Network Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Network Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Hertfordshire is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 45 49
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 8 3 28
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.51% 0.64% 3.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 0.68% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 13
10th Percentile £381 - £273
25th Percentile £475 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +50.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile - - £460
90th Percentile - - £495
East of England median daily rate £400 £300 £440
% change year-on-year +33.33% -31.82% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £20.75 £20.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +3.75% -55.56% +112.01%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 440 443 704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.02% 94.46% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 195 406
10th Percentile £238 £263 £263
25th Percentile £413 £334 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.16% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £675
90th Percentile £713 £625 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 101 151
10th Percentile £17.42 £15.10 £17.75
25th Percentile £24.05 £35.00 £42.38
Median hourly rate £48.29 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.52% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £66.88 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.63 £75.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -36.84% +6.74% +124.63%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Network Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Network Engineer job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in Hertfordshire

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Stevenage - 4 £700 - 8
Network Engineer
East of England

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, Network Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hertfordshire region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) BGP
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
1 6 (75.00%) Fortinet
1 6 (75.00%) OSPF
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) VLAN
1 6 (75.00%) VPN
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) CCNP
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (50.00%) FortiGate
3 4 (50.00%) Network Management
3 4 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (25.00%) Ansible
5 2 (25.00%) AWS
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (25.00%) Azure
5 2 (25.00%) Bash
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) Huawei
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) BGP
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
1 6 (75.00%) OSPF
1 6 (75.00%) VLAN
1 6 (75.00%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Network Management
1 4 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) CCNP
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Fortinet
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (25.00%) Huawei
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds