ICMP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 433 - 393
Rank change year-on-year - - +65
Contract jobs citing ICMP 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.022% - 0.014%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.20% - 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £511 - -
25th Percentile £512 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.00%
75th Percentile £553 - -
90th Percentile £557 - -
UK median daily rate £525 - £850
% change year-on-year - - +41.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.33
25th Percentile - - £24.44
Median hourly rate £72.54 - £24.75
75th Percentile - - £24.94
90th Percentile - - £24.98
UK median hourly rate £72.54 - £24.75
% change year-on-year - - +3.13%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,533 2,073 3,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.34% 16.47% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,605 1,262 2,120
10th Percentile £203 £190 £200
25th Percentile £350 £303 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £575 £580 £596
90th Percentile £656 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +1.54% +2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 125 333
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £21.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.25 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -27.78% +136.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.61 £70.53
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.89% +96.89%

ICMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

ICMP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ICMP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

ICMP
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ICMP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ICMP

ICMP
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 ICMP within the UK excluding London 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
South East - 4 £538 - 2
South West - 1 - - 1
ICMP
UK

ICMP
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) OSPF
2 4 (80.00%) BGP
2 4 (80.00%) BIG-IP
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (80.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) IPsec
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 4 (80.00%) NGFW
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) Wireless
3 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (20.00%) L2TP
4 1 (20.00%) RIP
4 1 (20.00%) SNMP
4 1 (20.00%) SSH
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
1 4 (80.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Environments
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) ITSM
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) Situational Awareness
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) KVM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) F5
1 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow