IOS XR Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco IOS XR
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IOS XR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IOS XR over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 366 427
Rank change year-on-year +5 +61 +85
Contract jobs citing IOS XR 2 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.027% 0.031%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.091% 0.18% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £510 £404 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £625 £490
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +27.55% -
75th Percentile £530 £725 £533
90th Percentile - £740 £575
UK median daily rate £550 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +10.55% -0.50% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

IOS XR 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 2,191 2,803 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.42% 15.18% 15.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,294 1,639 2,148
10th Percentile £200 £205 £205
25th Percentile £325 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.89% +1.11%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 282 185
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.27 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £53.69 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.84% -6.63% +118.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £76.63
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +53.85%

IOS XR
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IOS XR in the UK excluding London

IOS XR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for IOS XR in the UK excluding London

IOS XR
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 IOS XR within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 - 2 £520 -
IOS XR
UK

IOS XR
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki