Network Management Contracts

Network Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 477 582
Rank change year-on-year +141 +105 -65
Contract jobs citing Network Management 264 253 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.42% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.47% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 177 164
10th Percentile £180 £200 £198
25th Percentile £460 £275 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £470 £460
Median % change year-on-year +9.57% +2.29% +14.88%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £575
90th Percentile - £700 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £425 £415
% change year-on-year +29.41% +2.41% +10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 13
10th Percentile - £18.70 £18.75
25th Percentile £40.00 £44.38 £25.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £43.74
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +14.31% +74.96%
75th Percentile £72.50 £81.88 £50.77
90th Percentile £95.00 £101.25 £60.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year +47.37% -6.44% +130.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Management.

Daily rate trend for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Management.

Hourly rate trend for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 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
England +147 254 £515 +8.44% 77
UK excluding London +105 230 £550 +29.41% 74
South West +75 120 £500 +150.00% 13
South East +46 75 £650 +36.84% 11
Work from Home +123 72 £475 +13.77% 69
London +80 27 £425 -19.05% 21
North of England +44 24 £515 +157.50% 19
North West +24 19 £514 +156.88% 14
East of England -21 6 £203 -71.07% 8
Yorkshire +31 5 £630 +231.58% 4
Scotland +22 4 £370 -22.11% 15
West Midlands +21 1 - - 5
Midlands +11 1 - - 6

Network Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 36 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 35 (13.26%) Confluence
3 34 (12.88%) SharePoint Server
4 9 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 13 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 62 (23.48%) Azure
2 35 (13.26%) Azure Stack
3 30 (11.36%) SaaS
4 28 (10.61%) Cloud Computing
5 27 (10.23%) IaaS
5 27 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (10.23%) PaaS
6 7 (2.65%) AWS
6 7 (2.65%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.14%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (1.14%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.14%) Cohesity
8 2 (0.76%) GCP
9 1 (0.38%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.38%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 85 (32.20%) BGP
2 83 (31.44%) WAN
3 74 (28.03%) Firewall
4 47 (17.80%) LAN
5 37 (14.02%) Cisco Firepower
6 35 (13.26%) MPLS
6 35 (13.26%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (9.47%) SSL
8 24 (9.09%) DNS
9 22 (8.33%) DHCP
10 21 (7.95%) SD-WAN
11 20 (7.58%) OSPF
12 19 (7.20%) SNMP
13 18 (6.82%) Cisco ISE
14 17 (6.44%) NetScaler
15 14 (5.30%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (5.30%) EIGRP
15 14 (5.30%) IPsec
16 13 (4.92%) HSRP
16 13 (4.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 35 (13.26%) JIRA
2 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.70%) Public Sector
3 38 (14.39%) Finance
4 26 (9.85%) Telecoms
5 17 (6.44%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.79%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.52%) Billing
9 3 (1.14%) Banking
9 3 (1.14%) Military
10 2 (0.76%) Digital Economy
10 2 (0.76%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Advertising
11 1 (0.38%) Electronics
11 1 (0.38%) French Language
11 1 (0.38%) Local Government
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.38%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 118 (44.70%) Architect
2 115 (43.56%) Network Architect
3 40 (15.15%) Network Engineer
4 25 (9.47%) Lead
5 24 (9.09%) Senior
6 22 (8.33%) Analyst
7 21 (7.95%) Systems Architect
8 19 (7.20%) Lead Architect
9 17 (6.44%) Microsoft Engineer
10 15 (5.68%) Senior Network Engineer
11 13 (4.92%) Support Engineer
12 11 (4.17%) Infrastructure Technician
13 8 (3.03%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 8 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.03%) IT Analyst
13 8 (3.03%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
13 8 (3.03%) Senior Architect
13 8 (3.03%) Senior Network Architect
14 7 (2.65%) Consultant
14 7 (2.65%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.55%) Jinja
2 5 (1.89%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.14%) Django
3 3 (1.14%) JSON
3 3 (1.14%) REST
3 3 (1.14%) RESTful
3 3 (1.14%) SAML
3 3 (1.14%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 54 (20.45%) Data Centre
2 38 (14.39%) Private Cloud
3 17 (6.44%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.17%) NHS
5 8 (3.03%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.03%) Clustering
6 4 (1.52%) PKI
6 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.38%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 74 (28.03%) Windows
2 23 (8.71%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.03%) Unix
4 7 (2.65%) Linux
4 7 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (25.00%) ITIL
2 51 (19.32%) Capacity Management
3 41 (15.53%) ITSM
3 41 (15.53%) SIEM
4 40 (15.15%) Service Management
5 36 (13.64%) Security Monitoring
6 32 (12.12%) Network Design
7 31 (11.74%) Zero Trust
8 30 (11.36%) Open Source
9 28 (10.61%) Customer Requirements
10 27 (10.23%) Business Strategy
11 26 (9.85%) Technical Leadership
12 25 (9.47%) Requirements Management
13 22 (8.33%) Migration
13 22 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
14 21 (7.95%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (7.58%) Strategic Thinking
16 19 (7.20%) Presales
17 18 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.06%) Python
2 15 (5.68%) PowerShell
3 12 (4.55%) Perl
3 12 (4.55%) Tcl
4 3 (1.14%) Bash
4 3 (1.14%) Java
4 3 (1.14%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.14%) SQL
4 3 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 185 (70.08%) Security Cleared
2 93 (35.23%) DV Cleared
3 67 (25.38%) SC Cleared
4 35 (13.26%) Degree
5 19 (7.20%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (6.82%) CCNP
7 14 (5.30%) CCNA
8 8 (3.03%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.76%) MCSE
9 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.38%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.38%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.38%) MCP
10 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.38%) PMP
10 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.88%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.38%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.92%) Firmware
3 12 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (3.03%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (1.14%) NFS
5 3 (1.14%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.76%) vSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 25 (9.47%) SCOM
2 24 (9.09%) Endace
3 18 (6.82%) SCCM
4 17 (6.44%) Ansible
5 8 (3.03%) Microsoft Clustering
5 8 (3.03%) Nagios
5 8 (3.03%) NetBackup
6 6 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.89%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.14%) Terraform
8 3 (1.14%) vRealize
9 2 (0.76%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.76%) WSUS
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 78 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 62 (23.48%) Cisco
3 34 (12.88%) Atlassian
4 33 (12.50%) F5
5 30 (11.36%) Juniper
6 28 (10.61%) VMware
7 23 (8.71%) Palo Alto
8 19 (7.20%) SolarWinds
9 16 (6.06%) Citrix
10 13 (4.92%) Veeam
11 11 (4.17%) Meraki
12 9 (3.41%) Fortinet
13 8 (3.03%) Google
13 8 (3.03%) Hitachi
13 8 (3.03%) NetApp
14 7 (2.65%) Apple
15 6 (2.27%) Aruba
16 4 (1.52%) CheckPoint
16 4 (1.52%) Genesys
17 3 (1.14%) TOWER Software