Network Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 419 468
Rank change year-on-year +64 +49 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Network Specialist 41 28 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 29
10th Percentile £184 £313 £325
25th Percentile £369 £397 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £488 £525 £450
90th Percentile £550 £552 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.57%

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 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £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 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Network Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Specialist in the UK excluding London

Network Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Specialist in the UK excluding London

Network Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Specialist in the UK excluding London

Network Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Specialist in the UK excluding London

Network Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 +52 32 £450 -10.00% 3
East of England +7 4 £475 -5.00% 2
Midlands +35 2 £350 -42.86% 3
West Midlands +23 2 £350 -49.09% 3
South West +10 2 - -
Scotland +38 1 - -
Network Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Network Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 23 (56.10%) Cisco
1 23 (56.10%) Network Design
2 22 (53.66%) Juniper
3 21 (51.22%) Security Cleared
4 17 (41.46%) DMVPN
4 17 (41.46%) FortiGate
4 17 (41.46%) OSPF
4 17 (41.46%) BGP
4 17 (41.46%) EIGRP
4 17 (41.46%) Fortinet
5 15 (36.59%) DV Cleared
6 12 (29.27%) Firewall
6 12 (29.27%) VPN
7 7 (17.07%) Network Security
7 7 (17.07%) Network Virtualisation
7 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
7 7 (17.07%) Zero Trust
8 6 (14.63%) 4G
8 6 (14.63%) Wireless
9 5 (12.20%) DNS
9 5 (12.20%) DHCP
9 5 (12.20%) TCP/IP
9 5 (12.20%) VLAN
9 5 (12.20%) Load Balancing
9 5 (12.20%) Problem Management
9 5 (12.20%) Business Case
9 5 (12.20%) 5G
10 4 (9.76%) Prototyping
11 3 (7.32%) VMware NSX
11 3 (7.32%) High Availability

Network Specialist 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:

Communications & Networking
1 17 (41.46%) BGP
1 17 (41.46%) DMVPN
1 17 (41.46%) EIGRP
1 17 (41.46%) OSPF
2 12 (29.27%) Firewall
2 12 (29.27%) VPN
3 7 (17.07%) Network Security
4 6 (14.63%) 4G
4 6 (14.63%) Wireless
5 5 (12.20%) 5G
5 5 (12.20%) DHCP
5 5 (12.20%) DNS
5 5 (12.20%) TCP/IP
5 5 (12.20%) VLAN
6 3 (7.32%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (4.88%) SD-WAN
7 2 (4.88%) WAN
8 1 (2.44%) 3GPP
8 1 (2.44%) LTE
8 1 (2.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) GIS
1 2 (4.88%) QGIS
General
1 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) Network Design
2 7 (17.07%) Network Virtualisation
2 7 (17.07%) Zero Trust
3 5 (12.20%) Business Case
3 5 (12.20%) Load Balancing
3 5 (12.20%) Problem Management
4 4 (9.76%) Prototyping
5 3 (7.32%) High Availability
6 2 (4.88%) Analytics
6 2 (4.88%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (4.88%) Converged Infrastructure
6 2 (4.88%) Decision-Making
6 2 (4.88%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (4.88%) Network Planning
6 2 (4.88%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (2.44%) Capacity Management
7 1 (2.44%) Coaching
7 1 (2.44%) Kanban
7 1 (2.44%) Migration
7 1 (2.44%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 21 (51.22%) Security Cleared
2 15 (36.59%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) VMware NSX
2 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (41.46%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 23 (56.10%) Cisco
2 22 (53.66%) Juniper
3 17 (41.46%) Fortinet
4 3 (7.32%) Ericsson
4 3 (7.32%) VMware
5 2 (4.88%) ESRI
5 2 (4.88%) F5
5 2 (4.88%) Greenplum
5 2 (4.88%) Mapinfo
5 2 (4.88%) Pega
6 1 (2.44%) Actix
6 1 (2.44%) Huawei
6 1 (2.44%) Nokia