Core Network Engineer Contracts

Core Network Engineer
UK

The median Core Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 708 837
Rank change year-on-year +131 +129 -162
Contract jobs requiring a Core Network Engineer 5 4 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.007% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.007% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £511 - -
25th Percentile £511 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £563
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -33.33% +40.63%
75th Percentile £544 £391 £581
90th Percentile £548 £396 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £375 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Core Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Core Network Engineer in the UK

Core Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Core Network Engineer in the UK

Core Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Core Network Engineer in the UK

Core Network Engineer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Core Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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
England +125 5 £525 +40.00% 1
London +107 5 £525 +31.25%
Work from Home +122 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Core 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 featuring Core Network Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Nokia
2 4 (80.00%) MPLS
2 4 (80.00%) BGP
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) CCNP
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (80.00%) Network Design
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco IOS
2 4 (80.00%) IOS XR
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (80.00%) Business Case
2 4 (80.00%) Business Strategy
2 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (60.00%) NETCONF
3 3 (60.00%) YANG
3 3 (60.00%) JSON
3 3 (60.00%) Ansible
3 3 (60.00%) Git
3 3 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (20.00%) VMware
5 1 (20.00%) Data Management
5 1 (20.00%) L2TP
5 1 (20.00%) Linux
5 1 (20.00%) Broadband
5 1 (20.00%) VPN

Core Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) BGP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco IOS
1 4 (80.00%) IOS XR
1 4 (80.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) 4G
2 1 (20.00%) 5G
2 1 (20.00%) Broadband
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (20.00%) IPv6
2 1 (20.00%) L2TP
2 1 (20.00%) VPLS
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) JSON
1 3 (60.00%) NETCONF
1 3 (60.00%) XML
1 3 (60.00%) YANG
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Case
1 4 (80.00%) Business Strategy
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Network Design
1 4 (80.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Nokia
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Huawei
3 1 (20.00%) VMware