Network Engineer Contracts in the South West

Network Engineer
England > South West

The median Network Engineer daily rate in the South West is £473, 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 69 54 69
Rank change year-on-year -15 +15 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 42 112 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.50% 3.50% 3.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.72% 3.75% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 72 85
10th Percentile £382 £333 £355
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% -1.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £542 £650
90th Percentile £613 £648 £669
England median daily rate £490 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +4.26% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £56.68
25th Percentile - - £62.00
Median hourly rate - - £62.62
75th Percentile - - £63.23
90th Percentile - - £73.49
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 West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the South West

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in the South West

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in the South West

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in the South West

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +18 21 £473 -6.90% 9
Bristol -2 9 £397 -20.55% 12
Somerset -5 7 £525 +77.97% 11
Gloucestershire +7 3 £500 -12.28% 17
Devon -2 2 £406 -4.41% 18
Network Engineer
England

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

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 West region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (85.71%) Cisco
2 26 (61.90%) Security Cleared
3 24 (57.14%) SC Cleared
4 22 (52.38%) Firewall
5 20 (47.62%) BGP
6 15 (35.71%) OSPF
7 14 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
7 14 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 12 (28.57%) CCNP
9 11 (26.19%) Wireless
10 10 (23.81%) Network Architecture
11 8 (19.05%) VMware
11 8 (19.05%) DV Cleared
11 8 (19.05%) LAN
11 8 (19.05%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (19.05%) VXLAN
12 7 (16.67%) DMVPN
12 7 (16.67%) WAN
12 7 (16.67%) VPN
12 7 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
13 6 (14.29%) Validation
13 6 (14.29%) MPLS
13 6 (14.29%) SolarWinds
13 6 (14.29%) Aruba
14 5 (11.90%) F5
14 5 (11.90%) Spine.js
14 5 (11.90%) Infoblox
14 5 (11.90%) Network Monitoring
14 5 (11.90%) vCenter Server

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (2.38%) Akamai
1 1 (2.38%) AWS
1 1 (2.38%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 22 (52.38%) Firewall
2 20 (47.62%) BGP
3 15 (35.71%) OSPF
4 14 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
4 14 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 11 (26.19%) Wireless
6 8 (19.05%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (19.05%) LAN
6 8 (19.05%) VXLAN
7 7 (16.67%) DMVPN
7 7 (16.67%) VPN
7 7 (16.67%) WAN
8 6 (14.29%) MPLS
9 5 (11.90%) Network Security
10 4 (9.52%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (9.52%) DHCP
10 4 (9.52%) DNS
10 4 (9.52%) IPv6
10 4 (9.52%) Spanning Tree
11 3 (7.14%) Multicast
General
1 3 (7.14%) Advertising
1 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.76%) Finance
2 2 (4.76%) Military
3 1 (2.38%) Electronics
3 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.38%) Marketing
3 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
1 2 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.38%) NHS
2 1 (2.38%) PKI
2 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Network Architecture
2 6 (14.29%) Validation
3 5 (11.90%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (11.90%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (11.90%) Service Management
3 5 (11.90%) System Testing
4 4 (9.52%) Migration
5 3 (7.14%) Incident Management
5 3 (7.14%) NsoIT
5 3 (7.14%) Zero Trust
6 2 (4.76%) Customer Service
6 2 (4.76%) Load Balancing
7 1 (2.38%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (2.38%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (2.38%) Network Design
7 1 (2.38%) Network Security Management
7 1 (2.38%) Programme Management
7 1 (2.38%) Project Delivery
7 1 (2.38%) Security Management
7 1 (2.38%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 26 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 24 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 14 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (28.57%) CCNP
5 8 (19.05%) DV Cleared
6 5 (11.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (9.52%) CCIE
7 4 (9.52%) CCNA
8 1 (2.38%) CCSA
8 1 (2.38%) CISSP
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) vCenter Server
2 2 (4.76%) Nagios
2 2 (4.76%) ZABBIX
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 36 (85.71%) Cisco
2 8 (19.05%) VMware
3 6 (14.29%) Aruba
3 6 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 5 (11.90%) CheckPoint
4 5 (11.90%) F5
4 5 (11.90%) Infoblox
5 4 (9.52%) Extreme Networks
5 4 (9.52%) Palo Alto
5 4 (9.52%) Ruckus Wireless
5 4 (9.52%) Zscaler
6 2 (4.76%) Meraki
6 2 (4.76%) Nokia
7 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.38%) Juniper
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.38%) SAP