Network Support Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Support daily rate in the UK excluding London is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 June 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 391 465
Rank change year-on-year +77 +74 -59
Contract jobs requiring a Network Support 70 47 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 25 23
10th Percentile £184 £213 £200
25th Percentile £200 £288 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £388 £438 £444
90th Percentile - £551 £508
UK median daily rate £325 £378 £350
% change year-on-year -13.91% +7.86% +5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £21.25 £30.48
25th Percentile - £30.63 £44.31
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.04% +260.00%
75th Percentile - £49.38 £56.00
90th Percentile - £49.75 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -36.84% -12.04% +260.00%

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 19,520 21,448 29,386
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 94.26% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,689 14,896 20,670
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,476 1,091 1,399
10th Percentile £12.53 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.02 £14.85
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +15.00%

Network Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Support in the UK excluding London

Network Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Support in the UK excluding London

Network Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Support in the UK excluding London

Network Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Support in the UK excluding London

Network Support
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 Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Midlands +48 45 £375 +3.45% 6
West Midlands +41 42 £375 - 4
South East +17 12 £198 -59.90% 7
North of England +14 11 £205 -39.26% 5
North West +13 7 £295 -15.71% 3
Yorkshire +16 4 £203 -10.00% 2
South West +15 3 £295 -26.25% 3
East Midlands +10 3 £275 -21.43% 2
East of England +4 1 £200 -47.02% 3
Network Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 June 2024, Network Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 42 (60.00%) WAN
2 40 (57.14%) Juniper
3 35 (50.00%) BGP
3 35 (50.00%) IPsec
4 33 (47.14%) MPLS
4 33 (47.14%) PKI
4 33 (47.14%) Security Cleared
5 31 (44.29%) VPN
6 25 (35.71%) Cisco
7 23 (32.86%) Junos
8 22 (31.43%) Load Balancing
9 21 (30.00%) Firewall
10 20 (28.57%) Network Design
11 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
12 15 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (20.00%) CCNA
13 14 (20.00%) Wireless
14 12 (17.14%) DNS
14 12 (17.14%) DHCP
14 12 (17.14%) LAN
14 12 (17.14%) Cisco Nexus
15 10 (14.29%) Data Centre
16 9 (12.86%) Incident Management
16 9 (12.86%) SC Cleared
17 8 (11.43%) Telecoms
18 7 (10.00%) MS Visio
18 7 (10.00%) Ethernet
18 7 (10.00%) OpenView
18 7 (10.00%) Degree
18 7 (10.00%) Wireshark

Network Support 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:

Applications
1 7 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.43%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 42 (60.00%) WAN
2 35 (50.00%) BGP
2 35 (50.00%) IPsec
3 33 (47.14%) MPLS
4 31 (44.29%) VPN
5 23 (32.86%) Junos
6 21 (30.00%) Firewall
7 14 (20.00%) Wireless
8 12 (17.14%) Cisco Nexus
8 12 (17.14%) DHCP
8 12 (17.14%) DNS
8 12 (17.14%) LAN
9 7 (10.00%) Ethereal
9 7 (10.00%) Ethernet
9 7 (10.00%) VLAN
9 7 (10.00%) Wireshark
10 5 (7.14%) TCP/IP
11 3 (4.29%) Network Security
11 3 (4.29%) SD-WAN
12 2 (2.86%) Cisco Firepower
General
1 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.43%) Telecoms
3 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.43%) Advertising
4 1 (1.43%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 33 (47.14%) PKI
2 10 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.43%) CCTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.43%) Load Balancing
2 20 (28.57%) Network Design
3 9 (12.86%) Incident Management
4 7 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 5 (7.14%) Business Case
5 5 (7.14%) Problem Management
6 4 (5.71%) ITIL
6 4 (5.71%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (2.86%) Incident Response
7 2 (2.86%) Mentoring
7 2 (2.86%) Project Delivery
8 1 (1.43%) Change Control
8 1 (1.43%) Data Protection
8 1 (1.43%) Knowledge Transfer
8 1 (1.43%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 33 (47.14%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (20.00%) CCNA
4 9 (12.86%) SC Cleared
5 7 (10.00%) Degree
6 5 (7.14%) CCNP
7 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (10.00%) OpenView
Vendors
1 40 (57.14%) Juniper
2 25 (35.71%) Cisco
3 3 (4.29%) F5
4 2 (2.86%) Aruba
4 2 (2.86%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.43%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.43%) Brocade
5 1 (1.43%) HP