Network Specialist Contracts

Network Specialist
UK

The median Network Specialist daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 651 784
Rank change year-on-year +146 +133 -173
Contract jobs requiring a Network Specialist 74 49 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.082% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.086% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 32 47
10th Percentile £217 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +14.71% -
75th Percentile £850 £650 £494
90th Percentile £875 £830 £553
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +145 73 £500 - 11
UK excluding London +83 41 £450 +12.50% 10
London +125 33 £825 +3.13% 1
South East +50 30 £450 -10.00% 2
Work from Home +116 13 £475 +2.70% 6
East of England +14 6 £475 -5.00% 4
Midlands +29 2 £350 -34.88% 4
South West +18 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 4
Scotland +30 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 46 (62.16%) Cisco
2 44 (59.46%) Juniper
3 41 (55.41%) Security Cleared
4 40 (54.05%) Firewall
5 38 (51.35%) BGP
6 37 (50.00%) OSPF
7 35 (47.30%) VPN
8 34 (45.95%) Fortinet
9 30 (40.54%) Network Design
9 30 (40.54%) Wireless
10 28 (37.84%) FortiGate
11 23 (31.08%) WLAN
12 22 (29.73%) LAN
13 21 (28.38%) WAN
14 20 (27.03%) DV Cleared
14 20 (27.03%) Palo Alto
15 18 (24.32%) Threat Management
15 18 (24.32%) EIGRP
16 17 (22.97%) IPsec
16 17 (22.97%) PKI
16 17 (22.97%) DMVPN
17 16 (21.62%) Change Management
18 15 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
19 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
20 12 (16.22%) Cisco ASA
20 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
21 11 (14.86%) Extreme Networks
22 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 10 (13.51%) Network Security
22 10 (13.51%) Migration

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 (1.35%) Apache
1 1 (1.35%) JBoss
1 1 (1.35%) nginx
1 1 (1.35%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (6.76%) AWS
3 2 (2.70%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 40 (54.05%) Firewall
2 38 (51.35%) BGP
3 37 (50.00%) OSPF
4 35 (47.30%) VPN
5 30 (40.54%) Wireless
6 23 (31.08%) WLAN
7 22 (29.73%) LAN
8 21 (28.38%) WAN
9 18 (24.32%) EIGRP
10 17 (22.97%) DMVPN
10 17 (22.97%) IPsec
11 12 (16.22%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (13.51%) Network Security
13 8 (10.81%) 4G
13 8 (10.81%) Cisco Wireless
14 7 (9.46%) 5G
15 6 (8.11%) DNS
16 5 (6.76%) DHCP
16 5 (6.76%) TCP/IP
16 5 (6.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.70%) GIS
1 2 (2.70%) QGIS
2 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (12.16%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.46%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.35%) Banking
5 1 (1.35%) Finance
5 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.35%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (1.35%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.97%) PKI
2 2 (2.70%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
1 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.35%) Unix
1 1 (1.35%) Windows
1 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.54%) Network Design
2 18 (24.32%) Threat Management
3 16 (21.62%) Change Management
4 15 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (13.51%) Agile
6 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (13.51%) Migration
7 9 (12.16%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (10.81%) Capacity Management
8 8 (10.81%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
9 7 (9.46%) Load Balancing
9 7 (9.46%) Network Virtualisation
9 7 (9.46%) Service Delivery
9 7 (9.46%) Zero Trust
10 6 (8.11%) Availability Management
10 6 (8.11%) Change Control
10 6 (8.11%) Compliance Management
10 6 (8.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (55.41%) Security Cleared
2 20 (27.03%) DV Cleared
3 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.35%) CCIE
4 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.35%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (37.84%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 46 (62.16%) Cisco
2 44 (59.46%) Juniper
3 34 (45.95%) Fortinet
4 20 (27.03%) Palo Alto
5 11 (14.86%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (4.05%) Ericsson
7 2 (2.70%) ESRI
7 2 (2.70%) Greenplum
7 2 (2.70%) Mapinfo
7 2 (2.70%) Pega
8 1 (1.35%) Actix
8 1 (1.35%) Huawei
8 1 (1.35%) IBM
8 1 (1.35%) Nokia
8 1 (1.35%) Oracle
8 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.35%) Temenos
8 1 (1.35%) VMware