Network Manager Contracts

Network Manager
UK

The median Network Manager daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 539 590
Rank change year-on-year +76 +51 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Network Manager 56 61 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.14% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.15% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 33 80
10th Percentile £413 £353 £400
25th Percentile £425 £363 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £600
90th Percentile £660 £623 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.89% - -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Network Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Manager in the UK

Network Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Manager in the UK

Network Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Manager in the UK

Network Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Manager in the UK

Network Manager
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Manager 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 +58 49 £500 +11.11% 59
UK excluding London +43 26 £468 +3.89% 38
London +38 19 £505 +26.17% 25
Work from Home +40 11 £500 +33.33% 21
North of England +35 11 £450 - 11
North West +18 9 £450 +5.88% 8
South East +38 8 £450 -10.00% 13
South West +46 4 - -
East of England +30 2 £588 +56.67% 2
Yorkshire +14 1 £500 +11.11%
Scotland +9 1 £468 - 4
North East - 1 £475 - 3

Network Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Network Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 20 (35.71%) Project Management
2 18 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (25.00%) Agile
4 13 (23.21%) Finance
4 13 (23.21%) Cisco
5 12 (21.43%) Security Cleared
5 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 11 (19.64%) SC Cleared
6 11 (19.64%) Firewall
7 10 (17.86%) Telecoms
7 10 (17.86%) Data Centre
8 9 (16.07%) PMP
8 9 (16.07%) LAN
8 9 (16.07%) WAN
9 8 (14.29%) ITIL
9 8 (14.29%) PMI Certification
9 8 (14.29%) Migration
10 7 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (12.50%) Service Management
10 7 (12.50%) PRINCE2
10 7 (12.50%) Degree
11 6 (10.71%) Azure
11 6 (10.71%) Service Delivery
11 6 (10.71%) Wireless
11 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
12 5 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (8.93%) Change Management
12 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Project

Network Manager 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.71%) Azure
2 4 (7.14%) Smartsheet
3 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.57%) AWS
4 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.79%) Akamai
5 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.79%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.79%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (19.64%) Firewall
2 9 (16.07%) LAN
2 9 (16.07%) WAN
3 6 (10.71%) Wireless
4 4 (7.14%) 5G
5 3 (5.36%) Network Security
5 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.36%) VoIP
5 3 (5.36%) VPN
5 3 (5.36%) WLAN
6 2 (3.57%) BIG-IP
6 2 (3.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (3.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (3.57%) Internet
6 2 (3.57%) LTE
6 2 (3.57%) PSTN
6 2 (3.57%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
6 2 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.79%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.79%) Power BI
1 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 13 (23.21%) Finance
2 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.86%) Telecoms
4 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.93%) Banking
6 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.36%) Italian Language
6 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.36%) Military
6 3 (5.36%) Retail
7 1 (1.79%) Automotive
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Local Government
7 1 (1.79%) Marketing
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.36%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.57%) Life Science
3 2 (3.57%) Replication
4 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Windows
1 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.71%) Project Management
2 18 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (25.00%) Agile
4 8 (14.29%) ITIL
4 8 (14.29%) Migration
5 7 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (12.50%) PRINCE2
5 7 (12.50%) Service Management
6 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (10.71%) Service Delivery
7 5 (8.93%) Change Management
7 5 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (7.14%) Budgeting
8 4 (7.14%) Business Strategy
8 4 (7.14%) Programme Management
8 4 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (5.36%) Change Control
9 3 (5.36%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (5.36%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.07%) PMP
4 8 (14.29%) PMI Certification
5 7 (12.50%) Degree
6 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.79%) APMP
7 1 (1.79%) CCNA
7 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) PMO
1 3 (5.36%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) FortiGate
1 2 (3.57%) NSN NetAct
2 1 (1.79%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Cisco
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.14%) F5
4 3 (5.36%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.57%) Arista
5 2 (3.57%) Aruba
5 2 (3.57%) BT
5 2 (3.57%) Ericsson
5 2 (3.57%) HP
5 2 (3.57%) Nokia
5 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.57%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.79%) BMC
6 1 (1.79%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.79%) Cramer
6 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.79%) Juniper
6 1 (1.79%) Planview
6 1 (1.79%) Remedy
6 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds