Senior Network Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Senior Network Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £443, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 114 146
Rank change year-on-year -7 +32 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 4 10 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.24% 0.48% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.51% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 4
10th Percentile £422 £448 £456
25th Percentile £422 £490 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -26.25% +11.63% -1.15%
75th Percentile £563 £688 £584
90th Percentile £623 £715 £646
Central London median daily rate £443 £625 £538
% change year-on-year -29.20% +16.28% -

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 1,589 1,963 2,642
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.58% 93.25% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 1,205 1,847
10th Percentile £325 £363 £353
25th Percentile £418 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £765 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.07 £25.06 £18.45
Median hourly rate £27.75 £57.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.74% +55.41% -10.30%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £49.69
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -5.41% -9.76%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Network Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Senior Network Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the City of London

Senior Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 November 2025, Senior Network Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Arista
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) CCIE
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Network Design
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Akamai
3 1 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
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%) Akamai
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) OSPF
1 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (25.00%) IGMP
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Modbus
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) Multicast
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) NX-OS
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Insider Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Life Science
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (25.00%) SCADA
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Network Design
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCIE
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Arista
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) F5
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (25.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Rockwell
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds