Hybrid/Remote SONET Contract Job Trends

Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SONET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SONET 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 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £600 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

SONET 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 1,314 1,026 1,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.70% 10.47% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 657 861
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 41 38
10th Percentile £17.06 £21.25 £13.81
25th Percentile £33.68 £44.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £63.50 £46.78
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +35.74% -6.44%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £66.52
90th Percentile £80.00 £65.25 £87.46
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -23.53% -15.84% -10.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

SONET 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 SONET.

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

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Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SONET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SONET

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) DWDM
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HSRP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) VMware