Network Consultant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Network Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Consultant daily rate in Work from Home is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 444 572
Rank change year-on-year +116 +128 -149
Contract jobs requiring a Network Consultant 18 28 51
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 34
10th Percentile £408 £450 £406
25th Percentile £556 £497 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £544 £506
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% +7.41% +9.46%
75th Percentile £638 £570 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £657
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,287 24,650 42,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.33% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,551 17,415 30,835
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 564 611
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £22.84 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Network Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Network Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Consultant trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Consultant.

Network Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Consultant over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Network Consultant daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Consultant.

Network Consultant hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Network Consultant 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Network Consultant in the job title.

1 13 (72.22%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (66.67%) Cisco
2 12 (66.67%) CCIE
3 9 (50.00%) CCNP
3 9 (50.00%) Firewall
3 9 (50.00%) VMware
3 9 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 9 (50.00%) VMware NSX
4 8 (44.44%) Network Virtualisation
4 8 (44.44%) Network Design
5 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (38.89%) Cisco ASA
5 7 (38.89%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (22.22%) Wireless
7 3 (16.67%) WAN
7 3 (16.67%) MPLS
7 3 (16.67%) Fortinet
7 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
8 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
8 2 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
8 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
8 2 (11.11%) Network Security
8 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
8 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
8 2 (11.11%) FortiGate
8 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (11.11%) Presales
8 2 (11.11%) Meraki
8 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint

Network Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (50.00%) Firewall
2 7 (38.89%) Cisco ASA
2 7 (38.89%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (22.22%) Wireless
4 3 (16.67%) MPLS
4 3 (16.67%) WAN
5 2 (11.11%) Network Security
5 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
5 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.56%) BGP
6 1 (5.56%) Broadband
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (5.56%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (5.56%) GPON
6 1 (5.56%) IGMP
6 1 (5.56%) LAN
6 1 (5.56%) NGFW
6 1 (5.56%) VLAN
6 1 (5.56%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) IPTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Network Design
1 8 (44.44%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
2 2 (11.11%) Presales
2 2 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (5.56%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (5.56%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (5.56%) Load Balancing
3 1 (5.56%) Migration
3 1 (5.56%) Network Management
3 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
3 1 (5.56%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (66.67%) CCIE
3 9 (50.00%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 1 (5.56%) CCIE Service Provider
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Cisco
2 9 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 9 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 2 (11.11%) Meraki
5 1 (5.56%) Arista
5 1 (5.56%) Aruba
5 1 (5.56%) F5
5 1 (5.56%) HP
5 1 (5.56%) Zscaler