Network Management Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Network Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Network Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 100 116
Rank change year-on-year -17 +16 +61
Contract jobs citing Network Management 4 15 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.79% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.96% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £242 - £255
25th Percentile £298 £165 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £365 £320
Median % change year-on-year +17.81% +14.06% -1.54%
75th Percentile £598 £500 £359
90th Percentile £674 £530 £429
England median daily rate £490 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -2.00% -13.04% +35.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Network Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,618 1,560 1,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.75% 81.76% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 995 1,188
10th Percentile £250 £252 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £674 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 39 50
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.66 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.25 £20.21
Median hourly rate £24.34 £26.13 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -5.00% +52.78%
75th Percentile £35.00 £40.25 £43.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.65 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in the West Midlands

Network Management
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Network Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Network Management

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in the West Midlands

Network Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Network Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Network Management

Network Management
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 Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Birmingham +2 2 - - 2
Coventry -5 1 £650 -
Network Management
England

Network Management
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) 5G
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (25.00%) Modbus
2 1 (25.00%) MQTT
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless Security
2 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Field Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Field Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) NB-IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
1 1 (25.00%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Acquisition
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Edge Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Network Design
3 1 (25.00%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Juniper
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds