Intelligent Network Contract Job Trends

Intelligent Network
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Intelligent Network 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 678 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Intelligent Network 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.020% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £318 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - -
75th Percentile £353 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Intelligent Network 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%

Intelligent Network
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Intelligent Network job vacancy trend in the UK

Intelligent Network
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Intelligent Network

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Intelligent Network

Intelligent Network
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Intelligent Network 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
London - 1 £335 - 1
England - 1 £335 - 7

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