Network Management Contracts in Scotland

Network Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 108 165
Rank change year-on-year -6 +57 +12
Contract jobs citing Network Management 7 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.40% 0.49% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.56% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile £401 - £480
25th Percentile £450 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £340 £550
Median % change year-on-year +50.74% -38.18% -35.29%
75th Percentile £519 £355 £556
90th Percentile £560 £382 £566
UK median daily rate £475 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -7.78% -4.17% +19.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,594 1,781 2,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.98% 87.22% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 1,108 1,755
10th Percentile £250 £213 £250
25th Percentile £367 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 73 66
10th Percentile £16.57 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.64 £12.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.64 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +41.95% -59.27%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £35.00
90th Percentile £28.26 £60.75 £61.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
% change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.81%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in Scotland

Network Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Network Management in Scotland

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in Scotland

Network Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Management in Scotland

Network Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Edinburgh +1 4 £513 +50.74% 1
Network Management
UK

Network Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) SNA
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) IPsec
3 1 (14.29%) IPv4
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) MPLS
3 1 (14.29%) OSPF
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Mainframe Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Field Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Network Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Mainframe
2 2 (28.57%) Operational Technology
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) zOS
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) High Availability
1 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
1 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JCL
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
3 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
3 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
3 2 (28.57%) IBM
4 1 (14.29%) F5
4 1 (14.29%) Juniper
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft