Network Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Network Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £240 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 77 97
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 3 36 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.37% 2.79% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 2.92% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 27 19
10th Percentile - £462 £400
25th Percentile - £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £493 £450
Median % change year-on-year -51.27% +9.44% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £512 £512
90th Percentile - £532 £548
Scotland median daily rate £400 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +36.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 772 1,233 1,868
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.58% 96.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 880 1,282
10th Percentile £204 £249 £230
25th Percentile £404 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £542 £555
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 13 23
10th Percentile £16.10 £14.07 £11.98
25th Percentile £17.86 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -1.12% -62.61%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £64.90 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
% change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Edinburgh

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in Edinburgh

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Edinburgh region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
3 1 (33.33%) Network Design
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
3 1 (33.33%) SCCM
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Network Management
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (33.33%) Arista
3 1 (33.33%) Break/Fix
3 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX

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

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Break/Fix
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Kanban
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Network Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) A+ Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Arista
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
3 1 (33.33%) McAfee
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
19 Network Engineer jobs in Scotland