Network Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Network Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Network Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 100 120
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 21 29 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.19% 1.39% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 1.48% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 26
10th Percentile £410 £416 £404
25th Percentile £423 £465 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +8.37% +30.97%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £569
90th Percentile £775 - £663
Central London median daily rate £600 £510 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% +7.37% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,653 1,960 2,849
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 94.28% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,239 1,966
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 12
10th Percentile £17.35 £16.49 £16.65
25th Percentile £23.98 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -23.94% -14.97%
75th Percentile £53.50 £85.63 £44.87
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £67.13
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.57% - -15.66%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the City of London

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in the City of London

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (61.90%) Firewall
2 11 (52.38%) BGP
3 10 (47.62%) OSPF
3 10 (47.62%) Ansible
4 9 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (38.10%) Arista
6 7 (33.33%) Palo Alto
6 7 (33.33%) Cisco
6 7 (33.33%) Python
7 6 (28.57%) VPN
7 6 (28.57%) CCIE
7 6 (28.57%) CCNP
7 6 (28.57%) Finance
7 6 (28.57%) Agile
7 6 (28.57%) Terraform
7 6 (28.57%) Multicast
7 6 (28.57%) Azure
7 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
8 5 (23.81%) NGFW
8 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (23.81%) DevOps
8 5 (23.81%) Kalman Filter
8 5 (23.81%) Banking
8 5 (23.81%) DNS
9 4 (19.05%) ADO
9 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
9 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
9 4 (19.05%) Migration
9 4 (19.05%) Unicast
9 4 (19.05%) Infoblox

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (9.52%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (61.90%) Firewall
2 11 (52.38%) BGP
3 10 (47.62%) OSPF
4 6 (28.57%) Multicast
4 6 (28.57%) VPN
5 5 (23.81%) DNS
5 5 (23.81%) NGFW
6 4 (19.05%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (19.05%) Unicast
6 4 (19.05%) VXLAN
7 3 (14.29%) MPLS
7 3 (14.29%) Network Security
7 3 (14.29%) SSL
7 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
7 3 (14.29%) WAN
8 2 (9.52%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (9.52%) HTTP
8 2 (9.52%) IGMP
8 2 (9.52%) LAN
8 2 (9.52%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) ADO
2 2 (9.52%) Jinja
3 1 (4.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Anti-Spyware
1 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.76%) Insider Threat
3 1 (4.76%) Life Science
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.76%) SCADA
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Agile
2 5 (23.81%) DevOps
2 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (23.81%) Kalman Filter
3 4 (19.05%) Change Control
3 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
3 4 (19.05%) Low Latency
3 4 (19.05%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Business Case
4 3 (14.29%) High Availability
4 3 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
5 2 (9.52%) Incident Response
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) Network Architecture
5 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
5 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Time Management
5 2 (9.52%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (28.57%) CCIE
2 6 (28.57%) CCNP
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) CCNA
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Firmware
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Ansible
2 6 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (4.76%) Icinga
3 1 (4.76%) Nagios
3 1 (4.76%) Observium
3 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Arista
2 7 (33.33%) Cisco
2 7 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
3 4 (19.05%) F5
3 4 (19.05%) Infoblox
4 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
5 2 (9.52%) Meraki
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.76%) Juniper
6 1 (4.76%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (4.76%) Rockwell
6 1 (4.76%) Splunk
6 1 (4.76%) Zscaler
6 Network Engineer jobs in the City of London