Network Specialist Contracts in London

Network Specialist
England > London

The median Network Specialist daily rate in London is £825 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 481 581
Rank change year-on-year +125 +100 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Network Specialist 33 19 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.070% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.073% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 12
10th Percentile - £613 £193
25th Percentile £650 £650 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £800 £429
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +86.59% -14.25%
75th Percentile £875 £830 £513
90th Percentile £900 - £587
England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -

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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
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 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Network Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Specialist in London

Network Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Specialist in London

Network Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Specialist in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Specialist in London

Network Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Specialist in London

Network Specialist
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 Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 26 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 +46 5 £850 +58.14%
Network Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 London region featuring Network Specialist in the job title.

1 28 (84.85%) Firewall
2 24 (72.73%) Wireless
3 23 (69.70%) WLAN
3 23 (69.70%) VPN
4 22 (66.67%) LAN
5 21 (63.64%) BGP
5 21 (63.64%) WAN
5 21 (63.64%) Cisco
6 20 (60.61%) Juniper
6 20 (60.61%) OSPF
6 20 (60.61%) Security Cleared
6 20 (60.61%) Palo Alto
7 18 (54.55%) Threat Management
8 17 (51.52%) IPsec
8 17 (51.52%) PKI
8 17 (51.52%) Fortinet
9 16 (48.48%) Change Management
10 15 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (39.39%) SC Cleared
12 12 (36.36%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (33.33%) FortiGate
13 11 (33.33%) Extreme Networks
14 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 10 (30.30%) Agile
15 9 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
15 9 (27.27%) Migration
15 9 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
16 8 (24.24%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
16 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills

Network Specialist 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 1 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) JBoss
1 1 (3.03%) nginx
1 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (15.15%) AWS
3 2 (6.06%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 28 (84.85%) Firewall
2 24 (72.73%) Wireless
3 23 (69.70%) VPN
3 23 (69.70%) WLAN
4 22 (66.67%) LAN
5 21 (63.64%) BGP
5 21 (63.64%) WAN
6 20 (60.61%) OSPF
7 17 (51.52%) IPsec
8 12 (36.36%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (24.24%) Cisco Wireless
10 4 (12.12%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (3.03%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (3.03%) DNS
11 1 (3.03%) EIGRP
11 1 (3.03%) FCoE
11 1 (3.03%) Network Security
11 1 (3.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (3.03%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (51.52%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
1 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Threat Management
2 16 (48.48%) Change Management
3 15 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (30.30%) Agile
4 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (27.27%) Migration
5 9 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (24.24%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
7 7 (21.21%) Capacity Management
7 7 (21.21%) Service Delivery
8 6 (18.18%) Availability Management
8 6 (18.18%) Change Control
8 6 (18.18%) Compliance Management
8 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
9 5 (15.15%) Network Design
9 5 (15.15%) Security Testing
10 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
11 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (60.61%) Security Cleared
2 13 (39.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.21%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) CCIE
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 11 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 21 (63.64%) Cisco
2 20 (60.61%) Juniper
2 20 (60.61%) Palo Alto
3 17 (51.52%) Fortinet
4 11 (33.33%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (3.03%) IBM
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle
5 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.03%) Temenos