Network Consultant Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Network Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Consultant daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, 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 289 327 449
Rank change year-on-year +38 +122 +132
Contract jobs requiring a Network Consultant 15 18 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 16
10th Percentile - £408 £450
25th Percentile - £556 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £544
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.94% +7.41%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £570
90th Percentile £553 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Network Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Network Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Consultant trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Network Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Network Consultant.

Network Consultant daily rate 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 remote working options 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 1 May 2025, 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 10 (66.67%) Cisco
2 9 (60.00%) BGP
3 7 (46.67%) Firewall
3 7 (46.67%) VPN
4 6 (40.00%) MPLS
5 5 (33.33%) WAN
5 5 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (33.33%) Fortinet
5 5 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (33.33%) VXLAN
6 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
6 4 (26.67%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (26.67%) Network Design
6 4 (26.67%) CCNP
6 4 (26.67%) OSPF
7 3 (20.00%) Wireless
7 3 (20.00%) Migration
7 3 (20.00%) CCIE
7 3 (20.00%) Python
7 3 (20.00%) LAN
7 3 (20.00%) FortiGate
7 3 (20.00%) Azure
7 3 (20.00%) AWS
7 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (20.00%) Palo Alto
7 3 (20.00%) Terraform
7 3 (20.00%) Multicast
7 3 (20.00%) Ansible
8 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) BGP
2 7 (46.67%) Firewall
2 7 (46.67%) VPN
3 6 (40.00%) MPLS
4 5 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (33.33%) VXLAN
4 5 (33.33%) WAN
5 4 (26.67%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (26.67%) OSPF
6 3 (20.00%) LAN
6 3 (20.00%) Multicast
6 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
6 3 (20.00%) Wireless
7 2 (13.33%) Ethernet
7 2 (13.33%) Network Security
7 2 (13.33%) NX-OS
7 2 (13.33%) SSL
7 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
7 2 (13.33%) Unified Communications
7 2 (13.33%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Network Design
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Information Management
3 2 (13.33%) Information Security
3 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
4 1 (6.67%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (6.67%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (6.67%) Fault Management
4 1 (6.67%) High Availability
4 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (6.67%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (6.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (26.67%) CCNP
3 3 (20.00%) CCIE
4 2 (13.33%) CCIE Data Center
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) CCIE Wireless
5 1 (6.67%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (13.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
1 3 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 3 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (13.33%) F5
4 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (13.33%) VMware
5 1 (6.67%) Nokia