Network Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 378 433
Rank change year-on-year +56 +55 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Network Consultant 12 16 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.077% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.084% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 13
10th Percentile £419 £356 £413
25th Percentile £438 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -9.30% +10.26%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £588
90th Percentile £530 £686 £653
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £44.25 -
25th Percentile - £46.88 £62.50
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -19.23% -
75th Percentile - £56.88 £67.50
90th Percentile - £58.75 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -19.23% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,771 19,161 22,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.57% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 11,699 15,818
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 2,248 1,160
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Network Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Network Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Consultant in the UK excluding London

Network Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Network Consultant in the UK excluding London

Network Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Consultant in the UK excluding London

Network Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Consultant in the UK excluding London

Network Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Consultant within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +13 4 £500 +7.24% 2
South East +31 3 £450 -7.69% 2
Midlands - 3 £438 - 3
South West +28 2 £488 +21.88% 5
Yorkshire +8 2 £488 +4.56%
West Midlands - 2 £438 - 3
Scotland +10 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 - -
North East - 1 £550 -
North West - 1 £500 - 2
Network Consultant
UK

Network Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Network Consultant 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 UK excluding London region featuring Network Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) Network Design
3 5 (41.67%) Firewall
3 5 (41.67%) LAN
3 5 (41.67%) WAN
3 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (25.00%) CCNP
5 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (25.00%) MPLS
5 3 (25.00%) VPN
5 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (25.00%) Unified Communications
6 2 (16.67%) Aruba
6 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (16.67%) LTE
6 2 (16.67%) Infoblox
6 2 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
6 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
6 2 (16.67%) VXLAN
6 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (16.67%) FortiGate
6 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills

Network Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
1 5 (41.67%) LAN
1 5 (41.67%) WAN
2 3 (25.00%) MPLS
2 3 (25.00%) Unified Communications
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) BGP
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (16.67%) DHCP
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) Ethernet
3 2 (16.67%) Frame Relay
3 2 (16.67%) SAN
3 2 (16.67%) SDH
3 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 2 (16.67%) UMTS
3 2 (16.67%) VoIP
3 2 (16.67%) VXLAN
3 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Retail
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Network Design
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (16.67%) Fault Management
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (8.33%) Information Management
4 1 (8.33%) Information Security
4 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Network Management
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) CCNP
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (16.67%) ISEB
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CCIE
3 1 (8.33%) CCIE Wireless
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (8.33%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Aruba
3 2 (16.67%) Infoblox
3 2 (16.67%) Juniper
3 2 (16.67%) Mitel
3 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (8.33%) Fortinet