Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 668 832
Rank change year-on-year +105 +164 -129
Contract jobs citing PPP 8 19 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.033% 0.014%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.15% 0.27% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile £335 £263 £376
25th Percentile £369 £281 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -3.03% +26.92%
75th Percentile £521 £488 £452
90th Percentile £549 £559 £511
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £325 £550
% change year-on-year +53.08% -40.91% +35.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £18.98 - -
25th Percentile £19.69 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.25 £19.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £22.69 £19.50 £26.63
90th Percentile £23.33 - £28.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,394 7,081 9,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.67% 12.44% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,577 6,274
10th Percentile £205 £235 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
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 417 458 370
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% +13.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.21 £50.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.65 £65.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -7.37%

PPP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PPP in the UK

PPP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PPP in the UK

PPP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PPP over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PPP in the UK

PPP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PPP in the UK

PPP
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 PPP within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +97 6 £498 +24.38% 16
UK excluding London +48 5 £498 +53.08% 13
Work from Home +109 4 £325 - 5
North of England +23 4 £498 +53.08% 6
North West +14 4 £498 +53.08% 6
London +97 1 - - 5
South East +33 1 - - 4

PPP
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 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) BGP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) OSPF
2 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Internet
2 2 (25.00%) IPsec
2 2 (25.00%) MPLS
2 2 (25.00%) SNMP
2 2 (25.00%) TACACS
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) VoIP
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) ADSL
3 1 (12.50%) Broadband
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) RIP
3 1 (12.50%) SDH
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Debian
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (25.00%) Contingency Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Financial Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Process Management
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Communications Security
3 1 (12.50%) Network Design
3 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Order Management
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CCNP
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) BC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (25.00%) CCDP
2 2 (25.00%) CCIP
2 2 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) COSO
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 31000
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Icinga
1 1 (12.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Juniper
2 2 (25.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) ADVA
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) MikroTik
3 1 (12.50%) Nokia
3 1 (12.50%) TP-LINK
3 1 (12.50%) ZyXEL