Network Management Contracts in the East of England

Network Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 99 87
Rank change year-on-year +7 -12 +37
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Network Management 4 4 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.32% 0.25% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.31% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 16
10th Percentile £215 £152 £269
25th Percentile £270 £170 £673
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £198 £700
Median % change year-on-year +89.87% -71.79% +75.00%
75th Percentile £394 £234 -
90th Percentile £398 £236 £903
England median daily rate £490 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% -4.55% +27.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,120 1,309 1,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.03% 82.90% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 500 945
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £363 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £702
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 456 343
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.52 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.35 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £34.37 £42.75 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -19.61% +115.80% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.35 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £40.85
% change year-on-year -40.82% +4.05% +51.39%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in the East of England

Network Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Network Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Network Management

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in the East of England

Network Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Network Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Network Management

Network Management
DemandTrendContract 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 Management within the East of England region over the 6 months to 21 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +9 3 £388 +115.28% 1
Cambridgeshire - 1 £185 - 1
Network Management
England

Network Management
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) OSPF
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (50.00%) Network Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Huawei
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds