Network Manager Contracts in London

Network Manager
England > London

The median Network Manager daily rate in London is £480, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 August 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
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 371 412
Rank change year-on-year +16 +41 +144
Contract jobs requiring a Network Manager 14 8 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.049% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.053% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 24
10th Percentile £413 £363 £267
25th Percentile £450 £484 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £588 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% +23.68% -10.38%
75th Percentile £613 £796 £638
90th Percentile £663 £806 £745
England median daily rate £475 £435 £488
% change year-on-year +9.20% -10.77% -7.14%

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 12,510 15,205 22,024
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 94.07% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,419 10,677 16,165
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 198 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.90 £22.00 £22.75
Median hourly rate £29.07 £33.29 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% -10.86% +14.89%
75th Percentile £49.50 £54.69 £64.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.88 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +8.43% +61.60%

Network Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Manager in London

Network Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Manager in London

Network Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Manager in London over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Manager in London

Network Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Manager in London

Network Manager
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 Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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 - 3 £700 - 5
Network Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 August 2025, Network Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Project Management
2 6 (42.86%) PRINCE2
2 6 (42.86%) Cisco
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (35.71%) WAN
3 5 (35.71%) PMP
3 5 (35.71%) Migration
3 5 (35.71%) Firewall
3 5 (35.71%) Degree
4 4 (28.57%) Azure
4 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (28.57%) PMI Certification
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 4 (28.57%) VPN
4 4 (28.57%) LAN
5 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
5 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
5 3 (21.43%) Banking
5 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (14.29%) Network Security
6 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
6 2 (14.29%) Meraki
6 2 (14.29%) SDLC
6 2 (14.29%) Fintech
6 2 (14.29%) PMO

Network Manager 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 (21.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.14%) Akamai
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Nutanix
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
1 5 (35.71%) WAN
2 4 (28.57%) LAN
2 4 (28.57%) VPN
3 2 (14.29%) Network Security
3 2 (14.29%) PSTN
3 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 2 (14.29%) VoIP
3 2 (14.29%) Wireless
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (7.14%) DNS
4 1 (7.14%) Internet
4 1 (7.14%) Intranet
4 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (7.14%) IPsec
4 1 (7.14%) MPLS
4 1 (7.14%) NGFW
4 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Local Government
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) PRINCE2
2 6 (42.86%) Project Management
3 5 (35.71%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (14.29%) Fintech
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 2 (14.29%) Network Design
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Service Management
6 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.14%) Event-Driven
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Order Management
6 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
1 5 (35.71%) PMP
2 4 (28.57%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CISM
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP
3 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
3 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 2 (14.29%) Meraki
4 1 (7.14%) Aruba
4 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.14%) Dell KACE
4 1 (7.14%) F5
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.14%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (7.14%) Zscaler