GPON Contracts

Gigabit-Capable Passive Optical Network (G-PON)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring GPON skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GPON over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 579 716
Rank change year-on-year +70 +137 +132
Contract jobs citing GPON 11 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.007% 0.003%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.30% 0.053% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £463 £268 -
25th Percentile £481 £275 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 £375
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £534 £325 £388
90th Percentile £538 £333 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - £375

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

GPON 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 3,722 5,629 7,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.92% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 3,368 4,786
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%

GPON
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GPON in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GPON in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GPON over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GPON in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GPON within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England - 11 £500 - 2
London - 8 £500 -
Work from Home +44 6 £500 +66.67% 5
UK excluding London - 3 £525 - 4
North of England - 2 £525 -
South West - 2 £525 -
North West - 2 £525 -
South East - 1 £725 - 1

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) IPv6
2 8 (72.73%) Broadband
3 7 (63.64%) BGP
3 7 (63.64%) MPLS
4 5 (45.45%) Firewall
4 5 (45.45%) Multicast
4 5 (45.45%) OSPF
4 5 (45.45%) VPN
5 3 (27.27%) 802.11
5 3 (27.27%) DHCP
5 3 (27.27%) DOCSIS
5 3 (27.27%) DSL
5 3 (27.27%) IPv4
5 3 (27.27%) PPP
5 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
5 3 (27.27%) VoIP
5 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (9.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Gerrit
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Network Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Implementation Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Principal Network Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) Core Network Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (9.09%) GIS Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) 802.1X
1 3 (27.27%) Yocto
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Algorithms
1 3 (27.27%) Digital TV
1 3 (27.27%) STB
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) ITIL
1 5 (45.45%) Migration
1 5 (45.45%) Network Monitoring
1 5 (45.45%) Project Delivery
2 1 (9.09%) Agile
2 1 (9.09%) BPMN
2 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
2 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Kanban
2 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (9.09%) Release Management
2 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
2 1 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (9.09%) Scrum
2 1 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (9.09%) TOGAF
2 1 (9.09%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) C
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Magik
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) CCIE
1 5 (45.45%) CCIE Service Provider
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco
2 5 (45.45%) Nokia
2 5 (45.45%) SolarWinds
3 1 (9.09%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Sparx
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk