Network Management Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Network Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Network Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 119 131
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 +64
Contract jobs citing Network Management 5 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.30% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.41% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile £196 £572 £506
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 £672
90th Percentile - £793 £719
Central London median daily rate £413 £736 £588
% change year-on-year -43.95% +25.28% +8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £32.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,589 1,942 2,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.47% 91.86% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,098 1,193 1,798
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £773 £783 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 17
10th Percentile £16.79 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.08 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.04 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.39% +54.55% -36.05%
75th Percentile £41.19 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +30.84% -37.06%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Network Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Network Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Management

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in the City of London

Network Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Management

Network Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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