DOCSIS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DOCSIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DOCSIS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 - 475
Rank change year-on-year - - +156
Contract jobs citing DOCSIS 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% - 0.008%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.48% - 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
UK median daily rate £475 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

DOCSIS 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

DOCSIS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DOCSIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DOCSIS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DOCSIS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DOCSIS.

DOCSIS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DOCSIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Datadog
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) Wireless
4 2 (40.00%) 802.11
4 2 (40.00%) Broadband
4 2 (40.00%) Network Security
4 2 (40.00%) VLAN
5 1 (20.00%) Bluetooth
5 1 (20.00%) DSL
5 1 (20.00%) GPON
5 1 (20.00%) IPv4
5 1 (20.00%) IPv6
5 1 (20.00%) PPP
5 1 (20.00%) VoIP
5 1 (20.00%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) InfluxDB
1 2 (40.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) 802.1X
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) IoT
2 2 (40.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (20.00%) Digital TV
3 1 (20.00%) Smart Home
3 1 (20.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (20.00%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Release Management
2 3 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Review
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk