INAP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Intelligent Network Application Part (INAP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring INAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing INAP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.034% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - -
UK median daily rate £351 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

INAP 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 2,935 2,076 2,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.63% 13.61% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,647 1,276 1,474
10th Percentile £210 £204 £213
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -6.16% +10.19%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £640 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 136 248
10th Percentile £14.79 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.69 £19.63 £21.37
Median hourly rate £25.92 £42.50 £56.87
Median % change year-on-year -39.01% -25.27% +0.67%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -42.22% -10.45% -8.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

INAP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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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 INAP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
East of England - 1 £367 - 3
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UK

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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 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Taurus
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MOS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dialogic
1 1 (100.00%) Metaswitch