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 14 February 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 114 130
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 1 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.052% 0.27% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.29% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £421 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -31.92% +23.81% -2.33%
75th Percentile £464 £700 £538
90th Percentile - £723 -
Central London median daily rate £575 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -2.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,809 1,695 2,279
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 92.98% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,024 1,637
10th Percentile £350 £351 £347
25th Percentile £433 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £688
90th Percentile £775 £779 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 21
10th Percentile £20.18 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £40.64 £38.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +60.42% -28.89%
75th Percentile £51.00 £80.38 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -22.76% +34.62% -10.34%

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
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 14 February 2026, 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 1 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python

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 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto