SONET Contracts

Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SONET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SONET over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 706 862
Rank change year-on-year +109 +156 -164
Contract jobs citing SONET 3 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.017% 0.001%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.054% 0.14% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £419 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £16.70 - -
25th Percentile £20.75 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £32.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SONET is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,525 7,311 9,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.80% 12.38% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,306 4,755 6,321
10th Percentile £205 £240 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 473 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.54% -31.56% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SONET in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SONET in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SONET in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SONET over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SONET 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 SONET within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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 +113 3 - -
UK excluding London - 3 - -
South East - 2 - -
Work from Home +123 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DWDM
1 3 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (100.00%) SDH
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) NOC Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Network Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Order Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) BC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 2 (66.67%) Ciena
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Huawei
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
1 2 (66.67%) Nokia
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft