Network Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Network Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £433 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 82 105
Rank change year-on-year +45 +23 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 63 35 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.34% 1.91% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.53% 1.98% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 29 17
10th Percentile £313 £270 £370
25th Percentile £350 £313 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £400 £415
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% -3.61% +38.33%
75th Percentile £475 £475 £500
90th Percentile £538 £528 £575
North West median daily rate £437 £375 £405
% change year-on-year +16.49% -7.41% +27.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - £70.00
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £72.50 - £39.73
% change year-on-year - - -25.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,390 1,768 2,524
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 96.40% 97.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 961 1,317 1,980
10th Percentile £313 £313 £226
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £660
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +12.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 46 59
10th Percentile £12.02 £15.64 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £18.88 £12.02
Median hourly rate £26.76 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.54% +100.00% +8.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.94 £24.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £32.88 £20.32
% change year-on-year -17.88% +61.84% +13.49%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Manchester

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in Manchester

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in Manchester

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in Manchester

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 7 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
Wigan - 1 £450 - 2
Network Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 Manchester region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (50.79%) Wireless
2 29 (46.03%) Cisco
3 21 (33.33%) Finance
3 21 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 20 (31.75%) SC Cleared
4 20 (31.75%) Security Cleared
5 18 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (26.98%) DMZ
6 17 (26.98%) Social Skills
6 17 (26.98%) Cisco Nexus
6 17 (26.98%) Data Centre
6 17 (26.98%) Palo Alto
7 16 (25.40%) F5
7 16 (25.40%) CCNA
7 16 (25.40%) WAN
8 13 (20.63%) Microsoft Office
8 13 (20.63%) ITSM
8 13 (20.63%) Cisco IOS
9 12 (19.05%) LAN
9 12 (19.05%) VPN
10 11 (17.46%) Wireless Security
10 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (15.87%) Azure
11 10 (15.87%) AWS
11 10 (15.87%) Ethernet
11 10 (15.87%) CCNP
11 10 (15.87%) OSPF
12 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (12.70%) Firewall
13 8 (12.70%) VMware

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 13 (20.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.87%) AWS
1 10 (15.87%) Azure
2 1 (1.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (50.79%) Wireless
2 21 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 17 (26.98%) Cisco Nexus
3 17 (26.98%) DMZ
4 16 (25.40%) WAN
5 13 (20.63%) Cisco IOS
6 12 (19.05%) LAN
6 12 (19.05%) VPN
7 11 (17.46%) Wireless Security
8 10 (15.87%) Ethernet
8 10 (15.87%) OSPF
9 8 (12.70%) Firewall
10 6 (9.52%) Network Security
11 2 (3.17%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (1.59%) BGP
12 1 (1.59%) DNS
12 1 (1.59%) IPsec
12 1 (1.59%) MPLS
12 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
General
1 21 (33.33%) Finance
2 17 (26.98%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.35%) Banking
3 4 (6.35%) Financial Institution
4 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.17%) Legal
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.98%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.35%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.76%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.11%) Linux
1 7 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.63%) ITSM
2 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 5 (7.94%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (3.17%) Decision-Making
6 2 (3.17%) Incident Response
6 2 (3.17%) Load Balancing
6 2 (3.17%) Migration
6 2 (3.17%) Network Design
6 2 (3.17%) Performance Management
6 2 (3.17%) Test Planning
7 1 (1.59%) Change Management
7 1 (1.59%) Cloud Security
7 1 (1.59%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.59%) Data Centre Operations
7 1 (1.59%) Information Security
7 1 (1.59%) ITIL
7 1 (1.59%) Network Management
7 1 (1.59%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (31.75%) SC Cleared
1 20 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 18 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (25.40%) CCNA
4 10 (15.87%) CCNP
5 2 (3.17%) CCIE
6 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 7 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Ansible
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (46.03%) Cisco
2 17 (26.98%) Palo Alto
3 16 (25.40%) F5
4 8 (12.70%) VMware
5 5 (7.94%) Aruba
6 3 (4.76%) Juniper
7 2 (3.17%) Brocade
7 2 (3.17%) CheckPoint
7 2 (3.17%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.17%) Tufin
7 2 (3.17%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.59%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.59%) Meraki
8 1 (1.59%) Radianz
8 1 (1.59%) Splunk