Hybrid/Remote INAP Contract Job Trends

Intelligent Network Application Part (INAP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring INAP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing INAP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.007% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.076% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - -
UK median daily rate £351 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

INAP 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 1,321 1,027 1,349
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.86% 10.57% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 654 863
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £655 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 41 37
10th Percentile £16.19 £14.20 £13.05
25th Percentile £31.25 £44.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £63.50 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year -15.35% +30.77% -5.25%
75th Percentile £67.49 £65.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £79.88 £70.16 £87.46
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -42.22% -10.45% -8.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

INAP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing INAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing INAP

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Taurus
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MOS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dialogic
1 1 (100.00%) Metaswitch