OPNET Contracts

Riverbed OPNET
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OPNET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OPNET over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 579 671
Rank change year-on-year +50 +92 +192
Contract jobs citing OPNET 10 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.025% 0.025%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.20% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 13
10th Percentile £566 - £540
25th Percentile £568 £545 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +13.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £695 £688 £675
90th Percentile £713 £705 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £585 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -6.40% +13.64% +2.33%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

OPNET falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,930 5,405 8,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 12.43% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,279 3,851 6,094
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -6.36% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 103 185
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.05 £19.40
25th Percentile £20.25 £21.29 £25.71
Median hourly rate £32.77 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.33 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.74 £71.25 £83.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +37.50% -8.57% +118.75%

OPNET
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OPNET in the UK

OPNET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OPNET in the UK

OPNET
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OPNET over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OPNET in the UK

OPNET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OPNET in the UK

OPNET
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 OPNET within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +57 10 £585 -6.40% 4
South West +29 8 £585 -6.40%
UK excluding London +28 8 £585 -6.40% 3
Work from Home - 3 £585 - 4
London - 2 £700 -

OPNET
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SSL
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) BGP
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) DWDM
3 1 (10.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (10.00%) Junos
3 1 (10.00%) MPLS
3 1 (10.00%) OSPF
3 1 (10.00%) RIP
3 1 (10.00%) SDH
3 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (10.00%) SONET
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) VSAN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Military
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Incident Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
1 2 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Service Desk Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Security Assurance Coordinator
2 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (10.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) PKI
2 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Information Security
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Change Control
2 3 (30.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) NsoIT
2 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) Major Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Network Design
4 1 (10.00%) Security Management
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Degree
5 1 (10.00%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (10.00%) CISA
5 1 (10.00%) CISSP
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GRC
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (10.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Nagios
1 1 (10.00%) OpenView
1 1 (10.00%) Puppet
1 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Remedy
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) F5
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) Meraki
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (10.00%) VMware