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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 218 275
Rank change year-on-year -81 +57 +100
Contract jobs citing Network Management 78 164 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.89% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.07% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 100 89
10th Percentile £363 £211 £263
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £563 £675 £631
90th Percentile £660 - £700
UK median daily rate £490 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% -4.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 26 11
10th Percentile - £65.63 £19.00
25th Percentile - £67.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £15.33 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -78.10% +47.37% -12.04%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £92.50
90th Percentile - - £101.25
UK median hourly rate £30.17 £70.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -56.91% +43.59% -9.72%

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 13,664 15,267 19,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.31% 83.13% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,216 9,199 13,235
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,319 1,592 1,214
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +84.42%
75th Percentile £46.30 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.03 £75.00 £76.07
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

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 3 August 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 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +7 36 £599 +16.26% 12
North West +9 25 £600 +16.50% 7
South West -35 18 £425 -29.17% 10
Yorkshire +1 11 £500 - 4
South East -8 8 £490 -14.78% 30
Scotland -12 7 £513 +50.74% 8
East of England +7 5 £388 +96.20% 11
West Midlands -8 4 £398 +8.90% 6
Midlands -11 4 £398 +8.90% 12
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 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) CMS
2 1 (1.28%) IIS
2 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.69%) Azure
2 3 (3.85%) AWS
3 2 (2.56%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 39 (50.00%) Firewall
2 23 (29.49%) WAN
3 20 (25.64%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (21.79%) Network Security
5 16 (20.51%) Cisco ISE
6 15 (19.23%) NetScaler
7 10 (12.82%) BGP
8 9 (11.54%) OSPF
9 7 (8.97%) 5G
9 7 (8.97%) LAN
10 6 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (7.69%) SD-WAN
10 6 (7.69%) TCP/IP
10 6 (7.69%) VPN
10 6 (7.69%) Wireless
11 5 (6.41%) EIGRP
12 4 (5.13%) VLAN
13 3 (3.85%) DHCP
13 3 (3.85%) IPsec
13 3 (3.85%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.28%) Power BI
1 1 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 15 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.95%) Finance
3 8 (10.26%) Telecoms
4 7 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.69%) Billing
6 5 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.28%) Back Office
8 1 (1.28%) Banking
8 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 31 (39.74%) Network Engineer
2 15 (19.23%) Administrator
3 14 (17.95%) Firewall Engineer
4 13 (16.67%) Platform Manager
4 13 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
4 13 (16.67%) Systems Manager
4 13 (16.67%) Wintel Administrator
4 13 (16.67%) Wintel Systems Administrator
5 12 (15.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) OSS Project Manager
6 6 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 6 (7.69%) Telecoms Manager
6 6 (7.69%) Telecoms Project Manager
7 3 (3.85%) Analyst
7 3 (3.85%) Senior
7 3 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (2.56%) Architect
8 2 (2.56%) Consultant
8 2 (2.56%) Support Analyst
8 2 (2.56%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.79%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.28%) REST
2 1 (1.28%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.79%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.82%) PKI
3 6 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.13%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.85%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.28%) CMDB
6 1 (1.28%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.28%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.28%) IoT
6 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.28%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.28%) Replication
6 1 (1.28%) SCADA
6 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.79%) Windows
2 4 (5.13%) zOS
3 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.28%) Linux
4 1 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (26.92%) Network Design
2 20 (25.64%) Load Balancing
3 17 (21.79%) Network Architecture
4 14 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (15.38%) Agile
5 12 (15.38%) Impact Assessments
6 11 (14.10%) Change Management
6 11 (14.10%) Migration
7 9 (11.54%) Security Patching
8 8 (10.26%) High Availability
9 7 (8.97%) Project Management
9 7 (8.97%) Scrum
9 7 (8.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (7.69%) CRM
10 6 (7.69%) Fault Management
10 6 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
10 6 (7.69%) PRINCE2
10 6 (7.69%) Risk Management
10 6 (7.69%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.26%) Python
2 4 (5.13%) JCL
3 2 (2.56%) Bash
3 2 (2.56%) Perl
4 1 (1.28%) R
4 1 (1.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.36%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.95%) DV Cleared
4 7 (8.97%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (7.69%) Degree
5 6 (7.69%) PMI Certification
5 6 (7.69%) PMP
6 5 (6.41%) CCNP
7 4 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.85%) CCNA
9 2 (2.56%) CCIE
9 2 (2.56%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.28%) ECDL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.56%) QA
2 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.69%) Amdocs OSS
1 6 (7.69%) Ansible
2 3 (3.85%) Tivoli NetView
3 2 (2.56%) Terraform
4 1 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.28%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.28%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (1.28%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.28%) Nagios
4 1 (1.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (47.44%) Cisco
2 25 (32.05%) Palo Alto
3 16 (20.51%) CheckPoint
4 15 (19.23%) Meraki
5 7 (8.97%) Fortinet
5 7 (8.97%) Nokia
6 6 (7.69%) Amdocs
6 6 (7.69%) Ciena
6 6 (7.69%) Ericsson
6 6 (7.69%) NetCracker
7 5 (6.41%) Microsoft
7 5 (6.41%) SolarWinds
8 4 (5.13%) Juniper
9 3 (3.85%) IBM
10 2 (2.56%) Apple
10 2 (2.56%) Dynatrace
10 2 (2.56%) Huawei
10 2 (2.56%) Infoblox
11 1 (1.28%) Tenable
11 1 (1.28%) Zscaler