Network Administrator Contracts

Network Administrator
UK

The median Network Administrator daily rate in the UK is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 691 834
Rank change year-on-year +113 +143 -147
Contract jobs requiring a Network Administrator 5 14 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.024% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.025% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 3
10th Percentile - £364 £302
25th Percentile £325 £409 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £463 £350
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +32.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £375 £509 £463
90th Percentile - £541 £530
UK excluding London median daily rate - £475 £300
% change year-on-year - +58.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £11.60 - -
75th Percentile £33.30 - -
90th Percentile £46.32 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £11.60 - -

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 40,269 56,187 84,691
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,215 39,262 59,481
10th Percentile £276 £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 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,567 2,094
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%

Network Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Administrator in the UK

Network Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Administrator in the UK

Network Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Administrator in the UK

Network Administrator
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Administrator over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Administrator in the UK

Network Administrator
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
UK excluding London +54 3 - - 6
England +107 2 £350 -24.32% 7
Scotland - 2 - -
London +102 1 £350 -22.22% 1
Midlands +23 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

Network Administrator Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Network Administrator 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 Network Administrator in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) VMware
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) InfiniBand
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection

Network Administrator 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (20.00%) MPLS
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) OSPF
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) VMware