Network Engineer Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Engineer
Rank 202 151 216
Rank change year-on-year
-51 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 389 693 446
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.920% 1.295% 0.805%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.994% 1.399% 0.868%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 348 210
Average daily rate £300 £338 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £440 £436
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £303 £300
% change year-on-year
-2.47% +0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 45 49
Average hourly rate £27.50 £23.00 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.56% -30.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.63 £16.50 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £34.50 £48.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+22.22% -29.68%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 39141 49545 51375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.52% 92.60% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22991 28027 28527
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2036 2429 2720
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.17 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Network Engineer
UK

Network Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Engineer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Network Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Network Engineer across the England region.

England Network Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Network Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Network Engineer across the England region.

England Network Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Network Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

Network Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London -87 134 £350 -
South East -4 131 £288 -8.00%
South West -4 25 £266 -31.29%
East of England +3 23 £290 +28.88%
Yorkshire +10 22 £325 +8.33%
East Midlands +7 21 £275 +15.78%
West Midlands -2 15 £240 -4.00%
North West -14 7 - -
North East -10 1 - -
Network Engineer
UK

Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Network Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Network Engineer in their job title.

1 600 (73.35%) Cisco
2 414 (50.61%) Cisco Certification
3 380 (46.45%) Firewall
4 270 (33.01%) CCNP
5 266 (32.52%) LAN
6 244 (29.83%) WAN
7 235 (28.73%) CCNA
8 203 (24.82%) VPN
9 167 (20.42%) MPLS
10 164 (20.05%) BGP
11 162 (19.80%) CheckPoint
12 159 (19.44%) Juniper
13 135 (16.50%) Cisco ASA
14 124 (15.16%) Windows
15 123 (15.04%) VoIP
16 122 (14.91%) TCP/IP
16 122 (14.91%) OSPF
17 120 (14.67%) Telecoms
18 116 (14.18%) Network Security
19 106 (12.96%) Security Cleared
20 98 (11.98%) Microsoft
21 97 (11.86%) VLAN
21 97 (11.86%) Cisco Nexus
22 94 (11.49%) Wireless
23 90 (11.00%) ITIL
24 87 (10.64%) Network Design
25 82 (10.02%) SC Cleared
26 79 (9.658%) F5
27 75 (9.169%) Ethernet
28 71 (8.680%) VMware

Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Network Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (1.222%) Regular Expression
1 10 (1.222%) CSS
2 7 (0.856%) .NET
3 5 (0.611%) JSP
4 4 (0.489%) Web Services
4 4 (0.489%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.367%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 3 (0.367%) HTML
5 3 (0.367%) STL
5 3 (0.367%) WAP
6 2 (0.244%) COM
7 1 (0.122%) Velocity
7 1 (0.122%) Middleware
7 1 (0.122%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 27 (3.301%) MS Exchange
2 15 (1.834%) Exchange Server 2010
3 14 (1.711%) IIS
4 11 (1.345%) Apache
5 8 (0.978%) Lync
6 6 (0.733%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.611%) Exchange Server 2003
8 4 (0.489%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.489%) Windows Azure
9 3 (0.367%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.244%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.244%) Exchange Server 2007
11 1 (0.122%) Amazon AWS
11 1 (0.122%) GroupWise
11 1 (0.122%) CMS
Applications
1 33 (4.034%) MS Excel
2 26 (3.178%) MS Office
3 13 (1.589%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.244%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.122%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.122%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 380 (46.45%) Firewall
2 266 (32.52%) LAN
3 244 (29.83%) WAN
4 203 (24.82%) VPN
5 167 (20.42%) MPLS
6 164 (20.05%) BGP
7 135 (16.50%) Cisco ASA
8 123 (15.04%) VoIP
9 122 (14.91%) TCP/IP
9 122 (14.91%) OSPF
10 116 (14.18%) Network Security
11 97 (11.86%) VLAN
11 97 (11.86%) Cisco Nexus
12 94 (11.49%) Wireless
13 75 (9.169%) Ethernet
14 67 (8.191%) Internet
15 63 (7.702%) SNMP
16 61 (7.457%) IPsec
17 55 (6.724%) DNS
18 48 (5.868%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.345%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.611%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (0.367%) GIS
4 2 (0.244%) MySQL
5 1 (0.122%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.122%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 8 (0.978%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 3 (0.367%) Subversion
2 3 (0.367%) Trac
2 3 (0.367%) GCC
2 3 (0.367%) GDB
General
1 120 (14.67%) Telecoms
2 70 (8.557%) Finance
3 23 (2.812%) Banking
4 17 (2.078%) Retail
5 11 (1.345%) Investment Banking
6 8 (0.978%) Military
7 7 (0.856%) French Language
8 5 (0.611%) German Language
8 5 (0.611%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (0.611%) Financial Institution
8 5 (0.611%) Back Office
8 5 (0.611%) Games
9 4 (0.489%) Law
9 4 (0.489%) Billing
10 3 (0.367%) Local Government
10 3 (0.367%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.244%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.244%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.122%) Marketing
12 1 (0.122%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 18 (2.200%) Open Source
2 13 (1.589%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (1.222%) Management Information System
4 9 (1.100%) Computer Science
5 7 (0.856%) NHS
5 7 (0.856%) Firmware
6 6 (0.733%) IVR
7 5 (0.611%) SecurID
7 5 (0.611%) Fat Client
7 5 (0.611%) Online Games
7 5 (0.611%) Thin Client
8 4 (0.489%) Handset
8 4 (0.489%) Blackberry
9 3 (0.367%) iPhone
9 3 (0.367%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.367%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.244%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.244%) CLARiiON
10 2 (0.244%) ASIC
10 2 (0.244%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 124 (15.16%) Windows
2 67 (8.191%) Linux
3 37 (4.523%) UNIX
4 33 (4.034%) Windows Server 2008
5 22 (2.689%) Windows 7
6 15 (1.834%) Windows Server 2003
7 9 (1.100%) Solaris
7 9 (1.100%) Windows XP
8 8 (0.978%) VMS
9 6 (0.733%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.611%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.489%) NetWare
11 4 (0.489%) HPUX
12 3 (0.367%) CentOS
12 3 (0.367%) Android
13 2 (0.244%) Debian
13 2 (0.244%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.122%) Windows 2000 Server
14 1 (0.122%) OS/2
14 1 (0.122%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (11.00%) ITIL
2 87 (10.64%) Network Design
3 67 (8.191%) Load Balancing
4 62 (7.579%) Migration
5 59 (7.213%) Network Management
6 43 (5.257%) Change Management
7 26 (3.178%) E-Commerce
8 25 (3.056%) Incident Management
9 23 (2.812%) Project Management
9 23 (2.812%) Network Architecture
10 19 (2.323%) Root Cause Analysis
10 19 (2.323%) Service Management
11 18 (2.200%) Capacity Planning
12 17 (2.078%) Configuration Management
13 16 (1.956%) Scrum
13 16 (1.956%) Capacity Management
14 14 (1.711%) Problem Management
15 13 (1.589%) Project Planning
15 13 (1.589%) Change Control
16 12 (1.467%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 20 (2.445%) SQL
2 17 (2.078%) C++
3 14 (1.711%) Perl
4 12 (1.467%) C
5 8 (0.978%) Python
6 7 (0.856%) C#
7 6 (0.733%) Ruby
8 4 (0.489%) Bash shell
8 4 (0.489%) PHP
8 4 (0.489%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.489%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.367%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.367%) VB
10 2 (0.244%) Java
10 2 (0.244%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.122%) Korn
11 1 (0.122%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 414 (50.61%) Cisco Certification
2 270 (33.01%) CCNP
3 235 (28.73%) CCNA
4 106 (12.96%) Security Cleared
5 82 (10.02%) SC Cleared
6 68 (8.313%) CCIE
7 25 (3.056%) DV Cleared
8 24 (2.934%) Degree
9 23 (2.812%) CCDP
10 21 (2.567%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (2.200%) CCSA
12 16 (1.956%) ITIL Certification
12 16 (1.956%) CCIP
12 16 (1.956%) CCSP
13 14 (1.711%) MCITP
14 13 (1.589%) MCSE
15 12 (1.467%) CCVP
16 10 (1.222%) JNCIE
16 10 (1.222%) CCSE
17 9 (1.100%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.667%) SLA
2 22 (2.689%) PCI DSS
3 12 (1.467%) JSP 440
4 4 (0.489%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.489%) TickIT
4 4 (0.489%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.244%) QA
6 1 (0.122%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.122%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.122%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 38 (4.645%) Active Directory
2 37 (4.523%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.834%) ProxySG
4 14 (1.711%) XenServer
5 12 (1.467%) Forefront TMG
6 8 (0.978%) ISA Server
7 7 (0.856%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.856%) UAG
7 7 (0.856%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.489%) vSphere
9 3 (0.367%) VMware ESX
9 3 (0.367%) MetaFrame
10 2 (0.244%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.244%) XenApp
10 2 (0.244%) Snort
11 1 (0.122%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.122%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.122%) Samba
11 1 (0.122%) NDS
Systems Management
1 19 (2.323%) Cisco CUCM
1 19 (2.323%) Nagios
2 16 (1.956%) FortiGate
3 15 (1.834%) Cacti
4 12 (1.467%) OpenView
4 12 (1.467%) WhatsUp Gold
5 11 (1.345%) Cisco UCCX
6 8 (0.978%) SCOM
7 7 (0.856%) Cisco UCCE
8 6 (0.733%) CiscoWorks
9 4 (0.489%) Tivoli
9 4 (0.489%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.367%) SCCM
10 3 (0.367%) WSUS
10 3 (0.367%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (0.244%) Puppet
11 2 (0.244%) Nessus
12 1 (0.122%) Backup Exec
12 1 (0.122%) HP NNM
12 1 (0.122%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 600 (73.35%) Cisco
2 162 (19.80%) CheckPoint
3 159 (19.44%) Juniper
4 98 (11.98%) Microsoft
5 79 (9.658%) F5
6 71 (8.680%) VMware
7 65 (7.946%) HP
8 54 (6.601%) Citrix
9 41 (5.012%) Blue Coat
10 36 (4.401%) Nokia
11 33 (4.034%) Avaya
12 28 (3.423%) SolarWinds
13 26 (3.178%) Fortinet
14 23 (2.812%) Sourcefire
15 20 (2.445%) Nortel
16 17 (2.078%) BT
17 14 (1.711%) 3Com
17 14 (1.711%) Mitel
18 13 (1.589%) Riverbed
19 12 (1.467%) Oracle
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