Network Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Network Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Management over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 282 373
Rank change year-on-year +102 +91 -42
Contract jobs citing Network Management 236 164 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.15% 0.70% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.78% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 112 78
10th Percentile £175 £185 £166
25th Percentile £463 £200 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £571 £528
90th Percentile - £700 £608
UK median daily rate £515 £486 £451
% change year-on-year +5.97% +7.76% +6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 12 6
10th Percentile - £18.55 £21.57
25th Percentile £40.00 £37.56 £31.82
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.75 £55.85
Median % change year-on-year +43.59% -12.70% +153.84%
75th Percentile £72.50 £88.13 £60.93
90th Percentile £91.00 £101.25 £65.47
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £44.37
% change year-on-year +19.15% +32.41% +77.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Network Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in the UK excluding London

Network Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Management in the UK excluding London

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in the UK excluding London

Network Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Management in the UK excluding London

Network Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Management in the UK excluding London

Network Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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 West +79 128 £500 +150.00% 12
South East +57 74 £650 +36.84% 11
North of England +36 20 £515 +14.44% 17
North West +17 17 £514 +14.17% 8
Scotland +42 7 £340 -32.00% 13
East of England -23 6 £203 -71.07% 8
Yorkshire - 3 £630 - 7
Midlands +16 1 - - 9
West Midlands +11 1 - - 4
Network Management
UK

Network Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 35 (14.83%) Confluence
1 35 (14.83%) SharePoint
2 34 (14.41%) SharePoint Server
3 8 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.27%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 52 (22.03%) Azure
2 35 (14.83%) Azure Stack
3 30 (12.71%) SaaS
4 27 (11.44%) Cloud Computing
4 27 (11.44%) IaaS
4 27 (11.44%) PaaS
5 14 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.42%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.42%) GCP
6 1 (0.42%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 80 (33.90%) BGP
2 75 (31.78%) WAN
3 60 (25.42%) Firewall
4 41 (17.37%) LAN
5 39 (16.53%) Cisco Firepower
6 35 (14.83%) MPLS
7 27 (11.44%) Wi-Fi
8 26 (11.02%) SSL
9 17 (7.20%) OSPF
9 17 (7.20%) SNMP
10 16 (6.78%) Cisco ISE
11 15 (6.36%) NetScaler
12 13 (5.51%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (5.51%) EIGRP
12 13 (5.51%) HSRP
12 13 (5.51%) IPsec
13 12 (5.08%) SD-WAN
13 12 (5.08%) Spanning Tree
14 11 (4.66%) DHCP
14 11 (4.66%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.27%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 35 (14.83%) JIRA
2 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (25.85%) Social Skills
2 48 (20.34%) Public Sector
3 34 (14.41%) Telecoms
4 28 (11.86%) Finance
5 17 (7.20%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (4.24%) Aerospace
6 10 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.27%) Military
8 1 (0.42%) Advertising
8 1 (0.42%) Banking
8 1 (0.42%) Legal
8 1 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 122 (51.69%) Architect
2 120 (50.85%) Network Architect
3 33 (13.98%) Network Engineer
4 29 (12.29%) Systems Architect
5 28 (11.86%) Lead
6 27 (11.44%) Lead Architect
7 22 (9.32%) Senior
8 21 (8.90%) Analyst
9 17 (7.20%) Microsoft Engineer
10 13 (5.51%) Senior Network Engineer
11 12 (5.08%) Infrastructure Technician
12 9 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 8 (3.39%) IT Analyst
13 8 (3.39%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
13 8 (3.39%) Senior Architect
13 8 (3.39%) Senior Network Architect
14 7 (2.97%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
14 7 (2.97%) Support Engineer
15 6 (2.54%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.08%) Jinja
2 3 (1.27%) Django
2 3 (1.27%) JSON
2 3 (1.27%) REST
2 3 (1.27%) RESTful
2 3 (1.27%) YANG
3 2 (0.85%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 45 (19.07%) Data Centre
2 38 (16.10%) Private Cloud
3 25 (10.59%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (5.08%) NHS
5 8 (3.39%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.39%) Clustering
6 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.42%) PKI
7 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 69 (29.24%) Windows
2 19 (8.05%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.39%) Unix
4 7 (2.97%) Linux
4 7 (2.97%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (27.97%) ITIL
2 46 (19.49%) Capacity Management
3 40 (16.95%) ITSM
4 36 (15.25%) Security Monitoring
4 36 (15.25%) Service Management
5 35 (14.83%) SIEM
6 32 (13.56%) Network Design
7 31 (13.14%) Zero Trust
8 30 (12.71%) Open Source
8 30 (12.71%) Systems Engineering
9 28 (11.86%) Customer Requirements
10 27 (11.44%) Business Strategy
11 26 (11.02%) Strategic Thinking
11 26 (11.02%) Technical Leadership
12 23 (9.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 20 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (8.05%) Requirements Management
15 15 (6.36%) Change Management
16 14 (5.93%) Presales
17 13 (5.51%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.78%) Python
2 12 (5.08%) Perl
2 12 (5.08%) Tcl
3 8 (3.39%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.27%) Bash
4 3 (1.27%) Java
4 3 (1.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.27%) SQL
4 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 191 (80.93%) Security Cleared
2 91 (38.56%) DV Cleared
3 77 (32.63%) SC Cleared
4 40 (16.95%) Degree
5 14 (5.93%) CCNA
5 14 (5.93%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (5.51%) CCNP
7 3 (1.27%) MCP
7 3 (1.27%) MCSE
7 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.42%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.42%) PMP
9 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.41%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (0.42%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (8.90%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.51%) Firmware
3 12 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.39%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (3.39%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (11.02%) Endace
2 25 (10.59%) SCOM
3 16 (6.78%) Ansible
3 16 (6.78%) SCCM
4 8 (3.39%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (3.39%) Nagios
4 8 (3.39%) NetBackup
5 6 (2.54%) WSUS
6 4 (1.69%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.85%) Terraform
7 2 (0.85%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 61 (25.85%) Microsoft
2 57 (24.15%) Cisco
3 34 (14.41%) Atlassian
4 33 (13.98%) Juniper
5 30 (12.71%) F5
6 24 (10.17%) VMware
7 16 (6.78%) Citrix
8 15 (6.36%) Palo Alto
9 14 (5.93%) SolarWinds
10 13 (5.51%) Veeam
11 8 (3.39%) Hitachi
11 8 (3.39%) NetApp
12 4 (1.69%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.69%) Meraki
13 3 (1.27%) Aruba
13 3 (1.27%) TOWER Software
14 2 (0.85%) Google
14 2 (0.85%) Sparx
14 2 (0.85%) Zscaler
15 1 (0.42%) Red Hat