Network Engineer Contracts in Kent

Network Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Kent is £338 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 31 36
Rank change year-on-year +19 +5 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 19 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 9.36% 2.64% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.11% 2.70% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 4
10th Percentile - £306 -
25th Percentile £329 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £368 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -13.53% +41.67%
75th Percentile £416 £418 £438
90th Percentile £441 £428 £439
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Kent

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 188 222 268
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 97.80% 96.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 179 232
10th Percentile £203 £130 £173
25th Percentile £211 £196 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £350 £411
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -14.89% +21.85%
75th Percentile £525 £494 £575
90th Percentile £598 £738 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 15
10th Percentile £11.41 £38.11 £16.69
25th Percentile £13.30 £43.48 £20.30
Median hourly rate £46.87 £55.59 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% +68.46% -14.84%
75th Percentile £66.88 £56.79 £39.76
90th Percentile £82.43 £60.45 £45.05
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -16.00%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Kent

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in Kent

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in Kent

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Maidstone +7 6 £333 -9.52%
West Malling -1 2 £348 -15.76%
Dartford - 1 - - 1
Network Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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 Kent region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (84.21%) Cisco
2 9 (47.37%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (42.11%) CCNP
3 8 (42.11%) CCNA
3 8 (42.11%) Firewall
4 7 (36.84%) Meraki
4 7 (36.84%) Driving Licence
5 5 (26.32%) Wireless
5 5 (26.32%) VMware
6 4 (21.05%) VPN
6 4 (21.05%) LAN
6 4 (21.05%) Palo Alto
6 4 (21.05%) Finance
6 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (21.05%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (21.05%) SolarWinds
6 4 (21.05%) Aruba
7 3 (15.79%) Load Balancing
7 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
7 3 (15.79%) WLAN
7 3 (15.79%) WAN
7 3 (15.79%) HP
7 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (10.53%) Electronics
8 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
8 2 (10.53%) Programme Management
8 2 (10.53%) Marketing
8 2 (10.53%) Citrix
8 2 (10.53%) SAP

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

Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) Firewall
2 5 (26.32%) Wireless
3 4 (21.05%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (21.05%) LAN
3 4 (21.05%) VPN
4 3 (15.79%) WAN
4 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (15.79%) WLAN
5 2 (10.53%) NetScaler
6 1 (5.26%) BGP
6 1 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (5.26%) IPsec
6 1 (5.26%) MPLS
6 1 (5.26%) Network Security
6 1 (5.26%) OSPF
6 1 (5.26%) Unified Communications
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Electronics
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.53%) Marketing
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Driving Licence
2 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.53%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Load Balancing
2 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (10.53%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (10.53%) High Availability
2 2 (10.53%) Migration
2 2 (10.53%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (10.53%) Programme Management
2 2 (10.53%) Two-Factor Authentication
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (5.26%) ITIL
3 1 (5.26%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (5.26%) Mathematics
3 1 (5.26%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (42.11%) CCNA
2 8 (42.11%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Cisco
2 7 (36.84%) Meraki
3 5 (26.32%) VMware
4 4 (21.05%) Aruba
4 4 (21.05%) Palo Alto
4 4 (21.05%) SolarWinds
5 3 (15.79%) HP
6 2 (10.53%) Citrix
6 2 (10.53%) F5
6 2 (10.53%) SAP
7 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
7 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (5.26%) Forcepoint
7 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
7 1 (5.26%) Sophos