Network Specialist Contracts

Network Specialist
UK

The median Network Specialist daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 649 773
Rank change year-on-year +122 +124 -134
Contract jobs requiring a Network Specialist 64 56 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.097% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.10% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 37 45
10th Percentile £184 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £800 £500
90th Percentile £863 £830 £554
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

Network Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Specialist in the UK

Network Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Specialist in the UK

Network Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Specialist over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Specialist in the UK

Network Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Specialist in the UK

Network Specialist
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +129 63 £475 -11.63% 8
UK excluding London +64 41 £450 +12.50% 8
South East +52 32 £450 -10.00% 3
London +86 23 £725 -12.65%
Work from Home +115 9 £475 -8.43% 4
East of England +7 4 £475 -5.00% 2
Midlands +35 2 £350 -42.86% 3
West Midlands +23 2 £350 -49.09% 3
South West +10 2 - -
Scotland +38 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Network Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 37 (57.81%) Cisco
2 35 (54.69%) Juniper
2 35 (54.69%) Security Cleared
3 31 (48.44%) BGP
3 31 (48.44%) Firewall
4 30 (46.88%) OSPF
5 28 (43.75%) Fortinet
6 26 (40.63%) VPN
7 25 (39.06%) Network Design
8 23 (35.94%) FortiGate
9 22 (34.38%) DV Cleared
10 21 (32.81%) Wireless
11 18 (28.13%) EIGRP
12 17 (26.56%) DMVPN
13 15 (23.44%) WAN
14 13 (20.31%) LAN
14 13 (20.31%) WLAN
14 13 (20.31%) Palo Alto
15 10 (15.63%) Threat Management
15 10 (15.63%) IPsec
15 10 (15.63%) PKI
16 9 (14.06%) Change Management
16 9 (14.06%) Social Skills
17 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
17 8 (12.50%) Network Security
18 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
18 7 (10.94%) Cisco ASA
18 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
18 7 (10.94%) Network Virtualisation
18 7 (10.94%) Service Delivery

Network Specialist 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 1 (1.56%) Apache
1 1 (1.56%) JBoss
1 1 (1.56%) nginx
1 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.81%) AWS
2 3 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (3.13%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 31 (48.44%) BGP
1 31 (48.44%) Firewall
2 30 (46.88%) OSPF
3 26 (40.63%) VPN
4 21 (32.81%) Wireless
5 18 (28.13%) EIGRP
6 17 (26.56%) DMVPN
7 15 (23.44%) WAN
8 13 (20.31%) LAN
8 13 (20.31%) WLAN
9 10 (15.63%) IPsec
10 8 (12.50%) Network Security
11 7 (10.94%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (9.38%) 4G
12 6 (9.38%) DNS
13 5 (7.81%) 5G
13 5 (7.81%) DHCP
13 5 (7.81%) TCP/IP
13 5 (7.81%) VLAN
14 4 (6.25%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) GIS
1 2 (3.13%) QGIS
2 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (14.06%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.56%) Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Finance
5 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (1.56%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) PKI
2 2 (3.13%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Unix
2 1 (1.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.06%) Network Design
2 10 (15.63%) Threat Management
3 9 (14.06%) Change Management
4 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (10.94%) Network Virtualisation
5 7 (10.94%) Service Delivery
5 7 (10.94%) Zero Trust
6 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (9.38%) Migration
6 6 (9.38%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (7.81%) Agile
7 5 (7.81%) Business Case
7 5 (7.81%) Capacity Management
7 5 (7.81%) Load Balancing
7 5 (7.81%) Problem Management
8 4 (6.25%) Change Control
8 4 (6.25%) Mentoring
8 4 (6.25%) Prototyping
8 4 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (54.69%) Security Cleared
2 22 (34.38%) DV Cleared
3 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) CCIE
4 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.56%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) VMware NSX
2 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (35.94%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 37 (57.81%) Cisco
2 35 (54.69%) Juniper
3 28 (43.75%) Fortinet
4 13 (20.31%) Palo Alto
5 6 (9.38%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (4.69%) Ericsson
6 3 (4.69%) VMware
7 2 (3.13%) ESRI
7 2 (3.13%) F5
7 2 (3.13%) Greenplum
7 2 (3.13%) Mapinfo
7 2 (3.13%) Pega
8 1 (1.56%) Actix
8 1 (1.56%) Huawei
8 1 (1.56%) IBM
8 1 (1.56%) Nokia
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle
8 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.56%) Temenos
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