Network Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Network Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Network Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £593, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 July 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
2 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 89 131
Rank change year-on-year -8 +42 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 24 37 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.35% 1.74% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 1.82% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 28
10th Percentile £411 £406 £348
25th Percentile £459 £432 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £513 £494
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +3.80% +31.67%
75th Percentile £663 £600 £560
90th Percentile £693 £639 £653
Central London median daily rate £575 £500 £469
% change year-on-year +15.00% +6.67% +17.19%

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 1,667 2,032 3,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 95.35% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 1,402 2,209
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £451 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -4.17% +5.68%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile £17.57 £16.33 £15.24
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -29.64% -18.60%
75th Percentile £62.00 £40.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £86.43 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer 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 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in the City of London

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer 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 2 July 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 17 (70.83%) Firewall
2 12 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 10 (41.67%) Azure
3 10 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (37.50%) CheckPoint
4 9 (37.50%) VPN
4 9 (37.50%) DNS
4 9 (37.50%) Cisco
5 8 (33.33%) BGP
5 8 (33.33%) Migration
5 8 (33.33%) Infoblox
5 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (33.33%) NGFW
6 7 (29.17%) Anti-Spyware
6 7 (29.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 7 (29.17%) Kalman Filter
6 7 (29.17%) Terraform
6 7 (29.17%) Ansible
6 7 (29.17%) Agile
6 7 (29.17%) OSPF
6 7 (29.17%) CCNP
6 7 (29.17%) ADO
7 6 (25.00%) Arista
8 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
8 5 (20.83%) Multicast
8 5 (20.83%) Banking
8 5 (20.83%) Finance
8 5 (20.83%) Fortinet
8 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
9 4 (16.67%) Python

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:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (70.83%) Firewall
2 9 (37.50%) DNS
2 9 (37.50%) VPN
3 8 (33.33%) BGP
3 8 (33.33%) NGFW
4 7 (29.17%) OSPF
5 5 (20.83%) Multicast
6 4 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (12.50%) LAN
7 3 (12.50%) Network Security
7 3 (12.50%) Unicast
7 3 (12.50%) WAN
8 2 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (8.33%) IGMP
8 2 (8.33%) VXLAN
9 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
9 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
9 1 (4.17%) VLAN
9 1 (4.17%) VSAN
9 1 (4.17%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 5 (20.83%) Banking
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Multimedia
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Anti-Spyware
2 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Digital Signage
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (33.33%) Migration
2 7 (29.17%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (12.50%) Change Control
3 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 3 (12.50%) ITIL
3 3 (12.50%) Low Latency
3 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 3 (12.50%) Time Management
4 2 (8.33%) Business Case
4 2 (8.33%) Change Management
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) High Availability
4 2 (8.33%) Network Design
4 2 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (4.17%) Mentoring
5 1 (4.17%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (29.17%) CCNP
3 4 (16.67%) CCIE
4 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CCSE
5 1 (4.17%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) JNCIS
5 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Firmware
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
1 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
1 7 (29.17%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco LMS
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco UCCE
2 1 (4.17%) Icinga
2 1 (4.17%) Nagios
2 1 (4.17%) Observium
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 9 (37.50%) CheckPoint
2 9 (37.50%) Cisco
3 8 (33.33%) Infoblox
4 6 (25.00%) Arista
5 5 (20.83%) Fortinet
6 4 (16.67%) F5
7 3 (12.50%) Juniper
7 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
8 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
9 1 (4.17%) 3PAR
9 1 (4.17%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (4.17%) Ericsson
9 1 (4.17%) HP
9 1 (4.17%) Mavenir
9 1 (4.17%) Meraki
9 1 (4.17%) NetScout
9 1 (4.17%) Nokia
9 1 (4.17%) SAP
9 1 (4.17%) Trend Micro
75 Network Engineer jobs in Central London