Network Support Contract Job Trends

Network Support
UK

The median Network Support daily rate in the UK is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 527 542
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 +216
Contract jobs requiring a Network Support 48 37 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 22 43
10th Percentile £269 £200 £199
25th Percentile £318 £214 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £315 £388
Median % change year-on-year +54.76% -18.71% +3.33%
75th Percentile £500 £383 £450
90th Percentile - £400 £498
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £250 £375
% change year-on-year +100.00% -33.33% -0.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.25 - -

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 32,630 33,866 43,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.82% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,686 20,426 29,351
10th Percentile £280 £300 £292
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,921 1,265 1,542
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £55.85 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +83.67%

Network Support
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Network Support' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Network Support job vacancy trend in the UK

Network Support
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Support job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Support job vacancies in the UK

Network Support
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Support over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Support in the UK

Network Support
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Support job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Support job vacancies in the UK

Network Support
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Support within the UK over the 6 months to 21 November 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 +6 48 £488 +95.00% 25
UK excluding London -24 37 £500 +100.00% 14
South East +16 17 £500 +158.06% 6
London -2 11 £475 +37.68% 14
East of England -3 10 - -
Midlands -35 8 £300 +10.09% 4
West Midlands -24 7 £300 +10.09% 3
South West +1 1 £620 +163.83% 3
Work from Home 0 1 £425 +6.25% 6
North West -15 1 £330 -
East Midlands -18 1 - - 1
North of England -44 1 £330 +52.71% 1

Network Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 21 November 2025, Network Support contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Network Support in the job title.

1 29 (60.42%) Cisco
2 21 (43.75%) Cisco IOS
2 21 (43.75%) Juniper
2 21 (43.75%) Security Cleared
3 17 (35.42%) Junos
3 17 (35.42%) SolarWinds
3 17 (35.42%) Windows
4 16 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 16 (33.33%) DV Cleared
5 15 (31.25%) Cisco Firepower
5 15 (31.25%) Cisco ISE
5 15 (31.25%) ITSM
5 15 (31.25%) Service Management
5 15 (31.25%) vCenter Server
5 15 (31.25%) VMware NSX
5 15 (31.25%) Windows Server
6 11 (22.92%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (20.83%) CCNA
7 10 (20.83%) WAN
8 9 (18.75%) DNS
8 9 (18.75%) Wireless
9 8 (16.67%) DHCP
9 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
10 7 (14.58%) Firewall
10 7 (14.58%) Network Security
10 7 (14.58%) VPN
11 6 (12.50%) BGP
11 6 (12.50%) Load Balancing
11 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
11 6 (12.50%) PuTTY

Network Support Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.08%) Azure
1 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 21 (43.75%) Cisco IOS
2 17 (35.42%) Junos
3 15 (31.25%) Cisco Firepower
3 15 (31.25%) Cisco ISE
4 10 (20.83%) WAN
5 9 (18.75%) DNS
5 9 (18.75%) Wireless
6 8 (16.67%) DHCP
7 7 (14.58%) Firewall
7 7 (14.58%) Network Security
7 7 (14.58%) VPN
8 6 (12.50%) BGP
8 6 (12.50%) PuTTY
9 5 (10.42%) IPsec
9 5 (10.42%) LAN
9 5 (10.42%) MPLS
10 4 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
12 1 (2.08%) NGFW
General
1 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.42%) Manufacturing
3 3 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Finance
4 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.08%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) ADO
1 1 (2.08%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) PKI
2 4 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.08%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (2.08%) CCTV
4 1 (2.08%) Clustering
4 1 (2.08%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.08%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.08%) NHS
4 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (35.42%) Windows
2 15 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.08%) Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.08%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.08%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.25%) ITSM
1 15 (31.25%) Service Management
2 6 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 5 (10.42%) Change Management
3 5 (10.42%) Computer Science
3 5 (10.42%) Incident Response
4 4 (8.33%) IT Strategy
4 4 (8.33%) Network Architecture
4 4 (8.33%) Security Operations
4 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 3 (6.25%) Break/Fix
5 3 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (6.25%) Network Design
5 3 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (4.17%) Migration
6 2 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (2.08%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (2.08%) DevOps
7 1 (2.08%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.17%) Python
2 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 16 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 11 (22.92%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (20.83%) CCNA
5 5 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (10.42%) Degree
6 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 2 (4.17%) CCNP
8 1 (2.08%) CEH
8 1 (2.08%) CISSP
8 1 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.08%) MCP
8 1 (2.08%) MCSA
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 15 (31.25%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.17%) Firmware
4 1 (2.08%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (31.25%) vCenter Server
2 2 (4.17%) Ansible
2 2 (4.17%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (4.17%) OpenView
3 1 (2.08%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.08%) SCCM
3 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (60.42%) Cisco
2 21 (43.75%) Juniper
3 17 (35.42%) SolarWinds
4 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 5 (10.42%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.25%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.17%) CheckPoint
7 2 (4.17%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.08%) Aruba
8 1 (2.08%) Dell
8 1 (2.08%) Draytek
8 1 (2.08%) F5
8 1 (2.08%) FireEye
8 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.08%) McAfee
8 1 (2.08%) Meraki
8 1 (2.08%) Mitel
8 1 (2.08%) NetScout
8 1 (2.08%) Splunk
8 1 (2.08%) Tanium