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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 443 367
Rank change year-on-year -109 -76 +45
Contract jobs citing Network Management 71 76 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.27% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.30% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 51 83
10th Percentile £333 £300 £250
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £581 £552 £606
90th Percentile £626 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £486
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.46% -11.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 25
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - £67.50
Median hourly rate £70.50 - £70.00
75th Percentile £72.63 - £72.50
90th Percentile £74.13 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.50 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +75.00%

All Process & 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 39,123 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.74% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,918 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Network Management job vacancy trend 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 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Management in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Management in England

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 2026. 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
East of England -19 16 £438 +3.55% 16
London -74 16 £488 -2.50% 55
North of England -68 13 £450 -15.49% 11
South East -62 11 £303 -26.76% 32
Yorkshire -31 9 £450 +4.65% 8
West Midlands -40 8 £581 +35.12% 3
Midlands -42 8 £581 +35.12% 3
South West -52 5 £563 +14.80% 12
North West -59 4 £626 +17.56% 3
Network Management
UK

Network Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.68%) Azure
2 4 (5.63%) Snowflake
3 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.82%) AWS
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.41%) GitHub
5 1 (1.41%) IaaS
5 1 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (26.76%) Firewall
2 17 (23.94%) LAN
3 15 (21.13%) Wireless
4 14 (19.72%) Network Security
4 14 (19.72%) WAN
4 14 (19.72%) WLAN
5 12 (16.90%) SNMP
6 11 (15.49%) BGP
6 11 (15.49%) OSPF
6 11 (15.49%) SD-WAN
7 10 (14.08%) VLAN
8 9 (12.68%) DNS
9 8 (11.27%) DHCP
10 7 (9.86%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (9.86%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (9.86%) TCP/IP
10 7 (9.86%) VPN
10 7 (9.86%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (8.45%) Cisco Wireless
12 4 (5.63%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Git
2 1 (1.41%) JIRA
General
1 15 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.23%) Aerospace
3 3 (4.23%) Police
3 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.23%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.82%) Law
4 2 (2.82%) Legal
5 1 (1.41%) Banking
5 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (39.44%) Network Engineer
2 13 (18.31%) Windows Engineer
3 9 (12.68%) Senior
4 5 (7.04%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Developer
5 4 (5.63%) SCADA Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Software Developer
6 3 (4.23%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Data Migration Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Migration Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Administrator
7 2 (2.82%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Engineering Specialist
7 2 (2.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Security Engineer
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) Terraform
2 3 (4.23%) REST
3 1 (1.41%) .NET
3 1 (1.41%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.41%) OAuth
3 1 (1.41%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.41%) OpenID
3 1 (1.41%) RESTful
3 1 (1.41%) RFC 2544
3 1 (1.41%) SAML
3 1 (1.41%) Spring
3 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.31%) Security Posture
2 7 (9.86%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.86%) SCADA
3 5 (7.04%) CMDB
3 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.04%) PKI
3 5 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.63%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.41%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) IoT
5 1 (1.41%) Life Science
5 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.41%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 25 (35.21%) Windows
2 15 (21.13%) Windows Server
3 8 (11.27%) Linux
4 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 17 (23.94%) Configuration Management
3 16 (22.54%) Incident Management
4 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (16.90%) Incident Response
5 12 (16.90%) Root Cause Analysis
6 11 (15.49%) High Availability
6 11 (15.49%) Storage Management
7 9 (12.68%) CI/CD
7 9 (12.68%) ITIL
8 8 (11.27%) Architectural Design
8 8 (11.27%) Migration
9 6 (8.45%) Agile
9 6 (8.45%) Validation
10 5 (7.04%) Data Modelling
10 5 (7.04%) ITSM
10 5 (7.04%) Knowledge Transfer
10 5 (7.04%) Service Management
10 5 (7.04%) Software Engineering
10 5 (7.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.68%) Python
2 8 (11.27%) SQL
3 5 (7.04%) Java
4 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 29 (40.85%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.31%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (16.90%) DV Cleared
4 11 (15.49%) SC Cleared
5 8 (11.27%) CCNP
6 5 (7.04%) CCNA
7 4 (5.63%) Degree
8 1 (1.41%) CCIE
8 1 (1.41%) CISSP
8 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.41%) CWNA
8 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.41%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.41%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.90%) SLA
2 5 (7.04%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.23%) GDPR
4 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.41%) NIST
4 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (21.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.23%) Firmware
3 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.41%) Docker
4 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) WMI
2 4 (5.63%) Ansible
3 3 (4.23%) Nagios
4 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.82%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (1.41%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.41%) Grafana
5 1 (1.41%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.41%) PingFederate
5 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.41%) Puppet
5 1 (1.41%) Tivoli NetView
5 1 (1.41%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (45.07%) Cisco
2 17 (23.94%) Palo Alto
3 13 (18.31%) SolarWinds
4 11 (15.49%) Fortinet
4 11 (15.49%) ServiceNow
5 10 (14.08%) F5
6 8 (11.27%) Microsoft
7 7 (9.86%) Splunk
8 4 (5.63%) Juniper
8 4 (5.63%) VMware
9 3 (4.23%) CheckPoint
9 3 (4.23%) Meraki
9 3 (4.23%) SevOne
10 2 (2.82%) Forcepoint
10 2 (2.82%) HP
10 2 (2.82%) Infoblox
10 2 (2.82%) NetScout
11 1 (1.41%) EMC
11 1 (1.41%) Ericsson
11 1 (1.41%) NetApp