Data Network Engineer Contracts

Data Network Engineer
UK

The median Data Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 711 847
Rank change year-on-year +126 +136 -168
Contract jobs requiring a Data Network Engineer 6 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.012% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.013% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £429 - £438
25th Percentile £434 £263 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £325 £525
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% -38.10% +70.73%
75th Percentile £484 £363 £675
90th Percentile £486 £625 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £300 £513
% change year-on-year - -41.46% +64.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £20.74 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.74 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Data Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Network Engineer in the UK

Data Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Network Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Data Network Engineer in the UK

Data Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Network Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Data Network Engineer in the UK

Data Network Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +109 6 £463 +42.31% 3
London +101 3 £463 -42.19% 2
UK excluding London +65 3 - - 1
Work from Home +129 1 - - 1
North of England +23 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
South East - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - -

Data Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Data 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 featuring Data Network Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) DMZ
3 3 (50.00%) MPLS
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (33.33%) Banking
4 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (33.33%) OSPF
4 2 (33.33%) BGP
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) LAN
4 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Arista
5 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (16.67%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Zscaler
5 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
5 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 1 (16.67%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (16.67%) Police
5 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN

Data Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (50.00%) DMZ
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) MPLS
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
3 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
3 1 (16.67%) HSRP
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
3 1 (16.67%) PBX
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP
3 1 (16.67%) VXLAN
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Police
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Publishing
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Line Management
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) SOA
2 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE Data Center
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Arista
2 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) Aruba
3 1 (16.67%) Blue Coat
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Meraki
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) Zscaler