GPON Contracts with Work from Home Options

Gigabit-Capable Passive Optical Network (G-PON)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for GPON skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GPON over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 469 618
Rank change year-on-year +128 +149 -
Contract jobs citing GPON 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.008% 0.011%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.19% 0.068% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £268 - £429
25th Percentile £275 £363 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £375 £463
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -18.92% -
75th Percentile £325 £388 £484
90th Percentile £333 - £486
UK median daily rate £300 £375 £463
% change year-on-year -20.00% -18.92% -19.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

GPON is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,580 2,950 4,339
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.36% 11.49% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 1,954 2,942
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £600
90th Percentile £713 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 101 103
10th Percentile £12.75 £24.50 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £25.88
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +23.51% +14.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% -3.51%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GPON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GPON trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GPON.

GPON daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) Broadband
1 2 (66.67%) IGMP
1 2 (66.67%) MPLS
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
1 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) PPP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) IP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Debian
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre Operations
1 2 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) JNCIS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Icinga
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper
1 1 (33.33%) MikroTik
1 1 (33.33%) TP-LINK
1 1 (33.33%) ZyXEL