NGN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Next Generation Network (NGN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring NGN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NGN over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 398 -
Rank change year-on-year +63 - -
Contract jobs citing NGN 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.005% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.20% 0.029% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - £413 £550
% change year-on-year - -25.00% -22.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £24.50 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

NGN 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 1,973 3,448 3,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 16.62% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,978 2,282
10th Percentile £200 £203 £210
25th Percentile £305 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £584
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £518
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.39% +3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 360 327
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.48 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £30.04 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -24.90% +110.53% -32.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for NGN 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 NGN in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for NGN 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 NGN in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for NGN in the UK excluding London

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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 NGN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East +47 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - - 1
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UK

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) DMS-100
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) ISUP
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Voice Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Engineering Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Network Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Network Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Voice Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Voice Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Network Design
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco