Network Engineer Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Network Engineer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Oxfordshire is £425, 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 21 18 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 6 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 4.20% 2.44% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.65% 2.68% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £403 £423 £416
25th Percentile £406 £438 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £438 £486 £447
90th Percentile - £487 £449
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £438
% change year-on-year -2.44% +17.14% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £72.86 - -
25th Percentile £75.66 - -
Median hourly rate £83.32 - -
75th Percentile £87.97 - -
90th Percentile £88.97 - -
South East median hourly rate £83.32 £47.95 £62.00
% change year-on-year +73.76% -22.67% +195.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 129 149 220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.21% 90.85% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 90 150
10th Percentile £178 £169 £180
25th Percentile £243 £325 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £550 £500 £594
90th Percentile £616 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 17
10th Percentile - - £22.23
25th Percentile £25.15 £12.18 £25.95
Median hourly rate £25.83 £20.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +25.98% -36.53% +90.00%
75th Percentile £84.66 £22.81 £50.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £27.35 -
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.43 £50.71
% change year-on-year -56.20% +13.24% +111.29%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Oxfordshire

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -2 3 £400 -5.88%
Kidlington -2 2 £425 -12.37% 1
Network Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 Oxfordshire region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
1 5 (83.33%) CheckPoint
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 3 (50.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (33.33%) Time Management
4 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
4 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) GDPR
4 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) ITSM
4 2 (33.33%) Wireless
4 2 (33.33%) Service Management
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (33.33%) A+ Certification

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) ITSM
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Service Management
1 2 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) A+ Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) CheckPoint
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (16.67%) VMware