Network Engineer Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Network Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Network Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 43 60
Rank change year-on-year -30 +17 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 13 13 13
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.21% 2.50% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 2.62% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 5
10th Percentile £314 £293 £472
25th Percentile £346 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% -2.38% +20.00%
75th Percentile £409 £575 £615
90th Percentile £415 £585 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +17.24%

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,014 496 930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 95.57% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 328 561
10th Percentile £295 £256 £275
25th Percentile £406 £350 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £485
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -6.19% -7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £635 £638 £668
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £463 £463
% change year-on-year +3.78% - -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 25
10th Percentile £13.24 £19.61 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.25 £22.14 £12.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.82 £15.17
Median % change year-on-year -23.45% +63.61% -43.81%
75th Percentile £46.25 £55.29 £22.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £100.28 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £42.50 £21.24 £14.50
% change year-on-year +100.09% +46.48% -33.33%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Network Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Network Engineer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in West Yorkshire

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. 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
Leeds -26 9 £400 -17.95% 3
Bradford - 1 £413 - 4
Network Engineer
Yorkshire

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 15 April 2026, Network Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 4 (30.77%) FortiGate
2 4 (30.77%) GCP
2 4 (30.77%) Google
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) VPN
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco
3 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (23.08%) Structured Cabling
3 3 (23.08%) VLAN
4 2 (15.38%) Change Control
4 2 (15.38%) Git
4 2 (15.38%) Google Compute Engine
4 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
4 2 (15.38%) WAN
5 1 (7.69%) 802.1X

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) Google Compute Engine
3 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 4 (30.77%) VPN
3 3 (23.08%) Structured Cabling
3 3 (23.08%) VLAN
4 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
4 2 (15.38%) WAN
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
5 1 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (7.69%) FTP
5 1 (7.69%) IOS XR
5 1 (7.69%) MPLS
5 1 (7.69%) SNMP
5 1 (7.69%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (7.69%) SSH
5 1 (7.69%) TACACS
5 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 1 (7.69%) Banking
1 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (23.08%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (15.38%) Change Control
3 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
4 1 (7.69%) AI
4 1 (7.69%) Defect Management
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (7.69%) ITIL
4 1 (7.69%) Network Optimisation
4 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Test Planning
4 1 (7.69%) Test Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) FortiGate
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.69%) Aruba
3 1 (7.69%) Ciena
3 1 (7.69%) F5
3 1 (7.69%) HP
3 1 (7.69%) Meraki
3 1 (7.69%) Zscaler