IP Network Engineer Contracts in England

IP Network Engineer
UK > England

The median IP Network Engineer daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 623 768
Rank change year-on-year +77 +145 -148
Contract jobs requiring an IP Network Engineer 8 22 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.045% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.047% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile £164 £291 £468
25th Percentile £313 £348 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £601 £503 £619
90th Percentile £610 £574 £653
UK median daily rate £575 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +27.78% - -5.26%

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 34,147 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,648 32,994 47,972
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

IP Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IP Network Engineer in England

IP Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IP Network Engineer in England

IP Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IP Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IP Network Engineer in England

IP Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IP Network Engineer in England

IP 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 IP Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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 +95 4 £575 +63.12%
East of England +8 4 - -
IP Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, IP 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 IP Network Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (87.50%) VPN
3 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (62.50%) Load Balancing
4 4 (50.00%) Network Design
4 4 (50.00%) Network Security
4 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (50.00%) Juniper
4 4 (50.00%) Nokia
4 4 (50.00%) 5G
4 4 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (50.00%) 4G
4 4 (50.00%) F5
5 3 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (37.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (37.50%) Multicast
5 3 (37.50%) Ansible
5 3 (37.50%) Unicast
5 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
5 3 (37.50%) MPLS
5 3 (37.50%) OSPF
5 3 (37.50%) BGP
5 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
5 3 (37.50%) L2TP
5 3 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (37.50%) IPsec

IP 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 (12.50%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (87.50%) VPN
3 4 (50.00%) 4G
3 4 (50.00%) 5G
3 4 (50.00%) Network Security
4 3 (37.50%) BGP
4 3 (37.50%) BIG-IP
4 3 (37.50%) Broadband
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (37.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (37.50%) IPsec
4 3 (37.50%) L2TP
4 3 (37.50%) MPLS
4 3 (37.50%) Multicast
4 3 (37.50%) OSPF
4 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (37.50%) Unicast
4 3 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Load Balancing
2 4 (50.00%) Network Design
2 4 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
3 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Perl
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CCIE
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) F5
2 4 (50.00%) Juniper
2 4 (50.00%) Nokia
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet