Network Specialist Contracts in England

Network Specialist
UK > England

The median Network Specialist daily rate in England is £475 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 488 596 722
Rank change year-on-year +108 +126 -142
Contract jobs requiring a Network Specialist 66 49 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.100% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.11% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 31 36
10th Percentile £184 - £325
25th Percentile £425 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +26.47% -
75th Percentile £650 £820 £501
90th Percentile £863 £830 £569
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.57%

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%

Network Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Specialist in England

Network Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Specialist in England

Network Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Specialist in England

Network Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Specialist in England

Network Specialist
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 Specialist 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
South East +36 31 £450 -10.00% 3
London +102 26 £800 -3.61%
East of England +5 5 £475 -5.00% 2
Midlands +31 2 £350 -42.86% 3
West Midlands +27 2 £350 -49.09% 3
South West +14 2 - -
Network Specialist
UK

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

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

1 40 (60.61%) Cisco
2 39 (59.09%) Juniper
3 38 (57.58%) Security Cleared
4 34 (51.52%) Firewall
5 33 (50.00%) BGP
6 32 (48.48%) OSPF
7 31 (46.97%) Fortinet
8 29 (43.94%) VPN
9 27 (40.91%) Network Design
10 25 (37.88%) FortiGate
11 24 (36.36%) Wireless
12 21 (31.82%) DV Cleared
13 18 (27.27%) EIGRP
14 17 (25.76%) WAN
14 17 (25.76%) DMVPN
15 16 (24.24%) Palo Alto
15 16 (24.24%) LAN
15 16 (24.24%) WLAN
16 13 (19.70%) IPsec
16 13 (19.70%) PKI
16 13 (19.70%) Threat Management
17 11 (16.67%) Change Management
18 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
18 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
18 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
19 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
19 9 (13.64%) Cisco ASA
19 9 (13.64%) Network Security
19 9 (13.64%) Extreme Networks
20 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineering

Network Specialist 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 (1.52%) Apache
1 1 (1.52%) JBoss
1 1 (1.52%) nginx
1 1 (1.52%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.58%) AWS
2 4 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (3.03%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 34 (51.52%) Firewall
2 33 (50.00%) BGP
3 32 (48.48%) OSPF
4 29 (43.94%) VPN
5 24 (36.36%) Wireless
6 18 (27.27%) EIGRP
7 17 (25.76%) DMVPN
7 17 (25.76%) WAN
8 16 (24.24%) LAN
8 16 (24.24%) WLAN
9 13 (19.70%) IPsec
10 9 (13.64%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (13.64%) Network Security
11 7 (10.61%) 4G
12 6 (9.09%) 5G
12 6 (9.09%) Cisco Wireless
12 6 (9.09%) DNS
13 5 (7.58%) DHCP
13 5 (7.58%) TCP/IP
13 5 (7.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) GIS
1 2 (3.03%) QGIS
2 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.52%) Banking
5 1 (1.52%) Finance
5 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.52%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (1.52%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) PKI
2 2 (3.03%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.03%) Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Unix
2 1 (1.52%) Windows
2 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.91%) Network Design
2 13 (19.70%) Threat Management
3 11 (16.67%) Change Management
4 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (10.61%) Agile
5 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (10.61%) Network Virtualisation
5 7 (10.61%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (10.61%) Service Delivery
5 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (10.61%) Zero Trust
6 6 (9.09%) Load Balancing
6 6 (9.09%) Migration
6 6 (9.09%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
7 5 (7.58%) Business Case
7 5 (7.58%) Capacity Management
7 5 (7.58%) Change Control
7 5 (7.58%) Mentoring
7 5 (7.58%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (57.58%) Security Cleared
2 21 (31.82%) DV Cleared
3 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.52%) CCIE
4 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (37.88%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 40 (60.61%) Cisco
2 39 (59.09%) Juniper
3 31 (46.97%) Fortinet
4 16 (24.24%) Palo Alto
5 9 (13.64%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (4.55%) Ericsson
7 2 (3.03%) ESRI
7 2 (3.03%) Greenplum
7 2 (3.03%) Mapinfo
7 2 (3.03%) Pega
8 1 (1.52%) Actix
8 1 (1.52%) F5
8 1 (1.52%) Huawei
8 1 (1.52%) IBM
8 1 (1.52%) Nokia
8 1 (1.52%) Oracle
8 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.52%) Temenos
8 1 (1.52%) VMware