Network Specialist Contracts in England

Network Specialist
UK > England

The median Network Specialist daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 598 710
Rank change year-on-year +127 +112 -134
Contract jobs requiring a Network Specialist 62 49 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.10% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.11% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 31 34
10th Percentile £184 - £325
25th Percentile £425 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £420
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +27.98% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £820 £497
90th Percentile £863 £830 £576
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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 33,813 46,135 67,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.65% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,418 32,774 48,161
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,361 1,875
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.52 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.52
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.03%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.02 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

Network Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Specialist in England

Network Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Specialist in England

Network Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Specialist in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Specialist in England

Network Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Specialist in England

Network Specialist
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 Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
South East +48 32 £450 -10.00% 4
London +82 23 £725 -12.65% 2
East of England +13 4 £475 -5.00%
South West +5 2 - -
Midlands +24 1 £350 -42.86% 3
West Midlands +22 1 £350 -49.09% 3
Network Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Network Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 36 (58.06%) Cisco
2 35 (56.45%) Juniper
3 34 (54.84%) Security Cleared
4 31 (50.00%) BGP
4 31 (50.00%) Firewall
5 30 (48.39%) OSPF
6 28 (45.16%) Fortinet
7 26 (41.94%) VPN
8 25 (40.32%) Network Design
9 23 (37.10%) FortiGate
10 22 (35.48%) DV Cleared
11 21 (33.87%) Wireless
12 18 (29.03%) EIGRP
13 17 (27.42%) DMVPN
14 15 (24.19%) WAN
15 13 (20.97%) LAN
15 13 (20.97%) WLAN
15 13 (20.97%) Palo Alto
16 10 (16.13%) Threat Management
16 10 (16.13%) IPsec
16 10 (16.13%) PKI
17 9 (14.52%) Change Management
17 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
18 7 (11.29%) Zero Trust
18 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
18 7 (11.29%) Network Virtualisation
18 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
18 7 (11.29%) Network Security
18 7 (11.29%) SC Cleared
18 7 (11.29%) Cisco ASA

Network Specialist 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 1 (1.61%) Apache
1 1 (1.61%) JBoss
1 1 (1.61%) nginx
1 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.06%) AWS
2 3 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (3.23%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 31 (50.00%) BGP
1 31 (50.00%) Firewall
2 30 (48.39%) OSPF
3 26 (41.94%) VPN
4 21 (33.87%) Wireless
5 18 (29.03%) EIGRP
6 17 (27.42%) DMVPN
7 15 (24.19%) WAN
8 13 (20.97%) LAN
8 13 (20.97%) WLAN
9 10 (16.13%) IPsec
10 7 (11.29%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (11.29%) Network Security
11 6 (9.68%) 4G
11 6 (9.68%) DNS
12 5 (8.06%) 5G
12 5 (8.06%) DHCP
12 5 (8.06%) TCP/IP
12 5 (8.06%) VLAN
13 4 (6.45%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.61%) GIS
1 1 (1.61%) QGIS
1 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.61%) Banking
5 1 (1.61%) Finance
5 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (1.61%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) PKI
2 1 (1.61%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Linux
2 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.61%) Unix
2 1 (1.61%) Windows
2 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.32%) Network Design
2 10 (16.13%) Threat Management
3 9 (14.52%) Change Management
4 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (11.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (11.29%) Service Delivery
4 7 (11.29%) Zero Trust
5 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (8.06%) Agile
6 5 (8.06%) Business Case
6 5 (8.06%) Load Balancing
6 5 (8.06%) Migration
6 5 (8.06%) Problem Management
7 4 (6.45%) Capacity Management
7 4 (6.45%) Change Control
7 4 (6.45%) Mentoring
7 4 (6.45%) Prototyping
7 4 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 22 (35.48%) DV Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) CCIE
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (3.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (37.10%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 36 (58.06%) Cisco
2 35 (56.45%) Juniper
3 28 (45.16%) Fortinet
4 13 (20.97%) Palo Alto
5 6 (9.68%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (3.23%) Ericsson
6 2 (3.23%) F5
6 2 (3.23%) VMware
7 1 (1.61%) Actix
7 1 (1.61%) ESRI
7 1 (1.61%) Greenplum
7 1 (1.61%) Huawei
7 1 (1.61%) IBM
7 1 (1.61%) Mapinfo
7 1 (1.61%) Nokia
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle
7 1 (1.61%) Pega
7 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.61%) Temenos