Network Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Network Engineer
England > North of England

The median Network Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £433 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 96 122
Rank change year-on-year +31 +26 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 135 132 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.88% 2.31% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.09% 2.43% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 90 77
10th Percentile £301 £213 £230
25th Percentile £350 £288 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £375 £413
Median % change year-on-year +15.33% -9.09% +26.92%
75th Percentile £515 £486 £500
90th Percentile £538 £531 £575
England median daily rate £470 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.44% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £46.00 - £15.75
25th Percentile £71.25 - £16.97
Median hourly rate £72.50 - £28.68
75th Percentile £73.75 - £49.15
90th Percentile - - £61.66
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
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,373 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,731 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £382 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 155 280
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the North of England

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in the North of England

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in the North of England

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in the North of England

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Engineer in the North of England

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +24 102 £437 +16.49% 29
Yorkshire +16 21 £205 -45.33% 17
North East +26 12 £400 -7.51% 5
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 8 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 North of England region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (58.52%) Cisco
2 50 (37.04%) Cisco Certification
3 41 (30.37%) Firewall
4 40 (29.63%) CCNP
4 40 (29.63%) CCNA
5 38 (28.15%) Security Cleared
6 37 (27.41%) SC Cleared
6 37 (27.41%) Wireless
7 32 (23.70%) Palo Alto
8 31 (22.96%) OSPF
8 31 (22.96%) WAN
9 30 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
10 27 (20.00%) SD-WAN
10 27 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (19.26%) ITSM
12 25 (18.52%) Finance
13 24 (17.78%) Social Skills
13 24 (17.78%) Data Centre
14 23 (17.04%) LAN
15 22 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (15.56%) VPN
16 21 (15.56%) Change Management
16 21 (15.56%) BGP
17 20 (14.81%) Juniper
18 19 (14.07%) Citrix
18 19 (14.07%) SolarWinds
19 18 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
19 18 (13.33%) DMZ
19 18 (13.33%) Network Management
19 18 (13.33%) F5

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 13 (9.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.59%) AWS
1 17 (12.59%) Azure
2 8 (5.93%) GCP
3 3 (2.22%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (1.48%) SaaS
5 1 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.74%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.74%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 41 (30.37%) Firewall
2 37 (27.41%) Wireless
3 31 (22.96%) OSPF
3 31 (22.96%) WAN
4 30 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 27 (20.00%) SD-WAN
5 27 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (17.04%) LAN
7 21 (15.56%) BGP
7 21 (15.56%) VPN
8 18 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
8 18 (13.33%) DMZ
9 17 (12.59%) EIGRP
10 15 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
10 15 (11.11%) NetScaler
11 14 (10.37%) IPsec
12 13 (9.63%) Cisco Firepower
12 13 (9.63%) Cisco IOS
12 13 (9.63%) HSRP
13 12 (8.89%) Spanning Tree
Development Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.74%) JIRA
General
1 25 (18.52%) Finance
2 24 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.70%) Banking
5 5 (3.70%) Legal
6 4 (2.96%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.96%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.48%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.48%) Law
8 1 (0.74%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.74%) Police
8 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.89%) Jinja
2 2 (1.48%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.74%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.78%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.19%) Driving Licence
3 4 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.48%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.74%) CCTV
5 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.93%) Linux
2 7 (5.19%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) CentOS
3 1 (0.74%) Debian
3 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (19.26%) ITSM
2 22 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (15.56%) Change Management
4 18 (13.33%) Network Management
5 16 (11.85%) ITIL
6 13 (9.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (8.89%) DevOps
8 10 (7.41%) Network Monitoring
9 8 (5.93%) Network Design
10 7 (5.19%) Customer Service
10 7 (5.19%) High Availability
10 7 (5.19%) Migration
11 6 (4.44%) Break/Fix
11 6 (4.44%) Computer Science
12 5 (3.70%) Infrastructure Transformation
12 5 (3.70%) Load Balancing
13 4 (2.96%) Incident Response
13 4 (2.96%) Network Virtualisation
14 3 (2.22%) Performance Management
14 3 (2.22%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.59%) Python
2 12 (8.89%) Perl
2 12 (8.89%) Tcl
3 1 (0.74%) ActionScript
3 1 (0.74%) Java
3 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 50 (37.04%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (29.63%) CCNA
2 40 (29.63%) CCNP
3 38 (28.15%) Security Cleared
4 37 (27.41%) SC Cleared
5 9 (6.67%) CCIE
6 6 (4.44%) Degree
7 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.96%) JNCIA
7 4 (2.96%) VCAP
8 3 (2.22%) JNCIS
9 2 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.48%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.74%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.96%) SLA
2 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (12.59%) Firmware
2 7 (5.19%) Hyper-V
2 7 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (12.59%) Ansible
2 4 (2.96%) Terraform
3 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 79 (58.52%) Cisco
2 32 (23.70%) Palo Alto
3 20 (14.81%) Juniper
4 19 (14.07%) Citrix
4 19 (14.07%) SolarWinds
5 18 (13.33%) F5
6 16 (11.85%) Meraki
7 15 (11.11%) Aruba
8 8 (5.93%) Brocade
8 8 (5.93%) VMware
9 6 (4.44%) 3Com
10 5 (3.70%) Fortinet
10 5 (3.70%) Zscaler
11 4 (2.96%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (2.22%) CheckPoint
12 3 (2.22%) Google
13 2 (1.48%) HP
13 2 (1.48%) Microsoft
13 2 (1.48%) Tufin
13 2 (1.48%) WatchGuard