Value-Added Service Contracts

Value-Added Service
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Value-Added Service skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Value-Added Service over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 695 816
Rank change year-on-year +117 +121 -119
Contract jobs citing Value-Added Service 5 1 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.002% 0.028%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.092% 0.014% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £229
25th Percentile - - £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £306
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.82%
75th Percentile - - £355
90th Percentile - - £378
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £388
% change year-on-year - - -21.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Value-Added Service 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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,429 7,207 9,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.70% 12.39% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,239 4,658 6,287
10th Percentile £205 £235 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% +3.15% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £696 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 472 368
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.18
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +1.85%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.47 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.47% -14.12% -10.42%

Value-Added Service
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Value-Added Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Value-Added Service in the UK

Value-Added Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Value-Added Service.

Daily rate trend for Value-Added Service in the UK

Value-Added Service
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Value-Added Service.

Hourly rate trend for Value-Added Service in the UK

Value-Added Service
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 Value-Added Service within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England +108 5 - -
UK excluding London +73 4 - -
North of England - 4 - -
North West - 4 - -
London - 1 - -
Work from Home - 1 - -

Value-Added Service
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) BGP
1 4 (80.00%) MPLS
1 4 (80.00%) OSPF
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (80.00%) VLAN
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
1 4 (80.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (20.00%) Broadband
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) BSS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Change Management
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (80.00%) Network Monitoring
1 4 (80.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCIE
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) VCAP
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) LogicMonitor
1 4 (80.00%) SolarWinds