IOS XR Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cisco IOS XR
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 IOS XR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IOS XR 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 340 465 613
Rank change year-on-year +125 +148 -146
Contract jobs citing IOS XR 4 6 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.023% 0.022%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.25% 0.20% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 9
10th Percentile £578 £572 £513
25th Percentile £581 £581 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £641 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% +22.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £738 £731 -
90th Percentile £745 £757 £554
UK median daily rate £600 £630 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% +20.00% +10.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

IOS XR 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%

IOS XR
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IOS XR trend for jobs with a WFH option

IOS XR
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 IOS XR.

IOS XR daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IOS XR
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 3 (75.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Migration Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Django
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
1 3 (75.00%) REST
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
1 3 (75.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (75.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) BDD
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Inventory Management
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (75.00%) Network Management
1 3 (75.00%) OO
1 3 (75.00%) OOD
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
1 3 (75.00%) SDLC
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCIE
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) JNCIP
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) TOWER Software
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto