Network Engineer Contracts in England

Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Engineer daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 142 227
Rank change year-on-year +59 +85 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 929 884 901
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.56% 1.84% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.75% 1.95% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 579 600
10th Percentile £300 £273 £277
25th Percentile £375 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £550
90th Percentile £650 £646 £606
UK median daily rate £465 £466 £450
% change year-on-year -0.27% +3.61% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 26 19
10th Percentile £18.14 £26.32 £19.53
25th Percentile £24.19 £53.52 £25.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £62.62 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.12% +119.70% -9.52%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £47.92
90th Percentile £75.24 £80.63 £55.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £63.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year -36.74% +42.09% +11.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 33,728 45,413 67,759
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,387 32,257 48,330
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £763 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,336 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.25 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 21 May 2024. 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
London +89 315 £500 - 101
South East +36 256 £500 +11.11% 83
North of England +16 135 £433 +8.13% 44
North West +11 103 £433 +1.99% 26
South West +4 94 £475 -5.00% 35
Midlands +13 92 £350 - 46
West Midlands +16 69 £350 - 34
East Midlands +16 23 £425 +21.43% 12
Yorkshire +9 21 £205 -45.33% 16
East of England -24 21 £350 +7.69% 13
North East +19 11 £400 -7.51% 3
Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, 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 England region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 566 (60.93%) Cisco
2 454 (48.87%) Firewall
3 301 (32.40%) Cisco Certification
4 297 (31.97%) Security Cleared
5 204 (21.96%) WAN
6 197 (21.21%) CCNP
7 182 (19.59%) Juniper
8 173 (18.62%) Palo Alto
9 171 (18.41%) BGP
10 169 (18.19%) LAN
11 168 (18.08%) Data Centre
12 166 (17.87%) SC Cleared
13 164 (17.65%) CCNA
14 159 (17.12%) VPN
15 155 (16.68%) F5
16 146 (15.72%) Social Skills
17 136 (14.64%) Network Security
18 132 (14.21%) Cisco Nexus
19 131 (14.10%) Fortinet
20 126 (13.56%) OSPF
21 125 (13.46%) Finance
22 124 (13.35%) Wireless
23 122 (13.13%) MPLS
24 118 (12.70%) CheckPoint
25 115 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
26 107 (11.52%) Public Sector
27 105 (11.30%) Network Design
28 92 (9.90%) IPsec
29 91 (9.80%) Migration
29 91 (9.80%) Cisco ASA

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (0.86%) Apache
1 8 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.43%) IIS
2 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.32%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.32%) WordPress
4 2 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.22%) IBM Domino
4 2 (0.22%) nginx
5 1 (0.11%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.51%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.22%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 79 (8.50%) Azure
2 70 (7.53%) AWS
3 20 (2.15%) GCP
4 17 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (0.65%) WhatsApp
7 5 (0.54%) Cloudflare
7 5 (0.54%) OCI
7 5 (0.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (0.32%) Akamai
8 3 (0.32%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (0.32%) BigCommerce
8 3 (0.32%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.32%) GitHub
8 3 (0.32%) Nutanix
8 3 (0.32%) OneDrive
8 3 (0.32%) SaaS
9 2 (0.22%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.22%) IaaS
10 1 (0.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 454 (48.87%) Firewall
2 204 (21.96%) WAN
3 171 (18.41%) BGP
4 169 (18.19%) LAN
5 159 (17.12%) VPN
6 136 (14.64%) Network Security
7 132 (14.21%) Cisco Nexus
8 126 (13.56%) OSPF
9 124 (13.35%) Wireless
10 122 (13.13%) MPLS
11 92 (9.90%) IPsec
12 91 (9.80%) Cisco ASA
13 84 (9.04%) SD-WAN
14 78 (8.40%) DNS
15 67 (7.21%) Wi-Fi
16 61 (6.57%) DMZ
16 61 (6.57%) EIGRP
17 58 (6.24%) Cisco ISE
18 52 (5.60%) DHCP
19 51 (5.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.86%) MongoDB
1 8 (0.86%) NoSQL
1 8 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (0.86%) QGIS
2 7 (0.75%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (2.37%) Sonatype Nexus
2 12 (1.29%) Git
2 12 (1.29%) JIRA
3 10 (1.08%) GitLab
4 8 (0.86%) Robot Framework
4 8 (0.86%) TestRail
5 1 (0.11%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 146 (15.72%) Social Skills
2 125 (13.46%) Finance
3 107 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 74 (7.97%) Banking
5 58 (6.24%) Telecoms
6 57 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (2.48%) Manufacturing
8 19 (2.05%) Legal
9 18 (1.94%) Marketing
10 15 (1.61%) Financial Institution
10 15 (1.61%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.18%) Retail
13 7 (0.75%) Electronics
13 7 (0.75%) Law
14 6 (0.65%) Military
15 5 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.32%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.15%) YANG
2 19 (2.05%) NETCONF
3 18 (1.94%) 802.1X
4 16 (1.72%) JSON
5 12 (1.29%) Jinja
6 11 (1.18%) REST
7 10 (1.08%) XML
8 8 (0.86%) RESTCONF
8 8 (0.86%) SOAP
9 6 (0.65%) HTML
10 3 (0.32%) Django
10 3 (0.32%) LAMP
10 3 (0.32%) RESTful
10 3 (0.32%) VML
11 2 (0.22%) .NET
11 2 (0.22%) Regular Expression
12 1 (0.11%) LDAP
12 1 (0.11%) SAML
12 1 (0.11%) Web Services
12 1 (0.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 168 (18.08%) Data Centre
2 19 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (1.94%) PKI
3 18 (1.94%) Private Cloud
4 17 (1.83%) Driving Licence
5 11 (1.18%) Replication
6 10 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (1.08%) NHS
7 9 (0.97%) Public Cloud
8 8 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (0.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (0.75%) Hedge funds
9 7 (0.75%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (0.65%) Operational Technology
11 5 (0.54%) Clustering
11 5 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.54%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.17%) Linux
2 36 (3.88%) Windows
3 21 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.72%) Unix
5 8 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.32%) CentOS
7 3 (0.32%) VMS
7 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.22%) Debian
9 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (11.30%) Network Design
3 91 (9.80%) Migration
4 63 (6.78%) Load Balancing
5 60 (6.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 59 (6.35%) Change Management
7 51 (5.49%) ITSM
8 47 (5.06%) ITIL
9 43 (4.63%) Network Management
10 41 (4.41%) Agile
10 41 (4.41%) Computer Science
10 41 (4.41%) High Availability
10 41 (4.41%) Network Architecture
11 39 (4.20%) Network Monitoring
12 36 (3.88%) Roadmaps
13 35 (3.77%) DevOps
14 32 (3.44%) Customer Requirements
15 28 (3.01%) B2B
16 27 (2.91%) Data Protection
16 27 (2.91%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 89 (9.58%) Python
2 18 (1.94%) SQL
3 15 (1.61%) Perl
4 13 (1.40%) Bash
5 12 (1.29%) Tcl
6 11 (1.18%) Java
7 9 (0.97%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.54%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.54%) PHP
9 3 (0.32%) C#
9 3 (0.32%) Go
9 3 (0.32%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.22%) C
10 2 (0.22%) Ruby
11 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.11%) C++
11 1 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 301 (32.40%) Cisco Certification
2 297 (31.97%) Security Cleared
3 197 (21.21%) CCNP
4 166 (17.87%) SC Cleared
5 164 (17.65%) CCNA
6 87 (9.36%) DV Cleared
7 60 (6.46%) CCIE
8 53 (5.71%) Degree
9 26 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (2.69%) JNCIA
11 12 (1.29%) AWS Certification
11 12 (1.29%) JNCIS
12 8 (0.86%) CCDP
13 6 (0.65%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.65%) CISSP
14 5 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (0.43%) CCSA
15 4 (0.43%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.01%) SLA
2 7 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.54%) QA
4 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (3.34%) VMware NSX
3 25 (2.69%) vSphere
4 24 (2.58%) Firmware
5 15 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 11 (1.18%) Docker
7 9 (0.97%) Active Directory
7 9 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.54%) KVM
10 4 (0.43%) ProxySG
11 2 (0.22%) Squid
12 1 (0.11%) PowerDNS
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (7.00%) Ansible
2 55 (5.92%) FortiGate
3 24 (2.58%) Terraform
4 22 (2.37%) vCenter Server
5 7 (0.75%) Puppet
5 7 (0.75%) SolarWinds Orion
6 5 (0.54%) Endace
6 5 (0.54%) OpenView
7 4 (0.43%) Nessus
7 4 (0.43%) SCCM
8 3 (0.32%) Kibana
8 3 (0.32%) Kubernetes
8 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.32%) Netcool
9 2 (0.22%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.22%) Nmap
9 2 (0.22%) OpenNMS
9 2 (0.22%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.22%) Stealthwatch
9 2 (0.22%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 566 (60.93%) Cisco
2 182 (19.59%) Juniper
3 173 (18.62%) Palo Alto
4 155 (16.68%) F5
5 131 (14.10%) Fortinet
6 118 (12.70%) CheckPoint
7 85 (9.15%) SolarWinds
8 78 (8.40%) VMware
9 59 (6.35%) Aruba
10 51 (5.49%) Microsoft
11 44 (4.74%) Arista
11 44 (4.74%) Meraki
12 33 (3.55%) Nokia
13 31 (3.34%) Citrix
14 26 (2.80%) Blue Coat
15 24 (2.58%) Infoblox
16 23 (2.48%) Dell
16 23 (2.48%) Zscaler
17 13 (1.40%) HP
18 11 (1.18%) Google