Network Operations Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 436 498
Rank change year-on-year +60 +62 -71
Contract jobs requiring a Network Operations Engineer 12 17 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.072% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.077% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 7
10th Percentile - £275 £478
25th Percentile £335 £288 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £413 £543
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -23.96% -
75th Percentile £406 £471 £608
90th Percentile £438 £610 £636
UK median daily rate £416 £425 £543
% change year-on-year -2.04% -21.66% +40.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,947 22,165 29,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,483 20,411
10th Percentile £213 £225 £202
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,449
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Network Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Network Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

Network Operations 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 Operations Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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 East +14 8 £375 -14.29%
North of England - 7 £375 - 2
North East - 6 £375 -
North West - 1 £416 - 2
Network Operations Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Network Operations 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 Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (83.33%) Juniper
3 9 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 9 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (66.67%) Firewall
4 8 (66.67%) High Availability
5 7 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (58.33%) JNCIA
5 7 (58.33%) CCNP
6 6 (50.00%) CCNA
6 6 (50.00%) MPLS
6 6 (50.00%) OSPF
6 6 (50.00%) BGP
6 6 (50.00%) EIGRP
6 6 (50.00%) JNCIS
6 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
7 3 (25.00%) Change Management
7 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
8 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (16.67%) Wireless
9 1 (8.33%) Finance
9 1 (8.33%) CCSA
9 1 (8.33%) Banking
9 1 (8.33%) Blue Coat
9 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
9 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
9 1 (8.33%) DMZ
9 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
9 1 (8.33%) VPN
9 1 (8.33%) SLA

Network Operations 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 8 (66.67%) Firewall
3 6 (50.00%) BGP
3 6 (50.00%) EIGRP
3 6 (50.00%) MPLS
3 6 (50.00%) OSPF
4 2 (16.67%) Wireless
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (8.33%) DMZ
5 1 (8.33%) Network Security
5 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (8.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (8.33%) Banking
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) High Availability
2 3 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
4 1 (8.33%) ITSM
4 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) CCNP
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (58.33%) JNCIA
2 6 (50.00%) CCNA
2 6 (50.00%) JNCIS
3 1 (8.33%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (83.33%) Juniper
3 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (8.33%) Blue Coat
4 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (8.33%) F5