Network Management Contracts in England

Network Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 292 452
Rank change year-on-year -91 +160 +116
Contract jobs citing Network Management 104 262 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.71% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.81% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 164 150
10th Percentile £273 £177 £188
25th Percentile £405 £460 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £478
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +8.86% +0.59%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £638
90th Percentile £673 - £700
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -4.85% +8.42% +5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 32 12
10th Percentile £19.51 - £18.55
25th Percentile £25.79 £40.00 £37.56
Median hourly rate £37.50 £70.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +24.44% +28.60%
75th Percentile £43.13 £72.50 £88.13
90th Percentile £45.75 £93.00 £101.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £70.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -46.43% +40.00% +14.31%

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 22,247 32,161 45,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.13% 86.56% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,550 21,078 31,861
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 2,252 1,585
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.93 £10.91
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Management in England

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in England

Network Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Management in England

Network Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Management in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 2 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
North of England +42 40 £525 +1.94% 25
London +44 29 £500 +17.65% 31
North West +26 29 £563 +9.49% 14
Yorkshire +14 11 £500 -23.08% 9
South West -57 11 £425 -15.00% 7
South East -22 10 £490 -24.62% 22
East of England +31 8 £475 +134.57% 17
Midlands +22 4 £521 - 10
West Midlands +18 4 £521 - 9
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 2 (1.92%) Drupal
2 1 (0.96%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.96%) CMS
2 1 (0.96%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.46%) Azure
2 9 (8.65%) AWS
3 3 (2.88%) Entra ID
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.92%) SaaS
5 1 (0.96%) Akamai
5 1 (0.96%) GCP
5 1 (0.96%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.96%) IaaS
5 1 (0.96%) PaaS
5 1 (0.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 58 (55.77%) Firewall
2 41 (39.42%) WAN
3 28 (26.92%) Wi-Fi
4 24 (23.08%) BGP
5 22 (21.15%) Network Security
6 21 (20.19%) OSPF
7 19 (18.27%) Cisco ISE
7 19 (18.27%) NetScaler
8 18 (17.31%) LAN
9 15 (14.42%) EIGRP
10 14 (13.46%) VPN
11 13 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (11.54%) DNS
12 12 (11.54%) SD-WAN
12 12 (11.54%) Wireless
13 10 (9.62%) DHCP
13 10 (9.62%) Internet
13 10 (9.62%) IPsec
14 9 (8.65%) 5G
14 9 (8.65%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.96%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (0.96%) Power BI
1 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.92%) GitLab
1 2 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.96%) JIRA
General
1 30 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.31%) Finance
3 14 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 12 (11.54%) Telecoms
6 8 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.81%) Billing
8 2 (1.92%) Electronics
8 2 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.92%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.92%) Marketing
8 2 (1.92%) Military
9 1 (0.96%) Back Office
9 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (43.27%) Network Engineer
2 14 (13.46%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 10 (9.62%) Firewall Engineer
3 10 (9.62%) Senior
4 6 (5.77%) Architect
4 6 (5.77%) Network Specialist
5 5 (4.81%) Administrator
5 5 (4.81%) Network Architect
5 5 (4.81%) OSS Project Manager
5 5 (4.81%) Project Manager
5 5 (4.81%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (4.81%) Telecoms Manager
5 5 (4.81%) Telecoms Project Manager
6 4 (3.85%) Analyst
6 4 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (2.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (2.88%) Consultant
7 3 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (2.88%) IP Designer
7 3 (2.88%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.27%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.92%) NETCONF
3 1 (0.96%) HTML
3 1 (0.96%) JSON
3 1 (0.96%) ODBC
3 1 (0.96%) REST
3 1 (0.96%) RFC 2544
3 1 (0.96%) XML
3 1 (0.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (26.92%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.81%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.85%) PKI
4 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.92%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (1.92%) IoT
5 2 (1.92%) NHS
5 2 (1.92%) SCADA
5 2 (1.92%) Social Media
6 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.96%) CMDB
6 1 (0.96%) FMCG
6 1 (0.96%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.96%) NB-IoT
6 1 (0.96%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.69%) Windows
2 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.69%) Network Design
2 23 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (21.15%) Load Balancing
4 21 (20.19%) Network Architecture
5 13 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
5 13 (12.50%) Migration
5 13 (12.50%) Project Management
6 12 (11.54%) ITIL
7 10 (9.62%) Agile
8 9 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
10 7 (6.73%) CRM
10 7 (6.73%) High Availability
11 6 (5.77%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (5.77%) Data Protection
11 6 (5.77%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (5.77%) Scrum
11 6 (5.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 5 (4.81%) Fault Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.46%) Python
2 4 (3.85%) Perl
3 3 (2.88%) SQL
4 2 (1.92%) Bash
5 1 (0.96%) Go
5 1 (0.96%) Java
5 1 (0.96%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.96%) R
5 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 31 (29.81%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.42%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (12.50%) Degree
5 10 (9.62%) CCNP
5 10 (9.62%) DV Cleared
6 7 (6.73%) CCIE
7 6 (5.77%) CCNA
8 5 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.81%) PMI Certification
8 5 (4.81%) PMP
9 3 (2.88%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.96%) CCDP
11 1 (0.96%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.96%) ECDL
11 1 (0.96%) HNC
11 1 (0.96%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) GDPR
2 2 (1.92%) DICOM
2 2 (1.92%) HL7
3 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.96%) NCSC
3 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.96%) QA
3 1 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.96%) SLA
3 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.73%) VMware NSX
3 4 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.96%) Docker
4 1 (0.96%) Firmware
4 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (9.62%) Ansible
2 8 (7.69%) FortiGate
3 5 (4.81%) Amdocs OSS
4 3 (2.88%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.92%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.92%) SCCM
5 2 (1.92%) Terraform
6 1 (0.96%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.96%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.96%) Nagios
6 1 (0.96%) OpenView
6 1 (0.96%) OPNET
6 1 (0.96%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 60 (57.69%) Cisco
2 32 (30.77%) Palo Alto
3 18 (17.31%) CheckPoint
4 17 (16.35%) Meraki
5 13 (12.50%) Juniper
6 12 (11.54%) SolarWinds
7 8 (7.69%) VMware
8 7 (6.73%) Fortinet
8 7 (6.73%) Microsoft
9 6 (5.77%) Ericsson
9 6 (5.77%) Nokia
10 5 (4.81%) Amdocs
10 5 (4.81%) Ciena
10 5 (4.81%) NetCracker
11 4 (3.85%) F5
11 4 (3.85%) HP
12 3 (2.88%) Apple
12 3 (2.88%) Google
12 3 (2.88%) Zscaler
13 2 (1.92%) Infoblox