Network Engineer Contracts in Cheshire

Network Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 34 37
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 15 29 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.99% 5.47% 3.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.20% 6.08% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 9
10th Percentile £431 £281 £281
25th Percentile £463 £288 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £350 £423
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% -17.16% -3.10%
75th Percentile £514 £425 £575
90th Percentile £525 £522 £596
North West median daily rate £437 £388 £405
% change year-on-year +12.74% -4.32% +29.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 469 477 502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 90.00% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 329 286
10th Percentile £276 £263 £183
25th Percentile £383 £400 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £435
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +9.20% -0.51%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £631 £651 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.23 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.47 £19.71 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £29.26 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.27% +19.43% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £42.58 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.59% +49.05% +11.72%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Cheshire

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in Cheshire

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in Cheshire

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Warrington +8 4 £488 +30.00% 1
Chester -7 4 £494 +51.92% 1
Northwich - 4 - -
Network Engineer
North West

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Network Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (60.00%) CCNP
1 9 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (46.67%) VPN
2 7 (46.67%) VLAN
2 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) AWS
3 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (40.00%) GCP
3 6 (40.00%) Cisco
3 6 (40.00%) Firewall
4 4 (26.67%) Meraki
4 4 (26.67%) DNS
4 4 (26.67%) SLA
4 4 (26.67%) DHCP
5 3 (20.00%) WAN
5 3 (20.00%) CCIE
5 3 (20.00%) CCNA
5 3 (20.00%) MPLS
5 3 (20.00%) OSPF
5 3 (20.00%) BGP
5 3 (20.00%) Change Management
5 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (20.00%) VCAP
5 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 3 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (20.00%) Google
5 3 (20.00%) Degree
5 3 (20.00%) Wireshark
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (20.00%) Value-Added Service

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) VLAN
1 7 (46.67%) VPN
2 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (26.67%) DHCP
3 4 (26.67%) DNS
4 3 (20.00%) BGP
4 3 (20.00%) MPLS
4 3 (20.00%) OSPF
4 3 (20.00%) Value-Added Service
4 3 (20.00%) WAN
4 3 (20.00%) Wireshark
5 2 (13.33%) Network Security
5 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (6.67%) DMZ
6 1 (6.67%) LAN
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) CentOS
1 1 (6.67%) Debian
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Change Management
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (13.33%) Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Network Design
3 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.67%) Hardware Maintenance
3 1 (6.67%) High Availability
3 1 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (6.67%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) CCNP
1 9 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (20.00%) CCIE
2 3 (20.00%) CCNA
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) VCAP
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Cisco
2 4 (26.67%) Meraki
3 3 (20.00%) Google
3 3 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (13.33%) F5
5 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.67%) HP
5 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.67%) WatchGuard