Network Engineer Contracts in Sheffield

Network Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £173 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 48 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 3 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.82% 0.92% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.94% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £148 £396 £293
25th Percentile £157 £447 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £173 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -67.91% +7.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £187 £622 -
90th Percentile £195 £669 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £173 £239 £375
% change year-on-year -27.75% -36.33% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.64
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £17.64

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 330 424 363
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.67% 97.70% 96.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 303 294
10th Percentile £357 £363 £300
25th Percentile £413 £471 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £474 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.91% +15.79% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 12
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.10 £9.74
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.25 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £16.38
Median % change year-on-year +24.15% +8.21% +20.83%
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.50 £18.11
90th Percentile - £33.00 £23.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.60 £17.72 £17.64
% change year-on-year -23.28% +0.45% +10.25%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Sheffield

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in Sheffield

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in Sheffield

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 23 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 Sheffield region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Service Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) ActionScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) CCTV
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CCTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Service Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) ActionScript
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) F5