Network Engineer Contracts in London

Network Engineer
England > London

The median Network Engineer daily rate in London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 240 278
Rank change year-on-year +100 +38 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 324 298 374
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.82% 1.11% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 1.16% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 201 243
10th Percentile £313 £350 £313
25th Percentile £375 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +21.21%
75th Percentile £552 £625 £575
90th Percentile £663 £675 £725
England median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 8
10th Percentile £24.05 - £22.58
25th Percentile £32.00 £30.38 £26.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £70.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +150.00% -54.29%
75th Percentile £41.25 - £42.10
90th Percentile £47.00 - £46.89
England median hourly rate £40.00 £62.62 £28.41
% change year-on-year -36.12% +120.40% -28.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,599 25,655 37,115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 95.29% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,582 27,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £677
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 289 450
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +22 24 £503 +3.08% 16
East London - 8 £360 -
West London +12 5 £375 -37.50% 8
North London +2 1 £550 - 1
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, 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 London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 184 (56.79%) Cisco
2 169 (52.16%) Firewall
3 117 (36.11%) Cisco Certification
4 92 (28.40%) CCNP
4 92 (28.40%) BGP
5 74 (22.84%) Palo Alto
6 73 (22.53%) WAN
7 71 (21.91%) Network Security
8 70 (21.60%) Data Centre
9 68 (20.99%) OSPF
10 64 (19.75%) VPN
11 62 (19.14%) F5
12 61 (18.83%) LAN
12 61 (18.83%) MPLS
13 59 (18.21%) Social Skills
14 56 (17.28%) Security Cleared
15 53 (16.36%) Python
16 51 (15.74%) Finance
17 48 (14.81%) Wireless
18 47 (14.51%) Fortinet
19 44 (13.58%) CCNA
20 42 (12.96%) Network Design
21 39 (12.04%) Juniper
21 39 (12.04%) DNS
21 39 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
22 37 (11.42%) CheckPoint
22 37 (11.42%) Cisco Nexus
23 35 (10.80%) CCIE
24 34 (10.49%) IPsec
25 33 (10.19%) Azure

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.62%) nginx
2 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.31%) Confluence
3 1 (0.31%) IIS
3 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.47%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.31%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 33 (10.19%) Azure
2 32 (9.88%) AWS
3 9 (2.78%) GCP
4 8 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (1.54%) Akamai
5 5 (1.54%) OCI
5 5 (1.54%) WhatsApp
6 4 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.62%) GitHub
7 2 (0.62%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.31%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.31%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.31%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.31%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.31%) SaaS
8 1 (0.31%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 169 (52.16%) Firewall
2 92 (28.40%) BGP
3 73 (22.53%) WAN
4 71 (21.91%) Network Security
5 68 (20.99%) OSPF
6 64 (19.75%) VPN
7 61 (18.83%) LAN
7 61 (18.83%) MPLS
8 48 (14.81%) Wireless
9 39 (12.04%) DNS
10 37 (11.42%) Cisco Nexus
11 34 (10.49%) IPsec
12 31 (9.57%) Cisco ASA
13 30 (9.26%) SD-WAN
14 26 (8.02%) EIGRP
15 25 (7.72%) TCP/IP
16 23 (7.10%) Internet
17 22 (6.79%) DHCP
18 21 (6.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 21 (6.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.93%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (0.31%) QGIS
2 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (5.56%) Git
2 10 (3.09%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.62%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.31%) JIRA
4 1 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 59 (18.21%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.74%) Finance
3 30 (9.26%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.72%) Banking
5 22 (6.79%) Telecoms
6 18 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.47%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.47%) Marketing
8 5 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.93%) Legal
9 3 (0.93%) Military
9 3 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Retail
11 1 (0.31%) Advertising
11 1 (0.31%) Aviation
11 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.25%) NETCONF
2 16 (4.94%) JSON
3 15 (4.63%) XML
3 15 (4.63%) YANG
4 9 (2.78%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.62%) .NET
5 2 (0.62%) HTML
5 2 (0.62%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.31%) gRPC
6 1 (0.31%) LAMP
6 1 (0.31%) LDAP
6 1 (0.31%) React
6 1 (0.31%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.31%) XMPP
6 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (21.60%) Data Centre
2 8 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (2.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (1.85%) PKI
4 6 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.54%) Clustering
5 5 (1.54%) Social Media
6 4 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.23%) NHS
7 3 (0.93%) Device Driver
7 3 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.93%) Hedge funds
7 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.62%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.62%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.62%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.62%) Replication
9 1 (0.31%) CMDB
9 1 (0.31%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.56%) Linux
2 15 (4.63%) Windows
3 9 (2.78%) Unix
3 9 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.31%) CentOS
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) VMS
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (12.96%) Network Design
2 39 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (9.88%) Roadmaps
4 29 (8.95%) Load Balancing
5 23 (7.10%) DevOps
5 23 (7.10%) Migration
6 22 (6.79%) Change Management
7 20 (6.17%) Service Delivery
8 18 (5.56%) Computer Science
8 18 (5.56%) Configuration Management
9 17 (5.25%) High Availability
10 16 (4.94%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 14 (4.32%) Low Latency
11 14 (4.32%) Network Architecture
11 14 (4.32%) Network Monitoring
12 13 (4.01%) Agile
12 13 (4.01%) Business Strategy
12 13 (4.01%) Customer Service
12 13 (4.01%) ITIL
13 10 (3.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 53 (16.36%) Python
2 8 (2.47%) Bash
3 7 (2.16%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.16%) SQL
4 5 (1.54%) Perl
5 4 (1.23%) C#
6 3 (0.93%) C
6 3 (0.93%) C++
6 3 (0.93%) Go
7 2 (0.62%) Java
7 2 (0.62%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.62%) Ruby
8 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 117 (36.11%) Cisco Certification
2 92 (28.40%) CCNP
3 56 (17.28%) Security Cleared
4 44 (13.58%) CCNA
5 35 (10.80%) CCIE
6 32 (9.88%) DV Cleared
7 26 (8.02%) SC Cleared
8 22 (6.79%) Degree
9 13 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (2.47%) JNCIA
11 7 (2.16%) AWS Certification
11 7 (2.16%) CCDP
12 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.54%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.54%) CISSP
13 3 (0.93%) JNCIP
14 2 (0.62%) BC Cleared
14 2 (0.62%) CEH
14 2 (0.62%) JNCIE
14 2 (0.62%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.01%) SLA
2 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 8 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.85%) Firmware
2 6 (1.85%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.54%) vSphere
4 4 (1.23%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.93%) KVM
6 2 (0.62%) Docker
6 2 (0.62%) Squid
7 1 (0.31%) PowerDNS
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 25 (7.72%) Ansible
2 23 (7.10%) FortiGate
3 11 (3.40%) Terraform
4 5 (1.54%) SolarWinds Orion
5 3 (0.93%) Kibana
5 3 (0.93%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.93%) Stealthwatch
6 2 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (0.62%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.62%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (0.62%) Nmap
6 2 (0.62%) OpenNMS
6 2 (0.62%) Puppet
6 2 (0.62%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.31%) CASB
7 1 (0.31%) Grafana
7 1 (0.31%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) SCCM
7 1 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 184 (56.79%) Cisco
2 74 (22.84%) Palo Alto
3 62 (19.14%) F5
4 47 (14.51%) Fortinet
5 39 (12.04%) Juniper
6 37 (11.42%) CheckPoint
7 29 (8.95%) Nokia
8 25 (7.72%) Arista
9 23 (7.10%) Microsoft
10 22 (6.79%) Infoblox
11 20 (6.17%) SolarWinds
12 18 (5.56%) Aruba
13 16 (4.94%) VMware
14 10 (3.09%) Meraki
15 9 (2.78%) Zscaler
16 7 (2.16%) Blue Coat
17 6 (1.85%) Google
17 6 (1.85%) Splunk
18 5 (1.54%) Avaya
18 5 (1.54%) Huawei