InfiniBand Contract Job Trends

InfiniBand
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring InfiniBand skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 515 561
Rank change year-on-year -72 +46 +198
Contract jobs citing InfiniBand 21 5 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.050% 0.016% 0.063%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.49% 0.12% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 22
10th Percentile £428 - £313
25th Percentile £508 £625 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £583
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +11.44% -
75th Percentile £608 £675 £601
90th Percentile £641 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 - £515
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £73.14 - £47.00
25th Percentile £73.16 - £48.13
Median hourly rate £73.38 - £50.00
75th Percentile £73.66 - £52.50
90th Percentile £73.71 - £54.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - -0.51%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

InfiniBand 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 4,243 4,021 5,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.19% 13.14% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,769 2,423 3,581
10th Percentile £204 £209 £205
25th Percentile £360 £361 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +4.17% -7.34%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -0.32% -1.05% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 130 384
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.18 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.46 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £43.12
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -18.82% +123.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.88 £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £31.79 £50.00
% change year-on-year +31.93% -36.42% +163.16%

InfiniBand
Job Vacancy Trend

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

InfiniBand job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing InfiniBand over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for InfiniBand in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing InfiniBand

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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 InfiniBand within the UK over the 6 months to 28 February 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 -75 17 £519 -20.19% 7
London -29 12 £513 -21.15% 5
Work from Home -10 7 £588 -9.62% 1
East of England - 1 £613 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £613 - 3

InfiniBand
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 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) AWS
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) GCP
2 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) Ethernet
2 7 (33.33%) NetScaler
2 7 (33.33%) VPN
2 7 (33.33%) Wireless
3 5 (23.81%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (19.05%) MPLS
5 3 (14.29%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 3 (14.29%) WAN
6 2 (9.52%) DHCP
6 2 (9.52%) Firewall
6 2 (9.52%) Network Security
7 1 (4.76%) BGP
7 1 (4.76%) EIGRP
7 1 (4.76%) IPsec
7 1 (4.76%) iSCSI
7 1 (4.76%) OSPF
7 1 (4.76%) SSH
7 1 (4.76%) VLAN
7 1 (4.76%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) MySQL
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Site Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Presales Solution Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) LAMP
1 1 (4.76%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (4.76%) LDAP
1 1 (4.76%) libvirt
1 1 (4.76%) Middleware
1 1 (4.76%) Node.js
1 1 (4.76%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) CUDA
3 2 (9.52%) Grid Computing
4 1 (4.76%) Data Fabric
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) SCADA
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Linux
2 8 (38.10%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) CentOS
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Rocky
3 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) AI
2 9 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (38.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 6 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 6 (28.57%) Observability
6 5 (23.81%) Asset Management
6 5 (23.81%) Network Segmentation
7 4 (19.05%) DevOps
7 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning
8 3 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
8 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (14.29%) Programme Management
8 3 (14.29%) Runbook
9 2 (9.52%) Architectural Design
9 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
9 2 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Perl
3 2 (9.52%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) C++
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Ruby
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) CISSP
2 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) PMI Certification
2 2 (9.52%) PMP
3 1 (4.76%) CESG Certified Professional
3 1 (4.76%) CISM
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) OSCP
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) NCSC
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) Def Stans
2 1 (4.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) JSP 440
2 1 (4.76%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Lustre
2 6 (28.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 4 (19.05%) Docker
4 3 (14.29%) Ceph
4 3 (14.29%) GPFS
5 2 (9.52%) Firmware
5 2 (9.52%) NFS
6 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
6 1 (4.76%) iptables
6 1 (4.76%) KVM
6 1 (4.76%) Samba
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Ansible
2 7 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 7 (33.33%) Salt
3 6 (28.57%) Grafana
3 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 5 (23.81%) Terraform
5 3 (14.29%) SELinux
6 2 (9.52%) Puppet
7 1 (4.76%) Consul
7 1 (4.76%) HAProxy
7 1 (4.76%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Arista
1 9 (42.86%) Cisco
2 8 (38.10%) Aruba
2 8 (38.10%) CheckPoint
2 8 (38.10%) F5
2 8 (38.10%) Palo Alto
3 7 (33.33%) Splunk
4 6 (28.57%) BigPanda
4 6 (28.57%) NVIDIA
4 6 (28.57%) ServiceNow
5 3 (14.29%) Dell
5 3 (14.29%) Mellanox
6 2 (9.52%) Supermicro
7 1 (4.76%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (4.76%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.76%) HP
7 1 (4.76%) Juniper
7 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.76%) Zscaler