Network Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Network Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £425, 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 70 33 75
Rank change year-on-year -37 +42 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 9 67 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.97% 4.42% 2.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 4.60% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 46 36
10th Percentile £355 £313 £288
25th Percentile £363 £350 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £433 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% +1.76% +1.19%
75th Percentile £488 £513 £500
90th Percentile £490 £597 £531
North West median daily rate £483 £437 £375
% change year-on-year +10.45% +16.49% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £72.50 -
North West median hourly rate £72.50 £72.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Wigan - 3 £375 -
Stockport - 1 £500 - 3
Network Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 7 (77.78%) WAN
2 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 7 (77.78%) SD-WAN
3 6 (66.67%) Network Security
3 6 (66.67%) VPN
4 5 (55.56%) CCNP
4 5 (55.56%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (55.56%) Meraki
5 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (44.44%) CCNA
5 4 (44.44%) MPLS
5 4 (44.44%) LAN
6 3 (33.33%) OSPF
6 3 (33.33%) BGP
6 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
6 3 (33.33%) Network Design
6 3 (33.33%) Aruba
7 2 (22.22%) CCIE
7 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
7 2 (22.22%) High Availability
7 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
7 2 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (22.22%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
7 2 (22.22%) Wireless
7 2 (22.22%) Internet
7 2 (22.22%) DWDM

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
1 7 (77.78%) SD-WAN
1 7 (77.78%) WAN
2 6 (66.67%) Network Security
2 6 (66.67%) VPN
3 4 (44.44%) LAN
3 4 (44.44%) MPLS
4 3 (33.33%) BGP
4 3 (33.33%) OSPF
4 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (22.22%) DWDM
5 2 (22.22%) EIGRP
5 2 (22.22%) Ethernet
5 2 (22.22%) Internet
5 2 (22.22%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 2 (22.22%) Wireless
6 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (11.11%) IPsec
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Housing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Network Design
2 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) B2B
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Network Management
4 1 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Security Management
4 1 (11.11%) SIEM
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) CCNP
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (44.44%) CCNA
3 2 (22.22%) CCIE
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 5 (55.56%) Meraki
3 3 (33.33%) Aruba
4 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
4 2 (22.22%) HP
4 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
4 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft