Senior Network Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Network Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 403 532
Rank change year-on-year +86 +129 -105
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 37 77 80
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.30% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.31% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 46 49
10th Percentile £380 £413 £359
25th Percentile £491 £464 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £494 £488
Median % change year-on-year +18.99% +1.28% +8.33%
75th Percentile £601 £563 £538
90th Percentile £650 £619 £550
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.50 £66.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% +30.69% -17.55%

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 14,427 24,808 42,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.30% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,637 17,506 30,709
10th Percentile £325 £358 £355
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £745 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 577 607
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.31 £12.85
25th Percentile £22.58 £26.25 £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 £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Senior Network Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Network Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Network Engineer
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 Senior Network Engineer.

Senior Network Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Network Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Senior Network Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Network Engineer
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 Senior Network Engineer.

Senior Network Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (62.16%) Firewall
2 16 (43.24%) Cisco
3 11 (29.73%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (29.73%) BGP
4 10 (27.03%) OSPF
4 10 (27.03%) Network Design
4 10 (27.03%) Palo Alto
5 9 (24.32%) WAN
5 9 (24.32%) Network Security
5 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
5 9 (24.32%) InfiniBand
6 8 (21.62%) Fortinet
6 8 (21.62%) CCNP
6 8 (21.62%) Manufacturing
6 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
7 7 (18.92%) Low Latency
8 6 (16.22%) DV Cleared
8 6 (16.22%) IPsec
8 6 (16.22%) MPLS
8 6 (16.22%) VPN
8 6 (16.22%) EIGRP
8 6 (16.22%) Network Optimisation
9 5 (13.51%) Knowledge Transfer
9 5 (13.51%) LAN
9 5 (13.51%) Python
9 5 (13.51%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (13.51%) SolarWinds
9 5 (13.51%) AWS
10 4 (10.81%) Azure
10 4 (10.81%) HSRP

Senior 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 2 (5.41%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) AWS
1 5 (13.51%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (10.81%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.70%) Cloudflare
4 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 23 (62.16%) Firewall
2 11 (29.73%) BGP
3 10 (27.03%) OSPF
4 9 (24.32%) InfiniBand
4 9 (24.32%) Network Security
4 9 (24.32%) WAN
5 6 (16.22%) EIGRP
5 6 (16.22%) IPsec
5 6 (16.22%) MPLS
5 6 (16.22%) VPN
6 5 (13.51%) LAN
7 4 (10.81%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (10.81%) HSRP
8 3 (8.11%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (8.11%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (8.11%) NetScaler
8 3 (8.11%) SD-WAN
8 3 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (8.11%) Wireless
9 2 (5.41%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) NonStop SQL
General
1 8 (21.62%) Manufacturing
1 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.81%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.70%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Jinja
2 1 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
1 3 (8.11%) PKI
2 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Network Design
2 7 (18.92%) Low Latency
3 6 (16.22%) Network Optimisation
4 5 (13.51%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (10.81%) Change Management
5 4 (10.81%) DevOps
5 4 (10.81%) ITIL
5 4 (10.81%) Migration
5 4 (10.81%) Network Architecture
6 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (8.11%) ITSM
6 3 (8.11%) Network Management
6 3 (8.11%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (8.11%) Zero Trust
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Security
7 2 (5.41%) Cryptography
7 2 (5.41%) Fintech
7 2 (5.41%) GitOps
7 2 (5.41%) Network Load Balancing
7 2 (5.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) Perl
2 2 (5.41%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
3 8 (21.62%) CCNP
4 6 (16.22%) DV Cleared
5 4 (10.81%) CCIE
5 4 (10.81%) CCNA
6 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
7 2 (5.41%) JNCIS
8 1 (2.70%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Degree
8 1 (2.70%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Firmware
2 2 (5.41%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Ansible
1 4 (10.81%) FortiGate
2 2 (5.41%) HAProxy
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Cisco
2 10 (27.03%) Palo Alto
3 8 (21.62%) Fortinet
4 5 (13.51%) SolarWinds
5 4 (10.81%) Citrix
5 4 (10.81%) F5
5 4 (10.81%) Juniper
6 2 (5.41%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.70%) Arista
7 1 (2.70%) Aruba
7 1 (2.70%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (2.70%) Dell
7 1 (2.70%) Forcepoint
7 1 (2.70%) HP
7 1 (2.70%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.70%) Siemens
7 1 (2.70%) WatchGuard
7 1 (2.70%) Zscaler