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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 144 171
Rank change year-on-year -12 +27 +64
Contract jobs citing Network Management 8 43 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.86% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 1.04% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 20
10th Percentile £244 £413 £279
25th Percentile £334 £468 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £625 £481
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +30.06% +1.17%
75th Percentile - £675 £631
90th Percentile £509 £688 £700
England median daily rate £490 £555 £539
% change year-on-year -11.71% +3.02% +19.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £20.30
25th Percentile - - £29.75
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £45.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.17 £70.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -56.91% +14.29% +13.43%

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 3,150 4,135 5,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.05% 82.93% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 2,507 3,413
10th Percentile £250 £260 £263
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 328 238
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.43
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.02 £21.23
Median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.81% +14.70% +108.33%
75th Percentile £50.50 £70.00 £63.56
90th Percentile £74.75 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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
Surrey +18 3 £344 -47.12% 1
Hampshire -1 3 £490 -24.62% 9
Berkshire +11 2 £342 -45.28% 7
Thames Valley -1 2 £342 -38.93% 10
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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) FCAPS
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) NGFW
3 1 (12.50%) VoIP
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Platform Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Wintel Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Wintel Systems Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) PKI
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Change Management
1 3 (37.50%) Security Patching
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (12.50%) Data Encryption
3 1 (12.50%) Defect Management
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) SIEM
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Apple
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Nokia
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Qualys