Senior Network Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 408 519
Rank change year-on-year -11 +111 +114
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 48 134 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.37% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.40% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 88 68
10th Percentile £400 £336 £413
25th Percentile £463 £472 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £494
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +3.74% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £627
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £66.50 £43.92 -
25th Percentile £66.88 £61.81 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +11.36% +30.69%
75th Percentile £74.38 £75.68 -
90th Percentile £75.50 £76.47 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +11.36% +30.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,160 33,731 45,413
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,728 22,389 32,257
10th Percentile £293 £282 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 2,440 1,336
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -18.13% +94.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +87.50%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
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 Senior Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 22 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
London +6 26 £556 +5.95% 40
North of England +9 10 £475 -7.32% 13
North West +2 7 £483 -6.08% 3
East of England +27 3 - - 4
Yorkshire +11 3 £400 - 8
Midlands +12 1 £525 -4.55% 8
West Midlands +12 1 £525 - 4
South East -1 1 - - 29
Senior Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Senior Network Engineer 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 Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (79.17%) Cisco
2 27 (56.25%) Firewall
3 19 (39.58%) WAN
3 19 (39.58%) Data Centre
4 16 (33.33%) LAN
4 16 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (29.17%) BGP
5 14 (29.17%) Python
6 13 (27.08%) CCNP
6 13 (27.08%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (25.00%) Wireless
7 12 (25.00%) Network Security
7 12 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 12 (25.00%) Azure
8 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
8 11 (22.92%) OSPF
9 10 (20.83%) CheckPoint
9 10 (20.83%) SD-WAN
9 10 (20.83%) F5
9 10 (20.83%) Ansible
10 9 (18.75%) Network Design
11 8 (16.67%) AWS
11 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
11 8 (16.67%) Palo Alto
11 8 (16.67%) Terraform
12 7 (14.58%) Aruba
12 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
12 7 (14.58%) Meraki
12 7 (14.58%) Fortinet
12 7 (14.58%) Juniper

Senior Network Engineer 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 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.08%) Akamai
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 27 (56.25%) Firewall
2 19 (39.58%) WAN
3 16 (33.33%) LAN
4 14 (29.17%) BGP
5 13 (27.08%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 12 (25.00%) Network Security
6 12 (25.00%) Wireless
7 11 (22.92%) OSPF
8 10 (20.83%) SD-WAN
9 7 (14.58%) Ethernet
9 7 (14.58%) MPLS
9 7 (14.58%) VPN
10 6 (12.50%) DWDM
10 6 (12.50%) EIGRP
11 5 (10.42%) DNS
11 5 (10.42%) IPsec
12 4 (8.33%) Internet
12 4 (8.33%) SNMP
12 4 (8.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) GitLab
2 5 (10.42%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.08%) Git
General
1 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Finance
3 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Banking
4 2 (4.17%) Local Government
4 2 (4.17%) Retail
4 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.08%) Advertising
5 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) 802.1X
2 3 (6.25%) JSON
3 2 (4.17%) XML
4 1 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.08%) gRPC
4 1 (2.08%) HTML
4 1 (2.08%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (39.58%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.25%) FPGA
2 3 (6.25%) PCIe
2 3 (6.25%) Verilog
2 3 (6.25%) VHDL
3 2 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.08%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.08%) FMCG
4 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.08%) NHS
4 1 (2.08%) Replication
4 1 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Linux
1 3 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.75%) Network Design
2 6 (12.50%) Network Architecture
2 6 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (10.42%) Low Latency
3 5 (10.42%) Network Management
4 4 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (8.33%) DevOps
4 4 (8.33%) Load Balancing
4 4 (8.33%) Migration
4 4 (8.33%) Observability
5 3 (6.25%) Computer Science
5 3 (6.25%) FPGA Design
5 3 (6.25%) Incident Management
5 3 (6.25%) ITSM
5 3 (6.25%) Machine Learning
5 3 (6.25%) Project Management
5 3 (6.25%) Prototyping
5 3 (6.25%) Risk Analysis
5 3 (6.25%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) Python
2 3 (6.25%) SystemVerilog
2 3 (6.25%) Tcl
3 1 (2.08%) Java
3 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (27.08%) CCNP
3 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
5 5 (10.42%) CCIE
6 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.25%) Degree
7 2 (4.17%) JNCIP
8 1 (2.08%) CCDP
8 1 (2.08%) CWNA
8 1 (2.08%) JNCIA
8 1 (2.08%) JNCIE
8 1 (2.08%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.08%) FreeRADIUS
1 1 (2.08%) iptables
1 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Ansible
2 8 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) Nagios
3 2 (4.17%) OPNET
4 1 (2.08%) Cacti
4 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.08%) Grafana
4 1 (2.08%) Netcool
4 1 (2.08%) OpenView
4 1 (2.08%) Proxmox
4 1 (2.08%) Puppet
4 1 (2.08%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (79.17%) Cisco
2 10 (20.83%) CheckPoint
2 10 (20.83%) F5
3 8 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 7 (14.58%) Aruba
4 7 (14.58%) Fortinet
4 7 (14.58%) Juniper
4 7 (14.58%) Meraki
5 6 (12.50%) Arista
6 4 (8.33%) Extreme Networks
6 4 (8.33%) HP
6 4 (8.33%) Infoblox
6 4 (8.33%) SolarWinds
6 4 (8.33%) VMware
6 4 (8.33%) Zscaler
7 3 (6.25%) Intel
7 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
7 3 (6.25%) Xilinx
8 2 (4.17%) AirMagnet
8 2 (4.17%) Ekahau