Senior Network Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in England is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 399 534 649
Rank change year-on-year +135 +115 -94
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 144 114 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.24% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 62 79
10th Percentile £347 £406 £313
25th Percentile £500 £427 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £541
90th Percentile £700 £631 £685
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £42.60 - -
25th Percentile £58.50 - £49.25
Median hourly rate £73.50 £66.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +30.69% -17.55%
75th Percentile £75.24 - £51.75
90th Percentile £76.29 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.50 £66.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% +30.69% -17.55%

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 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +141 71 £550 - 20
South East +36 50 £513 +12.33% 12
North of England +30 18 £514 +4.05% 7
North West +28 17 £514 +5.38% 4
East of England +2 2 - -
West Midlands +24 1 - - 2
Midlands +24 1 - - 6
Yorkshire +20 1 - - 2
South West +6 1 £750 +37.93% 5
Senior Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 97 (67.36%) Cisco
2 70 (48.61%) Firewall
3 65 (45.14%) Cisco Certification
4 36 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 34 (23.61%) CheckPoint
5 34 (23.61%) CCNP
5 34 (23.61%) Banking
6 32 (22.22%) WAN
7 31 (21.53%) Migration
7 31 (21.53%) Finance
8 30 (20.83%) LAN
8 30 (20.83%) DMZ
8 30 (20.83%) Arista
9 29 (20.14%) Palo Alto
10 25 (17.36%) BGP
10 25 (17.36%) B2B
11 24 (16.67%) Network Security
12 23 (15.97%) OSPF
12 23 (15.97%) CCNA
13 21 (14.58%) IPsec
13 21 (14.58%) Data Centre
14 19 (13.19%) SolarWinds
15 18 (12.50%) DV Cleared
15 18 (12.50%) Wireless
15 18 (12.50%) Change Management
16 17 (11.81%) EIGRP
16 17 (11.81%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (11.81%) Public Sector
17 16 (11.11%) AWS
17 16 (11.11%) Juniper

Senior 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 2 (1.39%) nginx
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.47%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (11.11%) AWS
2 10 (6.94%) Azure
3 6 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (3.47%) GCP
4 5 (3.47%) OCI
5 2 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.69%) GitHub
6 1 (0.69%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (48.61%) Firewall
2 32 (22.22%) WAN
3 30 (20.83%) DMZ
3 30 (20.83%) LAN
4 25 (17.36%) BGP
5 24 (16.67%) Network Security
6 23 (15.97%) OSPF
7 21 (14.58%) IPsec
8 18 (12.50%) Wireless
9 17 (11.81%) Cisco ASA
9 17 (11.81%) EIGRP
10 16 (11.11%) VPN
11 15 (10.42%) HSRP
12 14 (9.72%) DNS
13 13 (9.03%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
14 12 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
14 12 (8.33%) MPLS
15 11 (7.64%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (6.94%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.08%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.69%) JIRA
General
1 34 (23.61%) Banking
2 31 (21.53%) Finance
3 17 (11.81%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.03%) Social Skills
5 8 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.78%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.39%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.39%) Legal
8 2 (1.39%) Military
9 1 (0.69%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.56%) Jinja
2 5 (3.47%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.39%) HTML
4 1 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.69%) JSON
4 1 (0.69%) Web Services
4 1 (0.69%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.58%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.17%) PKI
3 2 (1.39%) Hedge funds
3 2 (1.39%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (0.69%) CMDB
4 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.69%) Life Science
4 1 (0.69%) NHS
4 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.47%) Linux
2 3 (2.08%) Windows
3 2 (1.39%) Unix
4 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (21.53%) Migration
2 25 (17.36%) B2B
3 18 (12.50%) Change Management
4 14 (9.72%) Network Management
4 14 (9.72%) Service Delivery
5 13 (9.03%) DevOps
5 13 (9.03%) ITIL
5 13 (9.03%) Network Design
6 12 (8.33%) Roadmaps
7 10 (6.94%) Low Latency
8 9 (6.25%) Computer Science
8 9 (6.25%) ITSM
8 9 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (5.56%) Availability Management
10 7 (4.86%) Line Management
10 7 (4.86%) Load Balancing
10 7 (4.86%) Network Architecture
11 6 (4.17%) Impact Analysis
12 5 (3.47%) Knowledge Transfer
12 5 (3.47%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.11%) Python
2 8 (5.56%) Perl
2 8 (5.56%) Tcl
3 2 (1.39%) C#
3 2 (1.39%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (45.14%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 34 (23.61%) CCNP
4 23 (15.97%) CCNA
5 18 (12.50%) DV Cleared
6 13 (9.03%) SC Cleared
7 6 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.17%) CCIE
7 6 (4.17%) Degree
8 5 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.47%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.69%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 10 (6.94%) Firmware
2 2 (1.39%) Squid
2 2 (1.39%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (6.25%) Ansible
2 8 (5.56%) Terraform
3 7 (4.86%) SolarWinds Orion
4 6 (4.17%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.39%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (1.39%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.39%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.39%) Stealthwatch
6 1 (0.69%) Netcool
Vendors
1 97 (67.36%) Cisco
2 34 (23.61%) CheckPoint
3 30 (20.83%) Arista
4 29 (20.14%) Palo Alto
5 19 (13.19%) SolarWinds
6 16 (11.11%) Juniper
7 12 (8.33%) F5
8 10 (6.94%) Fortinet
8 10 (6.94%) Microsoft
9 9 (6.25%) Citrix
10 7 (4.86%) Google
11 6 (4.17%) Infoblox
12 3 (2.08%) Forcepoint
13 2 (1.39%) Barracuda Networks
13 2 (1.39%) Blue Coat
13 2 (1.39%) Dell
13 2 (1.39%) HP
13 2 (1.39%) Meraki
13 2 (1.39%) Splunk
13 2 (1.39%) VMware
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