Senior Network Engineer Contracts in the South East

Senior Network Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in the South East is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 194 246
Rank change year-on-year +45 +52 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 50 30 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.90% 0.51% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.54% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 14 17
10th Percentile £464 £406 £247
25th Percentile £506 £417 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £456 £440
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% +3.69% +15.48%
75th Percentile £519 £513 £534
90th Percentile £608 £559 £553
England median daily rate £513 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +2.50% +8.11% +7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £62.47 - -
25th Percentile £68.44 - -
Median hourly rate £73.50 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% - -
75th Percentile £75.68 - -
90th Percentile £76.47 - -
England median hourly rate £73.50 £66.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% +30.69% -17.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,138 5,513 7,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 94.48% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,081 3,840 5,034
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 241 339
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.81
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -13.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.59 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.87 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the South East

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in the South East

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the South East

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in the South East

Senior Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the South East

Senior Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Thames Valley +21 32 £513 +4.59% 5
Berkshire -4 27 £513 +4.59% 2
Surrey +15 10 £513 +7.89% 3
Hampshire +8 5 £700 +51.35% 3
Oxfordshire - 4 £438 - 2
Kent +4 2 £363 -13.17%
Buckinghamshire - 1 £550 - 1
East Sussex - 1 £500 -
Senior Network Engineer
England

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 South East region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (90.00%) Cisco
2 32 (64.00%) Cisco Certification
3 27 (54.00%) CheckPoint
3 27 (54.00%) Migration
4 26 (52.00%) Finance
5 25 (50.00%) Banking
5 25 (50.00%) DMZ
5 25 (50.00%) B2B
5 25 (50.00%) Arista
6 17 (34.00%) Firewall
7 16 (32.00%) LAN
7 16 (32.00%) WAN
8 12 (24.00%) Juniper
9 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
10 7 (14.00%) Availability Management
11 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (10.00%) Palo Alto
11 5 (10.00%) AWS
11 5 (10.00%) DV Cleared
11 5 (10.00%) Line Management
11 5 (10.00%) BGP
11 5 (10.00%) Wireless
11 5 (10.00%) Degree
11 5 (10.00%) Computer Science
12 4 (8.00%) Requirements Management
12 4 (8.00%) OSPF
12 4 (8.00%) ITIL
12 4 (8.00%) Linux
12 4 (8.00%) CCNP
12 4 (8.00%) SIEM

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (10.00%) AWS
2 2 (4.00%) GCP
3 1 (2.00%) Azure
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (50.00%) DMZ
2 17 (34.00%) Firewall
3 16 (32.00%) LAN
3 16 (32.00%) WAN
4 5 (10.00%) BGP
4 5 (10.00%) Wireless
5 4 (8.00%) OSPF
6 3 (6.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (6.00%) DHCP
6 3 (6.00%) DNS
6 3 (6.00%) IPsec
6 3 (6.00%) MPLS
6 3 (6.00%) Unified Communications
7 2 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (4.00%) Ethernet
7 2 (4.00%) FCoE
7 2 (4.00%) Junos
7 2 (4.00%) NGFW
7 2 (4.00%) TACACS
7 2 (4.00%) VPN
General
1 26 (52.00%) Finance
2 25 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.00%) Military
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.00%) PKI
3 1 (2.00%) Life Science
3 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Unix
2 2 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (54.00%) Migration
2 25 (50.00%) B2B
3 7 (14.00%) Availability Management
4 5 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 5 (10.00%) Line Management
4 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (8.00%) ITIL
5 4 (8.00%) Network Management
5 4 (8.00%) Requirements Management
5 4 (8.00%) SIEM
6 3 (6.00%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (6.00%) Load Balancing
6 3 (6.00%) Mathematics
6 3 (6.00%) Web Filtering
7 2 (4.00%) Adaptive Security
7 2 (4.00%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (4.00%) Information Management
7 2 (4.00%) WAN Optimisation
8 1 (2.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (2.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (64.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) Degree
3 5 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.00%) CCNP
5 2 (4.00%) CCIE
5 2 (4.00%) CCNA
6 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (4.00%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (2.00%) Ansible
2 1 (2.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.00%) Netcool
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (90.00%) Cisco
2 27 (54.00%) CheckPoint
3 25 (50.00%) Arista
4 12 (24.00%) Juniper
5 5 (10.00%) Palo Alto
6 4 (8.00%) F5
7 3 (6.00%) Forcepoint
7 3 (6.00%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.00%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (4.00%) VMware
9 1 (2.00%) Dell
9 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
9 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.00%) IBM
9 1 (2.00%) Infoblox
9 1 (2.00%) Nokia
9 1 (2.00%) QinetiQ