Network Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Network Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £275, 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 80 37 68
Rank change year-on-year -43 +31 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 17 83 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.26% 4.26% 3.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 4.67% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 56 38
10th Percentile £160 £260 £263
25th Percentile £185 £263 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £422 £438 £475
90th Percentile £508 £513 £522
England median daily rate £490 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +4.26% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £62.62
% change year-on-year +43.75% -36.12% +120.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,221 1,776 2,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 91.22% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,198 1,556
10th Percentile £200 £259 £250
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £702 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 134 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.01 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.02
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%
75th Percentile £28.18 £42.31 £26.82
90th Percentile £35.58 £55.88 £55.63
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the West Midlands region 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
Solihull +8 6 £425 +50.44%
Birmingham -18 5 £178 -49.29% 14
Coventry +5 2 £210 -58.00% 5
Warwickshire -2 1 - - 7
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (64.71%) WAN
2 10 (58.82%) BGP
2 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
3 9 (52.94%) MPLS
3 9 (52.94%) VPN
3 9 (52.94%) Juniper
3 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
4 8 (47.06%) Cisco
4 8 (47.06%) IPsec
4 8 (47.06%) PKI
5 6 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (29.41%) Firewall
6 5 (29.41%) Load Balancing
6 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
7 4 (23.53%) Degree
7 4 (23.53%) Wireless
7 4 (23.53%) CCNA
8 3 (17.65%) Windows
8 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (17.65%) Internet
8 3 (17.65%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (11.76%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
9 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
9 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
9 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
9 2 (11.76%) NGFW
9 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
9 2 (11.76%) Data Centre

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) WAN
2 10 (58.82%) BGP
3 9 (52.94%) MPLS
3 9 (52.94%) VPN
4 8 (47.06%) IPsec
5 5 (29.41%) Firewall
6 4 (23.53%) Wireless
7 3 (17.65%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (17.65%) Internet
7 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (11.76%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (11.76%) DHCP
8 2 (11.76%) EIGRP
8 2 (11.76%) Ethernet
8 2 (11.76%) LAN
8 2 (11.76%) Network Security
8 2 (11.76%) NGFW
8 2 (11.76%) OSPF
8 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
9 1 (5.88%) SNMP
General
1 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Back Office
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) PKI
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Load Balancing
2 2 (11.76%) Change Management
2 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
2 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
2 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
2 2 (11.76%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (5.88%) Data Collection
3 1 (5.88%) High Availability
3 1 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (5.88%) Network Design
3 1 (5.88%) Network Management
3 1 (5.88%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (5.88%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (5.88%) Patch Management
3 1 (5.88%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
4 4 (23.53%) CCNA
4 4 (23.53%) Degree
5 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (11.76%) CCNP
6 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (5.88%) CCIE
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Juniper
2 8 (47.06%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
3 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.88%) Aruba
4 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
4 1 (5.88%) Meraki
4 1 (5.88%) Siemens
4 1 (5.88%) Zscaler