Network Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Network Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Network Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £481 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 127 151
Rank change year-on-year +20 +24 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 20 45 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.90% 1.23% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 1.29% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 32 36
10th Percentile £406 £351 -
25th Percentile £434 £423 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +9.29% -3.68%
75th Percentile £603 £552 £518
90th Percentile £663 £598 £590
Central London median daily rate £488 £488 £475
% change year-on-year - +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38.25
Median hourly rate - - £39.50
75th Percentile - - £40.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £39.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,102 3,480 3,996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 95.19% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,492 2,360 3,018
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.98 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the City of London

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in the City of London

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in the City of London

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in the City of London

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 26 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
Moorgate 0 2 £413 -5.71%
London Bridge - 1 £475 -
Network Engineer
Central London

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 26 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 City of London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (50.00%) Firewall
2 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (40.00%) Cisco
4 6 (30.00%) WAN
4 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (20.00%) Juniper
6 4 (20.00%) CCNP
7 3 (15.00%) Azure
7 3 (15.00%) SD-WAN
7 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
7 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (15.00%) Wireless
7 3 (15.00%) CCNA
7 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (15.00%) LAN
7 3 (15.00%) Aruba
8 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
8 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (10.00%) JNCIA
8 2 (10.00%) VPN
8 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
8 2 (10.00%) Nokia
8 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 1 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (5.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) Firewall
2 6 (30.00%) WAN
3 3 (15.00%) LAN
3 3 (15.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (15.00%) Wireless
4 2 (10.00%) VPN
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (5.00%) DNS
5 1 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (5.00%) Internet
5 1 (5.00%) iSCSI
5 1 (5.00%) MGCP
5 1 (5.00%) NAS
5 1 (5.00%) SAN
5 1 (5.00%) SCCP
5 1 (5.00%) Unified Communications
5 1 (5.00%) VLAN
5 1 (5.00%) VoIP
5 1 (5.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) LAMP
1 1 (5.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (5.00%) Replication
1 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (5.00%) VMS
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (5.00%) Business Development
3 1 (5.00%) Change Management
3 1 (5.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (5.00%) Data Science
3 1 (5.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (5.00%) Presales
3 1 (5.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (5.00%) Server Building
3 1 (5.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (5.00%) Validation
3 1 (5.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (20.00%) CCNP
5 3 (15.00%) CCNA
6 2 (10.00%) JNCIA
6 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
7 1 (5.00%) CCIE
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.00%) SCCM
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Cisco
2 4 (20.00%) Juniper
3 3 (15.00%) Aruba
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (10.00%) Nokia
5 1 (5.00%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.00%) F5
5 1 (5.00%) ProCurve
5 1 (5.00%) Riverbed
5 1 (5.00%) Synology
5 1 (5.00%) Veeam
5 1 (5.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) Zerto
5 1 (5.00%) Zscaler