Senior Network Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 379 431
Rank change year-on-year +66 +52 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 73 77 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.33% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.35% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 41 42
10th Percentile £425 £413 £266
25th Percentile £506 £425 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% +2.74% +12.03%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £542
90th Percentile £600 £588 £573
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £483
% change year-on-year +2.50% +3.59% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.75 - £49.25
Median hourly rate £73.50 £66.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +30.69% -
75th Percentile £76.12 - £51.75
90th Percentile £76.64 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.50 £66.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% +30.69% -17.55%

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 18,847 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,464 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £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 2,241 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

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

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

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

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

Senior Network 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 Senior Network Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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 +41 50 £513 +7.89% 12
North of England +26 18 £514 +4.05% 10
North West +28 17 £514 +4.05% 6
Scotland +40 2 £550 +4.76% 6
East of England -8 2 - -
Midlands +29 1 - - 9
Yorkshire +22 1 - - 3
West Midlands +21 1 - - 2
Senior Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Senior Network 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 Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 64 (87.67%) Cisco
2 46 (63.01%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (39.73%) Firewall
3 29 (39.73%) CheckPoint
4 26 (35.62%) Finance
4 26 (35.62%) Migration
5 25 (34.25%) DMZ
5 25 (34.25%) B2B
5 25 (34.25%) Banking
5 25 (34.25%) Arista
6 20 (27.40%) Security Cleared
6 20 (27.40%) WAN
7 19 (26.03%) CCNP
8 17 (23.29%) LAN
9 15 (20.55%) CCNA
9 15 (20.55%) Palo Alto
10 14 (19.18%) BGP
11 13 (17.81%) OSPF
11 13 (17.81%) Juniper
11 13 (17.81%) SolarWinds
11 13 (17.81%) Network Management
11 13 (17.81%) SC Cleared
12 12 (16.44%) ITIL
12 12 (16.44%) IPsec
13 11 (15.07%) EIGRP
13 11 (15.07%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (13.70%) Cisco ISE
14 10 (13.70%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (13.70%) Cisco Firepower
15 9 (12.33%) ITSM

Senior Network 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (6.85%) AWS
2 2 (2.74%) Azure
2 2 (2.74%) GCP
3 1 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (39.73%) Firewall
2 25 (34.25%) DMZ
3 20 (27.40%) WAN
4 17 (23.29%) LAN
5 14 (19.18%) BGP
6 13 (17.81%) OSPF
7 12 (16.44%) IPsec
8 11 (15.07%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (15.07%) EIGRP
9 10 (13.70%) Cisco Firepower
9 10 (13.70%) Cisco ISE
9 10 (13.70%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (12.33%) HSRP
10 9 (12.33%) NetScaler
11 8 (10.96%) Network Security
11 8 (10.96%) SNMP
11 8 (10.96%) Spanning Tree
11 8 (10.96%) Wireless
12 5 (6.85%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (5.48%) VPN
General
1 26 (35.62%) Finance
2 25 (34.25%) Banking
3 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.48%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Military
6 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.74%) Legal
7 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Law
7 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.96%) Jinja
2 1 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.37%) Life Science
2 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.37%) PKI
2 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Windows
3 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.62%) Migration
2 25 (34.25%) B2B
3 13 (17.81%) Network Management
4 12 (16.44%) ITIL
5 9 (12.33%) Change Management
5 9 (12.33%) ITSM
6 8 (10.96%) DevOps
7 7 (9.59%) Availability Management
8 5 (6.85%) Computer Science
8 5 (6.85%) Line Management
8 5 (6.85%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (5.48%) Load Balancing
9 4 (5.48%) Requirements Management
9 4 (5.48%) SIEM
10 3 (4.11%) Network Monitoring
10 3 (4.11%) Performance Management
11 2 (2.74%) Capacity Planning
11 2 (2.74%) Mathematics
11 2 (2.74%) Network Architecture
11 2 (2.74%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.33%) Python
2 8 (10.96%) Perl
2 8 (10.96%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 46 (63.01%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (27.40%) Security Cleared
3 19 (26.03%) CCNP
4 15 (20.55%) CCNA
5 13 (17.81%) SC Cleared
6 5 (6.85%) DV Cleared
7 4 (5.48%) Degree
8 3 (4.11%) CCIE
9 1 (1.37%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (12.33%) Firmware
2 2 (2.74%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (12.33%) Ansible
2 3 (4.11%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.37%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (1.37%) Netcool
3 1 (1.37%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 64 (87.67%) Cisco
2 29 (39.73%) CheckPoint
3 25 (34.25%) Arista
4 15 (20.55%) Palo Alto
5 13 (17.81%) Juniper
5 13 (17.81%) SolarWinds
6 9 (12.33%) Citrix
7 3 (4.11%) F5
8 2 (2.74%) Forcepoint
8 2 (2.74%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.74%) VMware
9 1 (1.37%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (1.37%) Dell
9 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.37%) HP
9 1 (1.37%) IBM
9 1 (1.37%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.37%) Nokia
9 1 (1.37%) WatchGuard