IOS XR Contracts

Cisco IOS XR
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring IOS XR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IOS XR over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 568 666
Rank change year-on-year +44 +98 +154
Contract jobs citing IOS XR 10 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.039% 0.032%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.26% 0.32% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 9
10th Percentile £363 £467 -
25th Percentile £392 £540 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £528 £672 £575
90th Percentile £609 £723 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -42.31% +36.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.38% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

IOS XR 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 3,819 5,390 7,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.46% 12.49% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,176 4,600
10th Percentile £225 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 432 434
10th Percentile £14.40 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.46 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £21.11
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +113.17% -25.93%
75th Percentile £60.13 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £78.00 £73.21 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.93 £47.50 £22.13
% change year-on-year -32.79% +114.64% -1.64%

IOS XR
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IOS XR in the UK

IOS XR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IOS XR in the UK

IOS XR
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IOS XR over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IOS XR in the UK

IOS XR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IOS XR.

Hourly rate trend for IOS XR in the UK

IOS XR
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 IOS XR within the UK over the 6 months to 30 June 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 +51 10 £495 -13.91% 18
London +45 5 £495 -12.04% 12
UK excluding London +39 4 £375 -42.31% 6
North of England - 2 £375 - 2
East of England - 2 £520 - 2
North West - 2 £375 - 2
South West - 2 £375 -
Work from Home +36 1 £480 -26.15% 3

IOS XR
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco IOS
2 6 (60.00%) BGP
2 6 (60.00%) MPLS
2 6 (60.00%) OSPF
3 4 (40.00%) LAN
4 3 (30.00%) DHCP
4 3 (30.00%) DNS
4 3 (30.00%) Firewall
4 3 (30.00%) IPsec
4 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (20.00%) BIG-IP
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (20.00%) Multicast
5 2 (20.00%) Network Security
5 2 (20.00%) VPN
5 2 (20.00%) VXLAN
5 2 (20.00%) WAN
5 2 (20.00%) Wireless
5 2 (20.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Designer
2 3 (30.00%) Network Designer
3 2 (20.00%) Implementation Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) LAN Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) LAN/WAN Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) WAN Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Core Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (30.00%) Migration
1 3 (30.00%) Network Design
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (20.00%) Security Patching
2 2 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) CCNA
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (40.00%) CCNP
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) ZABBIX
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Nokia
3 3 (30.00%) F5
3 3 (30.00%) Meraki
3 3 (30.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (20.00%) Arista