Network Consultant Contracts in London

Network Consultant
England > London

The median Network Consultant daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 380 481
Rank change year-on-year +44 +101 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Network Consultant 17 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.062% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.066% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £463 £493 £488
25th Percentile £500 £519 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £606
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -3.09% +1.04%
75th Percentile £556 £681 £675
90th Percentile £650 £723 £772
England median daily rate £500 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Network Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Consultant in London

Network Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Consultant in London.

Daily rate trend for Network Consultant in London

Network Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Consultant in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Consultant in London

Network Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Consultant in London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Consultant in London

Network Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +1 2 £594 +1.06% 1
West London - 2 - -
East London +15 1 £535 - 1
Network Consultant
England

Network Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Network Consultant 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 London region featuring Network Consultant in the job title.

1 11 (64.71%) BGP
2 9 (52.94%) Cisco
3 7 (41.18%) WAN
3 7 (41.18%) VPN
3 7 (41.18%) Firewall
4 6 (35.29%) OSPF
4 6 (35.29%) Python
4 6 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (35.29%) Network Design
4 6 (35.29%) Fortinet
4 6 (35.29%) AWS
4 6 (35.29%) SD-WAN
5 5 (29.41%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (29.41%) Multicast
5 5 (29.41%) Ansible
5 5 (29.41%) Data Centre
5 5 (29.41%) Azure
5 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
5 5 (29.41%) VMware
6 4 (23.53%) Wireless
6 4 (23.53%) CCIE
6 4 (23.53%) CCNP
6 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (23.53%) Terraform
6 4 (23.53%) VXLAN
6 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
6 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
7 3 (17.65%) OpenShift

Network Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (17.65%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) BGP
2 7 (41.18%) Firewall
2 7 (41.18%) VPN
2 7 (41.18%) WAN
3 6 (35.29%) OSPF
3 6 (35.29%) SD-WAN
4 5 (29.41%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (29.41%) Multicast
4 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
5 4 (23.53%) VXLAN
5 4 (23.53%) Wireless
6 3 (17.65%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (17.65%) MPLS
6 3 (17.65%) Network Security
6 3 (17.65%) VLAN
7 2 (11.76%) Cisco Wireless
7 2 (11.76%) NX-OS
8 1 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (5.88%) DNS
8 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) IoT
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Network Design
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
3 3 (17.65%) Network Architecture
3 3 (17.65%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (11.76%) Network Management
4 2 (11.76%) Presales
4 2 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 1 (5.88%) Customer Experience
5 1 (5.88%) Incident Response
5 1 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.88%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.88%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (5.88%) Task Automation
5 1 (5.88%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (23.53%) CCIE
2 4 (23.53%) CCNP
3 2 (11.76%) CCIE Data Center
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) CCNA
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (17.65%) vSphere
3 2 (11.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Ansible
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 3 (17.65%) FortiGate
3 3 (17.65%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Cisco
2 6 (35.29%) Fortinet
3 5 (29.41%) VMware
4 3 (17.65%) Juniper
4 3 (17.65%) Palo Alto
4 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
5 2 (11.76%) Arista
6 1 (5.88%) AirMagnet
6 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
6 1 (5.88%) Ekahau
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle
6 1 (5.88%) ScienceLogic
6 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.88%) Zscaler