Network Management Contracts in the City of London

Network Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Network Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Management over the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 130 164
Rank change year-on-year +7 +34 +24
Contract jobs citing Network Management 5 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.27% 0.14% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.15% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £451 - £513
25th Percentile £518 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £554 £538 £719
90th Percentile - - £770
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.10% -8.70% -4.17%

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 1,749 1,968 3,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.83% 91.41% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 1,350 2,139
10th Percentile £350 £363 £340
25th Percentile £446 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.63 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -22.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.75 £55.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £101.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.86% -20.54% -15.66%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Management in the City of London

Network Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Management in the City of London

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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 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
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 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory Support
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Patch Management
2 3 (60.00%) Security Patching
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Arista
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft