Network Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Network Engineer
England > North of England

The median Network Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £433 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 68 88 128
Rank change year-on-year +20 +40 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 133 142 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.86% 2.54% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.07% 2.66% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 97 78
10th Percentile £290 £216 £230
25th Percentile £350 £288 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £375 £414
Median % change year-on-year +15.33% -9.37% +27.31%
75th Percentile £515 £486 £500
90th Percentile £538 £527 £558
England median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £46.00 - £21.56
25th Percentile £71.25 - £27.44
Median hourly rate £72.50 - £39.73
75th Percentile £73.75 - £56.10
90th Percentile - - £64.44
England median hourly rate £40.00 £62.62 £28.46
% change year-on-year -36.12% +120.05% -9.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,330 5,332 6,905
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.44% 96.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,711 3,750 5,067
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £389 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £556
90th Percentile £675 £680 £640
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 155 290
10th Percentile £11.06 £14.10 £11.19
25th Percentile £12.53 £17.99 £14.40
Median hourly rate £20.77 £30.54 £19.35
Median % change year-on-year -31.99% +57.81% +8.11%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.45 £34.89
90th Percentile £62.75 £66.41 £58.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the North of England

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in the North of England

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in the North of England

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in the North of England

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Network Engineer in the North of England

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of 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
North West +13 100 £433 +11.79% 27
Yorkshire +2 21 £205 -45.33% 15
North East +21 12 £400 -7.51% 4
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 16 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 North of England region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (60.90%) Cisco
2 53 (39.85%) Cisco Certification
3 43 (32.33%) CCNP
3 43 (32.33%) CCNA
4 42 (31.58%) Firewall
5 38 (28.57%) Security Cleared
6 37 (27.82%) SC Cleared
6 37 (27.82%) Wireless
7 32 (24.06%) Palo Alto
8 31 (23.31%) OSPF
9 30 (22.56%) WAN
9 30 (22.56%) Cisco Nexus
10 26 (19.55%) SD-WAN
10 26 (19.55%) ITSM
10 26 (19.55%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (18.80%) Finance
11 25 (18.80%) Data Centre
12 23 (17.29%) Social Skills
12 23 (17.29%) LAN
13 22 (16.54%) BGP
13 22 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (15.79%) Change Management
14 21 (15.79%) Juniper
14 21 (15.79%) VPN
15 20 (15.04%) SolarWinds
16 19 (14.29%) Citrix
17 18 (13.53%) DMZ
17 18 (13.53%) Cisco ASA
17 18 (13.53%) F5
17 18 (13.53%) Network Management

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.78%) AWS
1 17 (12.78%) Azure
2 8 (6.02%) GCP
3 3 (2.26%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (1.50%) SaaS
5 1 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.75%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 42 (31.58%) Firewall
2 37 (27.82%) Wireless
3 31 (23.31%) OSPF
4 30 (22.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 30 (22.56%) WAN
5 26 (19.55%) SD-WAN
5 26 (19.55%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (17.29%) LAN
7 22 (16.54%) BGP
8 21 (15.79%) VPN
9 18 (13.53%) Cisco ASA
9 18 (13.53%) DMZ
10 17 (12.78%) EIGRP
11 15 (11.28%) Cisco ISE
11 15 (11.28%) NetScaler
12 14 (10.53%) IPsec
13 13 (9.77%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (9.77%) Cisco IOS
13 13 (9.77%) HSRP
14 12 (9.02%) Spanning Tree
Development Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.75%) JIRA
General
1 25 (18.80%) Finance
2 23 (17.29%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.77%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.76%) Banking
5 5 (3.76%) Legal
6 4 (3.01%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.50%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.50%) Law
7 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.75%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.75%) Police
8 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.02%) Jinja
2 2 (1.50%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.80%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.26%) Driving Licence
3 4 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.50%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.75%) CCTV
5 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.02%) Linux
2 7 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (0.75%) CentOS
3 1 (0.75%) Debian
3 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (19.55%) ITSM
2 22 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (15.79%) Change Management
4 18 (13.53%) Network Management
5 16 (12.03%) ITIL
6 13 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (9.02%) DevOps
7 12 (9.02%) Network Monitoring
8 8 (6.02%) Network Design
9 7 (5.26%) Customer Service
9 7 (5.26%) High Availability
9 7 (5.26%) Migration
10 6 (4.51%) Break/Fix
10 6 (4.51%) Computer Science
11 5 (3.76%) Load Balancing
12 4 (3.01%) Incident Response
12 4 (3.01%) Infrastructure Transformation
12 4 (3.01%) Network Virtualisation
13 3 (2.26%) Network Architecture
13 3 (2.26%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.78%) Python
2 12 (9.02%) Perl
2 12 (9.02%) Tcl
3 1 (0.75%) ActionScript
3 1 (0.75%) Java
3 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 53 (39.85%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (32.33%) CCNA
2 43 (32.33%) CCNP
3 38 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 37 (27.82%) SC Cleared
5 9 (6.77%) CCIE
6 5 (3.76%) Degree
6 5 (3.76%) JNCIA
7 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.01%) JNCIS
7 4 (3.01%) VCAP
8 2 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.50%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.50%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.75%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.76%) SLA
2 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (12.03%) Firmware
2 7 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 7 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (12.78%) Ansible
2 4 (3.01%) Terraform
3 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 81 (60.90%) Cisco
2 32 (24.06%) Palo Alto
3 21 (15.79%) Juniper
4 20 (15.04%) SolarWinds
5 19 (14.29%) Citrix
6 18 (13.53%) F5
7 16 (12.03%) Meraki
8 14 (10.53%) Aruba
9 8 (6.02%) Brocade
9 8 (6.02%) VMware
10 6 (4.51%) 3Com
11 5 (3.76%) Fortinet
11 5 (3.76%) LogicMonitor
11 5 (3.76%) Zscaler
12 3 (2.26%) CheckPoint
12 3 (2.26%) Google
12 3 (2.26%) Microsoft
13 2 (1.50%) HP
13 2 (1.50%) Tufin
14 1 (0.75%) WatchGuard