OPNET Contracts

Riverbed OPNET
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OPNET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OPNET over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 678 828
Rank change year-on-year +123 +150 -106
Contract jobs citing OPNET 20 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.007% 0.011%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.38% 0.045% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 6
10th Percentile - - £444
25th Percentile - £625 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +23.81% +27.09%
75th Percentile £700 £681 £538
90th Percentile £713 £693 £556
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -16.15% +23.81% +27.09%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

OPNET is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%

OPNET
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OPNET in the UK

OPNET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OPNET in the UK

OPNET
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OPNET over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OPNET in the UK

OPNET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OPNET in the UK

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Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OPNET within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +102 20 £545 -16.15% 2
UK excluding London +53 19 £545 -16.15% 1
South West +21 19 £545 -16.15% 1
London - 1 £675 - 1

OPNET
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 4 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
1 6 (30.00%) GCP
1 6 (30.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (20.00%) PaaS
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) VPN
2 3 (15.00%) DHCP
2 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) LAN
2 3 (15.00%) Skype
2 3 (15.00%) SMTP
2 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (15.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Military
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
1 4 (20.00%) Automation Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Office Automation Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Service Desk Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Software Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Software Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) ModSecurity
2 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 4 (20.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (90.00%) PKI
2 6 (30.00%) Public Cloud
2 6 (30.00%) Security Posture
3 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Service Management
2 11 (55.00%) Change Control
3 9 (45.00%) Agile
4 7 (35.00%) Office Automation
4 7 (35.00%) Project Management
5 6 (30.00%) ArchiMate
5 6 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (30.00%) Business Strategy
5 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (30.00%) IT Strategy
5 6 (30.00%) NsoIT
5 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
5 6 (30.00%) TOGAF
6 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (20.00%) LLM
6 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (45.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (35.00%) Degree
4 4 (20.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) JSP 440
2 3 (15.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (30.00%) Docker
2 6 (30.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Ansible
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) PowerCLI
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (15.00%) SCCM
3 3 (15.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (45.00%) VMware
3 6 (30.00%) Atlassian
3 6 (30.00%) Google
4 4 (20.00%) Cisco
5 3 (15.00%) Remedy
5 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds