Network Engineer Contracts in Surrey

Network Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 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
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 23 67
Rank change year-on-year -20 +44 +6
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 2 36 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.59% 6.26% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 6.77% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 21 6
10th Percentile - £350 £358
25th Percentile £513 £405 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +87.50%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £584
90th Percentile - £550 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -4.44%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Surrey with a recognized job title 323 532 710
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.85% 92.52% 96.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 379 568
10th Percentile £204 £203 £198
25th Percentile £266 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -10.48% +4.90%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £638
90th Percentile £625 £675 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 41 20
10th Percentile £21.41 £15.96 £16.29
25th Percentile £25.86 £26.73 £32.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £45.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £61.63
90th Percentile £59.00 £76.86 £68.50
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +122.22%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Surrey

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Surrey

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in Surrey

Network Engineer
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 26 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leatherhead +1 1 £525 +29.63%
Network Engineer
South East

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 26 August 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 Surrey region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Qualys
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Data Encryption
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) NGFW
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) NGFW
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys