Network Support Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Network Support Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Network Support Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £320 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 135 174
Rank change year-on-year +38 +39 -57
Contract jobs requiring a Network Support Engineer 14 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.73% 0.41% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.44% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £236 - £223
25th Percentile £290 £285 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £290 £275
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +5.45% +13.40%
75th Percentile - £295 £313
90th Percentile - - £328
England median daily rate £298 £350 £350
% change year-on-year -14.86% - +0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate - £17.15 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,753 2,296 3,525
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 94.45% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,586 2,593
10th Percentile £258 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £390 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 69 85
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.10
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +9.95% +4.73%
75th Percentile £41.44 £26.38 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £53.50 £23.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%

Network Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Support Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Network Support Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Support Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Support 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 Support Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Solihull -8 10 - -
Birmingham +7 2 £200 -
Shropshire - 2 £320 -
Wolverhampton - 1 £320 -
Network Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Network Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (57.14%) WAN
2 7 (50.00%) Juniper
3 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
4 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
4 5 (35.71%) MPLS
4 5 (35.71%) BGP
4 5 (35.71%) Cisco
4 5 (35.71%) CCNA
4 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (35.71%) PKI
4 5 (35.71%) IPsec
5 4 (28.57%) LAN
5 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
6 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
6 3 (21.43%) Aruba
6 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
6 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
6 3 (21.43%) DNS
6 3 (21.43%) MS Visio
6 3 (21.43%) DHCP
6 3 (21.43%) Ethernet
6 3 (21.43%) OpenView
6 3 (21.43%) HP
6 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
6 3 (21.43%) Legal
6 3 (21.43%) Ethereal
6 3 (21.43%) Degree
6 3 (21.43%) Wireshark
6 3 (21.43%) Wireless

Network Support 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:

Applications
1 3 (21.43%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) WAN
2 5 (35.71%) BGP
2 5 (35.71%) IPsec
2 5 (35.71%) MPLS
3 4 (28.57%) LAN
4 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (21.43%) DHCP
4 3 (21.43%) DNS
4 3 (21.43%) Ethereal
4 3 (21.43%) Ethernet
4 3 (21.43%) Wireless
4 3 (21.43%) Wireshark
5 1 (7.14%) Firewall
5 1 (7.14%) Junos
5 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
5 1 (7.14%) VPN
General
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Legal
3 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) PKI
2 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
1 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (7.14%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) CCNA
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) OpenView
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Juniper
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco
3 3 (21.43%) Aruba
3 3 (21.43%) HP