Network Engineer Contracts in Merseyside

Network Engineer
North West > Merseyside

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Merseyside is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 24 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 10 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 5.92% 3.67% 6.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.21% 3.81% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £513 £273 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £295 £325
Median % change year-on-year +77.97% -9.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £388
90th Percentile £555 £590 £525
North West median daily rate £490 £433 £400
% change year-on-year +13.11% +8.30% -1.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 161 210 297
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.27% 96.33% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 114 209
10th Percentile £143 £148 £233
25th Percentile £203 £217 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £394 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -17.11% +10.47%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £538
90th Percentile £638 £588 £627
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 32 12
10th Percentile £13.07 - -
25th Percentile £16.51 £15.50 £10.09
Median hourly rate £17.44 £19.97 £16.94
Median % change year-on-year -12.65% +17.89% +12.90%
75th Percentile £18.08 £34.80 £18.75
90th Percentile £24.23 £43.09 £26.45
North West median hourly rate £28.99 £27.50 £30.54
% change year-on-year +5.42% -9.95% +30.57%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Merseyside

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in Merseyside

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Merseyside over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in Merseyside

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in Merseyside

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 18 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
Liverpool +4 9 £525 +77.97% 1
Network Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 Merseyside region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 8 (80.00%) BGP
3 6 (60.00%) MPLS
4 5 (50.00%) Multicast
5 4 (40.00%) OSPF
5 4 (40.00%) IPv6
5 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (40.00%) SolarWinds
6 3 (30.00%) VPN
6 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
7 2 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (20.00%) IOS XR
7 2 (20.00%) Arista
7 2 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
7 2 (20.00%) Nagios
7 2 (20.00%) Broadband
7 2 (20.00%) Nokia
7 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (20.00%) CCIE
7 2 (20.00%) CCNP
7 2 (20.00%) CCNA
7 2 (20.00%) GPON
7 2 (20.00%) ZABBIX
7 2 (20.00%) Migration
7 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (10.00%) Network Security
8 1 (10.00%) Finance

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 8 (80.00%) BGP
2 6 (60.00%) MPLS
3 5 (50.00%) Multicast
4 4 (40.00%) IPv6
4 4 (40.00%) OSPF
5 3 (30.00%) VPN
6 2 (20.00%) Broadband
6 2 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (20.00%) GPON
6 2 (20.00%) IOS XR
7 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (10.00%) Firewall
7 1 (10.00%) IGMP
7 1 (10.00%) LAN
7 1 (10.00%) Network Security
7 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (20.00%) Migration
1 2 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCIE
2 2 (20.00%) CCNA
2 2 (20.00%) CCNP
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Nagios
1 2 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (20.00%) Arista
3 2 (20.00%) Nokia
4 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) WatchGuard