Network Management Contracts

Network Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Network Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 344 466
Rank change year-on-year -62 +122 +142
Contract jobs citing Network Management 113 269 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.62% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.72% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 167 172
10th Percentile £265 £180 £200
25th Percentile £400 £460 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +8.42% +5.09%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £627
90th Percentile £668 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -9.09% +29.41% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 31 15
10th Percentile £19.51 - £18.70
25th Percentile £25.79 £40.00 £44.38
Median hourly rate £37.50 £70.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +40.00% +14.31%
75th Percentile £43.13 £72.50 £81.88
90th Percentile £45.75 £95.00 £101.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.33 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -78.10% +47.37% -6.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Network Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Management within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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 -77 103 £495 -4.83% 87
UK excluding London -75 76 £500 -9.09% 65
North of England +47 40 £525 +1.94% 19
Work from Home +5 32 £500 +5.26% 40
London +37 29 £500 +17.65% 28
North West +23 29 £563 +9.49% 10
Yorkshire +22 11 £500 -23.08% 7
South East -23 10 £490 -24.62% 16
South West -54 10 £425 -15.00% 4
East of England +35 8 £475 +134.57% 12
Midlands +27 4 £521 - 9
West Midlands +19 4 £521 - 7
Scotland +8 4 £513 +38.51% 6

Network Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.65%) Confluence
2 2 (1.77%) Drupal
3 1 (0.88%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.88%) CMS
3 1 (0.88%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.27%) Azure
2 10 (8.85%) AWS
3 3 (2.65%) Entra ID
3 3 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.77%) GCP
4 2 (1.77%) SaaS
5 1 (0.88%) Akamai
5 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.88%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.88%) IaaS
5 1 (0.88%) PaaS
5 1 (0.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 62 (54.87%) Firewall
2 44 (38.94%) WAN
3 30 (26.55%) Wi-Fi
4 27 (23.89%) BGP
5 26 (23.01%) Network Security
6 24 (21.24%) OSPF
7 21 (18.58%) Cisco ISE
7 21 (18.58%) NetScaler
8 19 (16.81%) LAN
9 16 (14.16%) EIGRP
9 16 (14.16%) VPN
10 15 (13.27%) DNS
11 13 (11.50%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (11.50%) SD-WAN
11 13 (11.50%) Wireless
12 12 (10.62%) IPsec
12 12 (10.62%) TCP/IP
13 11 (9.73%) DHCP
13 11 (9.73%) Internet
13 11 (9.73%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.88%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (0.88%) Power BI
1 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.65%) JIRA
2 2 (1.77%) GitLab
2 2 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.47%) Finance
3 16 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 11 (9.73%) Telecoms
6 8 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.54%) Billing
8 3 (2.65%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.65%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.77%) Electronics
9 2 (1.77%) Marketing
9 2 (1.77%) Military
10 1 (0.88%) Back Office
10 1 (0.88%) Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (44.25%) Network Engineer
2 14 (12.39%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 10 (8.85%) Firewall Engineer
3 10 (8.85%) Senior
4 7 (6.19%) Architect
5 6 (5.31%) Network Specialist
6 5 (4.42%) Administrator
6 5 (4.42%) Network Architect
6 5 (4.42%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Analyst
7 4 (3.54%) Consultant
7 4 (3.54%) OSS Project Manager
7 4 (3.54%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.54%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (3.54%) Telecoms Manager
7 4 (3.54%) Telecoms Project Manager
8 3 (2.65%) Designer
8 3 (2.65%) IP Designer
8 3 (2.65%) Wintel Administrator
8 3 (2.65%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.47%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.77%) NETCONF
3 1 (0.88%) HTML
3 1 (0.88%) JSON
3 1 (0.88%) ODBC
3 1 (0.88%) REST
3 1 (0.88%) RFC 2544
3 1 (0.88%) XML
3 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (27.43%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.42%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.54%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.54%) PKI
4 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.65%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.77%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (1.77%) IoT
5 2 (1.77%) NHS
5 2 (1.77%) SCADA
5 2 (1.77%) Social Media
6 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.88%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.88%) NB-IoT
6 1 (0.88%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.08%) Windows
2 3 (2.65%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.65%) zOS
3 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.74%) Network Design
2 25 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (21.24%) Load Balancing
4 22 (19.47%) Network Architecture
5 14 (12.39%) ITIL
5 14 (12.39%) Migration
6 13 (11.50%) Agile
6 13 (11.50%) Impact Assessments
6 13 (11.50%) Project Management
7 10 (8.85%) Network Monitoring
8 9 (7.96%) High Availability
9 8 (7.08%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (6.19%) Change Management
10 7 (6.19%) Computer Science
10 7 (6.19%) Data Protection
10 7 (6.19%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.19%) Scrum
11 6 (5.31%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (5.31%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.16%) Python
2 5 (4.42%) Perl
3 3 (2.65%) JCL
3 3 (2.65%) SQL
4 2 (1.77%) Bash
5 1 (0.88%) Go
5 1 (0.88%) Java
5 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.88%) R
5 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (36.28%) Security Cleared
2 32 (28.32%) SC Cleared
3 19 (16.81%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (14.16%) Degree
5 14 (12.39%) CCNP
6 10 (8.85%) DV Cleared
7 8 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (6.19%) CCIE
9 6 (5.31%) CCNA
10 4 (3.54%) PMI Certification
10 4 (3.54%) PMP
11 3 (2.65%) DBS Check
12 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.88%) CCDP
13 1 (0.88%) ECDL
13 1 (0.88%) HNC
13 1 (0.88%) HND
13 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.65%) GDPR
2 2 (1.77%) DICOM
2 2 (1.77%) HL7
3 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.88%) NCSC
3 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.88%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.88%) SLA
3 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.19%) VMware NSX
3 4 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.88%) Docker
4 1 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (9.73%) Ansible
2 8 (7.08%) FortiGate
3 4 (3.54%) Amdocs OSS
4 3 (2.65%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (2.65%) Tivoli NetView
5 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.77%) SCCM
5 2 (1.77%) Terraform
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.88%) Nagios
6 1 (0.88%) OpenView
6 1 (0.88%) OPNET
6 1 (0.88%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 67 (59.29%) Cisco
2 36 (31.86%) Palo Alto
3 19 (16.81%) Meraki
4 18 (15.93%) CheckPoint
5 15 (13.27%) Juniper
6 13 (11.50%) SolarWinds
7 9 (7.96%) Microsoft
8 8 (7.08%) VMware
9 7 (6.19%) Fortinet
10 6 (5.31%) F5
11 5 (4.42%) Ericsson
11 5 (4.42%) Nokia
12 4 (3.54%) Amdocs
12 4 (3.54%) Ciena
12 4 (3.54%) Google
12 4 (3.54%) HP
12 4 (3.54%) NetCracker
12 4 (3.54%) Zscaler
13 3 (2.65%) IBM
13 3 (2.65%) Infoblox