Data Network Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Data Network Engineer
England > London

The median Data Network Engineer daily rate in London is £435, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 - 381
Rank change year-on-year - - +87
Contract jobs requiring a Data Network Engineer 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.020% - 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - -
75th Percentile £443 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £431 £445
% change year-on-year +4.35% -3.09% +36.92%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 18,620 12,668 15,338
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 93.00% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,167 8,582 10,875
10th Percentile £363 £326 £348
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 202 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.48
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.93 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £29.54 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -10.69% -11.81%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +77.73% -43.73% +5.88%

Data Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Network Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Data Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Network Engineer job vacancies in London

Data Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Network Engineer job vacancies in London

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 2026, Data 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 London region featuring Data Network Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Arista
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) DMZ
2 3 (75.00%) F5
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) IGMP
2 3 (75.00%) Investment Management
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Low Latency
2 3 (75.00%) Multicast
2 3 (75.00%) Operational Stability
2 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN

Data Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (75.00%) DMZ
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) IGMP
2 3 (75.00%) Multicast
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Investment Management
1 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (75.00%) Low Latency
1 3 (75.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Arista
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) F5
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto