Network as a Service (NaaS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for NaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NaaS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 873 963 1219
Rank change year-on-year +90 +256 -310
Permanent jobs citing NaaS 12 23 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.022% 0.002%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.088% 0.14% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 9 23 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 £70,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £95,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.32% +26.67% -46.43%
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile £70,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,623 16,032 20,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.85% 15.41% 13.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9,516 8,186 11,814
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

NaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NaaS in the UK

NaaS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NaaS.

Salary trend for NaaS in the UK

NaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NaaS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for NaaS in the UK

NaaS
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NaaS within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +97 9 £55,000 -42.11% 1
London +112 8 £55,000 -42.11% 1
South East - 1 £90,000 -
UK excluding London - 1 £90,000 -

NaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (58.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 4 (33.33%) MPLS
1 4 (33.33%) SNMP
1 4 (33.33%) VXLAN
1 4 (33.33%) WAN
1 4 (33.33%) Wireless
2 3 (25.00%) Broadband
2 3 (25.00%) SSL
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Development Manager
1 4 (33.33%) Monitoring Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Network Monitoring Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Designer
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
1 3 (25.00%) LDAP
1 3 (25.00%) ODBC
1 3 (25.00%) REST
1 3 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 4 (33.33%) Learning Management System
1 4 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 4 (33.33%) Virtual Team
2 3 (25.00%) CMDB
2 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (25.00%) TM Forum
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Scrum
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) B2B
3 4 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation
3 4 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 4 (33.33%) ITSM
3 4 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
3 4 (33.33%) Network Management
3 4 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (33.33%) Observability
3 4 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
4 3 (25.00%) Service Management
4 3 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Bash
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) PMI Certification
2 4 (33.33%) PMP
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Aruba