Network Operations Engineer Contracts in London

Network Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Network Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 June 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 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 368 476
Rank change year-on-year +28 +108 +117
Contract jobs requiring a Network Operations Engineer 4 22 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.033% 0.13% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.13% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 2
10th Percentile - £525 £455
25th Percentile £625 £588 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +42.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £488
90th Percentile - - £495
England median daily rate £619 £421 £425
% change year-on-year +47.09% -1.02% -21.66%

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 11,461 16,362 24,203
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 93.58% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,773 11,821 17,640
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 326 276
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £17.74
25th Percentile £24.30 £20.22 £22.60
Median hourly rate £31.67 £27.81 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -22.75% +2.86%
75th Percentile £49.94 £46.77 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.08 £66.75 £82.38
England median hourly rate £29.57 £37.63 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.42% -16.39% +88.21%

Network Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Operations Engineer in London

Network Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Operations Engineer in London

Network Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Operations Engineer in London

Network Operations Engineer
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 Operations Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 0 1 £650 +4.00% 4
Network Operations Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2025, Network Operations Engineer 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 Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) NetScout
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) Blue Coat
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) LAN

Network Operations Engineer 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Payables
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) SNMP
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Tcl
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Blue Coat
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) F5
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) NetScout
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle