Network Field Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Field Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Field Network Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £330, 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 327 382 451
Rank change year-on-year +55 +69 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Network Field Engineer 9 17 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.082% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.088% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 7
10th Percentile £288 £195 £158
25th Percentile £325 £200 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £205 £210
Median % change year-on-year +60.98% -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £335 £400 £373
90th Percentile - £443 £500
UK median daily rate £330 £233 £225
% change year-on-year +41.94% +3.33% +18.42%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
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 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Network Field Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Field Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Field Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Field Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Field Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Field Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Field Engineer
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 Field Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
South East +46 3 £330 -17.50%
Scotland +11 3 £250 -37.50% 1
East of England - 2 £330 -
North of England +16 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Network Field Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Network Field 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 UK excluding London region featuring Network Field Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 6 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 5 (55.56%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (55.56%) CheckPoint
3 5 (55.56%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) F5
5 2 (22.22%) Wireless
5 2 (22.22%) WAN
5 2 (22.22%) LAN
5 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
5 2 (22.22%) Driving Licence
6 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
6 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
6 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (11.11%) Cost Reduction
6 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 1 (11.11%) SDH
6 1 (11.11%) HNC
6 1 (11.11%) Java RMI
6 1 (11.11%) CCNA
6 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification

Network Field Engineer 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 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (22.22%) LAN
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
3 2 (22.22%) Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (11.11%) IPsec
4 1 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) SDH
4 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
4 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
4 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Electronics
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Java RMI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Change Management
2 1 (11.11%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
2 1 (11.11%) High Availability
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
2 1 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Process Management
2 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) CCNA
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (11.11%) HNC
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 5 (55.56%) CheckPoint
3 3 (33.33%) F5
4 1 (11.11%) Aruba
4 1 (11.11%) Nokia
4 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto