Network Management Contract Job Trends in Central London

Network Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Network Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 125 145
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 +59
Contract jobs citing Network Management 5 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.26% 0.34% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.37% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £196 £572 -
25th Percentile £201 £661 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £736 £588
Median % change year-on-year -43.95% +25.28% +8.05%
75th Percentile £554 £781 £641
90th Percentile - £793 £669
London median daily rate £406 £600 £663
% change year-on-year -32.29% -9.43% +43.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
London median hourly rate - £33.75 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Network Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,778 2,143 2,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.78% 91.82% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,340 1,864
10th Percentile £331 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £691
90th Percentile £750 £775 £807
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.11% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 18
10th Percentile £17.79 £19.50 £16.18
25th Percentile £20.18 £28.06 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.05%
75th Percentile £36.00 £74.38 £52.88
90th Percentile £60.95 £124.75 £70.25
London median hourly rate £30.25 £38.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +1.32% +1.33%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Network Management job vacancy trend in Central London

Network Management
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Network Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Network Management

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management in Central London over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in Central London

Network Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Network Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Network Management

Network Management
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Management within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
City of London -3 5 £413 -43.95% 11
Network Management
London

Network Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (20.00%) IGMP
2 1 (20.00%) Multicast
2 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Support
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Break/Fix
1 2 (40.00%) Data Security
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Arista