Network Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Network Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 43 58
Rank change year-on-year +15 +15 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 36 36 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.80% 4.07% 2.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.16% 4.22% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 9 24
10th Percentile - £291 £167
25th Percentile £263 £313 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £325 £343
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -5.11% -8.67%
75th Percentile £488 £450 £400
90th Percentile £518 £459 £436
West Midlands median daily rate £350 £350 £356
% change year-on-year - -1.75% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £15.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 698 854 1,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 96.61% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 566 907
10th Percentile £254 £263 £225
25th Percentile £350 £376 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 21
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.40 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.88 £12.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.42% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +9.68%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Birmingham

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in Birmingham

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in Birmingham

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (69.44%) Juniper
2 23 (63.89%) Security Cleared
3 21 (58.33%) MPLS
3 21 (58.33%) IPsec
3 21 (58.33%) SC Cleared
4 18 (50.00%) WAN
5 12 (33.33%) Cisco
6 10 (27.78%) Firewall
7 9 (25.00%) BGP
8 7 (19.44%) LAN
8 7 (19.44%) Aruba
9 6 (16.67%) Load Balancing
10 5 (13.89%) VPN
10 5 (13.89%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (13.89%) F5
10 5 (13.89%) FortiGate
11 3 (8.33%) Junos
11 3 (8.33%) Wireless
11 3 (8.33%) CCNA
11 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (8.33%) DNS
12 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
12 2 (5.56%) VMS
12 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
12 2 (5.56%) IIS
12 2 (5.56%) Windows
12 2 (5.56%) Linux
12 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
12 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (5.56%) Active Directory

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (5.56%) IIS
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
1 2 (5.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.56%) Azure
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 21 (58.33%) IPsec
1 21 (58.33%) MPLS
2 18 (50.00%) WAN
3 10 (27.78%) Firewall
4 9 (25.00%) BGP
5 7 (19.44%) LAN
6 5 (13.89%) VPN
6 5 (13.89%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (8.33%) DNS
7 3 (8.33%) Junos
7 3 (8.33%) Wireless
8 2 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (5.56%) Internet
8 2 (5.56%) iSCSI
8 2 (5.56%) NAS
8 2 (5.56%) SAN
9 1 (2.78%) DHCP
9 1 (2.78%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 2 (5.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.78%) Banking
2 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
2 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (5.56%) PKI
1 2 (5.56%) Replication
2 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Linux
1 2 (5.56%) Ubuntu
1 2 (5.56%) VMS
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
1 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
1 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (5.56%) Agile
2 2 (5.56%) Capacity Management
2 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (5.56%) Kanban
2 2 (5.56%) Network Design
2 2 (5.56%) Software Engineering
2 2 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (5.56%) Waterfall
3 1 (2.78%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (2.78%) Change Control
3 1 (2.78%) Change Management
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.78%) Design Patterns
3 1 (2.78%) High Availability
3 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (2.78%) ITIL
3 1 (2.78%) ITSM
3 1 (2.78%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (2.78%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (63.89%) Security Cleared
2 21 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) CCNA
3 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.78%) CCNP
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) FortiGate
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.56%) SCCM
3 1 (2.78%) OpenView
Vendors
1 25 (69.44%) Juniper
2 12 (33.33%) Cisco
3 7 (19.44%) Aruba
4 5 (13.89%) F5
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.56%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.56%) ProCurve
5 2 (5.56%) Synology
5 2 (5.56%) Veeam
5 2 (5.56%) VMware
5 2 (5.56%) Zerto
6 1 (2.78%) Blue Coat
6 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.78%) Fortinet