Core Network Engineer Contracts in England

Core Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Core Network Engineer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 646 770
Rank change year-on-year +113 +124 -143
Contract jobs requiring a Core Network Engineer 5 2 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.004% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.004% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £511 £365 £406
25th Percentile £511 £369 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £388 £563
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -31.11% +45.16%
75th Percentile £544 £406 £581
90th Percentile £548 £410 -
UK median daily rate £525 £388 £563
% change year-on-year +35.48% -31.11% +40.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Core Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Core Network Engineer in England

Core Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Core Network Engineer in England

Core Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Core Network Engineer in England

Core Network Engineer
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 Core Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
London - 5 £525 - 3
Core Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Core 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 England region featuring Core Network Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Nokia
2 4 (80.00%) MPLS
2 4 (80.00%) BGP
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) CCNP
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (80.00%) Network Design
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco IOS
2 4 (80.00%) IOS XR
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (80.00%) Business Case
2 4 (80.00%) Business Strategy
2 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (60.00%) NETCONF
3 3 (60.00%) YANG
3 3 (60.00%) JSON
3 3 (60.00%) Ansible
3 3 (60.00%) Git
3 3 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (20.00%) VMware
5 1 (20.00%) Data Management
5 1 (20.00%) L2TP
5 1 (20.00%) Linux
5 1 (20.00%) Broadband
5 1 (20.00%) VPN

Core Network Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) BGP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco IOS
1 4 (80.00%) IOS XR
1 4 (80.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) 4G
2 1 (20.00%) 5G
2 1 (20.00%) Broadband
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (20.00%) IPv6
2 1 (20.00%) L2TP
2 1 (20.00%) VPLS
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) JSON
1 3 (60.00%) NETCONF
1 3 (60.00%) XML
1 3 (60.00%) YANG
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Case
1 4 (80.00%) Business Strategy
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Network Design
1 4 (80.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Nokia
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Huawei
3 1 (20.00%) VMware