Network Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Network Engineer
England > East of England

The median Network Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £475, 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 66 83 72
Rank change year-on-year +17 -11 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 16 29 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.71% 1.52% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 1.70% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 22
10th Percentile £310 £214 £163
25th Percentile £325 £250 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £300 £300
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% - -15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £388 £463
90th Percentile - £410 £579
England median daily rate £490 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +4.26% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £15.75 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £62.62
% change year-on-year +43.75% -36.12% +120.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 829 1,710 1,891
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.38% 89.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 773 1,156
10th Percentile £200 £206 £185
25th Percentile £379 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 591 294
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.61 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the East of England

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in the East of England

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in the East of England

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in the East of England

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire +28 6 £550 +46.67% 14
Cambridgeshire +12 6 £475 +86.27% 11
Essex +13 3 £330 - 13
Bedfordshire -3 1 £250 -23.08% 12
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

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 of England region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (87.50%) Firewall
2 13 (81.25%) Cisco
3 8 (50.00%) WAN
4 7 (43.75%) Data Centre
5 6 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (31.25%) DHCP
6 5 (31.25%) LAN
6 5 (31.25%) VPN
6 5 (31.25%) DNS
6 5 (31.25%) CheckPoint
6 5 (31.25%) Network Management
7 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (25.00%) FortiGate
7 4 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (25.00%) VMware NSX
7 4 (25.00%) SD-WAN
7 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (25.00%) WLAN
7 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (25.00%) VMware
7 4 (25.00%) Change Management
8 3 (18.75%) CCNP
8 3 (18.75%) CCNA
8 3 (18.75%) Break/Fix
9 2 (12.50%) F5
9 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 2 (12.50%) Ansible
9 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (12.50%) 802.1X

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Akamai
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
1 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
1 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) Firewall
2 8 (50.00%) WAN
3 6 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (31.25%) DHCP
4 5 (31.25%) DNS
4 5 (31.25%) LAN
4 5 (31.25%) VPN
5 4 (25.00%) SD-WAN
5 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (25.00%) WLAN
6 2 (12.50%) BGP
6 2 (12.50%) IP Telephony
6 2 (12.50%) IPsec
6 2 (12.50%) MPLS
6 2 (12.50%) OSPF
7 1 (6.25%) 802.11
7 1 (6.25%) DWDM
7 1 (6.25%) IGRP
7 1 (6.25%) Internet
7 1 (6.25%) VoIP
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) 802.1X
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) FMCG
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Network Management
2 4 (25.00%) Change Management
2 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (18.75%) Break/Fix
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (6.25%) Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Business Strategy
5 1 (6.25%) Coaching
5 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
5 1 (6.25%) Due Diligence
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (6.25%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (6.25%) The Twelve-Factor App
5 1 (6.25%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) CCNA
2 3 (18.75%) CCNP
3 1 (6.25%) CCDP
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) CheckPoint
3 4 (25.00%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) F5
4 2 (12.50%) Juniper
4 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.25%) Arista
5 1 (6.25%) Aruba
5 1 (6.25%) Blue Coat
5 1 (6.25%) Citrix
5 1 (6.25%) Riverbed
5 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.25%) Zscaler