Network Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Network Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £408, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 64 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 -25 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 9 13 42
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.21% 1.45% 4.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.52% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 15
10th Percentile £364 £377 £284
25th Percentile £374 £435 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £593 £450
Median % change year-on-year -31.22% +31.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £449 £650 £513
90th Percentile £465 - £587
South West median daily rate £623 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +31.05% - -6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £22.08 - £59.13
25th Percentile £22.15 - £65.31
Median hourly rate £22.27 £75.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.31% +3.45% +30.40%
75th Percentile £22.38 - £76.25
90th Percentile £22.45 - -
South West median hourly rate £22.27 £75.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year -70.31% +13.67% +19.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 689 853 990
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 95.31% 96.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 450 646
10th Percentile £238 £219 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £518
Median % change year-on-year - -8.21% +3.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £749 £701 £700
South West median daily rate £512 £502 £538
% change year-on-year +1.99% -6.70% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 157 125
10th Percentile £12.82 £22.15 £25.95
25th Percentile £18.87 £58.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £76.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +3.54%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Network Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Network Engineer job vacancy trend in Bristol

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 10 October 2025, Network Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 4 (44.44%) WAN
4 3 (33.33%) LAN
4 3 (33.33%) Cisco
4 3 (33.33%) OSPF
4 3 (33.33%) BGP
4 3 (33.33%) Firewall
5 2 (22.22%) EIGRP
5 2 (22.22%) VRRP
5 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
5 2 (22.22%) VPN
5 2 (22.22%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (22.22%) WLAN
5 2 (22.22%) Windows
5 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
5 2 (22.22%) High Availability
5 2 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (22.22%) HSRP
5 2 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
5 2 (22.22%) Technology Transformation
6 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
6 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (11.11%) VXLAN
6 1 (11.11%) NCSC
6 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (11.11%) Linux

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) WAN
2 3 (33.33%) BGP
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) LAN
2 3 (33.33%) OSPF
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (22.22%) EIGRP
3 2 (22.22%) HSRP
3 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) VRRP
3 2 (22.22%) WLAN
4 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (11.11%) SAN
4 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (11.11%) VXLAN
4 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) High Availability
1 2 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
1 2 (22.22%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
2 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) CCNP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
3 1 (11.11%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) VMware
11 Network Engineer jobs in Bristol