Network Engineer Contracts in England

Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Engineer daily rate in England is £470 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 148 231
Rank change year-on-year +65 +83 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 946 883 873
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.57% 1.80% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.77% 1.90% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 583 569
10th Percentile £300 £273 £274
25th Percentile £363 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £460 £473 £450
% change year-on-year -2.65% +5.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 19
10th Percentile £18.72 £25.51 £19.53
25th Percentile £24.25 £60.00 £25.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £63.23 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -36.74% +122.56% -28.53%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £46.71
90th Percentile £75.09 £80.70 £52.35
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £63.23 £39.61
% change year-on-year -36.74% +59.62% -5.68%

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 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
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 £645 £663 £640
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 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Engineer in England

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 Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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 +90 316 £488 -2.50% 76
South East +33 259 £500 +11.11% 65
North of England +29 135 £433 +15.33% 45
North West +21 102 £437 +16.49% 29
South West +10 101 £488 -2.50% 30
Midlands +20 95 £350 -3.45% 37
West Midlands +22 75 £350 -3.45% 24
East of England -25 24 £300 -11.11% 16
Yorkshire +8 21 £205 -45.33% 13
East Midlands +18 20 £425 +21.43% 13
North East +23 12 £400 -7.51% 4
Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 England region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 573 (60.57%) Cisco
2 458 (48.41%) Firewall
3 306 (32.35%) Security Cleared
4 302 (31.92%) Cisco Certification
5 214 (22.62%) WAN
6 199 (21.04%) CCNP
7 181 (19.13%) Juniper
8 179 (18.92%) BGP
9 176 (18.60%) Data Centre
10 173 (18.29%) VPN
11 172 (18.18%) SC Cleared
12 170 (17.97%) LAN
13 166 (17.55%) Palo Alto
14 165 (17.44%) CCNA
15 151 (15.96%) F5
16 145 (15.33%) Network Security
17 144 (15.22%) Social Skills
18 136 (14.38%) MPLS
19 134 (14.16%) Fortinet
20 128 (13.53%) Wireless
21 127 (13.42%) OSPF
22 126 (13.32%) Cisco Nexus
23 124 (13.11%) Finance
24 117 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
25 116 (12.26%) CheckPoint
26 110 (11.63%) Public Sector
27 103 (10.89%) Network Design
28 100 (10.57%) IPsec
29 93 (9.83%) Migration
30 90 (9.51%) Python

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 9 (0.95%) Apache
1 9 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.42%) IIS
2 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.32%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.32%) WordPress
4 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.21%) IBM Domino
4 2 (0.21%) nginx
4 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.11%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 22 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.48%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.21%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 80 (8.46%) Azure
2 68 (7.19%) AWS
3 21 (2.22%) GCP
4 17 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (0.53%) Akamai
6 5 (0.53%) Cloudflare
6 5 (0.53%) OCI
6 5 (0.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (0.53%) WhatsApp
7 3 (0.32%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (0.32%) BigCommerce
7 3 (0.32%) Entra ID
7 3 (0.32%) GitHub
7 3 (0.32%) Nutanix
7 3 (0.32%) OneDrive
7 3 (0.32%) SaaS
8 2 (0.21%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.11%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 458 (48.41%) Firewall
2 214 (22.62%) WAN
3 179 (18.92%) BGP
4 173 (18.29%) VPN
5 170 (17.97%) LAN
6 145 (15.33%) Network Security
7 136 (14.38%) MPLS
8 128 (13.53%) Wireless
9 127 (13.42%) OSPF
10 126 (13.32%) Cisco Nexus
11 100 (10.57%) IPsec
12 88 (9.30%) Cisco ASA
13 86 (9.09%) DNS
14 84 (8.88%) SD-WAN
15 69 (7.29%) Wi-Fi
16 66 (6.98%) DMZ
17 58 (6.13%) EIGRP
18 57 (6.03%) Cisco ISE
19 52 (5.50%) DHCP
20 50 (5.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.95%) MongoDB
1 9 (0.95%) NoSQL
1 9 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (0.95%) QGIS
2 7 (0.74%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
2 14 (1.48%) Git
3 13 (1.37%) JIRA
4 11 (1.16%) GitLab
5 9 (0.95%) Robot Framework
5 9 (0.95%) TestRail
6 1 (0.11%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 144 (15.22%) Social Skills
2 124 (13.11%) Finance
3 110 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 71 (7.51%) Banking
5 61 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 59 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 19 (2.01%) Legal
8 19 (2.01%) Marketing
9 15 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.85%) Electronics
12 8 (0.85%) Retail
13 7 (0.74%) Law
14 6 (0.63%) Military
15 5 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.32%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.43%) YANG
2 22 (2.33%) NETCONF
3 18 (1.90%) 802.1X
3 18 (1.90%) JSON
4 12 (1.27%) Jinja
4 12 (1.27%) REST
4 12 (1.27%) XML
5 9 (0.95%) RESTCONF
5 9 (0.95%) SOAP
6 6 (0.63%) HTML
7 3 (0.32%) Django
7 3 (0.32%) LAMP
7 3 (0.32%) RESTful
7 3 (0.32%) VML
8 2 (0.21%) .NET
8 2 (0.21%) Regular Expression
9 1 (0.11%) LDAP
9 1 (0.11%) SAML
9 1 (0.11%) Web Services
9 1 (0.11%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 176 (18.60%) Data Centre
2 23 (2.43%) PKI
3 18 (1.90%) Driving Licence
3 18 (1.90%) Private Cloud
4 17 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (1.16%) NHS
5 11 (1.16%) Replication
6 10 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (1.06%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (0.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (0.63%) Management Information System
8 6 (0.63%) Operational Technology
9 5 (0.53%) Clustering
9 5 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.53%) Social Media
9 5 (0.53%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.65%) Linux
2 35 (3.70%) Windows
3 19 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.27%) Unix
5 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.32%) CentOS
7 3 (0.32%) VMS
7 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.21%) Debian
9 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
2 103 (10.89%) Network Design
3 93 (9.83%) Migration
4 74 (7.82%) Load Balancing
5 65 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 57 (6.03%) Change Management
7 53 (5.60%) ITIL
8 45 (4.76%) ITSM
9 43 (4.55%) Computer Science
10 42 (4.44%) Network Architecture
11 39 (4.12%) High Availability
12 38 (4.02%) Agile
13 37 (3.91%) Roadmaps
14 36 (3.81%) Network Management
14 36 (3.81%) Network Monitoring
15 32 (3.38%) Customer Requirements
16 31 (3.28%) DevOps
17 29 (3.07%) Service Delivery
18 28 (2.96%) B2B
19 26 (2.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 90 (9.51%) Python
2 19 (2.01%) SQL
3 16 (1.69%) Perl
4 13 (1.37%) Bash
5 12 (1.27%) Tcl
6 11 (1.16%) Java
7 9 (0.95%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.63%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.53%) PHP
10 4 (0.42%) C
11 3 (0.32%) C#
11 3 (0.32%) C++
11 3 (0.32%) Go
11 3 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.21%) Ruby
13 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 306 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 302 (31.92%) Cisco Certification
3 199 (21.04%) CCNP
4 172 (18.18%) SC Cleared
5 165 (17.44%) CCNA
6 87 (9.20%) DV Cleared
7 59 (6.24%) CCIE
8 55 (5.81%) Degree
9 25 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (2.54%) JNCIA
11 11 (1.16%) JNCIS
12 8 (0.85%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.85%) CCDP
13 6 (0.63%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.53%) CISSP
14 5 (0.53%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (0.42%) CCSA
15 4 (0.42%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.75%) SLA
2 8 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (0.74%) QA
4 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 49 (5.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (3.38%) VMware NSX
3 25 (2.64%) vSphere
4 24 (2.54%) Firmware
5 15 (1.59%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.27%) Docker
7 9 (0.95%) Active Directory
7 9 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.53%) KVM
10 4 (0.42%) ProxySG
11 2 (0.21%) Squid
12 1 (0.11%) PowerDNS
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 61 (6.45%) Ansible
2 56 (5.92%) FortiGate
3 24 (2.54%) Terraform
4 22 (2.33%) vCenter Server
5 7 (0.74%) SolarWinds Orion
6 5 (0.53%) Endace
6 5 (0.53%) OpenView
7 4 (0.42%) Kubernetes
7 4 (0.42%) Nessus
7 4 (0.42%) SCCM
8 3 (0.32%) Kibana
8 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.32%) Netcool
8 3 (0.32%) Puppet
9 2 (0.21%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.21%) Nmap
9 2 (0.21%) OpenNMS
9 2 (0.21%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.21%) Stealthwatch
9 2 (0.21%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 573 (60.57%) Cisco
2 181 (19.13%) Juniper
3 166 (17.55%) Palo Alto
4 151 (15.96%) F5
5 134 (14.16%) Fortinet
6 116 (12.26%) CheckPoint
7 81 (8.56%) SolarWinds
8 80 (8.46%) VMware
9 59 (6.24%) Aruba
10 51 (5.39%) Arista
11 47 (4.97%) Microsoft
12 44 (4.65%) Meraki
13 36 (3.81%) Nokia
14 27 (2.85%) Citrix
15 25 (2.64%) Blue Coat
15 25 (2.64%) Infoblox
16 23 (2.43%) Dell
16 23 (2.43%) Zscaler
17 15 (1.59%) HP
18 11 (1.16%) SAP