Network Consultant Contracts

Network Consultant
UK

The median Network Consultant daily rate in the UK is £510 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 666 769
Rank change year-on-year +121 +103 -159
Contract jobs requiring a Network Consultant 46 52 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.088% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.093% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 33 56
10th Percentile £406 £418 £381
25th Percentile £475 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £588
90th Percentile £725 £693 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £538 £488
% change year-on-year -9.30% +10.26% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Network Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Consultant in the UK

Network Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Consultant in the UK

Network Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Consultant over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Consultant in the UK

Network Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Consultant in the UK

Network Consultant
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +99 28 £488 -11.36% 8
Work from Home +120 18 £625 +14.94% 2
UK excluding London +59 15 £488 -9.30% 3
London +101 12 £500 -17.53% 5
South East +24 8 £488 -9.30% 2
South West +22 4 £400 -33.33%
Scotland +41 2 £700 -
North of England +26 2 £466 +24.33%
Yorkshire +21 2 £466 +24.33%
East of England +10 1 £500 -

Network Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Network Consultant 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 Network Consultant in the job title.

1 27 (58.70%) Cisco
2 19 (41.30%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (39.13%) Firewall
4 15 (32.61%) CCNP
5 14 (30.43%) CCIE
6 13 (28.26%) Network Security
7 12 (26.09%) Palo Alto
7 12 (26.09%) VMware
7 12 (26.09%) Network Design
7 12 (26.09%) VMware NSX
8 11 (23.91%) Wireless
9 10 (21.74%) WAN
9 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
9 10 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
10 9 (19.57%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (17.39%) Cisco ISE
11 8 (17.39%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (17.39%) Network Virtualisation
11 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
12 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
12 7 (15.22%) DV Cleared
12 7 (15.22%) LAN
13 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
14 5 (10.87%) WLAN
14 5 (10.87%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (10.87%) CheckPoint
14 5 (10.87%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (8.70%) NGFW
15 4 (8.70%) Zscaler

Network Consultant 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 2 (4.35%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.35%) Azure
1 2 (4.35%) Nutanix
2 1 (2.17%) AWS
2 1 (2.17%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) Firewall
2 13 (28.26%) Network Security
3 11 (23.91%) Wireless
4 10 (21.74%) WAN
5 9 (19.57%) Cisco Nexus
6 8 (17.39%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (17.39%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (15.22%) LAN
8 5 (10.87%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (10.87%) WLAN
9 4 (8.70%) NGFW
10 3 (6.52%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (6.52%) MPLS
10 3 (6.52%) NX-OS
10 3 (6.52%) VPN
11 2 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (4.35%) DNS
11 2 (4.35%) Internet
11 2 (4.35%) Unified Communications
11 2 (4.35%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.35%) CMDB
2 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.17%) IPTV
3 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Unix
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Network Design
2 8 (17.39%) Network Virtualisation
2 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (8.70%) Decision-Making
3 4 (8.70%) Presales
4 3 (6.52%) Analytics
4 3 (6.52%) Application Security
4 3 (6.52%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (6.52%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (6.52%) Incident Response
4 3 (6.52%) Information Security
4 3 (6.52%) Migration
4 3 (6.52%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (4.35%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (4.35%) Network Architecture
5 2 (4.35%) Product Management
5 2 (4.35%) Time Management
5 2 (4.35%) Validation
5 2 (4.35%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.52%) Python
2 2 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (2.17%) Groovy
3 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (32.61%) CCNP
3 14 (30.43%) CCIE
4 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
5 7 (15.22%) DV Cleared
5 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
6 4 (8.70%) Degree
7 2 (4.35%) CCNA
8 1 (2.17%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 1 (2.17%) CCIE Service Provider
8 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) GDPR
1 2 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) VMware NSX
2 10 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.35%) KVM
4 2 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Ansible
1 2 (4.35%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.17%) Nessus
2 1 (2.17%) Puppet
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (58.70%) Cisco
2 12 (26.09%) Palo Alto
2 12 (26.09%) VMware
3 5 (10.87%) CheckPoint
4 4 (8.70%) Fortinet
4 4 (8.70%) Zscaler
5 3 (6.52%) Juniper
5 3 (6.52%) Meraki
5 3 (6.52%) Tufin
6 2 (4.35%) Aruba
7 1 (2.17%) Ariba
7 1 (2.17%) Arista
7 1 (2.17%) BMC
7 1 (2.17%) Citrix
7 1 (2.17%) EMC
7 1 (2.17%) F5
7 1 (2.17%) HP
7 1 (2.17%) Remedy
7 1 (2.17%) SAP
7 1 (2.17%) Thales