Diameter Protocol Contract Job Trends

Diameter Protocol
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Diameter Protocol skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 496 573
Rank change year-on-year -114 +77 +156
Contract jobs citing Diameter Protocol 5 24 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.082% 0.027%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.11% 0.62% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 11
10th Percentile - - £300
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +12.50% -3.61%
75th Percentile £479 - -
90th Percentile £492 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +7.22% +12.50% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Diameter Protocol 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 4,383 3,880 5,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.08% 13.26% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,832 2,384 3,570
10th Percentile £217 £213 £205
25th Percentile £375 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +3.16% -9.51%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +0.53% -0.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 143 393
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £13.88
25th Percentile £18.97 £21.46 £18.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +7.69% +71.05%
75th Percentile £66.31 £63.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.10 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +29.05% -29.16% +148.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Diameter Protocol relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Diameter Protocol job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Diameter Protocol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Diameter Protocol

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Diameter Protocol.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Diameter Protocol

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Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Diameter Protocol within the UK over the 6 months to 20 March 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
England -94 3 £483 +7.22% 4
South East -59 2 £483 +7.22% 3
UK excluding London -88 2 £483 +7.22% 3
Work from Home -32 1 - -
London - 1 - - 1

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) 5G
2 4 (80.00%) SIGTRAN
3 3 (60.00%) BGP
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) IOS XR
3 3 (60.00%) IPsec
3 3 (60.00%) MPLS
3 3 (60.00%) NetScaler
3 3 (60.00%) NX-OS
3 3 (60.00%) OSPF
3 3 (60.00%) tcpdump
3 3 (60.00%) VXLAN
3 3 (60.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (20.00%) 4G
4 1 (20.00%) SS7
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Core Network Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Design Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) IP Design Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) IP Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Designer
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Voice Design Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Voice Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Voice Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Core Network Design Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) Network Design
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Service Design
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (60.00%) F5
2 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (60.00%) Juniper
2 3 (60.00%) NetScout
2 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (40.00%) Tufin
4 1 (20.00%) Ericsson
4 1 (20.00%) Huawei
4 1 (20.00%) Nokia