Network Management Contracts in the Midlands

Network Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Network Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Management over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 125 143
Rank change year-on-year -9 +18 +51
Contract jobs citing Network Management 4 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.23% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.28% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £186 - £320
25th Percentile £251 £358 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £365 £490
Median % change year-on-year +8.90% -25.51% +50.77%
75th Percentile £581 £486 £561
90th Percentile £667 £555 £569
England median daily rate £490 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -10.09% - +21.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
England median hourly rate £30.17 £70.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -56.91% +14.29% +16.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Network Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,158 2,158 2,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.69% 81.19% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,471 1,863
10th Percentile £223 £275 £254
25th Percentile £356 £371 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £649 £713 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 100 79
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.74 £13.59
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £20.24
Median hourly rate £20.83 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.59% -32.73% +44.74%
75th Percentile £26.51 £37.50 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Management in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Network Management in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Management in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Network Management in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Management within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
West Midlands -5 4 £398 +8.90% 6
Network Management
England

Network Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (50.00%) Internet
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless Security
2 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (25.00%) 5G
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (25.00%) Modbus
3 1 (25.00%) MQTT
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) NB-IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Network Design
3 2 (50.00%) Network Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Acquisition
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Edge Computing
4 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Predictive Maintenance
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Zscaler