Senior Network Engineer Contract Job Trends in Central London

Senior Network Engineer
London > Central London

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in Central London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 122 141
Rank change year-on-year -10 +19 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 4 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% 0.39% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.42% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile £450 £463 £528
25th Percentile £492 £547 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +11.63%
75th Percentile £625 £681 £650
90th Percentile £648 £711 £673
London median daily rate £575 £600 £560
% change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +7.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,890 2,160 2,531
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 92.66% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,312 1,361 1,825
10th Percentile £329 £363 £340
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.77% -1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
London median daily rate £530 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -3.64% -1.79% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 20
10th Percentile £19.14 £19.66 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.15 £31.25 £21.61
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +37.25% -24.44%
75th Percentile £35.63 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £45.83 £112.00 £65.88
London median hourly rate £28.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.47% - -

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Senior Network Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in Central London

Senior Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Senior Network Engineer
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 Senior Network Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 25 December 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 -4 3 £534 -14.60% 4
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £575 - 1
Senior Network Engineer
London

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, Senior 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 Central London region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Network Design
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Akamai
3 1 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (25.00%) Arista
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Akamai
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Modbus
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) NX-OS
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Insider Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Life Science
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Arista
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Rockwell