Network Engineer Contracts in London

Network Engineer
England > London

The median Network Engineer daily rate in London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 242 286
Rank change year-on-year +109 +44 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 325 295 374
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.83% 1.09% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 1.14% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 200 243
10th Percentile £318 £350 £313
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +21.95%
75th Percentile £552 £625 £575
90th Percentile £660 £675 £725
England median daily rate £470 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.44% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile £24.15 - £22.58
25th Percentile £33.06 £30.38 £26.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +150.00% -54.29%
75th Percentile £41.25 - £42.10
90th Percentile £44.13 - £46.89
England median hourly rate £40.00 £62.62 £28.41
% change year-on-year -36.12% +120.40% -28.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,505 25,769 37,084
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,930 18,667 27,033
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London +15 25 £488 - 13
East London - 8 £360 -
West London +13 5 £375 -37.50% 8
North London +2 1 £550 - 1
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 183 (56.31%) Cisco
2 166 (51.08%) Firewall
3 118 (36.31%) Cisco Certification
4 92 (28.31%) CCNP
4 92 (28.31%) BGP
5 74 (22.77%) WAN
6 72 (22.15%) Network Security
6 72 (22.15%) Data Centre
6 72 (22.15%) Palo Alto
7 69 (21.23%) OSPF
8 65 (20.00%) VPN
9 62 (19.08%) LAN
10 61 (18.77%) MPLS
11 59 (18.15%) F5
12 57 (17.54%) Social Skills
13 55 (16.92%) Security Cleared
14 54 (16.62%) Python
15 49 (15.08%) Wireless
15 49 (15.08%) Finance
16 44 (13.54%) Fortinet
17 43 (13.23%) Network Design
17 43 (13.23%) CCNA
18 40 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
19 39 (12.00%) Juniper
19 39 (12.00%) DNS
20 37 (11.38%) Cisco Nexus
21 36 (11.08%) CCIE
22 35 (10.77%) Azure
23 34 (10.46%) IPsec
23 34 (10.46%) CheckPoint

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.62%) nginx
2 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.31%) Confluence
3 1 (0.31%) IIS
3 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.46%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.31%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 35 (10.77%) Azure
2 33 (10.15%) AWS
3 10 (3.08%) GCP
4 9 (2.77%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (1.54%) Akamai
5 5 (1.54%) OCI
5 5 (1.54%) WhatsApp
6 4 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.62%) GitHub
7 2 (0.62%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.31%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.31%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.31%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.31%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.31%) SaaS
8 1 (0.31%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 166 (51.08%) Firewall
2 92 (28.31%) BGP
3 74 (22.77%) WAN
4 72 (22.15%) Network Security
5 69 (21.23%) OSPF
6 65 (20.00%) VPN
7 62 (19.08%) LAN
8 61 (18.77%) MPLS
9 49 (15.08%) Wireless
10 39 (12.00%) DNS
11 37 (11.38%) Cisco Nexus
12 34 (10.46%) IPsec
13 31 (9.54%) Cisco ASA
14 30 (9.23%) SD-WAN
15 26 (8.00%) EIGRP
15 26 (8.00%) TCP/IP
16 24 (7.38%) Internet
17 22 (6.77%) DHCP
17 22 (6.77%) VLAN
18 20 (6.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.92%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (0.31%) QGIS
2 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (5.23%) Git
2 10 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.62%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.31%) JIRA
4 1 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 57 (17.54%) Social Skills
2 49 (15.08%) Finance
3 30 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 24 (7.38%) Banking
5 22 (6.77%) Telecoms
6 18 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.77%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.46%) Marketing
9 5 (1.54%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.92%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.92%) Legal
10 3 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.62%) Military
11 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Retail
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Aviation
12 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.92%) NETCONF
2 15 (4.62%) JSON
3 14 (4.31%) XML
3 14 (4.31%) YANG
4 9 (2.77%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.62%) .NET
5 2 (0.62%) HTML
5 2 (0.62%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.31%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.31%) gRPC
6 1 (0.31%) LAMP
6 1 (0.31%) LDAP
6 1 (0.31%) React
6 1 (0.31%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.31%) XMPP
6 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (22.15%) Data Centre
2 8 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (1.85%) PKI
4 6 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.54%) Clustering
5 5 (1.54%) Social Media
6 4 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.23%) NHS
7 3 (0.92%) Device Driver
7 3 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.92%) Hedge funds
7 3 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.62%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.62%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.62%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.62%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.62%) Replication
9 1 (0.31%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.85%) Linux
2 15 (4.62%) Windows
3 9 (2.77%) Unix
3 9 (2.77%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.31%) CentOS
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) VMS
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (13.23%) Network Design
2 40 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (9.23%) Roadmaps
4 28 (8.62%) Load Balancing
5 23 (7.08%) Migration
6 22 (6.77%) Change Management
6 22 (6.77%) DevOps
7 19 (5.85%) Service Delivery
8 18 (5.54%) Computer Science
8 18 (5.54%) Configuration Management
9 17 (5.23%) High Availability
10 15 (4.62%) Network Monitoring
10 15 (4.62%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 14 (4.31%) Low Latency
11 14 (4.31%) Network Architecture
12 13 (4.00%) Agile
12 13 (4.00%) Customer Service
12 13 (4.00%) ITIL
13 12 (3.69%) Business Strategy
14 10 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (16.62%) Python
2 8 (2.46%) Bash
3 7 (2.15%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.15%) SQL
4 6 (1.85%) Perl
5 4 (1.23%) C#
6 3 (0.92%) C
6 3 (0.92%) C++
6 3 (0.92%) Go
7 2 (0.62%) Java
7 2 (0.62%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.62%) Ruby
8 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 118 (36.31%) Cisco Certification
2 92 (28.31%) CCNP
3 55 (16.92%) Security Cleared
4 43 (13.23%) CCNA
5 36 (11.08%) CCIE
6 31 (9.54%) DV Cleared
7 26 (8.00%) SC Cleared
8 22 (6.77%) Degree
9 13 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (2.46%) JNCIA
11 7 (2.15%) AWS Certification
11 7 (2.15%) CCDP
12 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.54%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.54%) CISSP
13 4 (1.23%) JNCIP
14 3 (0.92%) JNCIE
15 2 (0.62%) BC Cleared
15 2 (0.62%) CEH
15 2 (0.62%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.00%) SLA
2 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 8 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.85%) Firmware
2 6 (1.85%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.54%) vSphere
4 4 (1.23%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.92%) KVM
6 2 (0.62%) Docker
6 2 (0.62%) Squid
7 1 (0.31%) PowerDNS
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 24 (7.38%) Ansible
2 21 (6.46%) FortiGate
3 11 (3.38%) Terraform
4 5 (1.54%) SolarWinds Orion
5 3 (0.92%) Kibana
5 3 (0.92%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.92%) Stealthwatch
6 2 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (0.62%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.62%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (0.62%) Nmap
6 2 (0.62%) OpenNMS
6 2 (0.62%) Puppet
6 2 (0.62%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.31%) CASB
7 1 (0.31%) Grafana
7 1 (0.31%) NetMRI
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) SCCM
7 1 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 183 (56.31%) Cisco
2 72 (22.15%) Palo Alto
3 59 (18.15%) F5
4 44 (13.54%) Fortinet
5 39 (12.00%) Juniper
6 34 (10.46%) CheckPoint
7 28 (8.62%) Nokia
8 24 (7.38%) Arista
9 23 (7.08%) Microsoft
10 22 (6.77%) Infoblox
11 19 (5.85%) SolarWinds
12 18 (5.54%) Aruba
13 16 (4.92%) VMware
14 10 (3.08%) Meraki
15 9 (2.77%) Zscaler
16 7 (2.15%) Blue Coat
17 6 (1.85%) Google
17 6 (1.85%) Splunk
18 5 (1.54%) Avaya
18 5 (1.54%) Huawei