Network Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Network Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 42 52
Rank change year-on-year -29 +10 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 22 89 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.88% 4.49% 3.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 4.77% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 43 31
10th Percentile £416 £278 £275
25th Percentile - £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% +12.49%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £548
90th Percentile - £559 £575
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 7
10th Percentile - £21.38 £27.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.31 £49.38
Median hourly rate £19.00 £49.25 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.42% -25.38% +153.85%
75th Percentile £19.50 £75.24 £80.25
90th Percentile - £76.12 £80.55
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £66.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -71.43% +7.26% +138.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Berkshire

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in Berkshire

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in Berkshire

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in Berkshire

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading -6 7 £575 +29.21% 6
Slough - 5 £450 - 6
Wokingham - 1 £415 -
Network Engineer
South East

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (77.27%) Cisco
2 13 (59.09%) Juniper
3 10 (45.45%) Telecoms
4 9 (40.91%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (40.91%) MPLS
4 9 (40.91%) CCNP
4 9 (40.91%) WAN
4 9 (40.91%) VPN
4 9 (40.91%) LAN
4 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
5 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
6 7 (31.82%) Network Security
6 7 (31.82%) Ethernet
7 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
7 6 (27.27%) Unix
7 6 (27.27%) Linux
7 6 (27.27%) SAN
7 6 (27.27%) Regression Testing
7 6 (27.27%) Firewall
7 6 (27.27%) Wireshark
8 5 (22.73%) Fault Management
8 5 (22.73%) ISTQB
8 5 (22.73%) DV Cleared
8 5 (22.73%) LTE
8 5 (22.73%) Frame Relay
8 5 (22.73%) BGP
8 5 (22.73%) Project Management
8 5 (22.73%) Java
8 5 (22.73%) ATM

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) AWS
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.55%) GCP
2 1 (4.55%) GitHub
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
2 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (40.91%) LAN
1 9 (40.91%) MPLS
1 9 (40.91%) VPN
1 9 (40.91%) WAN
2 7 (31.82%) Ethernet
2 7 (31.82%) Network Security
3 6 (27.27%) Firewall
3 6 (27.27%) SAN
3 6 (27.27%) Wireshark
4 5 (22.73%) ATM
4 5 (22.73%) BGP
4 5 (22.73%) Frame Relay
4 5 (22.73%) GPRS
4 5 (22.73%) GSM
4 5 (22.73%) LTE
4 5 (22.73%) SDH
4 5 (22.73%) UMTS
5 4 (18.18%) DNS
5 4 (18.18%) OSPF
5 4 (18.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (45.45%) Telecoms
2 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Electronics
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) 802.1X
1 2 (9.09%) JSON
1 2 (9.09%) NETCONF
1 2 (9.09%) RESTCONF
1 2 (9.09%) YAML
2 1 (4.55%) Jinja
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) SOAP
2 1 (4.55%) XML
2 1 (4.55%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) IoT
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
1 6 (27.27%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) CentOS
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (27.27%) Regression Testing
3 5 (22.73%) Fault Management
3 5 (22.73%) Project Management
3 5 (22.73%) Test Strategy
4 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.09%) Agile
5 2 (9.09%) Change Management
5 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (9.09%) Network Design
6 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.55%) Configuration Management
6 1 (4.55%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (4.55%) Migration
6 1 (4.55%) Process Management
6 1 (4.55%) Scrum
6 1 (4.55%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Java
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) CCNP
1 9 (40.91%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 5 (22.73%) DV Cleared
3 5 (22.73%) ISEB
3 5 (22.73%) ISTQB
3 5 (22.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (13.64%) Degree
4 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
5 2 (9.09%) CCIE
5 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.55%) BC Cleared
6 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.55%) CCDP
6 1 (4.55%) CCIP
6 1 (4.55%) CCNA
6 1 (4.55%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Ceph
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Argo
2 1 (4.55%) CASB
2 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Cisco
2 13 (59.09%) Juniper
3 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.64%) Aruba
5 2 (9.09%) F5
5 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.55%) ADVA
6 1 (4.55%) AirMagnet
6 1 (4.55%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 1 (4.55%) Blue Coat
6 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.55%) Citrix
6 1 (4.55%) Dell
6 1 (4.55%) Ekahau
6 1 (4.55%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.55%) Meraki
6 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.55%) SAP
6 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds