Network Engineer Contracts in Hampshire

Network Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 23 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 +53
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 42 104 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 5.55% 6.37% 5.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.82% 7.06% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 43 53
10th Percentile £361 £425 £334
25th Percentile £456 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £459
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +19.83% -12.57%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £550
90th Percentile £625 £715 £575
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £60.30
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
75th Percentile - - £63.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £49.25 £64.00
% change year-on-year -61.42% -23.05% +146.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 722 1,473 1,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.38% 90.26% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 842 826
10th Percentile £281 £363 £229
25th Percentile £424 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £622
90th Percentile £661 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 178 105
10th Percentile £19.53 £13.78 £16.35
25th Percentile £24.66 £34.06 £20.47
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +14.70% +132.56%
75th Percentile £66.56 £64.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.05 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.08
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.21% +140.40%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Hampshire

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in Hampshire

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in Hampshire

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in Hampshire

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Farnborough -6 10 £490 -18.33%
Portsmouth +20 8 £588 +6.82% 2
Basingstoke -7 7 £575 +27.78% 5
Havant +1 5 £600 -16.08%
Southampton +4 4 £481 -18.36% 4
Eastleigh - 4 £500 -
Network Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, 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 Hampshire region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (66.67%) Cisco
2 26 (61.90%) Security Cleared
3 20 (47.62%) Firewall
4 19 (45.24%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (45.24%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
5 18 (42.86%) VPN
6 17 (40.48%) LAN
7 15 (35.71%) WAN
7 15 (35.71%) CCNP
7 15 (35.71%) Network Architecture
7 15 (35.71%) SC Cleared
8 13 (30.95%) Azure
8 13 (30.95%) AWS
9 12 (28.57%) CCNA
9 12 (28.57%) Juniper
9 12 (28.57%) Ansible
9 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (26.19%) Agile
11 10 (23.81%) DV Cleared
11 10 (23.81%) Network Security
11 10 (23.81%) F5
11 10 (23.81%) SLA
11 10 (23.81%) Customer Requirements
11 10 (23.81%) Preventative Maintenance
12 9 (21.43%) Citrix
12 9 (21.43%) Python
13 8 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (19.05%) Cisco ISE
13 8 (19.05%) Terraform

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (30.95%) AWS
1 13 (30.95%) Azure
2 4 (9.52%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 20 (47.62%) Firewall
2 18 (42.86%) VPN
3 17 (40.48%) LAN
4 15 (35.71%) WAN
5 10 (23.81%) Network Security
6 8 (19.05%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (16.67%) Wireless
8 6 (14.29%) Junos
9 5 (11.90%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (11.90%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (9.52%) BGP
10 4 (9.52%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (9.52%) MPLS
10 4 (9.52%) OSPF
11 3 (7.14%) Cisco Wireless
11 3 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (7.14%) SD-WAN
12 1 (2.38%) EIGRP
12 1 (2.38%) Ethernet
12 1 (2.38%) SAN
General
1 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.38%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (11.90%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.38%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (35.71%) Network Architecture
3 11 (26.19%) Agile
4 10 (23.81%) Customer Requirements
4 10 (23.81%) Preventative Maintenance
5 8 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (16.67%) Migration
6 7 (16.67%) Validation
7 6 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 6 (14.29%) Network Design
8 5 (11.90%) Architecture Roadmap
8 5 (11.90%) Load Balancing
8 5 (11.90%) Roadmaps
8 5 (11.90%) Service Design
9 4 (9.52%) Incident Management
9 4 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (9.52%) Zero Trust
10 3 (7.14%) Change Management
10 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.43%) Python
2 5 (11.90%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 19 (45.24%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (35.71%) CCNP
3 15 (35.71%) SC Cleared
4 12 (28.57%) CCNA
5 10 (23.81%) DV Cleared
6 6 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (14.29%) Degree
7 5 (11.90%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.81%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) KVM
Systems Management
1 12 (28.57%) Ansible
2 8 (19.05%) Terraform
3 6 (14.29%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.38%) Iperf
Vendors
1 28 (66.67%) Cisco
2 12 (28.57%) Juniper
3 10 (23.81%) F5
4 9 (21.43%) Citrix
5 7 (16.67%) CheckPoint
6 5 (11.90%) Fortinet
7 4 (9.52%) Palo Alto
7 4 (9.52%) Zscaler
8 3 (7.14%) Mellanox
8 3 (7.14%) NVIDIA
9 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
10 1 (2.38%) McAfee
10 1 (2.38%) SolarWinds