Network Engineer Contracts in East London

Network Engineer
London > East London

The median Network Engineer daily rate in East London is £380, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 27 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 2 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 1.90% 3.46% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 3.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £240 £171 -
25th Percentile £291 £178 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £360 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -
75th Percentile £466 £674 -
90th Percentile £517 £725 -
London median daily rate £500 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +2.88% -2.80% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East 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 East London with a recognized job title 98 207 170
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 89.61% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 178 140
10th Percentile £282 £320 £188
25th Percentile £400 £437 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £600 £643 £688
90th Percentile £675 £770 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 2
10th Percentile £14.66 £11.95 £20.64
25th Percentile £24.66 £12.84 £23.20
Median hourly rate £28.60 £22.91 £27.47
Median % change year-on-year +24.84% -16.58% +39.84%
75th Percentile £37.00 £28.37 £31.73
90th Percentile £38.80 £38.28 £34.29
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in East London

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in East London.

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in East London

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in East London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in East London

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in East London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in East London

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the East London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Lewisham - 1 £550 -
Network Engineer
London

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Network Engineer 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 East London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) NGFW
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) NGFW
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Aruba
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto