IP Network Engineer Contracts

IP Network Engineer
UK

The median IP Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £593 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 696 839
Rank change year-on-year +120 +143 -185
Contract jobs requiring an IP Network Engineer 10 20 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.033% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.035% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £567 £291 £420
25th Percentile £573 £348 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +35.43% -2.78% -2.70%
75th Percentile £608 £503 £509
90th Percentile £612 £574 £545
UK excluding London median daily rate - £450 £450

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 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £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 £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

IP Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IP Network Engineer in the UK

IP Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IP Network Engineer in the UK

IP Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IP Network Engineer in the UK

IP Network Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IP Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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 +106 10 £593 +31.67% 2
Work from Home +117 7 - - 2
UK excluding London +66 7 - - 1
East of England - 7 - -
London +102 3 £593 +68.09% 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, IP 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 IP Network Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) VPN
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (70.00%) 4G
2 7 (70.00%) Load Balancing
2 7 (70.00%) Network Security
2 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) 5G
2 7 (70.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 7 (70.00%) Juniper
2 7 (70.00%) Network Design
2 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) BIG-IP
3 3 (30.00%) Nokia
3 3 (30.00%) MPLS
3 3 (30.00%) OSPF
3 3 (30.00%) BGP
3 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (30.00%) L2TP
3 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (30.00%) IPsec
3 3 (30.00%) Perl
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Unix
3 3 (30.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) Broadband
3 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership

IP 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 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) VPN
2 7 (70.00%) 4G
2 7 (70.00%) 5G
2 7 (70.00%) Network Security
3 3 (30.00%) BGP
3 3 (30.00%) BIG-IP
3 3 (30.00%) Broadband
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (30.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (30.00%) IPsec
3 3 (30.00%) L2TP
3 3 (30.00%) MPLS
3 3 (30.00%) Multicast
3 3 (30.00%) OSPF
3 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (30.00%) Unicast
3 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Load Balancing
1 7 (70.00%) Network Design
1 7 (70.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Perl
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (70.00%) Juniper
3 3 (30.00%) F5
3 3 (30.00%) Nokia