Network Specialist Contracts in the City of London

Network Specialist
Central London > City of London

The median Network Specialist daily rate in the City of London is £419, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 122 171
Rank change year-on-year +1 +49 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Network Specialist 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.14% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.15% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £408 - £391
25th Percentile £410 - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.58%
75th Percentile £425 - £609
90th Percentile £427 - £634
Central London median daily rate £419 - £538
% change year-on-year - - -2.58%

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 1,631 2,054 3,244
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 95.22% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,418 2,175
10th Percentile £350 £350 £353
25th Percentile £450 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £566 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -5.63% +5.26%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 20
10th Percentile £20.90 £16.33 £15.37
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £34.65 £22.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.31% -35.00% -15.66%
75th Percentile £63.75 £32.03 £72.50
90th Percentile £91.00 £45.13 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +14.81% -22.86% -15.66%

Network Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Specialist in the City of London

Network Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Specialist in the City of London

Network Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Specialist in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, Network Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) IGMP
1 2 (100.00%) Multicast
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 2 (100.00%) Arista
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management

Network Specialist 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (100.00%) IGMP
1 2 (100.00%) Multicast
1 2 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Arista
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds