CATAPAN Contracts

CATAPAN
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring CATAPAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CATAPAN over the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 567 635
Rank change year-on-year +14 +68 +222
Contract jobs citing CATAPAN 3 3 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.008% 0.053%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.075% 0.063% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 10
10th Percentile £470 £333 £524
25th Percentile £481 £381 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -31.25%
75th Percentile - £488 £622
90th Percentile - - £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £52.68
25th Percentile - - £56.00
Median hourly rate - - £63.99
75th Percentile - - £73.49
90th Percentile - - £80.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.99
% change year-on-year - - +1.20%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

CATAPAN 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,989 4,725 6,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.11% 12.13% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,409 2,866 4,370
10th Percentile £240 £220 £228
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.89% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 322 253
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.04 £18.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 £48.56 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.69% +55.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £82.91 £73.75 £75.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £57.33
% change year-on-year -22.55% -4.28% +127.05%

CATAPAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CATAPAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CATAPAN in the UK

CATAPAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CATAPAN.

Daily rate trend for CATAPAN in the UK

CATAPAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CATAPAN.

Hourly rate trend for CATAPAN in the UK

CATAPAN
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CATAPAN within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
South East +20 3 £500 +5.26% 1
England +16 3 £500 +5.26% 1
UK excluding London +11 3 £500 +5.26% 1

CATAPAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Installations Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Bill of Materials
1 3 (100.00%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Juniper