Senior Network Engineer Contracts in the North West

Senior Network Engineer
England > North West

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in the North West is £514 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 153 162
Rank change year-on-year +31 +9 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 17 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.62% 0.41% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.43% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 7
10th Percentile £425 £363 -
25th Percentile £473 £450 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £488 £325
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% +50.00% -24.42%
75th Percentile £535 £525 £344
90th Percentile £600 - £400
England median daily rate £513 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +10.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 2,591 3,016 3,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 94.87% 96.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 2,161 2,862
10th Percentile £283 £300 £208
25th Percentile £390 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 131 174
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +12.47%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.25 £43.50
90th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the North West

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in the North West

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the North West

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in the North West

Senior Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cumbria - 9 £513 -
Manchester +23 6 £525 +10.53% 4
Merseyside +14 1 £600 +20.00%
Cheshire -1 1 - - 1
Senior Network Engineer
England

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, 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 North West region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (88.24%) Cisco
2 12 (70.59%) CCNP
2 12 (70.59%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (64.71%) CCNA
3 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
3 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
3 11 (64.71%) SolarWinds
4 10 (58.82%) Palo Alto
4 10 (58.82%) Firewall
5 9 (52.94%) ITSM
5 9 (52.94%) IPsec
5 9 (52.94%) ITIL
5 9 (52.94%) Citrix
5 9 (52.94%) Firmware
5 9 (52.94%) OSPF
5 9 (52.94%) BGP
5 9 (52.94%) EIGRP
5 9 (52.94%) HSRP
5 9 (52.94%) Cisco ISE
5 9 (52.94%) Cisco Firepower
5 9 (52.94%) Change Management
5 9 (52.94%) Network Management
5 9 (52.94%) NetScaler
5 9 (52.94%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (47.06%) Ansible
6 8 (47.06%) DevOps
6 8 (47.06%) Jinja
6 8 (47.06%) Spanning Tree
6 8 (47.06%) Tcl
6 8 (47.06%) Python

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (58.82%) Firewall
2 9 (52.94%) BGP
2 9 (52.94%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (52.94%) Cisco Firepower
2 9 (52.94%) Cisco ISE
2 9 (52.94%) EIGRP
2 9 (52.94%) HSRP
2 9 (52.94%) IPsec
2 9 (52.94%) NetScaler
2 9 (52.94%) OSPF
3 8 (47.06%) SNMP
3 8 (47.06%) Spanning Tree
3 8 (47.06%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (23.53%) Wireless
5 3 (17.65%) Network Security
6 2 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
6 2 (11.76%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (11.76%) WAN
7 1 (5.88%) VLAN
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Change Management
1 9 (52.94%) ITIL
1 9 (52.94%) ITSM
1 9 (52.94%) Network Management
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
3 2 (11.76%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (11.76%) Performance Management
3 2 (11.76%) Test Planning
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (5.88%) Decision-Making
4 1 (5.88%) Information Security
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Transformation
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Perl
1 8 (47.06%) Python
1 8 (47.06%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) CCNP
1 12 (70.59%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (64.71%) CCNA
2 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
2 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Cisco
2 11 (64.71%) SolarWinds
3 10 (58.82%) Palo Alto
4 9 (52.94%) Citrix
5 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
5 2 (11.76%) Juniper
6 1 (5.88%) HP
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.88%) WatchGuard