iptables Contracts

Linux iptables
UK

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 589 704
Rank change year-on-year +75 +115 +136
Contract jobs citing iptables 5 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.025% 0.015%
As % of the System Software category 0.14% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile £419 £521 -
25th Percentile £447 £544 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +29.03%
75th Percentile £491 £556 £718
90th Percentile £496 £583 £842
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +48.15%

All System Software Skills
UK

iptables falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,664 4,691 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.53% 10.76% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 3,206 5,629
10th Percentile £214 £198 £205
25th Percentile £400 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £483
% change year-on-year +3.26% -4.69% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 233 280
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.72 £22.50 £53.43
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -57.88% +167.13%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £41.88
% change year-on-year +29.55% -47.46% +131.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for iptables in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for iptables in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for iptables in the UK

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Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iptables within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +57 5 £475 -13.64% 5
London +38 5 £475 -17.39% 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) Network Security
1 3 (60.00%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (60.00%) SNMP
1 3 (60.00%) SSH
1 3 (60.00%) Telnet
1 3 (60.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 5 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Fibre Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) JSON
1 3 (60.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) Database Tuning
1 3 (60.00%) Event Correlation
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (60.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) FreeRADIUS
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Cacti
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
1 3 (60.00%) Nagios
1 3 (60.00%) Netcool
1 3 (60.00%) Proxmox
1 3 (60.00%) Puppet
1 3 (60.00%) ZABBIX
2 2 (40.00%) SELinux
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Graylog
3 1 (20.00%) logstash
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Nokia
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Huawei
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto