Switch Engineer Contracts

Switch Engineer
UK

The median Switch Engineer daily rate in the UK is £486 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 716 818
Rank change year-on-year +139 +102 -164
Contract jobs requiring a Switch Engineer 9 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.010% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.011% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 10
10th Percentile £335 - £210
25th Percentile £376 £413 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.35% - +70.00%
75th Percentile £516 £488 £467
90th Percentile £554 £555 £483
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £205
% change year-on-year +8.82% +107.32% -18.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.00 -

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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Switch Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Switch Engineer in the UK

Switch Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Switch Engineer in the UK

Switch Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Switch Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Switch Engineer in the UK

Switch Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Switch Engineer in the UK

Switch Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Switch Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +123 9 £486 +14.35% 2
UK excluding London +72 5 £463 +8.82% 2
North of England - 5 £463 - 1
London +107 4 £486 +2.32%
North West - 4 £350 - 1
Work from Home +126 2 £345 -23.33% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £575 -

Switch Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Switch 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 Switch Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (55.56%) Firewall
3 4 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (44.44%) Python
3 4 (44.44%) Juniper
3 4 (44.44%) VLAN
3 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
4 3 (33.33%) Supplier Management
4 3 (33.33%) VXLAN
4 3 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 3 (33.33%) Network Security
4 3 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (33.33%) HSRP
4 3 (33.33%) GLBP
4 3 (33.33%) OSPF
4 3 (33.33%) BGP
4 3 (33.33%) EIGRP
4 3 (33.33%) VRRP
4 3 (33.33%) LAN
4 3 (33.33%) WAN
4 3 (33.33%) VPN
4 3 (33.33%) Network Design
5 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (22.22%) Wireless
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) CCNP
5 2 (22.22%) Aruba
5 2 (22.22%) Driving Licence
6 1 (11.11%) Terraform
6 1 (11.11%) IPTV

Switch 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) VLAN
2 4 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (33.33%) BGP
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 3 (33.33%) GLBP
3 3 (33.33%) HSRP
3 3 (33.33%) LAN
3 3 (33.33%) Network Security
3 3 (33.33%) OSPF
3 3 (33.33%) VPN
3 3 (33.33%) VRRP
3 3 (33.33%) VXLAN
3 3 (33.33%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) Wireless
5 1 (11.11%) SAN
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Driving Licence
3 1 (11.11%) IPTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Network Design
1 3 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CCNP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCIE
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) Juniper
3 3 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 2 (22.22%) Aruba
5 1 (11.11%) Brocade
5 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 1 (11.11%) HP
5 1 (11.11%) Tufin
5 1 (11.11%) VMware
5 1 (11.11%) WatchGuard
5 1 (11.11%) Zscaler