Senior Network Engineer Contracts

Senior Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 434 566
Rank change year-on-year -26 +132 +134
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 60 148 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.34% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.37% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 97 92
10th Percentile £362 £345 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £589 £700 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -12.20% +5.07% +10.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £66.50 £42.60 -
25th Percentile £66.88 £58.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +11.36% +30.69%
75th Percentile £74.38 £75.24 -
90th Percentile £75.50 £76.29 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £73.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year -1.35% +11.36% +30.69%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £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 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
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 Senior Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 -33 51 £525 +2.44% 55
London -1 29 £550 +4.76% 20
UK excluding London +13 24 £450 -12.20% 49
Work from Home +24 16 £475 -19.15% 46
North of England +11 10 £475 -7.54% 10
North West +7 7 £483 -6.08% 5
Wales - 5 £450 - 2
Scotland +15 4 £406 -26.14% 8
East of England +31 3 - -
Yorkshire +10 3 £400 - 3
Midlands +22 1 £525 - 9
West Midlands +14 1 £525 - 7
South East -3 1 - - 16

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Network Engineer 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 Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (85.00%) Cisco
2 38 (63.33%) Firewall
3 25 (41.67%) Data Centre
4 24 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (38.33%) WAN
6 21 (35.00%) CCNP
7 19 (31.67%) BGP
7 19 (31.67%) Wireless
8 18 (30.00%) LAN
9 17 (28.33%) OSPF
9 17 (28.33%) Network Security
9 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
10 15 (25.00%) Palo Alto
10 15 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (23.33%) Python
11 14 (23.33%) Cisco Nexus
11 14 (23.33%) Azure
12 13 (21.67%) F5
12 13 (21.67%) VPN
13 12 (20.00%) SD-WAN
14 11 (18.33%) Network Design
15 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
15 10 (16.67%) Finance
15 10 (16.67%) CCIE
15 10 (16.67%) CheckPoint
15 10 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
15 10 (16.67%) AWS
16 9 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
16 9 (15.00%) Network Monitoring
16 9 (15.00%) Ansible

Senior Network Engineer 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 4 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) Azure
2 10 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (6.67%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 38 (63.33%) Firewall
2 23 (38.33%) WAN
3 19 (31.67%) BGP
3 19 (31.67%) Wireless
4 18 (30.00%) LAN
5 17 (28.33%) Network Security
5 17 (28.33%) OSPF
6 15 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (23.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 13 (21.67%) VPN
9 12 (20.00%) SD-WAN
10 10 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
11 9 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (13.33%) DNS
12 8 (13.33%) EIGRP
13 7 (11.67%) Ethernet
13 7 (11.67%) IPsec
14 6 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (10.00%) DHCP
14 6 (10.00%) DWDM
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) GitLab
2 5 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.67%) Git
General
1 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.00%) Banking
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Local Government
5 2 (3.33%) Retail
5 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.67%) Advertising
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) 802.1X
2 3 (5.00%) JSON
3 2 (3.33%) XML
4 1 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.67%) HTML
4 1 (1.67%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (41.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.67%) FPGA
2 4 (6.67%) PCIe
2 4 (6.67%) Verilog
2 4 (6.67%) VHDL
2 4 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (5.00%) NHS
4 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.67%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.67%) FMCG
4 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Windows
2 4 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.33%) Network Design
2 9 (15.00%) Migration
2 9 (15.00%) Network Monitoring
3 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (10.00%) ITSM
4 6 (10.00%) Network Architecture
4 6 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 5 (8.33%) Capacity Management
5 5 (8.33%) Load Balancing
5 5 (8.33%) Network Management
6 4 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (6.67%) Computer Science
6 4 (6.67%) FPGA Design
6 4 (6.67%) Incident Management
6 4 (6.67%) Machine Learning
6 4 (6.67%) Prototyping
6 4 (6.67%) Risk Analysis
7 3 (5.00%) Change Management
7 3 (5.00%) Project Management
7 3 (5.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.33%) Python
2 4 (6.67%) SystemVerilog
2 4 (6.67%) Tcl
3 1 (1.67%) Java
3 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (35.00%) CCNP
3 10 (16.67%) CCIE
3 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
5 5 (8.33%) Degree
6 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.33%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.67%) CCDP
8 1 (1.67%) CWNA
8 1 (1.67%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.67%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.67%) FreeRADIUS
3 1 (1.67%) iptables
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) Ansible
2 7 (11.67%) Terraform
3 3 (5.00%) FortiGate
3 3 (5.00%) OPNET
4 2 (3.33%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (3.33%) Nagios
5 1 (1.67%) Cacti
5 1 (1.67%) Grafana
5 1 (1.67%) Netcool
5 1 (1.67%) OpenView
5 1 (1.67%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.67%) Puppet
5 1 (1.67%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (85.00%) Cisco
2 15 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 13 (21.67%) F5
4 10 (16.67%) CheckPoint
5 9 (15.00%) VMware
6 8 (13.33%) Fortinet
6 8 (13.33%) Juniper
6 8 (13.33%) Meraki
7 7 (11.67%) Aruba
8 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
9 5 (8.33%) Arista
9 5 (8.33%) Infoblox
10 4 (6.67%) Ekahau
10 4 (6.67%) Extreme Networks
10 4 (6.67%) HP
10 4 (6.67%) Intel
10 4 (6.67%) SolarWinds
10 4 (6.67%) Xilinx
11 3 (5.00%) Zscaler
12 2 (3.33%) AirMagnet