Senior Network Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in England is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 535 641
Rank change year-on-year +133 +106 -75
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 135 116 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.25% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 65 81
10th Percentile £336 £409 £313
25th Percentile £500 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £550
90th Percentile £700 £629 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £485
% change year-on-year +2.50% +3.00% +7.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £43.92 - -
25th Percentile £61.81 - £49.25
Median hourly rate £73.50 £66.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +30.69% +1.00%
75th Percentile £75.68 - £51.75
90th Percentile £76.47 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.50 £66.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% +30.69% +1.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in England

Senior Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +127 63 £525 -4.55% 15
South East +33 49 £513 +7.89% 5
North of England +24 18 £514 +14.17% 10
North West +21 17 £514 +14.17% 6
Midlands +24 2 £550 -10.20% 8
East of England -2 2 - - 1
West Midlands +22 1 - - 4
Yorkshire +10 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 4
Senior Network Engineer
UK

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 job ads across the England region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 90 (66.67%) Cisco
2 65 (48.15%) Firewall
3 61 (45.19%) Cisco Certification
4 36 (26.67%) Security Cleared
5 34 (25.19%) CheckPoint
6 32 (23.70%) Banking
7 31 (22.96%) CCNP
8 30 (22.22%) Migration
9 28 (20.74%) Finance
9 28 (20.74%) DMZ
9 28 (20.74%) WAN
9 28 (20.74%) LAN
10 27 (20.00%) Palo Alto
10 27 (20.00%) Arista
11 25 (18.52%) B2B
12 23 (17.04%) CCNA
12 23 (17.04%) Network Security
13 21 (15.56%) BGP
14 19 (14.07%) OSPF
15 18 (13.33%) IPsec
15 18 (13.33%) Change Management
15 18 (13.33%) SolarWinds
15 18 (13.33%) Public Sector
16 17 (12.59%) DV Cleared
17 16 (11.85%) Cisco ASA
17 16 (11.85%) Data Centre
17 16 (11.85%) Wireless
17 16 (11.85%) EIGRP
18 15 (11.11%) Juniper
19 14 (10.37%) HSRP

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.48%) nginx
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.37%) AWS
2 8 (5.93%) Azure
3 5 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (3.70%) OCI
4 3 (2.22%) GCP
5 2 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.74%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.74%) GitHub
6 1 (0.74%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (48.15%) Firewall
2 28 (20.74%) DMZ
2 28 (20.74%) LAN
2 28 (20.74%) WAN
3 23 (17.04%) Network Security
4 21 (15.56%) BGP
5 19 (14.07%) OSPF
6 18 (13.33%) IPsec
7 16 (11.85%) Cisco ASA
7 16 (11.85%) EIGRP
7 16 (11.85%) Wireless
8 14 (10.37%) HSRP
9 13 (9.63%) DNS
10 11 (8.15%) Cisco Firepower
10 11 (8.15%) Cisco ISE
10 11 (8.15%) Cisco Nexus
10 11 (8.15%) VPN
10 11 (8.15%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (6.67%) DHCP
11 9 (6.67%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.22%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.74%) JIRA
General
1 32 (23.70%) Banking
2 28 (20.74%) Finance
3 18 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.15%) Social Skills
5 7 (5.19%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.96%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.22%) Legal
7 3 (2.22%) Military
8 2 (1.48%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.93%) Jinja
2 5 (3.70%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.74%) HTML
3 1 (0.74%) JSON
3 1 (0.74%) Web Services
3 1 (0.74%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.85%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.96%) PKI
3 1 (0.74%) CMDB
3 1 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.74%) Hedge funds
3 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (0.74%) Life Science
3 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.74%) NHS
3 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.96%) Linux
2 3 (2.22%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (22.22%) Migration
2 25 (18.52%) B2B
3 18 (13.33%) Change Management
4 14 (10.37%) Network Management
5 13 (9.63%) Service Delivery
6 12 (8.89%) DevOps
7 11 (8.15%) ITIL
7 11 (8.15%) Network Design
7 11 (8.15%) Roadmaps
8 9 (6.67%) ITSM
9 8 (5.93%) Availability Management
9 8 (5.93%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (5.19%) Computer Science
10 7 (5.19%) Line Management
10 7 (5.19%) Low Latency
11 6 (4.44%) Impact Analysis
11 6 (4.44%) Load Balancing
11 6 (4.44%) Network Architecture
12 4 (2.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 4 (2.96%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.37%) Python
2 8 (5.93%) Perl
2 8 (5.93%) Tcl
3 1 (0.74%) C#
3 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (45.19%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (26.67%) Security Cleared
3 31 (22.96%) CCNP
4 23 (17.04%) CCNA
5 17 (12.59%) DV Cleared
6 14 (10.37%) SC Cleared
7 6 (4.44%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.44%) CCIE
8 5 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.70%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.96%) Degree
10 1 (0.74%) CCDP
10 1 (0.74%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (0.74%) CISSP
10 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (7.41%) Firmware
2 2 (1.48%) Squid
3 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (6.67%) Ansible
2 8 (5.93%) Terraform
3 6 (4.44%) FortiGate
3 6 (4.44%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (1.48%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.74%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.74%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.74%) Netcool
5 1 (0.74%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 90 (66.67%) Cisco
2 34 (25.19%) CheckPoint
3 27 (20.00%) Arista
3 27 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 18 (13.33%) SolarWinds
5 15 (11.11%) Juniper
6 10 (7.41%) F5
7 9 (6.67%) Citrix
7 9 (6.67%) Microsoft
8 8 (5.93%) Fortinet
9 7 (5.19%) Google
10 6 (4.44%) Infoblox
11 2 (1.48%) Blue Coat
11 2 (1.48%) Dell
11 2 (1.48%) Forcepoint
11 2 (1.48%) HP
11 2 (1.48%) Meraki
12 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.74%) IBM
12 1 (0.74%) Splunk