Network Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Network Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £475, 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 135 131 134
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +112
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 189 253 467
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.91% 1.65% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.76% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 140 298
10th Percentile £352 £275 £350
25th Percentile £400 £335 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £575 £603 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £17.41 £29.90
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.18 £51.37
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -69.43% +176.31%
75th Percentile £19.50 £24.94 £80.25
90th Percentile - £38.10 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £63.23
% change year-on-year +43.75% -36.74% +85.97%

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 Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Network Engineer
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 Engineer.

Network Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Network Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Network Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
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 Engineer.

Network Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Network 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 119 (62.96%) Firewall
2 118 (62.43%) Cisco
3 68 (35.98%) VPN
4 61 (32.28%) Cisco Certification
5 53 (28.04%) BGP
6 52 (27.51%) WAN
7 50 (26.46%) Palo Alto
8 47 (24.87%) Network Security
9 46 (24.34%) Security Cleared
10 44 (23.28%) CCNP
10 44 (23.28%) OSPF
10 44 (23.28%) Migration
11 41 (21.69%) MPLS
12 39 (20.63%) SC Cleared
13 38 (20.11%) LAN
14 36 (19.05%) Python
14 36 (19.05%) Wireless
15 33 (17.46%) CheckPoint
16 32 (16.93%) Data Centre
17 31 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (16.40%) DNS
17 31 (16.40%) Cisco Nexus
18 30 (15.87%) Azure
18 30 (15.87%) Finance
19 29 (15.34%) F5
19 29 (15.34%) Network Monitoring
20 28 (14.81%) Ansible
21 27 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
22 26 (13.76%) Social Skills
23 25 (13.23%) SolarWinds

Network Engineer 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 1 (0.53%) Apache
1 1 (0.53%) Confluence
1 1 (0.53%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.87%) Azure
2 14 (7.41%) AWS
3 10 (5.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (2.12%) Cloudflare
5 3 (1.59%) GitHub
6 2 (1.06%) Akamai
6 2 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.06%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.53%) Datadog
7 1 (0.53%) GCP
7 1 (0.53%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.53%) npm
7 1 (0.53%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.53%) OCI
7 1 (0.53%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 119 (62.96%) Firewall
2 68 (35.98%) VPN
3 53 (28.04%) BGP
4 52 (27.51%) WAN
5 47 (24.87%) Network Security
6 44 (23.28%) OSPF
7 41 (21.69%) MPLS
8 38 (20.11%) LAN
9 36 (19.05%) Wireless
10 31 (16.40%) Cisco Nexus
10 31 (16.40%) DNS
11 27 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
12 21 (11.11%) SD-WAN
13 19 (10.05%) Cisco Firepower
13 19 (10.05%) TCP/IP
14 18 (9.52%) Multicast
14 18 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (8.99%) DHCP
16 16 (8.47%) IPsec
17 12 (6.35%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.06%) MariaDB
1 2 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.53%) Git
2 1 (0.53%) GitLab
2 1 (0.53%) JIRA
2 1 (0.53%) Postman
2 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (15.87%) Finance
2 26 (13.76%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.47%) Telecoms
4 15 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.12%) Banking
7 4 (2.12%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.12%) Law
7 4 (2.12%) Legal
8 3 (1.59%) Retail
9 2 (1.06%) Back Office
9 2 (1.06%) Local Government
10 1 (0.53%) Advertising
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.53%) Military
10 1 (0.53%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.70%) ADO
2 5 (2.65%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.53%) HTML
3 1 (0.53%) NETCONF
3 1 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.53%) REST
3 1 (0.53%) WF
3 1 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.93%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.70%) Anti-Spyware
3 6 (3.17%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.59%) PKI
4 3 (1.59%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.06%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.06%) NHS
5 2 (1.06%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.53%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.53%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.53%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.53%) FMCG
6 1 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.53%) IoT
6 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.82%) Linux
2 6 (3.17%) Unix
3 3 (1.59%) Windows
4 2 (1.06%) CentOS
4 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.06%) SUSE
4 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (23.28%) Migration
2 31 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (15.34%) Network Monitoring
4 21 (11.11%) Change Management
5 19 (10.05%) Load Balancing
6 17 (8.99%) ITIL
7 16 (8.47%) Network Architecture
8 14 (7.41%) Agile
9 13 (6.88%) Network Design
10 12 (6.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (5.82%) Validation
12 10 (5.29%) Network Management
13 8 (4.23%) High Availability
13 8 (4.23%) Incident Management
13 8 (4.23%) Kalman Filter
13 8 (4.23%) Project Delivery
13 8 (4.23%) Security Management
13 8 (4.23%) Zero Trust
14 7 (3.70%) Configuration Management
14 7 (3.70%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 36 (19.05%) Python
2 8 (4.23%) Perl
3 2 (1.06%) Bash
3 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.53%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 61 (32.28%) Cisco Certification
2 46 (24.34%) Security Cleared
3 44 (23.28%) CCNP
4 39 (20.63%) SC Cleared
5 23 (12.17%) CCNA
6 22 (11.64%) CCIE
7 11 (5.82%) Degree
8 9 (4.76%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.65%) CCIE Service Provider
11 4 (2.12%) CISSP
12 2 (1.06%) CCDP
12 2 (1.06%) JNCIA
12 2 (1.06%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.53%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.53%) CCIP
13 1 (0.53%) CCSA
13 1 (0.53%) CISA
13 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.12%) NIST
2 2 (1.06%) QA
2 2 (1.06%) SLA
3 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.12%) Firmware
1 4 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.59%) Docker
3 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.06%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (14.81%) Ansible
2 14 (7.41%) Terraform
3 9 (4.76%) FortiGate
3 9 (4.76%) ZABBIX
4 6 (3.17%) Cisco Prime
5 4 (2.12%) Nagios
6 2 (1.06%) CASB
6 2 (1.06%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.06%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.06%) Puppet
6 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.53%) Argo
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco UCCE
7 1 (0.53%) Icinga
7 1 (0.53%) Observium
Vendors
1 118 (62.43%) Cisco
2 50 (26.46%) Palo Alto
3 33 (17.46%) CheckPoint
4 29 (15.34%) F5
5 25 (13.23%) SolarWinds
6 23 (12.17%) Fortinet
7 18 (9.52%) Juniper
8 16 (8.47%) Aruba
9 14 (7.41%) Infoblox
10 12 (6.35%) Arista
11 11 (5.82%) Meraki
12 9 (4.76%) Zscaler
13 7 (3.70%) Microsoft
13 7 (3.70%) VMware
14 6 (3.17%) Nokia
15 5 (2.65%) Citrix
15 5 (2.65%) NetScout
16 4 (2.12%) Blue Coat
17 3 (1.59%) BMC
17 3 (1.59%) Splunk