Network Management Contracts in the North of England

Network Management
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Network Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 204 207
Rank change year-on-year +40 +3 -43
Contract jobs citing Network Management 21 13 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.22% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.25% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 17
10th Percentile £437 £196 £166
25th Percentile £483 - £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £200 £400
Median % change year-on-year +157.50% -50.00% +81.82%
75th Percentile £529 £486 £448
90th Percentile £636 £501 £608
England median daily rate £515 £485 £475
% change year-on-year +6.22% +2.11% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.88
25th Percentile - - £30.73
Median hourly rate - - £43.82
75th Percentile - - £56.91
90th Percentile - - £64.76
England median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £43.74
% change year-on-year +3.70% +54.32% +74.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Network Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,026 5,268 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.69% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 3,659 4,646
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 207 257
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.45%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £29.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.07
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in the North of England

Network Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Management in the North of England

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in the North of England

Network Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Management in the North of England

Network Management
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 Management within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 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 +32 17 £514 +156.88% 10
Yorkshire - 4 £650 - 8
Network Management
England

Network Management
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 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (85.71%) Firewall
2 15 (71.43%) Cisco ISE
2 15 (71.43%) NetScaler
3 14 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (61.90%) BGP
4 13 (61.90%) Cisco ASA
4 13 (61.90%) Cisco Firepower
4 13 (61.90%) EIGRP
4 13 (61.90%) HSRP
4 13 (61.90%) IPsec
4 13 (61.90%) OSPF
5 12 (57.14%) SNMP
5 12 (57.14%) Spanning Tree
6 6 (28.57%) WAN
7 4 (19.05%) Network Security
7 4 (19.05%) SD-WAN
8 2 (9.52%) LAN
8 2 (9.52%) Wireless
8 2 (9.52%) WLAN
General
1 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.76%) Banking
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (85.71%) Network Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) Senior
2 9 (42.86%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Network Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Network Support
5 1 (4.76%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) Jinja
2 2 (9.52%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Change Management
1 14 (66.67%) ITIL
2 12 (57.14%) DevOps
2 12 (57.14%) ITSM
3 2 (9.52%) Agile
3 2 (9.52%) Business Transformation
3 2 (9.52%) Capacity Management
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (9.52%) Load Balancing
3 2 (9.52%) Migration
3 2 (9.52%) Network Architecture
3 2 (9.52%) Network Design
3 2 (9.52%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
4 1 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (4.76%) Contract Negotiation
4 1 (4.76%) Due Diligence
4 1 (4.76%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Perl
1 12 (57.14%) Python
1 12 (57.14%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 16 (76.19%) SC Cleared
1 16 (76.19%) Security Cleared
2 12 (57.14%) CCNA
2 12 (57.14%) CCNP
2 12 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) Firmware
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (85.71%) Cisco
2 15 (71.43%) Palo Alto
2 15 (71.43%) SolarWinds
3 13 (61.90%) Citrix
4 4 (19.05%) Meraki
5 2 (9.52%) Aruba
5 2 (9.52%) Juniper
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.52%) Zscaler