UPnP Contract Job Trends

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring UPnP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 676 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing UPnP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.039% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £353 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £354 - -
75th Percentile £354 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £354 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

UPnP 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,075 3,744 4,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.33% 11.54% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,953 2,307 2,642
10th Percentile £235 £228 £231
25th Percentile £385 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -5.43% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £610
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -9.30% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 196 260
10th Percentile £14.57 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £27.11 £43.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.95% -15.69% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.88 £64.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £74.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -38.49% -25.89% -0.26%

UPnP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing UPnP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

UPnP job vacancy trend in the UK

UPnP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

UPnP
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing UPnP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing UPnP

UPnP
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UPnP within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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 - 2 £354 - 5
East of England - 2 £354 - 5
UK excluding London - 2 £354 - 5

UPnP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) 4G
1 2 (100.00%) 5G
1 2 (100.00%) Broadband
1 2 (100.00%) IPv4
1 2 (100.00%) IPv6
1 2 (100.00%) PPP
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) xDSL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Broadband Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker