Network Engineer Contract Job Trends in East London

Network Engineer
London > East London

The median Network Engineer daily rate in East London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 0
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in East London 1.89% 1.42% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 1.65% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - £551
25th Percentile £513 - £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £250 £700
Median % change year-on-year +110.00% -64.29% +160.71%
75th Percentile £538 - £725
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £475 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -6.86% +2.00% +5.26%

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 94 121 264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.68% 85.82% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 101 233
10th Percentile £189 £260 £242
25th Percentile £334 £400 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £472 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.26% -14.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £650
90th Percentile £950 £638 £763
London median daily rate £533 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £23.33 - £15.13
25th Percentile £24.70 - £16.56
Median hourly rate £33.25 - £18.93
Median % change year-on-year - - -62.69%
75th Percentile £56.88 - -
90th Percentile £75.89 - -
London median hourly rate £26.89 £37.50 £36.28
% change year-on-year -28.29% +3.36% +3.66%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Network Engineer job vacancy trend in East London

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in East London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in East London

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in East London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies 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 27 November 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
Docklands, London - 2 £525 -
Network Engineer
London

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, 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 East London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto