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 20 June 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
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 121 127
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +107
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 209 271 457
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.14% 1.83% 1.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.28% 1.96% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 168 295
10th Percentile £325 £321 £330
25th Percentile £400 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +1.03% +7.78%
75th Percentile £532 £600 £538
90th Percentile £636 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.11% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 10
10th Percentile - £16.33 £18.50
25th Percentile - £18.50 £31.22
Median hourly rate - £20.74 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -73.41% +174.55%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £80.25
90th Percentile - £24.80 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -35.48% +47.62%

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 9,181 13,836 22,661
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 93.63% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,184 9,311 16,075
10th Percentile £325 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £637 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 569 532
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.13 £22.50 £24.74
Median hourly rate £34.83 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.71 £75.00 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.80% -16.67% +76.47%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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.

1 125 (59.81%) Cisco
2 122 (58.37%) Firewall
3 67 (32.06%) VPN
4 65 (31.10%) Cisco Certification
5 60 (28.71%) BGP
6 57 (27.27%) Security Cleared
7 53 (25.36%) WAN
8 50 (23.92%) Palo Alto
9 49 (23.44%) SC Cleared
10 48 (22.97%) Python
10 48 (22.97%) CCNP
11 47 (22.49%) Migration
12 46 (22.01%) Network Security
13 45 (21.53%) LAN
14 44 (21.05%) MPLS
15 42 (20.10%) OSPF
15 42 (20.10%) Ansible
16 40 (19.14%) Social Skills
17 37 (17.70%) Data Centre
18 34 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
18 34 (16.27%) DNS
19 31 (14.83%) CheckPoint
19 31 (14.83%) Finance
19 31 (14.83%) Wireless
20 30 (14.35%) Cisco Nexus
21 29 (13.88%) Network Monitoring
22 28 (13.40%) SolarWinds
22 28 (13.40%) F5
23 27 (12.92%) Cisco ASA
24 24 (11.48%) SD-WAN

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 8 (3.83%) Confluence
2 2 (0.96%) nginx
3 1 (0.48%) Apache
3 1 (0.48%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (5.74%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.48%) Azure
2 22 (10.53%) AWS
3 7 (3.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (1.44%) Akamai
4 3 (1.44%) GitHub
5 2 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (0.96%) Amazon S3
5 2 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (0.96%) Cloudflare
5 2 (0.96%) Route 53
5 2 (0.96%) Serverless
6 1 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.48%) Datadog
6 1 (0.48%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.48%) GCP
6 1 (0.48%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.48%) npm
6 1 (0.48%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.48%) OCI
6 1 (0.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 122 (58.37%) Firewall
2 67 (32.06%) VPN
3 60 (28.71%) BGP
4 53 (25.36%) WAN
5 46 (22.01%) Network Security
6 45 (21.53%) LAN
7 44 (21.05%) MPLS
8 42 (20.10%) OSPF
9 34 (16.27%) DNS
10 31 (14.83%) Wireless
11 30 (14.35%) Cisco Nexus
12 27 (12.92%) Cisco ASA
13 24 (11.48%) SD-WAN
14 20 (9.57%) Multicast
15 19 (9.09%) IPsec
16 18 (8.61%) Cisco Firepower
17 17 (8.13%) DHCP
18 16 (7.66%) TCP/IP
19 14 (6.70%) Cisco ISE
19 14 (6.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.96%) MariaDB
1 2 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (4.78%) JIRA
2 5 (2.39%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (1.44%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.48%) Git
5 1 (0.48%) GitLab
5 1 (0.48%) Postman
5 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (19.14%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.83%) Finance
3 22 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 20 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.74%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.87%) Law
7 5 (2.39%) Legal
7 5 (2.39%) Local Government
8 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.44%) Retail
10 2 (0.96%) Banking
10 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.83%) NETCONF
2 7 (3.35%) ADO
2 7 (3.35%) RESTCONF
3 5 (2.39%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.44%) RFC 2544
5 1 (0.48%) HTML
5 1 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.48%) REST
5 1 (0.48%) WF
5 1 (0.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.70%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.78%) PKI
3 7 (3.35%) Anti-Spyware
3 7 (3.35%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.39%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.39%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.91%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (0.96%) CMDB
7 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.96%) NHS
7 2 (0.96%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.48%) FMCG
8 1 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.48%) Life Science
8 1 (0.48%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.83%) Linux
2 3 (1.44%) Unix
3 2 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (0.96%) CentOS
3 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.96%) SUSE
3 2 (0.96%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (22.49%) Migration
2 34 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (13.88%) Network Monitoring
4 21 (10.05%) ITIL
4 21 (10.05%) Load Balancing
4 21 (10.05%) Validation
5 19 (9.09%) Change Management
6 17 (8.13%) Network Architecture
7 13 (6.22%) Agile
7 13 (6.22%) Network Design
7 13 (6.22%) Service Management
8 12 (5.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (5.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (5.74%) Network Virtualisation
9 11 (5.26%) Incident Management
10 10 (4.78%) DevOps
10 10 (4.78%) Kalman Filter
10 10 (4.78%) Network Management
11 9 (4.31%) Security Management
12 8 (3.83%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (22.97%) Python
2 5 (2.39%) Perl
3 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.96%) Bash
5 1 (0.48%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 65 (31.10%) Cisco Certification
2 57 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 49 (23.44%) SC Cleared
4 48 (22.97%) CCNP
5 19 (9.09%) CCIE
5 19 (9.09%) CCNA
6 16 (7.66%) Degree
7 10 (4.78%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.39%) CCIE Service Provider
10 4 (1.91%) CISSP
11 2 (0.96%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.96%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.48%) CCDP
12 1 (0.48%) CCIE Data Center
12 1 (0.48%) CISA
12 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.48%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.44%) QA
2 2 (0.96%) NIST
2 2 (0.96%) SLA
3 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.48%) NCSC
3 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (5.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.35%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.44%) Docker
3 3 (1.44%) Firmware
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (20.10%) Ansible
2 17 (8.13%) Terraform
3 13 (6.22%) FortiGate
4 9 (4.31%) ZABBIX
5 6 (2.87%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (2.39%) HP ALM
6 5 (2.39%) Nagios
7 3 (1.44%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.96%) CASB
8 2 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.96%) Kibana
8 2 (0.96%) Packer
8 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.96%) Puppet
8 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.48%) Argo
9 1 (0.48%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.48%) Cisco LMS
9 1 (0.48%) Cisco UCCE
9 1 (0.48%) Icinga
Vendors
1 125 (59.81%) Cisco
2 50 (23.92%) Palo Alto
3 31 (14.83%) CheckPoint
4 28 (13.40%) F5
4 28 (13.40%) SolarWinds
5 21 (10.05%) Fortinet
6 18 (8.61%) Arista
6 18 (8.61%) Juniper
7 16 (7.66%) Aruba
7 16 (7.66%) VMware
8 11 (5.26%) Infoblox
9 9 (4.31%) Zscaler
10 8 (3.83%) Atlassian
11 7 (3.35%) HP
11 7 (3.35%) Meraki
11 7 (3.35%) Microsoft
12 6 (2.87%) NetScout
12 6 (2.87%) Nokia
12 6 (2.87%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.39%) Progress