GPON Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring GPON skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GPON 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 298 342 475
Rank change year-on-year +44 +133 +152
Contract jobs citing GPON 6 3 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.020% 0.008%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.58% 0.19% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £481 £268 -
25th Percentile - £275 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 £375
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -20.00% -18.92%
75th Percentile - £325 £388
90th Percentile £515 £333 -
UK median daily rate £500 £300 £375
% change year-on-year +66.67% -20.00% -16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

GPON 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%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

GPON trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 6 (100.00%) Broadband
1 6 (100.00%) IPv6
2 5 (83.33%) BGP
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) MPLS
2 5 (83.33%) Multicast
2 5 (83.33%) OSPF
2 5 (83.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) 802.11
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) DOCSIS
3 1 (16.67%) DSL
3 1 (16.67%) IPv4
3 1 (16.67%) PPP
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP
3 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Implementation Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Network Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Network Implementation Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Principal Network Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Core Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
1 1 (16.67%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Digital TV
1 1 (16.67%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
1 5 (83.33%) Network Monitoring
1 5 (83.33%) Project Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CCIE
1 5 (83.33%) CCIE Service Provider
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
1 5 (83.33%) Nokia
1 5 (83.33%) SolarWinds