Senior Network Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Senior Network Engineer
England > North West

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in the North West is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 109 126
Rank change year-on-year -18 +17 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 3 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.54% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.58% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 16
10th Percentile £480 £412 -
25th Percentile £506 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £548 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% +15.42% -13.64%
75th Percentile £656 £603 £492
90th Percentile £690 £614 £556
England median daily rate £550 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £73.50 £69.75
% change year-on-year -8.84% +5.37% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 2,021 2,250 2,618
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 93.71% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,270 1,782
10th Percentile £268 £273 £274
25th Percentile £369 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £593
90th Percentile £680 £675 £674
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 164 161
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.49 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% +5.71% +50.21%
75th Percentile £47.12 £54.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.19 £73.51 £67.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies 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 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the North West

Senior Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies 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 19 September 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
Manchester -8 2 £575 -2.95% 3
Cheshire -23 1 - - 2
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 19 September 2025, 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 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (66.67%) F5
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) CCDP
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) DWDM
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Azure

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) DWDM
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) NX-OS
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCDP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Aruba
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds