Network Management Contracts in London

Network Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Network Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 368 441
Rank change year-on-year +44 +73 +82
Contract jobs citing Network Management 29 27 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 34
10th Percentile £265 £185 £356
25th Percentile £325 £350 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £538 £638 £675
90th Percentile £652 £688 £743
England median daily rate £490 £520 £478
% change year-on-year -5.79% +8.86% +0.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £36.88 - -
25th Percentile £37.81 - -
Median hourly rate £41.25 - £80.00
75th Percentile £45.31 - -
90th Percentile £46.63 - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £70.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -46.43% +24.44% +28.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Network Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,594 15,775 24,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.13% 88.57% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,860 11,304 17,662
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 326 275
10th Percentile £16.10 £16.00 £18.63
25th Percentile £22.66 £20.00 £22.57
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.77 £63.22
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.88 £77.30
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in London

Network Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Management in London

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in London

Network Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Management in London

Network Management
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 Management within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +11 4 £536 +12.84% 2
West London - 1 £325 -
Network Management
England

Network Management
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 2 (6.90%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.90%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.45%) IaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (44.83%) Firewall
2 12 (41.38%) WAN
3 11 (37.93%) BGP
4 9 (31.03%) OSPF
5 8 (27.59%) DNS
5 8 (27.59%) Network Security
5 8 (27.59%) SD-WAN
5 8 (27.59%) VPN
6 6 (20.69%) EIGRP
6 6 (20.69%) LAN
7 5 (17.24%) DHCP
7 5 (17.24%) Wireless
8 4 (13.79%) MPLS
9 3 (10.34%) Ethernet
9 3 (10.34%) Internet
9 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
9 3 (10.34%) VoIP
10 2 (6.90%) SDH
10 2 (6.90%) SNMP
10 2 (6.90%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.90%) Electronics
5 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.90%) Marketing
6 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Network Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Network Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Support
3 2 (6.90%) Administrator
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Communications Officer
3 2 (6.90%) Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (6.90%) Network Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (6.90%) Network Specialist
3 2 (6.90%) Network Support
3 2 (6.90%) WAN Specialist
4 1 (3.45%) GCP Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Network Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) JSON
1 1 (3.45%) ODBC
1 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
1 3 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.90%) NHS
2 2 (6.90%) Social Media
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) IoT
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (17.24%) Project Management
3 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (13.79%) ITIL
3 4 (13.79%) Network Design
4 3 (10.34%) Data Protection
4 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (10.34%) High Availability
4 3 (10.34%) Migration
4 3 (10.34%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (10.34%) Patch Management
5 2 (6.90%) Analytics
5 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (6.90%) Low Latency
5 2 (6.90%) Network Architecture
5 2 (6.90%) Programme Management
5 2 (6.90%) Security Patching
5 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) Perl
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
3 2 (6.90%) SQL
4 1 (3.45%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (17.24%) CCNP
2 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) CCIE
3 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) CCNA
5 2 (6.90%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.45%) HNC
6 1 (3.45%) HND
6 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) DICOM
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
1 2 (6.90%) HL7
2 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.90%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.45%) Firmware
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (6.90%) FortiGate
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.45%) Nagios
3 1 (3.45%) OpenView
3 1 (3.45%) OPNET
3 1 (3.45%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Cisco
2 6 (20.69%) Juniper
3 4 (13.79%) Fortinet
4 3 (10.34%) CheckPoint
4 3 (10.34%) F5
4 3 (10.34%) HP
4 3 (10.34%) Palo Alto
4 3 (10.34%) SolarWinds
4 3 (10.34%) VMware
5 2 (6.90%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (6.90%) Mitel
5 2 (6.90%) SAP
6 1 (3.45%) Aruba
6 1 (3.45%) Ericsson
6 1 (3.45%) Google
6 1 (3.45%) Hitachi
6 1 (3.45%) IBM
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.45%) Nokia
6 1 (3.45%) Veeam