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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 117 142
Rank change year-on-year 0 +25 +52
Contract jobs citing Network Management 4 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.23% 0.38% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.41% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £195 £572 -
25th Percentile £199 £661 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 £736 £588
Median % change year-on-year -58.22% +25.28% +8.05%
75th Percentile £453 £781 £641
90th Percentile £513 £793 £669
Central London median daily rate £308 £736 £588
% change year-on-year -58.22% +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 1,617 1,933 2,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.96% 91.65% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,187 1,740
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +1.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £758 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -30.13%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.26%

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 6 November 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) IGMP
2 1 (25.00%) Multicast
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Support
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Break/Fix
1 2 (50.00%) Data Security
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Arista
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto