Diameter Protocol Contracts

Diameter Protocol
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Diameter Protocol skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Diameter Protocol over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 697 783
Rank change year-on-year +141 +86 -135
Contract jobs citing Diameter Protocol 17 3 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.005% 0.085%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% 0.042% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 23
10th Percentile - - £355
25th Percentile £593 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.71%
75th Percentile £598 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £425
% change year-on-year - - +11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £52.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Diameter Protocol 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 5,394 7,082 9,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.68% 12.40% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,571 6,235
10th Percentile £205 £235 £232
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 464 368
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +6.91%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.31% -16.28% -8.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Diameter Protocol in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Diameter Protocol in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Diameter Protocol in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Diameter Protocol within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 +107 13 £595 -
UK excluding London - 11 - -
South East - 7 - -
Work from Home +130 6 - - 1
North East - 4 - -
North of England - 4 - -
London +101 1 - -

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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 5 (29.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 12 (70.59%) 5G
2 11 (64.71%) LTE
3 8 (47.06%) 4G
4 7 (41.18%) 3G
4 7 (41.18%) DNS
4 7 (41.18%) Wireshark
5 6 (35.29%) GGSN
5 6 (35.29%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (35.29%) RANAP
5 6 (35.29%) SGSN
5 6 (35.29%) VoLTE
6 1 (5.88%) IPv4
6 1 (5.88%) IPv6
6 1 (5.88%) NAS
6 1 (5.88%) SMS
6 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.88%) VoWiFi
6 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (23.53%) MySQL
General
1 13 (76.47%) Telecoms
2 6 (35.29%) Multimedia
2 6 (35.29%) Presentation Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) C Software Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) C/C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (23.53%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (5.88%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
1 6 (35.29%) Customer Experience
1 6 (35.29%) Network Architecture
1 6 (35.29%) Performance Improvement
1 6 (35.29%) Statistics
2 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 1 (5.88%) DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Migration
3 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
3 1 (5.88%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) C
1 5 (29.41%) C++
2 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Ansible
2 4 (23.53%) Grafana
2 4 (23.53%) Prometheus
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) yum
3 1 (5.88%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Empirix
1 6 (35.29%) NetScout
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Ericsson