STUN Contracts

Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring STUN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited STUN over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing STUN 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.025% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

STUN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,926 4,662 6,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 12.02% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,363 2,784 4,257
10th Percentile £243 £220 £227
25th Percentile £365 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.89% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 302 276
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £16.40
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £44.00 £50.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -11.49% +46.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.81
90th Percentile £80.20 £73.75 £75.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £57.50
% change year-on-year -22.55% -4.57% +30.68%

STUN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for STUN in the UK

STUN
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing STUN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing STUN

STUN
Top 2 DemandTrendContract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing STUN within the UK over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 1 - -
England - 1 - - 3

STUN
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 (100.00%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) WebRTC
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus