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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 321 447
Rank change year-on-year -90 +126 +162
Contract jobs citing Network Management 114 266 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.62% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.72% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 164 171
10th Percentile £321 £177 £200
25th Percentile £409 £418 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £514 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +5.38% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £628
90th Percentile £665 - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -4.89% +8.46% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 33 14
10th Percentile £19.51 - £18.65
25th Percentile £25.79 £40.00 £44.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £70.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +19.15% +8.80%
75th Percentile £43.13 £72.50 £82.81
90th Percentile £45.75 £91.00 £101.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.33 £70.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -78.10% +43.59% -9.72%

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 26,783 36,704 51,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.97% 86.15% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,188 23,629 35,390
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,099 2,440 1,690
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £15.99
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -81 103 £490 -4.85% 132
UK excluding London -89 78 £490 -4.89% 110
North of England +42 39 £513 -0.49% 52
Work from Home -10 33 £500 +5.82% 57
London +48 28 £500 +17.65% 35
North West +23 28 £525 +2.19% 10
South West -57 12 £425 -15.00% 11
Yorkshire +26 11 £500 -18.03% 38
South East -23 10 £490 -24.62% 16
East of England +28 8 £475 +150.00% 9
Scotland +2 5 £513 +50.74% 9
Midlands +20 4 £521 - 17
West Midlands +8 4 £521 - 15

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 (2.63%) Confluence
2 2 (1.75%) Drupal
3 1 (0.88%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.88%) CMS
3 1 (0.88%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.04%) Azure
2 10 (8.77%) AWS
3 4 (3.51%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.75%) GCP
4 2 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.75%) 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 61 (53.51%) Firewall
2 44 (38.60%) WAN
3 31 (27.19%) Wi-Fi
4 26 (22.81%) Network Security
5 24 (21.05%) BGP
6 21 (18.42%) OSPF
7 20 (17.54%) Cisco ISE
7 20 (17.54%) NetScaler
8 18 (15.79%) LAN
9 15 (13.16%) SD-WAN
9 15 (13.16%) VPN
10 13 (11.40%) DNS
10 13 (11.40%) EIGRP
11 12 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
11 12 (10.53%) IPsec
11 12 (10.53%) TCP/IP
12 11 (9.65%) MPLS
12 11 (9.65%) Wireless
13 10 (8.77%) 5G
13 10 (8.77%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.88%) Power BI
1 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.63%) JIRA
2 2 (1.75%) GitLab
2 2 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.42%) Finance
3 17 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.65%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.65%) Telecoms
5 8 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.26%) Billing
7 3 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.75%) Military
9 1 (0.88%) Back Office
9 1 (0.88%) Banking
9 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (42.11%) Network Engineer
2 14 (12.28%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 10 (8.77%) Firewall Engineer
3 10 (8.77%) Senior
4 7 (6.14%) Architect
5 6 (5.26%) Administrator
5 6 (5.26%) OSS Project Manager
5 6 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 6 (5.26%) Telecoms Manager
5 6 (5.26%) Telecoms Project Manager
6 5 (4.39%) Network Architect
6 5 (4.39%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (4.39%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (3.51%) Analyst
7 4 (3.51%) Consultant
7 4 (3.51%) Network Specialist
7 4 (3.51%) Platform Manager
7 4 (3.51%) Systems Manager
7 4 (3.51%) Wintel Administrator
7 4 (3.51%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.30%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.75%) NETCONF
3 1 (0.88%) HTML
3 1 (0.88%) JSON
3 1 (0.88%) REST
3 1 (0.88%) RFC 2544
3 1 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (28.07%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.39%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.39%) PKI
4 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.63%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.75%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.75%) IoT
6 2 (1.75%) SCADA
6 2 (1.75%) Social Media
7 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.88%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.88%) NB-IoT
7 1 (0.88%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.77%) Windows
2 3 (2.63%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.63%) zOS
3 2 (1.75%) Linux
4 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.46%) Network Design
2 27 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (21.93%) Load Balancing
4 22 (19.30%) Network Architecture
5 15 (13.16%) Agile
5 15 (13.16%) Migration
6 13 (11.40%) Impact Assessments
6 13 (11.40%) Project Management
7 12 (10.53%) ITIL
7 12 (10.53%) Network Monitoring
8 10 (8.77%) High Availability
8 10 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (7.89%) Scrum
10 8 (7.02%) Change Management
10 8 (7.02%) CRM
10 8 (7.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (6.14%) Computer Science
11 7 (6.14%) Data Protection
11 7 (6.14%) Mentoring
11 7 (6.14%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.16%) Python
2 5 (4.39%) Perl
3 3 (2.63%) JCL
3 3 (2.63%) SQL
4 2 (1.75%) Bash
5 1 (0.88%) Go
5 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (35.96%) Security Cleared
2 31 (27.19%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (12.28%) CCNP
4 14 (12.28%) Degree
5 11 (9.65%) DV Cleared
6 8 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (6.14%) CCIE
8 6 (5.26%) PMI Certification
8 6 (5.26%) PMP
9 5 (4.39%) CCNA
10 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.75%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.88%) CCDP
11 1 (0.88%) ECDL
11 1 (0.88%) HNC
11 1 (0.88%) HND
11 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.63%) GDPR
2 2 (1.75%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.88%) NCSC
3 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.88%) SLA
3 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.14%) VMware NSX
3 4 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.88%) Docker
4 1 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (9.65%) Ansible
2 8 (7.02%) FortiGate
3 6 (5.26%) Amdocs OSS
4 3 (2.63%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (2.63%) Tivoli NetView
5 2 (1.75%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.75%) 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%) SCCM
6 1 (0.88%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 66 (57.89%) Cisco
2 37 (32.46%) Palo Alto
3 19 (16.67%) Meraki
4 18 (15.79%) CheckPoint
5 15 (13.16%) Juniper
6 12 (10.53%) SolarWinds
7 9 (7.89%) Microsoft
8 8 (7.02%) VMware
9 7 (6.14%) Ericsson
9 7 (6.14%) F5
9 7 (6.14%) Fortinet
9 7 (6.14%) Nokia
10 6 (5.26%) Amdocs
10 6 (5.26%) Ciena
10 6 (5.26%) NetCracker
11 4 (3.51%) Zscaler
12 3 (2.63%) Google
12 3 (2.63%) HP
12 3 (2.63%) Infoblox
13 2 (1.75%) Apple