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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 360 406
Rank change year-on-year +9 +46 +131
Contract jobs citing Network Management 24 26 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.16% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.18% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 43
10th Percentile £270 £405 £475
25th Percentile £365 £513 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% -8.80% +13.64%
75th Percentile £552 £644 £713
90th Percentile £554 £673 £750
England median daily rate £490 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -10.09% +0.93% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.17 £70.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -56.91% +14.29% +13.43%

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 12,653 14,416 21,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 88.87% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,472 10,213 15,864
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 195 232
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.15 £18.63
25th Percentile £24.50 £22.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.90% -11.80% +12.59%
75th Percentile £49.63 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £71.88 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +2 5 £536 +2.10% 1
West London +3 2 £313 -45.18%
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:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
4 1 (4.17%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 13 (54.17%) Firewall
2 11 (45.83%) WAN
3 10 (41.67%) SD-WAN
4 9 (37.50%) Network Security
5 5 (20.83%) BGP
5 5 (20.83%) DNS
6 4 (16.67%) EIGRP
6 4 (16.67%) OSPF
6 4 (16.67%) VPN
7 3 (12.50%) DHCP
7 3 (12.50%) Ethernet
7 3 (12.50%) IGMP
7 3 (12.50%) Multicast
7 3 (12.50%) SNMP
8 2 (8.33%) BIG-IP
8 2 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (8.33%) HSRP
8 2 (8.33%) IPsec
8 2 (8.33%) LAN
8 2 (8.33%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Network Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Active Directory Support
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Administrator
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Network Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Change Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (4.17%) IT Support
5 1 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Network Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Network Security Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Network Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Security Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 3 (12.50%) Network Architecture
3 3 (12.50%) Network Design
3 3 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 3 (12.50%) Security Patching
3 3 (12.50%) Service Management
4 2 (8.33%) Agile
4 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (8.33%) High Availability
4 2 (8.33%) High-Frequency Trading
4 2 (8.33%) Incident Response
4 2 (8.33%) Low Latency
4 2 (8.33%) Migration
4 2 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (8.33%) Service-Level Objective
4 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) Perl
2 3 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (12.50%) CCIE
2 3 (12.50%) CCNP
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 1 (4.17%) CCNA
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.17%) PMP
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) GRC
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Firmware
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) Nagios
2 1 (4.17%) OpenView
2 1 (4.17%) OPNET
2 1 (4.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Cisco
2 6 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (16.67%) Juniper
4 3 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 3 (12.50%) F5
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.33%) Arista
5 2 (8.33%) HP
6 1 (4.17%) Apple
6 1 (4.17%) Aruba
6 1 (4.17%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (4.17%) Qualys
6 1 (4.17%) Ruckus Wireless
6 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.17%) Tenable