Network Engineer Contracts in the North West

Network Engineer
England > North West

The median Network Engineer daily rate in the North West is £437 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 62 93
Rank change year-on-year +20 +31 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 107 105 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.87% 3.27% 2.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.10% 3.45% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 72 48
10th Percentile £313 £263 £278
25th Percentile £378 £288 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £400 £405
Median % change year-on-year +9.21% -1.23% +29.60%
75th Percentile £515 £500 £509
90th Percentile £545 £525 £575
England median daily rate £470 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +2.17% +2.22% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £19.40
25th Percentile £71.25 - £26.09
Median hourly rate £72.50 - £39.73
75th Percentile £73.75 - £56.10
90th Percentile - - £64.44
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
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,607 3,043 3,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.71% 96.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 2,182 2,880
10th Percentile £280 £300 £207
25th Percentile £390 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +6.38% +10.59%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 135 174
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +10.74%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.25 £43.50
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the North West

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in the North West

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in the North West

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in the North West

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Manchester +35 67 £433 +1.76% 15
Cumbria -8 16 £514 +8.16% 1
Cheshire -9 15 £488 +39.29% 4
Merseyside +4 8 £295 -21.33% 2
Lancashire 0 1 £440 -12.00% 2
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 North West region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 61 (57.01%) Cisco
2 41 (38.32%) Cisco Certification
3 38 (35.51%) SC Cleared
3 38 (35.51%) Security Cleared
4 35 (32.71%) Wireless
5 33 (30.84%) Firewall
5 33 (30.84%) CCNA
5 33 (30.84%) Palo Alto
6 32 (29.91%) CCNP
7 28 (26.17%) OSPF
8 26 (24.30%) ITSM
9 25 (23.36%) Finance
10 22 (20.56%) Cisco Nexus
10 22 (20.56%) SD-WAN
11 21 (19.63%) WAN
12 20 (18.69%) VPN
12 20 (18.69%) Social Skills
13 19 (17.76%) Data Centre
13 19 (17.76%) DMZ
14 18 (16.82%) BGP
14 18 (16.82%) SolarWinds
14 18 (16.82%) F5
15 17 (15.89%) Azure
15 17 (15.89%) AWS
15 17 (15.89%) Ansible
16 16 (14.95%) Change Management
16 16 (14.95%) Python
16 16 (14.95%) Network Management
17 15 (14.02%) NetScaler
17 15 (14.02%) Cisco ISE

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (12.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 17 (15.89%) AWS
1 17 (15.89%) Azure
2 7 (6.54%) GCP
3 3 (2.80%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 35 (32.71%) Wireless
2 33 (30.84%) Firewall
3 28 (26.17%) OSPF
4 22 (20.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 22 (20.56%) SD-WAN
5 21 (19.63%) WAN
6 20 (18.69%) VPN
7 19 (17.76%) DMZ
8 18 (16.82%) BGP
9 15 (14.02%) Cisco ISE
9 15 (14.02%) EIGRP
9 15 (14.02%) LAN
9 15 (14.02%) NetScaler
9 15 (14.02%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (12.15%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (12.15%) Cisco Firepower
10 13 (12.15%) Cisco IOS
10 13 (12.15%) HSRP
10 13 (12.15%) IPsec
11 12 (11.21%) Spanning Tree
Development Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (23.36%) Finance
2 20 (18.69%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.61%) Banking
4 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.74%) Financial Institution
5 4 (3.74%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.80%) Legal
7 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.21%) Jinja
2 2 (1.87%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.76%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.80%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.87%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.48%) Linux
2 7 (6.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.93%) CentOS
3 1 (0.93%) Debian
3 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (24.30%) ITSM
2 16 (14.95%) Change Management
2 16 (14.95%) Network Management
3 14 (13.08%) ITIL
4 13 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (11.21%) DevOps
5 12 (11.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (7.48%) Customer Service
6 8 (7.48%) Network Monitoring
7 5 (4.67%) Computer Science
7 5 (4.67%) Load Balancing
7 5 (4.67%) Network Design
8 4 (3.74%) Migration
9 3 (2.80%) Cloud Security
9 3 (2.80%) Network Virtualisation
9 3 (2.80%) Performance Management
9 3 (2.80%) Test Planning
10 2 (1.87%) Decision-Making
10 2 (1.87%) Incident Response
10 2 (1.87%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.95%) Python
2 12 (11.21%) Perl
2 12 (11.21%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 41 (38.32%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (35.51%) SC Cleared
2 38 (35.51%) Security Cleared
3 33 (30.84%) CCNA
4 32 (29.91%) CCNP
5 7 (6.54%) CCIE
6 4 (3.74%) Degree
7 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.80%) VCAP
8 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (12.15%) Firmware
2 7 (6.54%) Hyper-V
2 7 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (15.89%) Ansible
2 2 (1.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 61 (57.01%) Cisco
2 33 (30.84%) Palo Alto
3 18 (16.82%) F5
3 18 (16.82%) SolarWinds
4 13 (12.15%) Citrix
5 8 (7.48%) Meraki
5 8 (7.48%) VMware
6 5 (4.67%) Aruba
6 5 (4.67%) Fortinet
6 5 (4.67%) Juniper
7 4 (3.74%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.80%) Google
8 3 (2.80%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.87%) Brocade
9 2 (1.87%) Tufin
9 2 (1.87%) WatchGuard
9 2 (1.87%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.93%) Blue Coat
10 1 (0.93%) Ciena
10 1 (0.93%) Splunk