Ethernet Contracts in the West Midlands

Ethernet
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Ethernet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethernet over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 86 127
Rank change year-on-year -27 +41 +47
Contract jobs citing Ethernet 8 22 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.47% 1.18% 0.092%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.40% 7.33% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 1
10th Percentile £263 - -
25th Percentile £383 £375 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £188
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +113.33% -42.31%
75th Percentile £519 £532 £206
90th Percentile £643 £538 -
England median daily rate £450 £408 £500
% change year-on-year +10.43% -18.50% +20.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £13.33 -
25th Percentile £35.75 £13.44 £12.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £13.75 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +165.45% +5.77% -
75th Percentile £37.25 £13.94 £13.50
90th Percentile - £13.98 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.35 £37.50
% change year-on-year +13.34% +52.93% -16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

Ethernet 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 235 300 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.81% 16.10% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 193 250
10th Percentile £250 £250 £212
25th Percentile £328 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £416
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +2.10% -2.06%
75th Percentile £575 £635 £576
90th Percentile £650 £725 £731
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 9
10th Percentile £14.32 £13.40 £16.70
25th Percentile £24.50 £13.63 £18.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -48.15% +54.29%
75th Percentile £37.38 £18.88 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.70 £21.80 £29.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £54.94 £53.00
% change year-on-year -22.64% +3.66% +63.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Ethernet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Ethernet in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ethernet in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Ethernet in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethernet in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethernet in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ethernet in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Ethernet in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warwickshire -14 3 £450 -14.45% 2
Birmingham +5 1 £185 -
Solihull +4 1 - -
Coventry -9 1 £650 +62.50% 3
Staffordshire - 1 - - 4
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (37.50%) MPLS
1 3 (37.50%) SDH
1 3 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) Modbus
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cabling Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Electrical Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Hardware Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Installations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Network Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) SCADA
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Cost Control
3 1 (12.50%) Document Management
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CCNA
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (37.50%) CCNP
3 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto