INAP Contract Job Trends

Intelligent Network Application Part (INAP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring INAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 677 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing INAP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.039% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £322 - -
25th Percentile £330 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 - -
75th Percentile £363 - -
90th Percentile £366 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £367 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

INAP 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 5,080 3,822 4,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.47% 11.76% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,005 2,349 2,716
10th Percentile £235 £238 £230
25th Percentile £399 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +2.31% -6.16% +10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 376 201 286
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £20.69
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% -10.45% -8.64%
75th Percentile £65.22 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.92 £42.50 £56.87
% change year-on-year -39.01% -25.27% +0.67%

INAP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

INAP job vacancy trend in the UK

INAP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing INAP

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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 INAP within the UK over the 6 months to 3 September 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 - 2 £351 - 4
Work from Home - 1 £367 - 1
East of England - 1 £367 - 3
UK excluding London - 1 £367 - 3
London - 1 £335 - 1

INAP
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) RTP
1 2 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Intelligent Network
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Locust
1 2 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 2 (100.00%) TestCafe
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Newman
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Taurus
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dialogic
1 2 (100.00%) Metaswitch