Senior Network Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Senior Network Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £514 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 199 213
Rank change year-on-year +33 +14 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 18 19 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.33% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.35% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 14
10th Percentile £425 £381 -
25th Percentile £473 £431 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £469 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% +17.19% -10.01%
75th Percentile £535 £525 £534
90th Percentile £600 £534 £550
England median daily rate £513 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +10.47%

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 4,358 5,416 6,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.40% 96.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,723 3,814 5,056
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £386 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £582 £599 £556
90th Percentile £674 £680 £639
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 158 289
10th Percentile £11.06 £14.25 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.74 £30.65 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.33% +61.30% +6.15%
75th Percentile £46.18 £50.06 £34.52
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.21 £58.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the North of England

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in the North of England

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the North of England

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in the North of England

Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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 +20 17 £514 +9.60% 6
Yorkshire +13 1 - - 1
Senior Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (83.33%) Cisco
2 13 (72.22%) CCNP
2 13 (72.22%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (66.67%) CCNA
4 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
4 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
4 11 (61.11%) SolarWinds
5 10 (55.56%) Palo Alto
5 10 (55.56%) Firewall
6 9 (50.00%) ITSM
6 9 (50.00%) IPsec
6 9 (50.00%) ITIL
6 9 (50.00%) Citrix
6 9 (50.00%) Firmware
6 9 (50.00%) OSPF
6 9 (50.00%) BGP
6 9 (50.00%) EIGRP
6 9 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (50.00%) HSRP
6 9 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
6 9 (50.00%) Change Management
6 9 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (50.00%) Network Management
6 9 (50.00%) NetScaler
7 8 (44.44%) Ansible
7 8 (44.44%) DevOps
7 8 (44.44%) Jinja
7 8 (44.44%) Spanning Tree
7 8 (44.44%) Tcl
7 8 (44.44%) Python

Senior 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:

Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) Firewall
2 9 (50.00%) BGP
2 9 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 9 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 9 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 9 (50.00%) HSRP
2 9 (50.00%) IPsec
2 9 (50.00%) NetScaler
2 9 (50.00%) OSPF
3 8 (44.44%) SNMP
3 8 (44.44%) Spanning Tree
3 8 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (22.22%) Network Security
4 4 (22.22%) Wireless
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
5 2 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (11.11%) WAN
6 1 (5.56%) VLAN
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Change Management
1 9 (50.00%) ITIL
1 9 (50.00%) ITSM
1 9 (50.00%) Network Management
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (11.11%) Performance Management
3 2 (11.11%) Test Planning
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.56%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (5.56%) Decision-Making
4 1 (5.56%) Feasibility Study
4 1 (5.56%) Information Security
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (5.56%) Network Architecture
4 1 (5.56%) Network Design
4 1 (5.56%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Perl
1 8 (44.44%) Python
1 8 (44.44%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) CCNP
1 13 (72.22%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (66.67%) CCNA
3 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
3 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Cisco
2 11 (61.11%) SolarWinds
3 10 (55.56%) Palo Alto
4 9 (50.00%) Citrix
5 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 2 (11.11%) Juniper
6 1 (5.56%) HP
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.56%) WatchGuard