Network Consultant Contracts in England

Network Consultant
UK > England

The median Network Consultant daily rate in England is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 621 738
Rank change year-on-year +108 +117 -172
Contract jobs requiring a Network Consultant 28 40 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.080% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.085% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 26 43
10th Percentile £373 £413 £380
25th Percentile £407 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £506 £647 £600
90th Percentile £640 £706 £660
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

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 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Network Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Consultant in England

Network Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Consultant in England

Network Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Consultant in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Consultant in England

Network Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Consultant in England

Network Consultant
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 Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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 +112 12 £500 -17.53% 5
South East +24 8 £488 -9.30% 2
South West +22 4 £400 -33.33%
North of England +32 2 £466 +24.33%
Yorkshire +20 2 £466 +24.33%
East of England +17 1 £500 -
Network Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Network Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 15 (53.57%) Cisco
2 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
3 9 (32.14%) Network Security
3 9 (32.14%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (28.57%) WAN
5 7 (25.00%) CCNP
5 7 (25.00%) Firewall
5 7 (25.00%) Wireless
5 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 7 (25.00%) DV Cleared
6 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 6 (21.43%) LAN
7 5 (17.86%) VMware
7 5 (17.86%) Palo Alto
7 5 (17.86%) VMware NSX
7 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.86%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (14.29%) Degree
8 4 (14.29%) Network Design
8 4 (14.29%) WLAN
8 4 (14.29%) CCIE
9 3 (10.71%) Juniper
9 3 (10.71%) Linux
9 3 (10.71%) VPN
9 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (10.71%) Python
9 3 (10.71%) Fortinet
9 3 (10.71%) Meraki
9 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills

Network Consultant 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 2 (7.14%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Azure
1 2 (7.14%) Nutanix
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) Network Security
2 8 (28.57%) WAN
3 7 (25.00%) Firewall
3 7 (25.00%) Wireless
4 6 (21.43%) LAN
5 5 (17.86%) Cisco ISE
6 4 (14.29%) WLAN
7 3 (10.71%) NX-OS
7 3 (10.71%) VPN
7 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (7.14%) DNS
8 2 (7.14%) Internet
8 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
8 2 (7.14%) Unified Communications
8 2 (7.14%) VSAN
9 1 (3.57%) SNMP
9 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
9 1 (3.57%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) CMDB
2 2 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (14.29%) Network Design
3 3 (10.71%) Presales
4 2 (7.14%) Analytics
4 2 (7.14%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (7.14%) Migration
4 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (7.14%) Product Management
4 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
4 2 (7.14%) Time Management
4 2 (7.14%) Validation
4 2 (7.14%) WAN Optimisation
5 1 (3.57%) Agile
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science
5 1 (3.57%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.57%) ITIL
5 1 (3.57%) Kanban
5 1 (3.57%) Load Balancing
5 1 (3.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) Groovy
3 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (25.00%) CCNP
3 7 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (14.29%) CCIE
4 4 (14.29%) Degree
5 2 (7.14%) CCNA
6 1 (3.57%) CCIE Routing and Switching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
1 2 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) VMware NSX
2 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.14%) KVM
3 2 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.57%) Nessus
2 1 (3.57%) Puppet
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Cisco
2 5 (17.86%) Palo Alto
2 5 (17.86%) VMware
3 3 (10.71%) Fortinet
3 3 (10.71%) Juniper
3 3 (10.71%) Meraki
4 2 (7.14%) Aruba
5 1 (3.57%) BMC
5 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.57%) Citrix
5 1 (3.57%) EMC
5 1 (3.57%) F5
5 1 (3.57%) HP
5 1 (3.57%) Remedy
5 1 (3.57%) ScienceLogic
5 1 (3.57%) Thales
5 1 (3.57%) Zscaler