NETCONF Contracts

NETCONF
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring NETCONF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NETCONF over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 530 694
Rank change year-on-year +17 +164 +147
Contract jobs citing NETCONF 7 52 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.12% 0.040%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.58% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 32 9
10th Percentile £363 £510 £465
25th Percentile £419 £542 £615
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £655
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -8.40% +19.09%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £700
90th Percentile £668 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 - £700
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

NETCONF falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

NETCONF
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NETCONF in the UK

NETCONF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NETCONF in the UK

NETCONF
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NETCONF over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NETCONF in the UK

NETCONF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for NETCONF in the UK

NETCONF
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NETCONF within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +14 7 £525 -12.50% 3
London +4 4 £700 +16.67% 1
UK excluding London +52 2 £350 - 2
Work from Home +42 2 - - 3
South East +36 2 £350 -

NETCONF
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 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) LAN
1 4 (57.14%) VPN
1 4 (57.14%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) BGP
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) MPLS
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
2 2 (28.57%) SNMP
2 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Military
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) JSON
1 3 (42.86%) RESTCONF
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) SOAP
2 2 (28.57%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) YAML
2 2 (28.57%) YANG
3 1 (14.29%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) CMDB
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
2 2 (28.57%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Workflow
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
4 2 (28.57%) Network Management
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) JNCIP
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Juniper
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Fortinet