Network Specialist Contracts in London

Network Specialist
England > London

The median Network Specialist daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 390 445
Rank change year-on-year +49 +55 +132
Contract jobs requiring a Network Specialist 9 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.071% 0.080% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.085% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 15
10th Percentile £472 - £485
25th Percentile - - £698
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £830
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -21.69% +61.95%
75th Percentile £522 £863 -
90th Percentile £621 £866 -
England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +14.29%

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 11,759 16,474 23,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.77% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,963 11,827 17,372
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £676 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 321 274
10th Percentile £19.28 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £33.45 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.50 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.63 £67.00 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%

Network Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Specialist in London

Network Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Specialist in London

Network Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Specialist in London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Specialist in London

Network Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Specialist in London

Network Specialist
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 Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 24 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 +5 1 £413 - 2
Network Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, Network Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Cisco
2 6 (66.67%) Migration
3 5 (55.56%) Infoblox
3 5 (55.56%) Brocade
3 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
3 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) DHCP
3 5 (55.56%) DNS
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
4 2 (22.22%) WAN
5 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (11.11%) Multicast
5 1 (11.11%) Ansible
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
5 1 (11.11%) Web Filtering
5 1 (11.11%) VXLAN
5 1 (11.11%) Arista
5 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Network Management
5 1 (11.11%) Firewall
5 1 (11.11%) Finance
5 1 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) BGP

Network Specialist 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DHCP
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
2 2 (22.22%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) BGP
3 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) IGMP
3 1 (11.11%) Multicast
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (11.11%) Network Management
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco
2 5 (55.56%) Brocade
2 5 (55.56%) Infoblox
3 1 (11.11%) Arista
3 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds