Network Engineer Contracts in the South East

Network Engineer
England > South East

The median Network Engineer daily rate in the South East is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 36 69
Rank change year-on-year -42 +33 +78
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 84 263 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.79% 4.73% 3.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.04% 5.12% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 148 123
10th Percentile £325 £331 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £584 £551 £523
90th Percentile £625 £700 £575
England median daily rate £490 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +4.26% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £22.53 £32.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.44 £60.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £66.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.43% +7.26% +138.46%
75th Percentile £19.50 £75.24 £73.13
90th Percentile - £75.77 £80.25
England median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £62.62
% change year-on-year +43.75% -36.12% +120.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the South East

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in the South East

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in the South East

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in the South East

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hampshire -7 42 £515 -6.36% 19
Thames Valley -26 30 £475 -7.32% 24
Berkshire -29 22 £450 -12.20% 13
Buckinghamshire +8 5 £400 -27.27% 6
Surrey -14 5 £363 -27.50% 5
West Sussex +9 3 £388 -8.82% 1
Oxfordshire +3 3 £550 +25.71% 6
Kent -7 3 £425 +25.93% 3
Sussex - 1 - -
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 South East region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (67.86%) Cisco
2 39 (46.43%) Security Cleared
3 37 (44.05%) Firewall
4 35 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
5 34 (40.48%) Social Skills
6 32 (38.10%) LAN
7 31 (36.90%) VPN
8 30 (35.71%) WAN
9 29 (34.52%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (30.95%) CCNP
10 26 (30.95%) Juniper
11 23 (27.38%) Network Security
12 19 (22.62%) SC Cleared
13 18 (21.43%) DV Cleared
14 17 (20.24%) Network Architecture
14 17 (20.24%) MPLS
15 16 (19.05%) Wireless
15 16 (19.05%) Azure
15 16 (19.05%) Ansible
15 16 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
16 15 (17.86%) Telecoms
16 15 (17.86%) BGP
17 14 (16.67%) CCNA
17 14 (16.67%) Python
17 14 (16.67%) Migration
17 14 (16.67%) F5
17 14 (16.67%) AWS
18 13 (15.48%) Cisco ISE
18 13 (15.48%) Palo Alto
18 13 (15.48%) Agile

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.05%) Azure
2 14 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (4.76%) Cloudflare
4 2 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.19%) GCP
5 1 (1.19%) GitHub
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.19%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 37 (44.05%) Firewall
2 32 (38.10%) LAN
3 31 (36.90%) VPN
4 30 (35.71%) WAN
5 23 (27.38%) Network Security
6 17 (20.24%) MPLS
7 16 (19.05%) Wireless
8 15 (17.86%) BGP
9 13 (15.48%) Cisco ISE
9 13 (15.48%) OSPF
10 9 (10.71%) Ethernet
11 8 (9.52%) Cisco Firepower
12 7 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (8.33%) DNS
12 7 (8.33%) Junos
12 7 (8.33%) SAN
12 7 (8.33%) SD-WAN
12 7 (8.33%) Wireshark
13 6 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (7.14%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) GitLab
2 1 (1.19%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.86%) Telecoms
4 11 (13.10%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.95%) Finance
7 3 (3.57%) Electronics
7 3 (3.57%) Marketing
8 2 (2.38%) Automotive
8 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.19%) Advertising
9 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.38%) 802.1X
1 2 (2.38%) JSON
1 2 (2.38%) NETCONF
1 2 (2.38%) RESTCONF
1 2 (2.38%) YAML
2 1 (1.19%) Jinja
2 1 (1.19%) REST
2 1 (1.19%) SOAP
2 1 (1.19%) XML
2 1 (1.19%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.95%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.95%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (3.57%) NHS
4 2 (2.38%) Robotics
4 2 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (2.38%) Self-Driving Car
4 2 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.19%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.19%) IoT
5 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.48%) Linux
2 9 (10.71%) Unix
3 3 (3.57%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.19%) CentOS
4 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.52%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (20.24%) Network Architecture
3 14 (16.67%) Migration
4 13 (15.48%) Agile
5 12 (14.29%) Network Design
6 11 (13.10%) Customer Requirements
6 11 (13.10%) Preventative Maintenance
7 9 (10.71%) Change Management
7 9 (10.71%) Computer Science
7 9 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (9.52%) Load Balancing
9 7 (8.33%) Validation
10 6 (7.14%) Regression Testing
11 5 (5.95%) Architecture Roadmap
11 5 (5.95%) Fault Management
11 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (5.95%) Project Management
11 5 (5.95%) Service Design
11 5 (5.95%) Test Strategy
11 5 (5.95%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.67%) Python
2 6 (7.14%) VB
3 5 (5.95%) Java
4 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 35 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
3 26 (30.95%) CCNP
4 19 (22.62%) SC Cleared
5 18 (21.43%) DV Cleared
6 14 (16.67%) CCNA
7 10 (11.90%) Degree
8 9 (10.71%) CCIE
9 8 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (5.95%) ISEB
10 5 (5.95%) ISTQB
10 5 (5.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (2.38%) HP APS
11 2 (2.38%) JNCIP
12 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.19%) BC Cleared
12 1 (1.19%) CCDP
12 1 (1.19%) CCIP
12 1 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.10%) SLA
2 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.19%) NIST
2 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Ceph
1 1 (1.19%) Docker
1 1 (1.19%) Firmware
1 1 (1.19%) KVM
1 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (19.05%) Ansible
2 10 (11.90%) FortiGate
3 8 (9.52%) Terraform
4 3 (3.57%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.19%) Argo
5 1 (1.19%) CASB
5 1 (1.19%) Iperf
5 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 57 (67.86%) Cisco
2 26 (30.95%) Juniper
3 14 (16.67%) F5
4 13 (15.48%) CheckPoint
4 13 (15.48%) Palo Alto
5 10 (11.90%) Citrix
5 10 (11.90%) Microsoft
6 8 (9.52%) Aruba
7 7 (8.33%) Fortinet
7 7 (8.33%) SolarWinds
8 4 (4.76%) Zscaler
9 3 (3.57%) HP
9 3 (3.57%) Mellanox
9 3 (3.57%) NVIDIA
9 3 (3.57%) SAP
10 2 (2.38%) Infoblox
10 2 (2.38%) McAfee
10 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.19%) AirMagnet
11 1 (1.19%) Meraki