
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.33%) Ansible
2 1 (1.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 31 (41.33%) Cisco
3 15 (20.00%) Juniper
4 8 (10.67%) Actel
4 8 (10.67%) Altera
4 8 (10.67%) Intel
4 8 (10.67%) Microsemi
4 8 (10.67%) Xilinx
5 6 (8.00%) Nokia
6 3 (4.00%) Meraki
6 3 (4.00%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.00%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.67%) F5
7 2 (2.67%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.33%) Aruba
8 1 (1.33%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.33%) Google
8 1 (1.33%) HP
8 1 (1.33%) Openreach