NaaS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Network as a Service (NaaS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring NaaS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NaaS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.055% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - £725 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

NaaS 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 284 248 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.52% 13.05% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 149 227
10th Percentile £242 £200 £217
25th Percentile £325 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -3.41%
75th Percentile £555 £635 £581
90th Percentile £639 £730 £731
England median daily rate £490 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +1.50% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 18
10th Percentile £16.81 £24.00 £18.10
25th Percentile £22.63 £28.13 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £35.63 £47.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £43.63 £55.00 £67.88
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%

NaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for NaaS in the West Midlands

NaaS
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 NaaS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 September 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 - 1 - -
NaaS
England

NaaS
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 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless Security
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CWSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler