Network Engineer Contracts in Gloucestershire

Network Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £640 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 61 51
Rank change year-on-year +20 -10 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 12 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.81% 0.83% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.09% 0.89% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £293 £368 £263
25th Percentile £400 £469 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £550 £313
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% +76.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £699 £609 £375
90th Percentile £748 £671 £495
South West median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 388 449 513
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.87% 93.54% 95.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 313 414
10th Percentile £300 £321 £179
25th Percentile £425 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £588
90th Percentile £738 £713 £656
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 36 14
10th Percentile £15.20 £35.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £15.82 £49.38 £13.94
Median hourly rate £40.00 £71.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.06% +138.33% -40.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £79.33 £43.28
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.40 £53.50
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +41.30% +8.24%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Gloucestershire

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in Gloucestershire

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in Gloucestershire

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in Gloucestershire

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cheltenham +3 4 - -
Gloucester +19 3 £613 +104.17%
Filton - 2 £640 -
Tewkesbury - 1 £750 - 2
Network Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (83.33%) Cisco
3 7 (58.33%) LAN
3 7 (58.33%) DV Cleared
4 5 (41.67%) Network Security
4 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (33.33%) Operational Technology
5 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 4 (33.33%) Firewall
5 4 (33.33%) WAN
6 3 (25.00%) BGP
6 3 (25.00%) MPLS
7 2 (16.67%) SIEM
7 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
7 2 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
7 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (16.67%) Log Correlation
7 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
7 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
7 2 (16.67%) OSPF
7 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
7 2 (16.67%) Migration
7 2 (16.67%) Use Case
7 2 (16.67%) Network Design
7 2 (16.67%) JNCIP
7 2 (16.67%) EIGRP
7 2 (16.67%) IGRP

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) LAN
2 5 (41.67%) Network Security
3 4 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (33.33%) Firewall
3 4 (33.33%) WAN
4 3 (25.00%) BGP
4 3 (25.00%) MPLS
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (16.67%) EIGRP
5 2 (16.67%) IGRP
5 2 (16.67%) OSPF
5 2 (16.67%) RIP
5 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (8.33%) DMZ
6 1 (8.33%) Internet
6 1 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (8.33%) VPN
6 1 (8.33%) WLAN
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Police
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 2 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (8.33%) CMDB
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Log Correlation
1 2 (16.67%) Migration
1 2 (16.67%) Network Design
1 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
1 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (16.67%) SIEM
1 2 (16.67%) Use Case
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (8.33%) Hardware Maintenance
2 1 (8.33%) High Availability
2 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (8.33%) Validation
2 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) CCNA
4 2 (16.67%) CCNP
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (16.67%) JNCIP
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Juniper
2 2 (16.67%) Siemens
3 1 (8.33%) F5
3 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto