Hybrid/Remote Ethereal Contract Job Trends

Ethereal
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Ethereal skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 - 372
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ethereal 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.010% - 0.029%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.093% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £308 - £325

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Ethereal 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 1,070 1,269 2,192
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.45% 10.80% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 766 1,417
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £613
90th Percentile £675 £691 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 28 76
10th Percentile £20.58 £17.32 £18.49
25th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.75 £47.20
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% -7.30% -25.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.77 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.04 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.33% -31.82% +30.49%

Ethereal
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ethereal and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Ethereal job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Ethereal
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) VMware