Network Management Contracts in the South East

Network Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 113 180
Rank change year-on-year -32 +67 +49
Contract jobs citing Network Management 10 78 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 1.41% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.66% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 36 19
10th Percentile £349 £531 £310
25th Percentile £419 £616 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +36.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile - £688 £508
90th Percentile - £700 £610
England median daily rate £490 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -5.79% +9.49% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £44.13
25th Percentile - - £44.69
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £50.94
90th Percentile - - £61.63
England median hourly rate £37.50 £70.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -46.43% +24.44% +28.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,747 4,698 5,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.51% 84.74% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 2,739 3,581
10th Percentile £254 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 437 224
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.20 £22.34
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +127.43%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.55
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Network Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Management in the South East

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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 Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Thames Valley +36 5 £371 -33.71% 6
Berkshire +31 5 £371 - 1
Hampshire -29 3 £490 -24.62% 4
Surrey +15 1 - -
Sussex - 1 - -
Network Management
England

Network Management
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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Network Security
2 4 (40.00%) Ethernet
2 4 (40.00%) MPLS
3 3 (30.00%) 2G
3 3 (30.00%) 3G
3 3 (30.00%) 4G
3 3 (30.00%) 5G
3 3 (30.00%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (20.00%) Firewall
5 1 (10.00%) BGP
5 1 (10.00%) LAN
5 1 (10.00%) OSPF
5 1 (10.00%) SDH
5 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (10.00%) WAN
5 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Designer
1 3 (30.00%) IP Designer
1 3 (30.00%) Platform Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Systems Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Wintel Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Wintel Systems Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Manager
3 1 (10.00%) QA Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) PKI
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Network Design
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) Security Patching
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Operations Management
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Test Management
4 1 (10.00%) Use Case
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) CCNP
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (10.00%) CCIE
5 1 (10.00%) CCNA
5 1 (10.00%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Juniper
2 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (10.00%) VMware