Network Engineer Contracts in Central London

Network Engineer
London > Central London

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Central London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 132 147
Rank change year-on-year +23 +15 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 24 48 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.97% 1.24% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 1.30% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 35 40
10th Percentile £409 £185 -
25th Percentile £425 £406 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £528
90th Percentile £648 £590 £582
London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38.25
Median hourly rate - - £39.50
75th Percentile - - £40.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +150.00% -54.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,351 3,681 4,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.26% 95.34% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 2,515 3,259
10th Percentile £347 £321 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
75th Percentile £683 £725 £675
90th Percentile £789 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 30 50
10th Percentile £19.23 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.93 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £48.30 £85.33 £62.83
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +12.90%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Central London

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in Central London

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in Central London

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in Central London

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 Network Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +17 19 £481 -3.75% 8
Southwark +2 1 £475 +216.67%
Camden - 1 £450 -
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £425 -
City of Westminster - 1 £518 -
Network Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 Central London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (50.00%) Cisco
2 10 (41.67%) Firewall
3 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 7 (29.17%) DV Cleared
4 7 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (25.00%) CCNP
5 6 (25.00%) WAN
5 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
6 5 (20.83%) Palo Alto
7 4 (16.67%) Juniper
7 4 (16.67%) CCNA
7 4 (16.67%) Wireless
7 4 (16.67%) Azure
8 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (12.50%) Aruba
8 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.50%) Nokia
8 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
8 3 (12.50%) LAN
8 3 (12.50%) SD-WAN
9 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (8.33%) Python
9 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
9 2 (8.33%) VPN
9 2 (8.33%) Configuration Management
9 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
9 2 (8.33%) JNCIA
9 2 (8.33%) Data Centre

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
2 1 (4.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) Firewall
2 6 (25.00%) WAN
3 4 (16.67%) Wireless
4 3 (12.50%) LAN
4 3 (12.50%) SD-WAN
5 2 (8.33%) VPN
6 1 (4.17%) BGP
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (4.17%) DNS
6 1 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (4.17%) Internet
6 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
6 1 (4.17%) MGCP
6 1 (4.17%) MPLS
6 1 (4.17%) NAS
6 1 (4.17%) SAN
6 1 (4.17%) SCCP
6 1 (4.17%) Unified Communications
6 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) JSON
1 1 (4.17%) LAMP
1 1 (4.17%) NETCONF
1 1 (4.17%) XML
1 1 (4.17%) XMPP
1 1 (4.17%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.17%) Replication
2 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
1 1 (4.17%) VMS
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (8.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (4.17%) Business Case
3 1 (4.17%) Business Development
3 1 (4.17%) Business Strategy
3 1 (4.17%) Change Management
3 1 (4.17%) Incident Management
3 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (4.17%) Machine Learning
3 1 (4.17%) Migration
3 1 (4.17%) Network Design
3 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (4.17%) Problem Management
3 1 (4.17%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (4.17%) Roadmaps
3 1 (4.17%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (4.17%) Validation
3 1 (4.17%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (29.17%) DV Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) CCNP
4 4 (16.67%) CCNA
5 2 (8.33%) JNCIA
5 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.17%) CCIE
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Cisco
2 5 (20.83%) Palo Alto
3 4 (16.67%) Juniper
4 3 (12.50%) Aruba
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (12.50%) Nokia
5 1 (4.17%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.17%) F5
5 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.17%) Meraki
5 1 (4.17%) ProCurve
5 1 (4.17%) Riverbed
5 1 (4.17%) Synology
5 1 (4.17%) Veeam
5 1 (4.17%) VMware
5 1 (4.17%) Zerto
5 1 (4.17%) Zscaler