Network Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Network Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Management over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 178 290
Rank change year-on-year -82 +112 +85
Contract jobs citing Network Management 77 240 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 1.17% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.38% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 147 112
10th Percentile £345 £175 £185
25th Percentile £413 £463 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +25.71% +4.17%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £569
90th Percentile £666 - £700
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £481
% change year-on-year -4.85% +7.17% +6.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 32 12
10th Percentile - - £18.55
25th Percentile - £40.00 £37.56
Median hourly rate £15.33 £70.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -78.10% +43.59% -3.98%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £88.13
90th Percentile - £93.00 £101.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £70.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -46.43% +19.15% +34.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Network Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,463 17,414 21,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.37% 84.70% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,190 10,403 14,840
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 832 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.56
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

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 5 May 2025.

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
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 5 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 +42 40 £525 +1.94% 31
North West +26 29 £563 +9.49% 14
Yorkshire +23 11 £500 -23.08% 14
South West -59 11 £425 -15.00% 6
South East -25 10 £490 -24.62% 23
East of England +33 8 £475 +134.57% 15
Midlands +22 4 £521 - 11
West Midlands +21 4 £521 - 10
Scotland +10 4 £513 +44.37% 9
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 3 (3.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.30%) CMS
2 1 (1.30%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.19%) Azure
2 2 (2.60%) AWS
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.30%) Akamai
3 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 45 (58.44%) Firewall
2 27 (35.06%) WAN
3 24 (31.17%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (24.68%) Cisco ISE
4 19 (24.68%) NetScaler
5 15 (19.48%) Network Security
6 13 (16.88%) BGP
7 12 (15.58%) Cisco ASA
7 12 (15.58%) OSPF
8 10 (12.99%) LAN
9 9 (11.69%) 5G
9 9 (11.69%) EIGRP
10 8 (10.39%) IPsec
11 7 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (9.09%) HSRP
11 7 (9.09%) Internet
11 7 (9.09%) TCP/IP
11 7 (9.09%) Wireless
12 6 (7.79%) VPN
13 5 (6.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.30%) Power BI
1 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.90%) JIRA
General
1 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Finance
3 9 (11.69%) Telecoms
4 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.49%) Billing
6 4 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.30%) Back Office
8 1 (1.30%) Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (46.75%) Network Engineer
2 14 (18.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 10 (12.99%) Firewall Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Senior
5 5 (6.49%) OSS Project Manager
5 5 (6.49%) Project Manager
5 5 (6.49%) Telecoms Manager
5 5 (6.49%) Telecoms Project Manager
6 4 (5.19%) Network Specialist
7 3 (3.90%) Administrator
7 3 (3.90%) Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) Designer
7 3 (3.90%) Platform Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 3 (3.90%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Senior Network Specialist
7 3 (3.90%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (3.90%) Systems Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Wintel Administrator
7 3 (3.90%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (24.68%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.30%) HTML
2 1 (1.30%) REST
2 1 (1.30%) RFC 2544
2 1 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (29.87%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.19%) PKI
4 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (3.90%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.60%) SCADA
6 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.30%) CMDB
6 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.30%) FMCG
6 1 (1.30%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.30%) IoT
6 1 (1.30%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.09%) Windows
2 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
2 3 (3.90%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.96%) Network Design
2 22 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 19 (24.68%) Network Architecture
4 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (15.58%) Impact Assessments
6 11 (14.29%) Agile
7 10 (12.99%) ITIL
7 10 (12.99%) Migration
8 9 (11.69%) Network Monitoring
9 7 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (7.79%) Change Management
10 6 (7.79%) Project Management
10 6 (7.79%) Scrum
10 6 (7.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (6.49%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (6.49%) Fault Management
11 5 (6.49%) High Availability
11 5 (6.49%) Risk Management
11 5 (6.49%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.09%) Python
2 3 (3.90%) JCL
3 2 (2.60%) Perl
4 1 (1.30%) Go
4 1 (1.30%) R
4 1 (1.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 28 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.69%) Degree
4 7 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (6.49%) CCNP
5 5 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.49%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.49%) PMI Certification
5 5 (6.49%) PMP
6 3 (3.90%) CCIE
6 3 (3.90%) CCNA
6 3 (3.90%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.30%) CCDP
7 1 (1.30%) ECDL
7 1 (1.30%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.30%) GDPR
1 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.30%) NCSC
1 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.30%) QA
1 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (6.49%) Active Directory
1 5 (6.49%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.30%) Docker
3 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) FortiGate
2 5 (6.49%) Amdocs OSS
2 5 (6.49%) Ansible
3 3 (3.90%) Tivoli NetView
4 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.60%) SCCM
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 43 (55.84%) Cisco
2 29 (37.66%) Palo Alto
3 16 (20.78%) Meraki
4 15 (19.48%) CheckPoint
5 9 (11.69%) SolarWinds
6 6 (7.79%) Juniper
7 5 (6.49%) Amdocs
7 5 (6.49%) Ciena
7 5 (6.49%) Ericsson
7 5 (6.49%) Microsoft
7 5 (6.49%) NetCracker
7 5 (6.49%) Nokia
7 5 (6.49%) VMware
8 3 (3.90%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.60%) Apple
9 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
9 2 (2.60%) Google
9 2 (2.60%) IBM
9 2 (2.60%) Infoblox
9 2 (2.60%) Zscaler