Network Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Network Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Specialist daily rate in Work from Home is £475 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 339 447 597
Rank change year-on-year +108 +150 -131
Contract jobs requiring a Network Specialist 8 21 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.054% 0.085% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.089% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 12
10th Percentile - £389 £365
25th Percentile £463 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £519 £438
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +18.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £552
90th Percentile £663 £743 £584
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%

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 13,848 23,488 42,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.30% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,603 30,429
10th Percentile £325 £363 £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 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 537 595
10th Percentile £14.26 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.37 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.83% +54.29% +44.33%
75th Percentile £64.88 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £68.55
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Network Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Network Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Specialist
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 Specialist.

Network Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Specialist over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Network Specialist daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Specialist
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 Specialist.

Network Specialist hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Network Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
1 7 (87.50%) Juniper
2 6 (75.00%) VPN
3 4 (50.00%) Firewall
3 4 (50.00%) Wireless
3 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (37.50%) 5G
4 3 (37.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
4 3 (37.50%) Network Security
4 3 (37.50%) 4G
4 3 (37.50%) PKI
4 3 (37.50%) FortiGate
4 3 (37.50%) IPsec
4 3 (37.50%) Network Design
4 3 (37.50%) LAN
4 3 (37.50%) WLAN
4 3 (37.50%) WAN
4 3 (37.50%) OSPF
4 3 (37.50%) BGP
5 2 (25.00%) Change Management
5 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code

Network Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) VPN
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) Wireless
3 3 (37.50%) 4G
3 3 (37.50%) 5G
3 3 (37.50%) BGP
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (37.50%) IPsec
3 3 (37.50%) LAN
3 3 (37.50%) Network Security
3 3 (37.50%) OSPF
3 3 (37.50%) WAN
3 3 (37.50%) WLAN
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
1 3 (37.50%) Network Design
1 3 (37.50%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Change Management
2 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Kanban
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Management
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
1 7 (87.50%) Juniper
2 4 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (12.50%) VMware
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