Network Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Network Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Network Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 71 109
Rank change year-on-year +23 +38 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 100 103 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.65% 2.98% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.97% 3.15% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 67 69
10th Percentile £263 £263 £180
25th Percentile £294 £313 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £357
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.04% +9.85%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £438
90th Percentile £625 £538 £478
England median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £18.63 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £63.23 £28.41
% change year-on-year -36.74% +122.56% -28.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,522 3,270 4,862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 94.54% 95.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,704 2,299 3,556
10th Percentile £213 £224 £205
25th Percentile £325 £363 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +3.66% +14.56%
75th Percentile £588 £579 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 130 179
10th Percentile £11.84 £11.98 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.13 £13.74
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.92% +12.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.38 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.80 £60.50 £32.10
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the Midlands

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in the Midlands

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in the Midlands

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in the Midlands

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
West Midlands +30 81 £350 -6.67% 29
East Midlands +11 19 £438 +26.81% 8
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 Midlands region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 49 (49.00%) Juniper
1 49 (49.00%) Security Cleared
2 42 (42.00%) WAN
3 40 (40.00%) Cisco
3 40 (40.00%) MPLS
4 37 (37.00%) IPsec
5 34 (34.00%) SC Cleared
6 31 (31.00%) Firewall
7 28 (28.00%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (27.00%) BGP
9 26 (26.00%) CCNA
10 19 (19.00%) PKI
11 18 (18.00%) VPN
12 17 (17.00%) LAN
13 15 (15.00%) F5
14 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
14 14 (14.00%) Wireless
15 13 (13.00%) DNS
15 13 (13.00%) Cisco Nexus
16 12 (12.00%) Aruba
16 12 (12.00%) Social Skills
16 12 (12.00%) CCNP
16 12 (12.00%) Load Balancing
17 11 (11.00%) FortiGate
17 11 (11.00%) Data Centre
18 10 (10.00%) Fortinet
18 10 (10.00%) DHCP
18 10 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
19 9 (9.00%) Palo Alto
19 9 (9.00%) Junos

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (2.00%) IIS
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (2.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.00%) Azure
2 5 (5.00%) AWS
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 42 (42.00%) WAN
2 40 (40.00%) MPLS
3 37 (37.00%) IPsec
4 31 (31.00%) Firewall
5 27 (27.00%) BGP
6 18 (18.00%) VPN
7 17 (17.00%) LAN
8 14 (14.00%) Wireless
9 13 (13.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 13 (13.00%) DNS
10 10 (10.00%) DHCP
10 10 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (9.00%) Junos
12 7 (7.00%) Network Security
13 5 (5.00%) Ethereal
13 5 (5.00%) Ethernet
13 5 (5.00%) SAN
13 5 (5.00%) TCP/IP
13 5 (5.00%) Wireshark
14 4 (4.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
2 12 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.00%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.00%) Legal
5 2 (2.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.00%) Aviation
5 2 (2.00%) Law
6 1 (1.00%) Banking
6 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Finance
6 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.00%) LAMP
2 1 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.00%) PKI
2 11 (11.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.00%) Replication
4 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.00%) Linux
1 3 (3.00%) Ubuntu
1 3 (3.00%) Windows
1 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.00%) VMS
2 2 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.00%) CentOS
3 1 (1.00%) Debian
3 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (12.00%) Load Balancing
2 7 (7.00%) Network Architecture
3 6 (6.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (6.00%) Network Design
4 5 (5.00%) Agile
4 5 (5.00%) Data Protection
4 5 (5.00%) ITIL
5 4 (4.00%) Change Management
5 4 (4.00%) High Availability
5 4 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (3.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (3.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (3.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (3.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (3.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (2.00%) Architectural Design
7 2 (2.00%) Cloud Security
7 2 (2.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (2.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 49 (49.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (34.00%) SC Cleared
3 28 (28.00%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (26.00%) CCNA
5 12 (12.00%) CCNP
6 7 (7.00%) Degree
7 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.00%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.00%) CCIE
8 1 (1.00%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.00%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.00%) vSphere
3 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (11.00%) FortiGate
2 5 (5.00%) Ansible
2 5 (5.00%) OpenView
2 5 (5.00%) Terraform
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (49.00%) Juniper
2 40 (40.00%) Cisco
3 15 (15.00%) F5
4 12 (12.00%) Aruba
5 10 (10.00%) Fortinet
6 9 (9.00%) Palo Alto
7 7 (7.00%) SolarWinds
8 5 (5.00%) CheckPoint
9 4 (4.00%) HP
9 4 (4.00%) VMware
10 3 (3.00%) Microsoft
10 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.00%) ProCurve
11 2 (2.00%) Synology
11 2 (2.00%) Veeam
11 2 (2.00%) Zerto
12 1 (1.00%) Blue Coat
12 1 (1.00%) Mitel
12 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
12 1 (1.00%) ZyXEL