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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 535 657
Rank change year-on-year +20 +122 +180
Contract jobs citing NETCONF 7 41 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.096% 0.047%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.46% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 25 11
10th Percentile £365 £444 £475
25th Percentile £425 £575 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £655
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -8.40% +45.56%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £694
90th Percentile £675 £691 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - £700
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 6,655 8,899 13,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.61% 20.91% 23.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,562 6,171 9,649
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £420 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 247 149
10th Percentile £29.21 £21.25 £29.15
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £74.70 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +29.35%

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 17 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 7 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 17 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 +30 7 £550 -8.33% 4
London +9 3 £700 +16.67% 1
Work from Home +45 2 - - 1
UK excluding London +39 2 £450 - 3
South East +37 1 £350 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
Midlands - 1 £550 - 1

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
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%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) SNMP
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) DHCP
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) Network Security
3 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
3 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (14.29%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) 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 2 (28.57%) Automation Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) RESTCONF
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Jinja
2 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
2 1 (14.29%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) CMDB
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Network Management
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Time Management
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) 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 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow
3 2 (28.57%) Juniper
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 1 (14.29%) Remedy