Network Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Network Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 291 375
Rank change year-on-year +110 +84 -32
Contract jobs citing Network Management 240 162 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 0.68% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 0.76% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 112 78
10th Percentile £175 £185 £166
25th Percentile £463 £200 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £420
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% +4.17% +8.39%
75th Percentile £675 £569 £528
90th Percentile - £700 £608
UK median daily rate £515 £481 £450
% change year-on-year +7.17% +6.79% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 12 7
10th Percentile - £18.55 £20.97
25th Percentile £40.00 £37.56 £24.34
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.75 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +43.59% -3.98% +130.77%
75th Percentile £72.50 £88.13 £60.93
90th Percentile £93.00 £101.25 £64.56
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £43.74
% change year-on-year +19.15% +34.32% +74.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Network Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in the UK excluding London

Network Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Management in the UK excluding London

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in the UK excluding London

Network Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Management in the UK excluding London

Network Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Management in the UK excluding London

Network Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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 West +82 127 £500 +150.00% 13
South East +64 79 £650 +36.84% 13
North of England +40 21 £515 +157.50% 20
North West +32 17 £514 +156.88% 10
Scotland +40 6 £355 -25.26% 11
East of England -18 6 £203 -71.07% 6
Yorkshire - 4 £650 - 9
West Midlands +18 1 - - 4
Midlands +16 1 - - 7
Network Management
UK

Network Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 35 (14.58%) Confluence
1 35 (14.58%) SharePoint
2 34 (14.17%) SharePoint Server
3 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 52 (21.67%) Azure
2 35 (14.58%) Azure Stack
3 30 (12.50%) SaaS
4 27 (11.25%) Cloud Computing
4 27 (11.25%) IaaS
4 27 (11.25%) PaaS
5 14 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.42%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.42%) GCP
6 1 (0.42%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 79 (32.92%) BGP
2 75 (31.25%) WAN
3 61 (25.42%) Firewall
4 42 (17.50%) LAN
5 38 (15.83%) Cisco Firepower
6 34 (14.17%) MPLS
7 27 (11.25%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (10.42%) SSL
9 18 (7.50%) SD-WAN
10 17 (7.08%) OSPF
10 17 (7.08%) SNMP
11 16 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
12 15 (6.25%) NetScaler
13 13 (5.42%) Cisco ASA
13 13 (5.42%) EIGRP
13 13 (5.42%) HSRP
13 13 (5.42%) IPsec
14 12 (5.00%) Spanning Tree
15 11 (4.58%) DNS
15 11 (4.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.58%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 35 (14.58%) JIRA
2 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.42%) Public Sector
3 33 (13.75%) Telecoms
4 27 (11.25%) Finance
5 17 (7.08%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (4.17%) Aerospace
6 10 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.25%) Military
8 1 (0.42%) Advertising
8 1 (0.42%) Banking
8 1 (0.42%) Legal
8 1 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 125 (52.08%) Architect
2 123 (51.25%) Network Architect
3 34 (14.17%) Network Engineer
4 28 (11.67%) Systems Architect
5 27 (11.25%) Lead
6 26 (10.83%) Lead Architect
7 22 (9.17%) Senior
8 21 (8.75%) Analyst
9 17 (7.08%) Microsoft Engineer
10 13 (5.42%) Senior Network Engineer
11 12 (5.00%) Infrastructure Technician
12 9 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 8 (3.33%) IT Analyst
13 8 (3.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
13 8 (3.33%) Senior Architect
13 8 (3.33%) Senior Network Architect
14 7 (2.92%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
14 7 (2.92%) Support Engineer
15 5 (2.08%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.00%) Jinja
2 3 (1.25%) Django
2 3 (1.25%) JSON
2 3 (1.25%) REST
2 3 (1.25%) RESTful
2 3 (1.25%) YANG
3 2 (0.83%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 38 (15.83%) Private Cloud
3 24 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (5.00%) NHS
5 8 (3.33%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.33%) Clustering
6 3 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.25%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.42%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 68 (28.33%) Windows
2 18 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.33%) Unix
4 7 (2.92%) Linux
4 7 (2.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.08%) ITIL
2 47 (19.58%) Capacity Management
3 41 (17.08%) SIEM
4 40 (16.67%) ITSM
5 36 (15.00%) Security Monitoring
5 36 (15.00%) Service Management
6 31 (12.92%) Network Design
6 31 (12.92%) Zero Trust
7 30 (12.50%) Open Source
8 29 (12.08%) Customer Requirements
8 29 (12.08%) Systems Engineering
9 27 (11.25%) Business Strategy
10 26 (10.83%) Technical Leadership
11 25 (10.42%) Requirements Management
11 25 (10.42%) Strategic Thinking
12 22 (9.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 20 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (7.92%) Presales
15 15 (6.25%) Change Management
16 13 (5.42%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.67%) Python
2 12 (5.00%) Perl
2 12 (5.00%) Tcl
3 8 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.25%) Bash
4 3 (1.25%) Java
4 3 (1.25%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.25%) SQL
4 3 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 194 (80.83%) Security Cleared
2 92 (38.33%) DV Cleared
3 78 (32.50%) SC Cleared
4 39 (16.25%) Degree
5 14 (5.83%) CCNA
5 14 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (5.42%) CCNP
7 2 (0.83%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.83%) MCP
7 2 (0.83%) MCSE
7 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.42%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.42%) PMP
8 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.17%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (0.42%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (8.75%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.42%) Firmware
3 12 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (3.33%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (10.42%) Endace
1 25 (10.42%) SCOM
2 16 (6.67%) Ansible
3 15 (6.25%) SCCM
4 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (3.33%) Nagios
4 8 (3.33%) NetBackup
5 5 (2.08%) WSUS
6 4 (1.67%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.83%) Terraform
7 2 (0.83%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 56 (23.33%) Cisco
3 34 (14.17%) Atlassian
4 32 (13.33%) Juniper
5 29 (12.08%) F5
6 24 (10.00%) VMware
7 15 (6.25%) Citrix
7 15 (6.25%) Palo Alto
7 15 (6.25%) SolarWinds
8 13 (5.42%) Veeam
9 8 (3.33%) Hitachi
9 8 (3.33%) NetApp
10 4 (1.67%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.67%) Meraki
11 3 (1.25%) Aruba
11 3 (1.25%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.83%) Google
12 2 (0.83%) Sparx
12 2 (0.83%) Zscaler
13 1 (0.42%) Red Hat