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 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 232 280
Rank change year-on-year +93 +48 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 316 287 385
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.80% 1.09% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 1.15% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 190 249
10th Percentile £313 £350 £313
25th Percentile £375 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £556 £623 £575
90th Percentile £665 £675 £725
England median daily rate £470 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.44% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 7
10th Percentile £23.95 - £21.60
25th Percentile £30.06 £30.38 £25.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +145.61% -53.47%
75th Percentile £41.25 - £43.46
90th Percentile - - £47.13
England median hourly rate £40.00 £63.23 £28.41
% change year-on-year -36.74% +122.56% -28.08%

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 16,398 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,880 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.25 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.78% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 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
Central London +17 25 £488 - 15
East London - 7 £200 -
West London +13 5 £375 -37.50% 7
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 179 (56.65%) Cisco
2 164 (51.90%) Firewall
3 113 (35.76%) Cisco Certification
4 89 (28.16%) CCNP
5 84 (26.58%) BGP
6 71 (22.47%) WAN
6 71 (22.47%) Palo Alto
7 66 (20.89%) Network Security
8 64 (20.25%) OSPF
9 63 (19.94%) Data Centre
9 63 (19.94%) F5
10 59 (18.67%) Social Skills
10 59 (18.67%) LAN
10 59 (18.67%) VPN
11 57 (18.04%) Security Cleared
12 56 (17.72%) MPLS
13 53 (16.77%) Finance
14 49 (15.51%) Fortinet
15 47 (14.87%) Wireless
16 46 (14.56%) Python
17 44 (13.92%) CCNA
18 39 (12.34%) DNS
18 39 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
18 39 (12.34%) Cisco Nexus
19 36 (11.39%) Juniper
19 36 (11.39%) CheckPoint
20 34 (10.76%) Network Design
20 34 (10.76%) IPsec
20 34 (10.76%) CCIE
21 33 (10.44%) DV Cleared

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 2 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
1 2 (0.63%) IIS
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.63%) nginx
1 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.32%) Confluence
2 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.53%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.32%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.32%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 33 (10.44%) AWS
1 33 (10.44%) Azure
2 10 (3.16%) GCP
3 8 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (1.58%) Akamai
4 5 (1.58%) OCI
4 5 (1.58%) WhatsApp
5 3 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (0.63%) GitHub
7 1 (0.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.32%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.32%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.32%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.32%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.32%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.32%) SaaS
7 1 (0.32%) Vertex AI
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 164 (51.90%) Firewall
2 84 (26.58%) BGP
3 71 (22.47%) WAN
4 66 (20.89%) Network Security
5 64 (20.25%) OSPF
6 59 (18.67%) LAN
6 59 (18.67%) VPN
7 56 (17.72%) MPLS
8 47 (14.87%) Wireless
9 39 (12.34%) Cisco Nexus
9 39 (12.34%) DNS
10 34 (10.76%) IPsec
11 32 (10.13%) SD-WAN
12 28 (8.86%) Cisco ASA
13 24 (7.59%) TCP/IP
14 23 (7.28%) EIGRP
15 22 (6.96%) DHCP
15 22 (6.96%) Internet
16 19 (6.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 18 (5.70%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.95%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (0.32%) QGIS
2 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (4.43%) Git
2 11 (3.48%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.32%) JIRA
4 1 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 59 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.77%) Finance
3 31 (9.81%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.54%) Banking
5 21 (6.65%) Telecoms
6 18 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.53%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.53%) Marketing
8 6 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.95%) Legal
9 3 (0.95%) Military
9 3 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.95%) Retail
10 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Advertising
11 1 (0.32%) Aviation
11 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.11%) NETCONF
2 12 (3.80%) JSON
3 11 (3.48%) XML
3 11 (3.48%) YANG
4 9 (2.85%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.63%) .NET
5 2 (0.63%) HTML
5 2 (0.63%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.32%) gRPC
6 1 (0.32%) LAMP
6 1 (0.32%) LDAP
6 1 (0.32%) OAuth
6 1 (0.32%) OpenID
6 1 (0.32%) React
6 1 (0.32%) SAML
6 1 (0.32%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.32%) XMPP
6 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (19.94%) Data Centre
2 8 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (1.90%) PKI
4 6 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.58%) Clustering
5 5 (1.58%) Social Media
6 4 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.27%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.27%) NHS
7 3 (0.95%) Device Driver
7 3 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.63%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.63%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.63%) Replication
9 1 (0.32%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.70%) Linux
2 14 (4.43%) Windows
3 10 (3.16%) Unix
4 8 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.32%) CentOS
7 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.32%) VMS
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (10.76%) Network Design
3 28 (8.86%) Load Balancing
3 28 (8.86%) Roadmaps
4 23 (7.28%) Migration
5 22 (6.96%) Change Management
6 20 (6.33%) DevOps
6 20 (6.33%) Service Delivery
7 19 (6.01%) Computer Science
8 16 (5.06%) Configuration Management
9 15 (4.75%) Low Latency
10 14 (4.43%) High Availability
10 14 (4.43%) Network Monitoring
11 13 (4.11%) Agile
11 13 (4.11%) Customer Service
12 12 (3.80%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 11 (3.48%) ITIL
14 10 (3.16%) Incident Management
14 10 (3.16%) Network Architecture
14 10 (3.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.56%) Python
2 8 (2.53%) Bash
3 7 (2.22%) SQL
4 6 (1.90%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.27%) C#
5 4 (1.27%) Perl
6 3 (0.95%) C
6 3 (0.95%) C++
6 3 (0.95%) Go
7 2 (0.63%) Java
7 2 (0.63%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.63%) Ruby
8 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 113 (35.76%) Cisco Certification
2 89 (28.16%) CCNP
3 57 (18.04%) Security Cleared
4 44 (13.92%) CCNA
5 34 (10.76%) CCIE
6 33 (10.44%) DV Cleared
7 26 (8.23%) SC Cleared
8 20 (6.33%) Degree
9 13 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (2.53%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.53%) JNCIA
11 7 (2.22%) CCDP
12 5 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.58%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.58%) CISSP
13 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.63%) RHCE
13 2 (0.63%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.43%) SLA
2 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 8 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.90%) Firmware
2 6 (1.90%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.58%) vSphere
4 4 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.95%) Docker
5 3 (0.95%) KVM
6 2 (0.63%) Squid
7 1 (0.32%) PowerDNS
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (7.59%) Ansible
2 20 (6.33%) FortiGate
3 11 (3.48%) Terraform
4 5 (1.58%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (1.27%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.95%) Kibana
6 3 (0.95%) Puppet
6 3 (0.95%) Stealthwatch
7 2 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (0.63%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.63%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.63%) Nmap
7 2 (0.63%) OpenNMS
7 2 (0.63%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.32%) CASB
8 1 (0.32%) Grafana
8 1 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 179 (56.65%) Cisco
2 71 (22.47%) Palo Alto
3 63 (19.94%) F5
4 49 (15.51%) Fortinet
5 36 (11.39%) CheckPoint
5 36 (11.39%) Juniper
6 26 (8.23%) Arista
6 26 (8.23%) Nokia
7 22 (6.96%) Infoblox
7 22 (6.96%) Microsoft
8 20 (6.33%) SolarWinds
9 19 (6.01%) Aruba
10 15 (4.75%) VMware
11 10 (3.16%) Meraki
12 9 (2.85%) Zscaler
13 7 (2.22%) Blue Coat
13 7 (2.22%) Google
14 6 (1.90%) Splunk
15 5 (1.58%) Huawei
15 5 (1.58%) Riverbed