jetNEXUS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

jetNEXUS
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of jetNEXUS products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited jetNEXUS over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within jetNEXUS.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing jetNEXUS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.012% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

jetNEXUS falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,390 6,463 8,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 45.63% 46.42% 46.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,530 3,840 5,554
10th Percentile £220 £213 £208
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -
75th Percentile £585 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 634 334 535
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.22 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.28 £16.88
Median hourly rate £21.13 £24.83 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.92% -44.20% +76.24%
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.00 £62.48
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £74.12
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.13 £43.50
% change year-on-year -12.17% -37.64% +50.00%

jetNEXUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

jetNEXUS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

jetNEXUS
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

jetNEXUS
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 jetNEXUS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 January 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 £525 - 1
jetNEXUS
UK

jetNEXUS
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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Network Services Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) People Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (100.00%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox