Network Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Network Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 139 247
Rank change year-on-year +8 +108 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 249 456 481
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.65% 1.81% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 1.90% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 291 309
10th Percentile £275 £350 £313
25th Percentile £336 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £601 £625 £607
UK median daily rate £460 £473 £450
% change year-on-year -2.65% +5.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 11
10th Percentile £17.05 £41.51 £25.50
25th Percentile £19.62 £70.03 £25.88
Median hourly rate £23.50 £78.50 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -70.06% +176.31% -54.90%
75th Percentile £24.75 £80.44 £35.50
90th Percentile £25.05 £81.00 £48.58
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £63.23 £39.50
% change year-on-year -36.74% +60.08% -1.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,116 23,953 42,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.34% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,456 16,906 30,628
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 553 596
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.42 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.74 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Network Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Engineer.

Network Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Network Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Engineer.

Network Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Network Engineer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 135 (54.22%) Cisco
2 110 (44.18%) Firewall
3 82 (32.93%) Cisco Certification
4 67 (26.91%) CCNP
5 60 (24.10%) BGP
6 48 (19.28%) OSPF
7 44 (17.67%) Fortinet
7 44 (17.67%) Network Security
8 43 (17.27%) Palo Alto
9 41 (16.47%) CCNA
10 40 (16.06%) Social Skills
11 39 (15.66%) WAN
11 39 (15.66%) Finance
11 39 (15.66%) Security Cleared
12 38 (15.26%) VPN
13 37 (14.86%) F5
14 34 (13.65%) Juniper
14 34 (13.65%) Python
15 30 (12.05%) LAN
15 30 (12.05%) MPLS
16 28 (11.24%) Wireless
16 28 (11.24%) Public Sector
17 27 (10.84%) Cisco Nexus
17 27 (10.84%) DNS
17 27 (10.84%) Network Design
18 25 (10.04%) Ansible
19 24 (9.64%) Data Centre
19 24 (9.64%) SD-WAN
20 23 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
20 23 (9.24%) Cisco ISE

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
1 2 (0.80%) nginx
1 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.40%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 16 (6.43%) Azure
2 15 (6.02%) AWS
3 6 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.20%) Akamai
4 3 (1.20%) GCP
5 2 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (0.80%) GitHub
5 2 (0.80%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (0.40%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 110 (44.18%) Firewall
2 60 (24.10%) BGP
3 48 (19.28%) OSPF
4 44 (17.67%) Network Security
5 39 (15.66%) WAN
6 38 (15.26%) VPN
7 30 (12.05%) LAN
7 30 (12.05%) MPLS
8 28 (11.24%) Wireless
9 27 (10.84%) Cisco Nexus
9 27 (10.84%) DNS
10 24 (9.64%) SD-WAN
11 23 (9.24%) Cisco ASA
11 23 (9.24%) Cisco ISE
12 22 (8.84%) EIGRP
13 21 (8.43%) Wi-Fi
14 20 (8.03%) IPsec
15 18 (7.23%) TCP/IP
16 17 (6.83%) VoIP
17 15 (6.02%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.21%) QGIS
2 3 (1.20%) NonStop SQL
2 3 (1.20%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.20%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.80%) JIRA
3 1 (0.40%) Git
3 1 (0.40%) GitLab
3 1 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 40 (16.06%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.66%) Finance
3 28 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.43%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.02%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.61%) Banking
8 6 (2.41%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Retail
10 2 (0.80%) Advertising
10 2 (0.80%) Legal
10 2 (0.80%) Marketing
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
11 1 (0.40%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.40%) German Language
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Law
11 1 (0.40%) Military
11 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.21%) JSON
2 6 (2.41%) Jinja
3 4 (1.61%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.61%) YANG
4 3 (1.20%) Django
4 3 (1.20%) REST
4 3 (1.20%) RESTful
5 2 (0.80%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.40%) J2EE
6 1 (0.40%) Middleware
6 1 (0.40%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.64%) Data Centre
2 6 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.01%) Clustering
3 5 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.01%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.20%) Device Driver
4 3 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.20%) NHS
4 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.80%) Cyberattack
5 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (0.80%) PKI
5 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
5 2 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.40%) CCTV
6 1 (0.40%) FMCG
6 1 (0.40%) IoT
6 1 (0.40%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.02%) Linux
2 9 (3.61%) Unix
3 5 (2.01%) Windows
4 4 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.20%) CentOS
6 2 (0.80%) Debian
6 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.40%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (10.84%) Network Design
2 23 (9.24%) Migration
2 23 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (6.83%) Change Management
3 17 (6.83%) Load Balancing
4 15 (6.02%) ITIL
5 13 (5.22%) High Availability
6 12 (4.82%) DevOps
6 12 (4.82%) Low Latency
6 12 (4.82%) Network Management
7 9 (3.61%) Agile
7 9 (3.61%) OO
8 8 (3.21%) ITSM
9 7 (2.81%) Network Monitoring
10 6 (2.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (2.41%) Investment Management
10 6 (2.41%) Knowledge Transfer
10 6 (2.41%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (2.41%) Roadmaps
10 6 (2.41%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.65%) Python
2 13 (5.22%) Perl
3 6 (2.41%) Tcl
4 5 (2.01%) Bash
4 5 (2.01%) Java
4 5 (2.01%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.01%) SQL
5 3 (1.20%) C
5 3 (1.20%) C++
5 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.80%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 82 (32.93%) Cisco Certification
2 67 (26.91%) CCNP
3 41 (16.47%) CCNA
4 39 (15.66%) Security Cleared
5 22 (8.84%) CCIE
5 22 (8.84%) SC Cleared
6 13 (5.22%) DV Cleared
7 12 (4.82%) JNCIA
8 8 (3.21%) CCDP
8 8 (3.21%) Degree
8 8 (3.21%) JNCIS
9 4 (1.61%) BC Cleared
9 4 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.20%) CCIP
10 3 (1.20%) CISSP
10 3 (1.20%) JNCIE
11 2 (0.80%) CEH
11 2 (0.80%) CISM
11 2 (0.80%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.21%) SLA
2 5 (2.01%) QA
3 3 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (5.62%) Firmware
2 5 (2.01%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.80%) Squid
4 2 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.40%) Docker
5 1 (0.40%) KVM
5 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (10.04%) Ansible
2 14 (5.62%) FortiGate
3 7 (2.81%) Terraform
4 3 (1.20%) Kibana
5 2 (0.80%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.80%) HAProxy
5 2 (0.80%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 2 (0.80%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.80%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.40%) Endace
6 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.40%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 135 (54.22%) Cisco
2 44 (17.67%) Fortinet
3 43 (17.27%) Palo Alto
4 37 (14.86%) F5
5 34 (13.65%) Juniper
6 23 (9.24%) SolarWinds
7 14 (5.62%) Aruba
8 13 (5.22%) CheckPoint
9 12 (4.82%) Nokia
10 11 (4.42%) Arista
11 10 (4.02%) Meraki
12 9 (3.61%) Zscaler
13 8 (3.21%) Citrix
13 8 (3.21%) Infoblox
14 7 (2.81%) Microsoft
14 7 (2.81%) VMware
15 4 (1.61%) Extreme Networks
15 4 (1.61%) Splunk
16 3 (1.20%) Riverbed
16 3 (1.20%) TOWER Software