Network Support Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Support Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £275 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 409 477
Rank change year-on-year +51 +68 -77
Contract jobs requiring a Network Support Engineer 32 34 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.15% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.15% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 13
10th Percentile £193 £216 £167
25th Percentile £200 £334 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -6.67% -10.29%
75th Percentile £318 £502 £488
90th Percentile £320 £545 £525
UK median daily rate £285 £375 £340
% change year-on-year -23.93% +10.29% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £47.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Network Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Support Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Network Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Support Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Midlands +33 17 £298 -15.00% 4
West Midlands +19 14 £320 - 3
North of England +30 10 £205 -39.26% 10
North West +12 6 £295 -15.71% 6
Yorkshire +18 4 £203 -10.00% 4
South East +16 4 £287 -43.77% 5
East Midlands +21 3 £275 -21.43% 1
South West - 3 £295 - 1
Network Support Engineer
UK

Network Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Network Support 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 UK excluding London region featuring Network Support Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (59.38%) Cisco
2 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 12 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (37.50%) Firewall
4 11 (34.38%) Juniper
4 11 (34.38%) CCNA
4 11 (34.38%) WAN
5 10 (31.25%) Cisco Nexus
6 9 (28.13%) IPsec
6 9 (28.13%) BGP
7 8 (25.00%) LAN
7 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 8 (25.00%) Data Centre
8 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
8 7 (21.88%) PKI
8 7 (21.88%) MPLS
8 7 (21.88%) Wireless
9 6 (18.75%) Telecoms
9 6 (18.75%) VPN
10 5 (15.63%) DNS
10 5 (15.63%) DHCP
10 5 (15.63%) Ethernet
10 5 (15.63%) MS Visio
10 5 (15.63%) OpenView
10 5 (15.63%) Ethereal
10 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
10 5 (15.63%) Degree
10 5 (15.63%) Wireshark
11 4 (12.50%) Junos
11 4 (12.50%) ITIL

Network Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 5 (15.63%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (37.50%) Firewall
2 11 (34.38%) WAN
3 10 (31.25%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (28.13%) BGP
4 9 (28.13%) IPsec
5 8 (25.00%) LAN
6 7 (21.88%) MPLS
6 7 (21.88%) Wireless
7 6 (18.75%) VPN
8 5 (15.63%) DHCP
8 5 (15.63%) DNS
8 5 (15.63%) Ethereal
8 5 (15.63%) Ethernet
8 5 (15.63%) Wireshark
9 4 (12.50%) Junos
10 3 (9.38%) SD-WAN
11 2 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (6.25%) HSRP
11 2 (6.25%) Network Security
11 2 (6.25%) Spanning Tree
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
3 6 (18.75%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (21.88%) PKI
3 1 (3.13%) CCTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
2 4 (12.50%) ITIL
3 3 (9.38%) Load Balancing
3 3 (9.38%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (6.25%) Data Protection
4 2 (6.25%) Incident Response
4 2 (6.25%) Mentoring
4 2 (6.25%) Network Design
4 2 (6.25%) Project Delivery
5 1 (3.13%) Change Control
5 1 (3.13%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (3.13%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (34.38%) CCNA
3 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (15.63%) Degree
5 4 (12.50%) CCNP
6 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) OpenView
Vendors
1 19 (59.38%) Cisco
2 11 (34.38%) Juniper
3 2 (6.25%) Aruba
3 2 (6.25%) F5
3 2 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 2 (6.25%) HP
4 1 (3.13%) Broadcom
4 1 (3.13%) Brocade