Network Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £468, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 357 390
Rank change year-on-year +47 +33 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Network Manager 30 35 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.18% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 30
10th Percentile - £300 £415
25th Percentile £425 £359 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £566
90th Percentile £538 £520 £603
UK median daily rate £478 £426 £500
% change year-on-year +12.22% -14.90% -

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 11,849 19,126 21,496
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 92.40% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,534 11,597 14,946
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.05% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,384 1,087
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £18.02
Median hourly rate £25.30 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.75% -6.98% +115.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.33% -16.67% +87.50%

Network Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Manager in the UK excluding London

Network Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Manager in the UK excluding London

Network Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Manager in the UK excluding London

Network Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Manager in the UK excluding London

Network Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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 West +51 10 - - 1
North of England +19 10 £450 - 6
North West +16 8 £450 +5.88% 6
South East +57 7 £450 +0.56% 18
East of England +28 2 £588 +95.83% 7
Yorkshire +19 1 £500 +11.11%
Scotland +6 1 £468 -
North East - 1 £475 -
Network Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Network Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 14 (46.67%) Telecoms
2 13 (43.33%) Project Management
3 11 (36.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (33.33%) Finance
5 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
6 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
6 8 (26.67%) Service Delivery
6 8 (26.67%) Firewall
7 7 (23.33%) Service Management
7 7 (23.33%) Ericsson
7 7 (23.33%) Nokia
7 7 (23.33%) NSN NetAct
8 5 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (13.33%) Validation
9 4 (13.33%) Cisco
9 4 (13.33%) Azure
9 4 (13.33%) Agile
9 4 (13.33%) 5G
10 3 (10.00%) LTE
10 3 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (10.00%) Retail
10 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
10 3 (10.00%) SLA
10 3 (10.00%) Replication
10 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
10 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
11 2 (6.67%) Supplier Management
11 2 (6.67%) Change Management
11 2 (6.67%) LAN
11 2 (6.67%) HP

Network Manager 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.33%) IIS
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) Firewall
2 4 (13.33%) 5G
3 3 (10.00%) LTE
4 2 (6.67%) LAN
4 2 (6.67%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (6.67%) WAN
5 1 (3.33%) 2G
5 1 (3.33%) 3G
5 1 (3.33%) 4G
5 1 (3.33%) DHCP
5 1 (3.33%) Internet
5 1 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (3.33%) Network Security
5 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.33%) VoIP
5 1 (3.33%) VPN
5 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Power BI
1 1 (3.33%) Tableau
General
1 14 (46.67%) Telecoms
2 10 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Retail
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Automotive
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Project Management
2 11 (36.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (26.67%) Service Delivery
4 7 (23.33%) Service Management
5 5 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (13.33%) Agile
6 4 (13.33%) Validation
7 2 (6.67%) Capacity Management
7 2 (6.67%) Change Management
7 2 (6.67%) DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (6.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (6.67%) Supplier Management
8 1 (3.33%) Backlog Management
8 1 (3.33%) Commercial Awareness
8 1 (3.33%) Cost Reduction
8 1 (3.33%) FMEA
8 1 (3.33%) Project Delivery
8 1 (3.33%) Storage Management
8 1 (3.33%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) APMP
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.33%) PMP
4 1 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) NSN NetAct
2 2 (6.67%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.33%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Ericsson
1 7 (23.33%) Nokia
2 4 (13.33%) Cisco
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) HP
5 1 (3.33%) BMC
5 1 (3.33%) BT
5 1 (3.33%) Cramer
5 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.33%) Remedy
5 1 (3.33%) TOWER Software