NetScout Contracts

NetScout
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of NetScout products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NetScout over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within NetScout Systems, Inc.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 581 650
Rank change year-on-year +53 +69 +218
Contract jobs citing NetScout 23 14 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.032% 0.053%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.075% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 16
10th Percentile - £454 £275
25th Percentile - £460 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.38% +10.59%
75th Percentile - £538 £578
90th Percentile £632 - £614
UK excluding London median daily rate £623 £485 £376
% change year-on-year +28.35% +28.90% -5.94%

All Vendors
UK

NetScout falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,043 18,639 24,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.60% 42.91% 43.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,201 11,583 16,266
10th Percentile £281 £273 £270
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 1,157 658
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.45 £14.93
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £18.71
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.19 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% -38.91% +81.82%
75th Percentile £52.75 £59.95 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.58 £29.30
% change year-on-year +0.22% -22.94% +50.10%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NetScout in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NetScout in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NetScout over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NetScout in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for NetScout in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetScout within the UK over the 6 months to 4 July 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 +61 7 £620 +24.62% 10
Work from Home +48 7 £625 +31.58% 7
London +38 5 £575 +9.52% 5
UK excluding London +24 2 £623 +28.35% 8
Scotland -3 1 £625 +25.00% 3
South West - 1 £620 - 1

NetScout
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:

Communications & Networking
1 17 (73.91%) Wireshark
2 14 (60.87%) 3G
2 14 (60.87%) 4G
2 14 (60.87%) 5G
2 14 (60.87%) Diameter Protocol
2 14 (60.87%) LTE
2 14 (60.87%) Radio Access Network
2 14 (60.87%) RANAP
2 14 (60.87%) VoLTE
3 6 (26.09%) Firewall
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (4.35%) BIG-IP
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (4.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (4.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (4.35%) NGFW
5 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.35%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (4.35%) VLAN
5 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (69.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Network Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Architect
2 3 (13.04%) Network Operations Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Network Architect
3 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Network Support
4 1 (4.35%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Platform Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Service Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) CMDB
2 1 (4.35%) Life Science
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Customer Experience
1 14 (60.87%) Network Architecture
1 14 (60.87%) Performance Analysis
1 14 (60.87%) Performance Improvement
1 14 (60.87%) Translating Business Requirements
2 4 (17.39%) Load Balancing
3 2 (8.70%) Network Design
3 2 (8.70%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (8.70%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (4.35%) AIOps
4 1 (4.35%) Analytics
4 1 (4.35%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (4.35%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (4.35%) Observability
4 1 (4.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (4.35%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CCNA
4 1 (4.35%) CCNP
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Nagios
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Empirix
2 6 (26.09%) F5
3 4 (17.39%) Cisco
4 3 (13.04%) Palo Alto
4 3 (13.04%) SolarWinds
4 3 (13.04%) Splunk
5 2 (8.70%) Blue Coat
5 2 (8.70%) BMC
5 2 (8.70%) CheckPoint
5 2 (8.70%) Fortinet
5 2 (8.70%) Juniper
5 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.35%) Arista
6 1 (4.35%) Aruba
6 1 (4.35%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.35%) Meraki
6 1 (4.35%) SevOne
6 1 (4.35%) VMware