Network Management Contract Job Trends in England

Network Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Network Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 367 401
Rank change year-on-year -69 +34 +180
Contract jobs citing Network Management 76 162 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.49% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.57% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 86 126
10th Percentile £300 £288 £304
25th Percentile £403 £413 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -11.11% +32.35%
75th Percentile £552 £622 £647
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -7.69% -11.36% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 25 5
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile - £67.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £45.00
90th Percentile - - £66.00
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +75.00% -25.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,260 28,349 37,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.90% 86.08% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,060 17,666 25,846
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £420 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,499 1,306 1,419
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in England

Network Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in England

Network Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Network Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
South West 0 22 £490 +3.16% 9
North of England -10 17 £533 +16.39% 24
London -3 16 £500 -14.53% 10
North West -9 14 £533 +5.65% 8
South East -4 11 £413 -26.25% 16
East of England +8 6 £423 +113.92% 7
West Midlands -21 4 £430 +17.81% 8
Midlands -31 4 £430 +17.81% 23
Yorkshire -17 3 £430 +1.18% 14
Network Management
UK

Network Management
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 1 (1.32%) CMS
1 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.11%) Azure
2 7 (9.21%) AWS
3 4 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.95%) GCP
4 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 29 (38.16%) Firewall
2 24 (31.58%) Network Security
3 19 (25.00%) WAN
4 11 (14.47%) SD-WAN
4 11 (14.47%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (11.84%) BGP
6 7 (9.21%) 5G
6 7 (9.21%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (9.21%) Wireless
7 6 (7.89%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (7.89%) DNS
7 6 (7.89%) NetScaler
7 6 (7.89%) OSPF
7 6 (7.89%) VLAN
8 5 (6.58%) DHCP
8 5 (6.58%) VPN
9 4 (5.26%) LAN
10 3 (3.95%) EIGRP
10 3 (3.95%) TCP/IP
11 2 (2.63%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 18 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.16%) Telecoms
3 9 (11.84%) Finance
4 6 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Billing
4 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.63%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.32%) Back Office
6 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (30.26%) Network Engineer
2 21 (27.63%) Administrator
3 19 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
4 17 (22.37%) Platform Manager
4 17 (22.37%) Systems Manager
4 17 (22.37%) Wintel Administrator
4 17 (22.37%) Wintel Systems Administrator
5 8 (10.53%) Project Manager
6 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) OSS Project Manager
7 6 (7.89%) Telecoms Manager
7 6 (7.89%) Telecoms Project Manager
8 5 (6.58%) Firewall Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Active Directory Support
9 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
9 4 (5.26%) Security Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Network Security Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Senior
11 2 (2.63%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.21%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.42%) PKI
2 9 (11.84%) Data Centre
3 7 (9.21%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.32%) IoT
6 1 (1.32%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.32%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.32%) Replication
6 1 (1.32%) SCADA
6 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.32%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 24 (31.58%) Windows
2 4 (5.26%) Linux
3 3 (3.95%) Unix
3 3 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.63%) CentOS
4 2 (2.63%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.63%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.05%) Security Patching
2 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (17.11%) Change Management
4 11 (14.47%) Network Architecture
5 10 (13.16%) Network Design
6 9 (11.84%) Load Balancing
7 8 (10.53%) Agile
7 8 (10.53%) Project Management
7 8 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (10.53%) Task Automation
8 7 (9.21%) Impact Assessments
8 7 (9.21%) PRINCE2
8 7 (9.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (9.21%) Waterfall
9 6 (7.89%) CRM
9 6 (7.89%) Fault Management
9 6 (7.89%) Risk Management
9 6 (7.89%) Scrum
10 5 (6.58%) Configuration Management
10 5 (6.58%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.53%) Python
2 4 (5.26%) Bash
2 4 (5.26%) Perl
3 3 (3.95%) SQL
4 1 (1.32%) JCL
Qualifications
1 30 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 18 (23.68%) DV Cleared
3 12 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (9.21%) PMI Certification
5 7 (9.21%) PMP
6 5 (6.58%) Degree
7 4 (5.26%) CCNP
8 3 (3.95%) CCIE
8 3 (3.95%) DBS Check
9 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.63%) CCNA
9 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.63%) RHCE
9 2 (2.63%) RHCSA
10 1 (1.32%) CCIE Routing and Switching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.63%) SLA
3 1 (1.32%) GRC
3 1 (1.32%) NCSC
3 1 (1.32%) NIST
3 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (13.16%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.63%) Docker
3 2 (2.63%) KVM
3 2 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (7.89%) Amdocs OSS
1 6 (7.89%) Ansible
2 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
2 2 (2.63%) Puppet
2 2 (2.63%) SCCM
2 2 (2.63%) Terraform
3 1 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.32%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (1.32%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.32%) Nagios
Vendors
1 29 (38.16%) Cisco
2 20 (26.32%) Palo Alto
3 9 (11.84%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.21%) Meraki
4 7 (9.21%) Nokia
5 6 (7.89%) Amdocs
5 6 (7.89%) CheckPoint
5 6 (7.89%) Ciena
5 6 (7.89%) Ericsson
5 6 (7.89%) Fortinet
5 6 (7.89%) NetCracker
6 4 (5.26%) SolarWinds
6 4 (5.26%) VMware
7 3 (3.95%) Apple
7 3 (3.95%) Dell
7 3 (3.95%) Juniper
8 2 (2.63%) Google
8 2 (2.63%) Huawei
8 2 (2.63%) Intel
8 2 (2.63%) Red Hat