OPNET Contracts in England

Riverbed OPNET
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring OPNET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OPNET over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 632 779
Rank change year-on-year +97 +147 -123
Contract jobs citing OPNET 15 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.009% 0.011%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.33% 0.056% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 5
10th Percentile - - £440
25th Percentile - £625 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +23.81% +27.09%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £538
90th Percentile £703 £693 £560
UK median daily rate £545 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -16.15% +23.81% +27.09%

All Systems Management Skills
England

OPNET falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,609 7,176 11,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.29% 15.26% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,370 5,190 8,132
10th Percentile £290 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £684 £675
90th Percentile £700 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 166 155
10th Percentile £15.49 £17.61 £12.93
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.71 £15.25
Median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%
75th Percentile £52.31 £75.00 £27.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.38 £58.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%

OPNET
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OPNET in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OPNET in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OPNET in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OPNET in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for OPNET in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OPNET within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
South West +13 15 £545 -16.15% 1
OPNET
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (26.67%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
1 6 (40.00%) GCP
1 6 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (26.67%) PaaS
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) DHCP
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) LAN
2 1 (6.67%) Skype
2 1 (6.67%) SMTP
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (26.67%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Military
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Automation Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Office Automation Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Software Design Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) ModSecurity
2 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 13 (86.67%) PKI
2 6 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 6 (40.00%) Security Posture
3 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Change Control
1 8 (53.33%) Service Management
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) ArchiMate
3 6 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 6 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (40.00%) IT Strategy
3 6 (40.00%) NsoIT
3 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
3 6 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 5 (33.33%) Office Automation
4 5 (33.33%) Project Management
5 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
5 4 (26.67%) LLM
5 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
5 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) Degree
4 4 (26.67%) Master's Degree
5 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) JSP 440
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (40.00%) Docker
2 6 (40.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Ansible
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (26.67%) PowerCLI
2 4 (26.67%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM
3 1 (6.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (46.67%) VMware
3 6 (40.00%) Atlassian
3 6 (40.00%) Google
4 4 (26.67%) Cisco
5 1 (6.67%) Remedy
5 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds