Senior Network Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Network Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 323 456
Rank change year-on-year -1 +133 +86
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 29 68 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.38% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.41% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 42 21
10th Percentile £436 £336 £413
25th Percentile £466 £391 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £584 £723 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £32.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.94% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +11.36% +30.69%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in London

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in London

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in London

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in London

Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 3 £525 +1.45% 2
West London +9 1 £240 -16.70% 1
Senior Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (82.76%) Cisco
2 18 (62.07%) Firewall
3 12 (41.38%) Python
4 11 (37.93%) Data Centre
5 10 (34.48%) F5
6 9 (31.03%) Wireless
6 9 (31.03%) LAN
6 9 (31.03%) WAN
6 9 (31.03%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (31.03%) CheckPoint
6 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
7 8 (27.59%) Ansible
7 8 (27.59%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (27.59%) Azure
8 7 (24.14%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (24.14%) Network Security
8 7 (24.14%) Finance
8 7 (24.14%) VMware
8 7 (24.14%) CCNP
9 6 (20.69%) Network Design
9 6 (20.69%) Fortinet
9 6 (20.69%) GitLab
9 6 (20.69%) Palo Alto
9 6 (20.69%) Terraform
9 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (17.24%) SD-WAN
10 5 (17.24%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (17.24%) Meraki
10 5 (17.24%) AWS
10 5 (17.24%) Infoblox

Senior 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 4 (13.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.79%) OneDrive
4 2 (6.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 18 (62.07%) Firewall
2 9 (31.03%) LAN
2 9 (31.03%) WAN
2 9 (31.03%) Wireless
3 8 (27.59%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (24.14%) Cisco Nexus
4 7 (24.14%) Network Security
5 5 (17.24%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (17.24%) Ethernet
5 5 (17.24%) SD-WAN
6 4 (13.79%) BGP
6 4 (13.79%) WLAN
7 3 (10.34%) BIG-IP
7 3 (10.34%) Cisco Wireless
7 3 (10.34%) DNS
7 3 (10.34%) OSPF
7 3 (10.34%) Wireshark
8 2 (6.90%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (6.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (6.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) GitLab
2 4 (13.79%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Local Government
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.45%) Advertising
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) JSON
2 2 (6.90%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.79%) FPGA
2 4 (13.79%) PCIe
2 4 (13.79%) Verilog
2 4 (13.79%) VHDL
2 4 (13.79%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
3 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
1 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
1 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (20.69%) Network Design
2 4 (13.79%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (13.79%) FPGA Design
2 4 (13.79%) Incident Management
2 4 (13.79%) ITSM
2 4 (13.79%) Machine Learning
2 4 (13.79%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (13.79%) Prototyping
2 4 (13.79%) Risk Analysis
2 4 (13.79%) Service Delivery
3 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
3 3 (10.34%) DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) Observability
3 3 (10.34%) Service Management
4 2 (6.90%) Capacity Management
4 2 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (6.90%) High Availability
4 2 (6.90%) Load Balancing
4 2 (6.90%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) SystemVerilog
2 4 (13.79%) Tcl
3 1 (3.45%) Java
3 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (24.14%) CCNP
3 4 (13.79%) CCIE
4 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (10.34%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) CWNA
5 1 (3.45%) JNCIA
5 1 (3.45%) JNCIS
5 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
1 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.45%) FreeRADIUS
2 1 (3.45%) iptables
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Ansible
2 6 (20.69%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) OPNET
4 2 (6.90%) Nagios
5 1 (3.45%) Cacti
5 1 (3.45%) FortiGate
5 1 (3.45%) Grafana
5 1 (3.45%) Netcool
5 1 (3.45%) OpenView
5 1 (3.45%) Proxmox
5 1 (3.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.45%) Tivoli
5 1 (3.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (82.76%) Cisco
2 10 (34.48%) F5
3 9 (31.03%) CheckPoint
4 7 (24.14%) VMware
5 6 (20.69%) Fortinet
5 6 (20.69%) Palo Alto
6 5 (17.24%) Infoblox
6 5 (17.24%) Meraki
6 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
7 4 (13.79%) Intel
7 4 (13.79%) Xilinx
8 3 (10.34%) Arista
8 3 (10.34%) SolarWinds
9 2 (6.90%) Juniper
10 1 (3.45%) AirMagnet
10 1 (3.45%) Aruba
10 1 (3.45%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (3.45%) HP
10 1 (3.45%) Nokia
10 1 (3.45%) Splunk