Network Engineer Contracts in Hampshire

Network Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 42 95
Rank change year-on-year +20 +53 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 105 71 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 6.42% 5.32% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.10% 5.66% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 53 21
10th Percentile £425 £285 £375
25th Percentile £463 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £575
90th Percentile £715 £575 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £62.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +210.00% +25.69%
South East median hourly rate £49.25 £64.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -23.05% +178.26% +17.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,478 1,255 1,940
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.01% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 816 1,167
10th Percentile £363 £229 £270
25th Percentile £450 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £616 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £493
% change year-on-year - +1.42% +9.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 106 159
10th Percentile £13.78 £16.38 £13.35
25th Percentile £34.06 £20.48 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £51.25 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +138.37% -27.12%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.13 £43.85
90th Percentile £77.05 £75.00 £60.43
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
% change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -19.19%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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
Basingstoke +13 41 £450 -2.70% 3
Farnborough +14 20 £600 +23.08% 8
Fleet - 10 - -
Southampton 0 6 £590 +17.90% 4
Portsmouth -27 4 £550 +37.50% 1
Winchester - 3 £569 - 1
Havant +8 1 £715 +58.89% 1
Network Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 81 (77.14%) Security Cleared
2 76 (72.38%) Firewall
3 74 (70.48%) Cisco
4 50 (47.62%) Fortinet
5 35 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 34 (32.38%) Network Design
6 34 (32.38%) Juniper
7 29 (27.62%) Customer Requirements
8 22 (20.95%) Cisco Nexus
9 21 (20.00%) VPN
10 20 (19.05%) DV Cleared
11 19 (18.10%) F5
12 18 (17.14%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (15.24%) CheckPoint
14 14 (13.33%) OSPF
14 14 (13.33%) BGP
14 14 (13.33%) Blue Coat
14 14 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
15 13 (12.38%) Public Sector
16 12 (11.43%) Network Architecture
16 12 (11.43%) SolarWinds
16 12 (11.43%) Palo Alto
16 12 (11.43%) FortiGate
16 12 (11.43%) Data Centre
16 12 (11.43%) CCNP
16 12 (11.43%) LAN
17 11 (10.48%) ITSM
18 10 (9.52%) DMZ
18 10 (9.52%) CCNA
18 10 (9.52%) Banking

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.95%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.62%) AWS
2 2 (1.90%) Azure
3 1 (0.95%) Cloudflare
3 1 (0.95%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 76 (72.38%) Firewall
2 22 (20.95%) Cisco Nexus
3 21 (20.00%) VPN
4 14 (13.33%) BGP
4 14 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
4 14 (13.33%) OSPF
5 12 (11.43%) LAN
6 10 (9.52%) DMZ
7 9 (8.57%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (8.57%) EIGRP
8 8 (7.62%) Network Security
9 7 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
9 7 (6.67%) IPsec
10 6 (5.71%) WAN
10 6 (5.71%) Wireless
11 5 (4.76%) DMVPN
11 5 (4.76%) VLAN
12 3 (2.86%) HSRP
12 3 (2.86%) Spanning Tree
13 2 (1.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
General
1 13 (12.38%) Public Sector
2 10 (9.52%) Banking
2 10 (9.52%) Investment Banking
3 7 (6.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.76%) HTML
2 3 (2.86%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.43%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.90%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.38%) Network Design
2 29 (27.62%) Customer Requirements
3 12 (11.43%) Network Architecture
4 11 (10.48%) ITSM
5 10 (9.52%) Architectural Patterns
5 10 (9.52%) Change Control
5 10 (9.52%) Design Patterns
5 10 (9.52%) High Availability
6 7 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (5.71%) Network Management
8 5 (4.76%) Migration
8 5 (4.76%) Requirements Management
8 5 (4.76%) Service Management
8 5 (4.76%) SIEM
9 4 (3.81%) Computer Science
9 4 (3.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (3.81%) Network Virtualisation
10 3 (2.86%) DevSecOps
10 3 (2.86%) Mentoring
10 3 (2.86%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.76%) Java
1 5 (4.76%) PHP
2 1 (0.95%) C
2 1 (0.95%) Python
Qualifications
1 81 (77.14%) Security Cleared
2 35 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 20 (19.05%) DV Cleared
4 18 (17.14%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (11.43%) CCNP
6 10 (9.52%) CCNA
7 6 (5.71%) JNCIA
8 4 (3.81%) Degree
9 3 (2.86%) CCSA
10 2 (1.90%) CCIE
10 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) SLA
2 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (5.71%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (11.43%) FortiGate
2 2 (1.90%) Ansible
3 1 (0.95%) Endace
3 1 (0.95%) Iperf
3 1 (0.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 74 (70.48%) Cisco
2 50 (47.62%) Fortinet
3 34 (32.38%) Juniper
4 19 (18.10%) F5
5 16 (15.24%) CheckPoint
6 14 (13.33%) Blue Coat
7 12 (11.43%) Palo Alto
7 12 (11.43%) SolarWinds
8 7 (6.67%) VMware
9 4 (3.81%) Dell
10 3 (2.86%) QinetiQ
11 1 (0.95%) Aruba
11 1 (0.95%) Citrix
11 1 (0.95%) Fujitsu
11 1 (0.95%) Zscaler