Network Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Network Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 139 249
Rank change year-on-year +4 +110 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 247 464 476
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.65% 1.84% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.77% 1.93% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 293 310
10th Percentile £275 £350 £313
25th Percentile £336 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £456
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.85% +14.06%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £601 £623 £606
UK median daily rate £460 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -2.18% +4.50% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 10
10th Percentile £16.69 £41.51 £25.05
25th Percentile £19.06 £70.03 £25.69
Median hourly rate £22.12 £78.50 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -71.82% +176.31% -54.90%
75th Percentile £24.50 £80.44 £29.88
90th Percentile £25.13 £81.00 £41.53
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £63.23 £43.74
% change year-on-year -36.74% +44.56% +9.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,973 24,016 42,399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.35% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,364 16,958 30,661
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 547 602
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.71 £19.28
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +52.43% +43.44%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.51 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

Network Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Engineer.

Network Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Engineer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Network Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Engineer.

Network Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 13 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 134 (54.25%) Cisco
2 108 (43.72%) Firewall
3 82 (33.20%) Cisco Certification
4 67 (27.13%) CCNP
5 57 (23.08%) BGP
6 45 (18.22%) OSPF
6 45 (18.22%) Network Security
7 43 (17.41%) Fortinet
7 43 (17.41%) Palo Alto
8 40 (16.19%) Social Skills
8 40 (16.19%) Finance
8 40 (16.19%) WAN
9 39 (15.79%) CCNA
10 38 (15.38%) Security Cleared
11 37 (14.98%) F5
11 37 (14.98%) Python
12 36 (14.57%) VPN
13 32 (12.96%) Juniper
14 30 (12.15%) LAN
14 30 (12.15%) MPLS
15 28 (11.34%) Wireless
15 28 (11.34%) Network Design
15 28 (11.34%) Public Sector
15 28 (11.34%) Cisco Nexus
15 28 (11.34%) Ansible
16 26 (10.53%) DNS
17 24 (9.72%) CCIE
18 23 (9.31%) SolarWinds
18 23 (9.31%) Cisco ASA
18 23 (9.31%) Cisco ISE

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
1 2 (0.81%) nginx
1 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.40%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 16 (6.48%) AWS
1 16 (6.48%) Azure
2 6 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (1.21%) Akamai
3 3 (1.21%) GCP
4 2 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (0.81%) GitHub
4 2 (0.81%) WhatsApp
5 1 (0.40%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (0.40%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 108 (43.72%) Firewall
2 57 (23.08%) BGP
3 45 (18.22%) Network Security
3 45 (18.22%) OSPF
4 40 (16.19%) WAN
5 36 (14.57%) VPN
6 30 (12.15%) LAN
6 30 (12.15%) MPLS
7 28 (11.34%) Cisco Nexus
7 28 (11.34%) Wireless
8 26 (10.53%) DNS
9 23 (9.31%) Cisco ASA
9 23 (9.31%) Cisco ISE
9 23 (9.31%) SD-WAN
10 21 (8.50%) EIGRP
10 21 (8.50%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (7.29%) IPsec
12 17 (6.88%) TCP/IP
13 16 (6.48%) VoIP
14 15 (6.07%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.24%) QGIS
2 3 (1.21%) NonStop SQL
2 3 (1.21%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.21%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (2.43%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.81%) JIRA
3 1 (0.40%) Git
3 1 (0.40%) GitLab
3 1 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 40 (16.19%) Finance
1 40 (16.19%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.34%) Public Sector
3 18 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.67%) Telecoms
5 10 (4.05%) Banking
5 10 (4.05%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.83%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.62%) Retail
8 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.21%) Legal
9 2 (0.81%) Advertising
9 2 (0.81%) Marketing
10 1 (0.40%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.40%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.40%) German Language
10 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Law
10 1 (0.40%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.24%) JSON
2 6 (2.43%) Jinja
3 4 (1.62%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.62%) YANG
4 3 (1.21%) Django
4 3 (1.21%) REST
4 3 (1.21%) RESTful
5 2 (0.81%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.40%) J2EE
6 1 (0.40%) Middleware
6 1 (0.40%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.91%) Data Centre
2 6 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.02%) Clustering
3 5 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.02%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.21%) Device Driver
4 3 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.21%) NHS
4 3 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (0.81%) Cyberattack
5 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (0.81%) PKI
5 2 (0.81%) Private Cloud
5 2 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.40%) FMCG
6 1 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.40%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.48%) Linux
2 10 (4.05%) Unix
3 5 (2.02%) Windows
4 4 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.21%) CentOS
6 2 (0.81%) Debian
6 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.40%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (11.34%) Network Design
2 23 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (8.91%) Migration
4 17 (6.88%) Change Management
4 17 (6.88%) Load Balancing
5 15 (6.07%) ITIL
6 13 (5.26%) DevOps
6 13 (5.26%) High Availability
7 12 (4.86%) Low Latency
7 12 (4.86%) Network Management
8 10 (4.05%) Agile
9 9 (3.64%) OO
10 8 (3.24%) ITSM
11 7 (2.83%) Network Monitoring
12 6 (2.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (2.43%) Investment Management
12 6 (2.43%) Knowledge Transfer
12 6 (2.43%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (2.43%) Roadmaps
13 5 (2.02%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 37 (14.98%) Python
2 13 (5.26%) Perl
3 6 (2.43%) Tcl
4 5 (2.02%) Bash
4 5 (2.02%) Java
4 5 (2.02%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.02%) SQL
5 3 (1.21%) C
5 3 (1.21%) C++
5 3 (1.21%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.81%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 82 (33.20%) Cisco Certification
2 67 (27.13%) CCNP
3 39 (15.79%) CCNA
4 38 (15.38%) Security Cleared
5 24 (9.72%) CCIE
6 22 (8.91%) SC Cleared
7 12 (4.86%) DV Cleared
7 12 (4.86%) JNCIA
8 8 (3.24%) CCDP
8 8 (3.24%) Degree
8 8 (3.24%) JNCIS
9 4 (1.62%) CISSP
9 4 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.21%) BC Cleared
10 3 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.81%) CEH
11 2 (0.81%) CISM
11 2 (0.81%) JNCIE
11 2 (0.81%) RHCE
11 2 (0.81%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.24%) SLA
2 4 (1.62%) QA
3 3 (1.21%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (5.67%) Firmware
2 5 (2.02%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.81%) Squid
4 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.40%) Docker
5 1 (0.40%) KVM
5 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (11.34%) Ansible
2 14 (5.67%) FortiGate
3 7 (2.83%) Terraform
4 3 (1.21%) Kibana
5 2 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.81%) HAProxy
5 2 (0.81%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 2 (0.81%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.81%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.40%) Endace
6 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.40%) Puppet
6 1 (0.40%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 134 (54.25%) Cisco
2 43 (17.41%) Fortinet
2 43 (17.41%) Palo Alto
3 37 (14.98%) F5
4 32 (12.96%) Juniper
5 23 (9.31%) SolarWinds
6 14 (5.67%) Aruba
7 13 (5.26%) CheckPoint
8 11 (4.45%) Nokia
9 10 (4.05%) Arista
9 10 (4.05%) Meraki
10 9 (3.64%) Zscaler
11 8 (3.24%) Citrix
11 8 (3.24%) Infoblox
12 7 (2.83%) Microsoft
12 7 (2.83%) VMware
13 4 (1.62%) Extreme Networks
13 4 (1.62%) Splunk
14 3 (1.21%) Riverbed
14 3 (1.21%) TOWER Software