Network Engineer Contracts in London

Network Engineer
England > London

The median Network Engineer daily rate in London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 239 281
Rank change year-on-year +104 +42 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 323 297 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.83% 1.11% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 1.17% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 198 250
10th Percentile £325 £350 £313
25th Percentile £375 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £555 £625 £575
90th Percentile £663 £675 £725
England median daily rate £475 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +4.51% +1.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 7
10th Percentile £24.05 - £21.60
25th Percentile £32.00 £30.38 £25.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +145.61% -53.47%
75th Percentile £41.25 - £43.46
90th Percentile £47.00 - £47.13
England median hourly rate £40.00 £63.23 £28.41
% change year-on-year -36.74% +122.56% -28.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,501 25,472 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.25% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 18,450 27,143
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.24
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Engineer in London

Network 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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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 +19 26 £503 +3.08% 16
East London - 8 £360 -
West London +18 5 £375 -37.50% 7
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Network 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 182 (56.35%) Cisco
2 168 (52.01%) Firewall
3 113 (34.98%) Cisco Certification
4 91 (28.17%) BGP
5 90 (27.86%) CCNP
6 76 (23.53%) Palo Alto
7 73 (22.60%) WAN
8 72 (22.29%) Network Security
9 67 (20.74%) OSPF
9 67 (20.74%) Data Centre
10 63 (19.50%) VPN
10 63 (19.50%) F5
11 62 (19.20%) LAN
12 60 (18.58%) Social Skills
13 59 (18.27%) MPLS
14 57 (17.65%) Security Cleared
15 53 (16.41%) Python
16 51 (15.79%) Finance
17 48 (14.86%) Wireless
17 48 (14.86%) Fortinet
18 42 (13.00%) CCNA
19 41 (12.69%) Network Design
20 39 (12.07%) Juniper
20 39 (12.07%) DNS
20 39 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
21 38 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
22 37 (11.46%) CheckPoint
23 34 (10.53%) IPsec
24 33 (10.22%) CCIE
24 33 (10.22%) DV Cleared

Network 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.62%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (0.62%) nginx
2 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.31%) Confluence
3 1 (0.31%) IIS
3 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.48%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.31%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 33 (10.22%) AWS
1 33 (10.22%) Azure
2 10 (3.10%) GCP
3 8 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (1.55%) Akamai
4 5 (1.55%) OCI
4 5 (1.55%) WhatsApp
5 4 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (0.62%) GitHub
6 2 (0.62%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.31%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.31%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.31%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.31%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.31%) SaaS
7 1 (0.31%) Vertex AI
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 168 (52.01%) Firewall
2 91 (28.17%) BGP
3 73 (22.60%) WAN
4 72 (22.29%) Network Security
5 67 (20.74%) OSPF
6 63 (19.50%) VPN
7 62 (19.20%) LAN
8 59 (18.27%) MPLS
9 48 (14.86%) Wireless
10 39 (12.07%) DNS
11 38 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
12 34 (10.53%) IPsec
13 31 (9.60%) Cisco ASA
13 31 (9.60%) SD-WAN
14 26 (8.05%) EIGRP
15 24 (7.43%) TCP/IP
16 22 (6.81%) DHCP
16 22 (6.81%) Internet
17 21 (6.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 21 (6.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.93%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (0.31%) QGIS
2 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (5.57%) Git
2 11 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.62%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.31%) JIRA
4 1 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 60 (18.58%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.79%) Finance
3 31 (9.60%) Public Sector
4 26 (8.05%) Banking
5 22 (6.81%) Telecoms
6 18 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.48%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.48%) Marketing
8 6 (1.86%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.93%) Legal
9 3 (0.93%) Military
9 3 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.93%) Retail
10 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Advertising
11 1 (0.31%) Aviation
11 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.26%) NETCONF
2 16 (4.95%) JSON
3 15 (4.64%) XML
3 15 (4.64%) YANG
4 9 (2.79%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.62%) .NET
5 2 (0.62%) HTML
5 2 (0.62%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.31%) gRPC
6 1 (0.31%) LAMP
6 1 (0.31%) LDAP
6 1 (0.31%) OAuth
6 1 (0.31%) OpenID
6 1 (0.31%) React
6 1 (0.31%) SAML
6 1 (0.31%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.31%) XMPP
6 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (20.74%) Data Centre
2 8 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (2.48%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (1.86%) PKI
4 6 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.55%) Clustering
5 5 (1.55%) Social Media
6 4 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.24%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.24%) NHS
7 3 (0.93%) Device Driver
7 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.62%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.62%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.62%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.62%) Replication
9 1 (0.31%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.57%) Linux
2 15 (4.64%) Windows
3 10 (3.10%) Unix
4 9 (2.79%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.31%) CentOS
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.31%) VMS
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (12.69%) Network Design
2 39 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (9.91%) Roadmaps
4 29 (8.98%) Load Balancing
5 24 (7.43%) DevOps
6 23 (7.12%) Migration
7 22 (6.81%) Change Management
8 20 (6.19%) Service Delivery
9 18 (5.57%) Computer Science
9 18 (5.57%) Configuration Management
10 17 (5.26%) High Availability
11 16 (4.95%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 15 (4.64%) Agile
13 14 (4.33%) Low Latency
13 14 (4.33%) Network Monitoring
14 13 (4.02%) Business Strategy
14 13 (4.02%) Customer Service
14 13 (4.02%) ITIL
14 13 (4.02%) Network Architecture
15 10 (3.10%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 53 (16.41%) Python
2 8 (2.48%) Bash
3 7 (2.17%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.17%) SQL
4 4 (1.24%) C#
4 4 (1.24%) Perl
5 3 (0.93%) C
5 3 (0.93%) C++
5 3 (0.93%) Go
6 2 (0.62%) Java
6 2 (0.62%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.62%) Ruby
7 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 113 (34.98%) Cisco Certification
2 90 (27.86%) CCNP
3 57 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 42 (13.00%) CCNA
5 33 (10.22%) CCIE
5 33 (10.22%) DV Cleared
6 26 (8.05%) SC Cleared
7 22 (6.81%) Degree
8 13 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.48%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.48%) JNCIA
10 7 (2.17%) CCDP
11 5 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.55%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.55%) CISSP
12 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.62%) CCIP
12 2 (0.62%) RHCE
12 2 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.33%) SLA
2 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 8 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.86%) Firmware
2 6 (1.86%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.55%) vSphere
4 4 (1.24%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.93%) Docker
5 3 (0.93%) KVM
6 2 (0.62%) Squid
7 1 (0.31%) PowerDNS
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 26 (8.05%) Ansible
2 22 (6.81%) FortiGate
3 11 (3.41%) Terraform
4 5 (1.55%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (1.24%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.93%) Kibana
6 3 (0.93%) Puppet
6 3 (0.93%) Stealthwatch
7 2 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (0.62%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.62%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.62%) Nmap
7 2 (0.62%) OpenNMS
7 2 (0.62%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.31%) Grafana
8 1 (0.31%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.31%) SCCM
8 1 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 182 (56.35%) Cisco
2 76 (23.53%) Palo Alto
3 63 (19.50%) F5
4 48 (14.86%) Fortinet
5 39 (12.07%) Juniper
6 37 (11.46%) CheckPoint
7 29 (8.98%) Nokia
8 24 (7.43%) Arista
9 23 (7.12%) Microsoft
10 22 (6.81%) Infoblox
11 20 (6.19%) SolarWinds
12 18 (5.57%) Aruba
13 16 (4.95%) VMware
14 10 (3.10%) Meraki
15 9 (2.79%) Zscaler
16 7 (2.17%) Blue Coat
16 7 (2.17%) Google
17 6 (1.86%) Splunk
18 5 (1.55%) Avaya
18 5 (1.55%) Huawei