Network Management Contracts in Cumbria

Network Management
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 24 17
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 -
Contract jobs citing Network Management 12 16 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 8.16% 6.11% 12.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.43% 6.81% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 10
10th Percentile £461 £463 £448
25th Percentile £509 £483 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% +14.44% -
75th Percentile £543 £515 £470
90th Percentile £591 £519 £486
North West median daily rate £540 £515 £450
% change year-on-year +4.85% +14.44% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 115 235 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 78.23% 89.69% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 124 59
10th Percentile £300 £413 £193
25th Percentile £425 £474 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +10.98%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £488
90th Percentile £638 £670 £625
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 49 7
10th Percentile £25.15 - £19.17
25th Percentile £26.26 £10.95 £30.18
Median hourly rate £40.59 £16.50 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +146.00% -70.14% +11.71%
75th Percentile £58.42 £66.61 £60.43
90th Percentile £69.71 £71.10 £72.36
North West median hourly rate £27.38 £35.00 £30.65
% change year-on-year -21.79% +14.20% +40.71%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in Cumbria

Network Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Management in Cumbria.

Daily rate trend for Network Management in Cumbria

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management in Cumbria over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in Cumbria

Network Management
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Management within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 17 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Barrow-in-Furness +5 11 £525 +1.94% 2
Network Management
North West

Network Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 12 (100.00%) Firewall
1 12 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (83.33%) WAN
3 9 (75.00%) Cisco ISE
3 9 (75.00%) NetScaler
4 2 (16.67%) BGP
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (16.67%) EIGRP
4 2 (16.67%) HSRP
4 2 (16.67%) IPsec
4 2 (16.67%) OSPF
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Load Balancing
1 10 (83.33%) Network Design
2 8 (66.67%) Impact Assessments
2 8 (66.67%) Network Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
1 12 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 9 (75.00%) Meraki
3 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft