The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Network Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Network Engineer
Rank 362 385 416
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 15 30 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.069% 0.111% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.120% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 15
Average daily rate £363 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.44% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £326 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £500 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £401 £350 £328
% change year-on-year
+14.64% +6.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year
- -62.50%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Network Engineer
England

Senior Network Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Senior Network Engineer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Senior Network Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Senior Network Engineer across the London region.

London Senior Network Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Network Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Senior Network Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Senior Network Engineer across the London region.

London Senior Network Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Network Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Network Engineer within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +6 1 - -
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Senior Network Engineer
England

Senior Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Senior Network Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Senior Network Engineer in their job title.

1 28 (82.35%) Cisco
2 16 (47.06%) LAN
3 15 (44.12%) WAN
4 14 (41.18%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (32.35%) Cisco Nexus
6 10 (29.41%) Firewall
6 10 (29.41%) BGP
6 10 (29.41%) CCNP
7 9 (26.47%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (23.53%) CCNA
8 8 (23.53%) Juniper
8 8 (23.53%) MPLS
9 7 (20.59%) Wireless
9 7 (20.59%) TCP/IP
9 7 (20.59%) VPN
10 6 (17.65%) CheckPoint
10 6 (17.65%) OSPF
10 6 (17.65%) CCIE
10 6 (17.65%) F5
11 5 (14.71%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (14.71%) VLAN
11 5 (14.71%) Citrix
12 4 (11.76%) Finance
12 4 (11.76%) Migration
12 4 (11.76%) EIGRP
12 4 (11.76%) Network Security
12 4 (11.76%) Network Design
12 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
13 3 (8.824%) SC Cleared
13 3 (8.824%) NetScaler

Senior Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Senior Network Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Senior Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.941%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.941%) GroupWise
Communications & Networking
1 16 (47.06%) LAN
2 15 (44.12%) WAN
3 11 (32.35%) Cisco Nexus
4 10 (29.41%) Firewall
4 10 (29.41%) BGP
5 9 (26.47%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (23.53%) MPLS
7 7 (20.59%) Wireless
7 7 (20.59%) TCP/IP
7 7 (20.59%) VPN
8 6 (17.65%) OSPF
9 5 (14.71%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (14.71%) VLAN
10 4 (11.76%) EIGRP
10 4 (11.76%) Network Security
11 3 (8.824%) NetScaler
11 3 (8.824%) IPv6
12 2 (5.882%) VoIP
12 2 (5.882%) WLAN
12 2 (5.882%) SSL
General
1 4 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (5.882%) Banking
2 2 (5.882%) Retail
3 1 (2.941%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.941%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.941%) FMCG
1 1 (2.941%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.941%) e-Health
1 1 (2.941%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.882%) Windows
2 1 (2.941%) NetWare
2 1 (2.941%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (11.76%) Migration
1 4 (11.76%) Network Design
2 3 (8.824%) ITIL
3 2 (5.882%) Investment Management
3 2 (5.882%) Load Balancing
3 2 (5.882%) Network Architecture
3 2 (5.882%) Network Management
3 2 (5.882%) Change Control
4 1 (2.941%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (2.941%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (2.941%) Supplier Management
4 1 (2.941%) Problem Management
4 1 (2.941%) Communications Security
4 1 (2.941%) Kanban
4 1 (2.941%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (2.941%) Scrum
4 1 (2.941%) Service Management
4 1 (2.941%) Service Delivery
4 1 (2.941%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.941%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (41.18%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (29.41%) CCNP
3 8 (23.53%) CCNA
4 6 (17.65%) CCIE
5 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
6 3 (8.824%) SC Cleared
7 2 (5.882%) CCVP
7 2 (5.882%) HP APS
8 1 (2.941%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.941%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.941%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.941%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.941%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (5.882%) OpenView
2 1 (2.941%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (2.941%) WhatsUp Gold
2 1 (2.941%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 28 (82.35%) Cisco
2 8 (23.53%) Juniper
3 6 (17.65%) CheckPoint
3 6 (17.65%) F5
4 5 (14.71%) Citrix
5 3 (8.824%) VMware
6 2 (5.882%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.882%) HP
6 2 (5.882%) BT
6 2 (5.882%) Radianz
6 2 (5.882%) Websense
6 2 (5.882%) Riverbed
7 1 (2.941%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.941%) Tufin
7 1 (2.941%) Verint
7 1 (2.941%) Brocade
7 1 (2.941%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.941%) IronPort
7 1 (2.941%) Mitel
7 1 (2.941%) Avaya
City of London
Technically you will have strong working experience and knowledge of Cisco, routing and switching, LAN, WAN, MAN, WLAN, Cisco FWSM, ASA, Fortinet, Firewalls, Cisco PIX and Juniper NetScreen...
DP Connect Ltd
Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Cisco routers and switches (IOS, IOS XE and CatOS), utilising IP,EIGRP,BGP and Multicast. Checkpoint and Nokia firewalls. VPN... Network Management (SNMP, Netflow, IP SLA, Latency monitoring).
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013