Network Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 435 502
Rank change year-on-year +48 +67 -98
Contract jobs requiring a Network Consultant 16 22 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.092% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.098% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 16
10th Percentile £356 £413 £300
25th Percentile £406 £463 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +10.26% +14.71%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £518
90th Percentile £686 £653 £556
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £44.25 - -
25th Percentile £46.88 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% - -
75th Percentile £56.88 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £58.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -19.23% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,132 22,540 29,612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.26% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,680 15,813 20,744
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,158 1,481
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.01 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Network Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Network Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Consultant in the UK excluding London

Network Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Network Consultant in the UK excluding London

Network Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Consultant in the UK excluding London

Network Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Consultant in the UK excluding London

Network Consultant
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Consultant in the UK excluding London

Network Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +18 8 £488 -9.30% 2
South West +18 4 £400 -33.33%
Scotland +38 2 £700 -
North of England +29 2 £466 +24.33%
Yorkshire +21 2 £466 +24.33%
East of England +17 2 £500 -
Network Consultant
UK

Network Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Network Consultant 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 UK excluding London region featuring Network Consultant in the job title.

1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
4 6 (37.50%) Network Security
4 6 (37.50%) WAN
5 5 (31.25%) LAN
5 5 (31.25%) Cisco
5 5 (31.25%) Firewall
6 4 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
7 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (18.75%) Juniper
7 3 (18.75%) WLAN
7 3 (18.75%) Time Management
8 2 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (12.50%) Network Design
8 2 (12.50%) CMDB
8 2 (12.50%) Validation
8 2 (12.50%) VPN
8 2 (12.50%) DNS
8 2 (12.50%) CCNP
8 2 (12.50%) Finance
8 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (12.50%) Internet
8 2 (12.50%) GDPR
8 2 (12.50%) WAN Optimisation
8 2 (12.50%) Analytics
8 2 (12.50%) NX-OS

Network Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Network Security
1 6 (37.50%) WAN
2 5 (31.25%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) LAN
3 4 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (18.75%) WLAN
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (12.50%) DNS
5 2 (12.50%) Internet
5 2 (12.50%) NX-OS
5 2 (12.50%) VPN
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (6.25%) Intranet
6 1 (6.25%) SNMP
6 1 (6.25%) VLAN
6 1 (6.25%) Wireless
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) CMDB
1 2 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Time Management
2 2 (12.50%) Analytics
2 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (12.50%) Network Design
2 2 (12.50%) Validation
2 2 (12.50%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (6.25%) Decision-Making
3 1 (6.25%) Facilities Management
3 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
3 1 (6.25%) Internal Audit
3 1 (6.25%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (6.25%) Log Correlation
3 1 (6.25%) Migration
3 1 (6.25%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (6.25%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (6.25%) Use Case
3 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Groovy
1 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) CCNP
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Nessus
1 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco
2 3 (18.75%) Juniper
2 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.25%) BMC
3 1 (6.25%) Citrix
3 1 (6.25%) EMC
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.25%) Remedy
3 1 (6.25%) ScienceLogic
3 1 (6.25%) Thales