NETCONF
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for NETCONF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NETCONF 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 548 689 841
Rank change year-on-year +141 +152 -167
Contract jobs citing NETCONF 52 24 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.040% 0.017%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.58% 0.17% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 9 5
10th Percentile £510 £465 £405
25th Percentile £542 £615 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £655 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +19.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £575
90th Percentile - - £598
UK excluding London median daily rate - £700 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

NETCONF is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,961 13,886 24,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.56% 23.27% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,218 10,139 17,680
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £661
90th Percentile £769 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%

NETCONF
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NETCONF in the UK

NETCONF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NETCONF in the UK

NETCONF
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NETCONF over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NETCONF in the UK

NETCONF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for NETCONF in the UK

NETCONF
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NETCONF 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +131 50 £600 -8.40% 4
London +132 38 £600 -8.40% 4
UK excluding London +68 13 - -
South East +21 12 - -
Work from Home +109 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 - -

NETCONF
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 13 (25.00%) Apache
1 13 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.77%) AWS
1 3 (5.77%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 50 (96.15%) BGP
1 50 (96.15%) MPLS
2 31 (59.62%) Ethernet VPN
3 23 (44.23%) RSVP
4 22 (42.31%) SNMP
5 20 (38.46%) HSRP
5 20 (38.46%) VPLS
6 19 (36.54%) VPN
7 17 (32.69%) IPv4
7 17 (32.69%) VRRP
8 16 (30.77%) Cisco IOS
8 16 (30.77%) IOS XR
9 14 (26.92%) Radio Access Network
10 13 (25.00%) Firewall
11 11 (21.15%) Network Security
12 10 (19.23%) 5G
12 10 (19.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 10 (19.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 5 (9.62%) DHCP
13 5 (9.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 12 (23.08%) NoSQL
1 12 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (36.54%) Git
2 13 (25.00%) GitLab
2 13 (25.00%) JIRA
2 13 (25.00%) Robot Framework
2 13 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 25 (48.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.62%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (55.77%) Network Engineer
2 17 (32.69%) IP Expert
3 12 (23.08%) Design Engineer
3 12 (23.08%) Network Design Engineer
4 10 (19.23%) Test Engineer
5 9 (17.31%) Cisco Expert
6 3 (5.77%) Core Network Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Senior
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Tester
7 2 (3.85%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Security Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Designer
8 1 (1.92%) Network Designer
8 1 (1.92%) Telecoms Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (94.23%) YANG
2 37 (71.15%) JSON
2 37 (71.15%) XML
3 20 (38.46%) Jinja
4 13 (25.00%) REST
4 13 (25.00%) RESTCONF
4 13 (25.00%) SOAP
5 3 (5.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (44.23%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (5.77%) PKI
3 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Linux
1 2 (3.85%) Unix
1 2 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (57.69%) DevOps
2 17 (32.69%) Test Planning
3 15 (28.85%) Integration Testing
4 13 (25.00%) Agile
4 13 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 13 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (25.00%) Network Design
4 13 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 13 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 13 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 13 (25.00%) Scrum
4 13 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 13 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 13 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 13 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 13 (25.00%) Workflow
5 12 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 7 (13.46%) Business Case
6 7 (13.46%) Configuration Management
6 7 (13.46%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 35 (67.31%) Python
2 12 (23.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (34.62%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (17.31%) CCIE
2 9 (17.31%) CCIE Service Provider
3 7 (13.46%) CCNP
4 2 (3.85%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (23.08%) Ansible
2 8 (15.38%) FortiGate
3 3 (5.77%) Terraform
4 2 (3.85%) Nmap
4 2 (3.85%) OpenNMS
Vendors
1 34 (65.38%) Nokia
2 25 (48.08%) Cisco
3 16 (30.77%) Fortinet
4 10 (19.23%) F5
5 9 (17.31%) Palo Alto
6 3 (5.77%) Aruba
6 3 (5.77%) Huawei
6 3 (5.77%) Juniper
6 3 (5.77%) Meraki