Network Services Manager Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Network Services Manager
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Network Services Manager daily rate in Cambridge is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Network Services Manager 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.16% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £477 - -
25th Percentile £483 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
75th Percentile £533 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £510 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 154 138 165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.02% 89.03% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 80 97
10th Percentile £223 £299 £166
25th Percentile £394 £340 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% -2.21% -
75th Percentile £621 £562 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £463 £462 £495
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.67% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 17
10th Percentile - £22.63 £17.72
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.77 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.75 £23.41 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.17% -62.54% +190.70%
75th Percentile £44.00 £40.89 £77.50
90th Percentile £48.08 £50.86 £82.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £22.90 £15.03
% change year-on-year -30.12% +52.38% -3.06%

Network Services Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Network Services Manager job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Network Services Manager Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 15 January 2026, Network Services Manager 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 Cambridge region featuring Network Services Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 2 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
1 2 (100.00%) Stealthwatch
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team Management
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) jetNEXUS
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management

Network Services Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 2 (100.00%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) jetNEXUS