PPP Contracts in England

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PPP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PPP over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 627 767
Rank change year-on-year +102 +140 -149
Contract jobs citing PPP 6 19 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.039% 0.014%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.12% 0.32% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile £435 £263 £376
25th Percentile £449 £288 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% +15.15% +26.92%
75th Percentile £544 £488 £452
90th Percentile £558 £535 £511
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £413
% change year-on-year -5.26% +15.15% +26.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £18.98 - -
25th Percentile £19.69 £18.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £21.25 £19.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -33.33% +34.12%
75th Percentile £22.69 £19.50 £30.25
90th Percentile £23.33 - -
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £19.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.84% -13.64% +4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

PPP 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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,801 5,940 7,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.19% 12.26% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,889 3,881 5,242
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £615
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.31% +3.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 388 421 321
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +1.74%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.75 £48.45
90th Percentile £70.20 £74.50 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year +116.22% -30.84% +7.00%

PPP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PPP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PPP in England

PPP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PPP in England.

Daily rate trend for PPP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PPP in England.

Hourly rate trend for PPP in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PPP within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +20 4 £498 +53.08% 6
North West +9 4 £498 +53.08% 5
London +98 1 - - 5
South East +21 1 - - 4
PPP
UK

PPP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
1 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
1 2 (33.33%) IPsec
1 2 (33.33%) MPLS
1 2 (33.33%) OSPF
1 2 (33.33%) SNMP
1 2 (33.33%) TACACS
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VoIP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) ADSL
2 1 (16.67%) Broadband
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) RIP
2 1 (16.67%) SDH
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Contingency Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Financial Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Process Management
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Communications Security
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design
3 1 (16.67%) Order Management
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) BC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (33.33%) CCDP
2 2 (33.33%) CCIP
2 2 (33.33%) CCNA
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) COSO
1 2 (33.33%) ISO 31000
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) ADVA
2 1 (16.67%) Nokia