Network Support Engineer Contracts in England

Network Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Support Engineer daily rate in England is £276 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 591 732
Rank change year-on-year +99 +141 -120
Contract jobs requiring a Network Support Engineer 39 49 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.10% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 15
10th Percentile £193 £212 £240
25th Percentile £200 £270 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £276 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year -21.29% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £319 £508 £453
90th Percentile £346 £613 £525
UK median daily rate £285 £363 £340
% change year-on-year -21.31% +6.62% -2.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £47.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -12.04% +213.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Network Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Support Engineer in England

Network Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Support Engineer in England

Network Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Support Engineer in England

Network Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Support Engineer in England

Network Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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 +26 16 £298 -15.00% 7
West Midlands +25 13 £320 - 6
North of England +30 11 £205 -39.26% 9
North West +17 7 £295 -15.71% 5
London +86 6 £375 -21.05% 2
South East +32 4 £287 -45.90% 5
Yorkshire +16 4 £203 -10.00% 4
East Midlands +15 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 England

For the 6 months to 18 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 England region featuring Network Support Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (56.41%) Cisco
2 17 (43.59%) Firewall
3 15 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
4 13 (33.33%) CCNA
5 12 (30.77%) Juniper
6 11 (28.21%) WAN
6 11 (28.21%) Cisco Nexus
7 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
7 10 (25.64%) BGP
7 10 (25.64%) IPsec
8 9 (23.08%) LAN
9 8 (20.51%) VPN
9 8 (20.51%) Wireless
9 8 (20.51%) Data Centre
10 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
10 7 (17.95%) MPLS
10 7 (17.95%) Telecoms
10 7 (17.95%) DNS
10 7 (17.95%) CCNP
11 6 (15.38%) DHCP
11 6 (15.38%) PKI
11 6 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
11 6 (15.38%) Junos
12 5 (12.82%) Degree
12 5 (12.82%) Wireshark
12 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
12 5 (12.82%) Ethereal
12 5 (12.82%) Ethernet
12 5 (12.82%) MS Visio

Network Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (12.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.56%) Azure
1 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (2.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (43.59%) Firewall
2 11 (28.21%) Cisco Nexus
2 11 (28.21%) WAN
3 10 (25.64%) BGP
3 10 (25.64%) IPsec
4 9 (23.08%) LAN
5 8 (20.51%) VPN
5 8 (20.51%) Wireless
6 7 (17.95%) DNS
6 7 (17.95%) MPLS
7 6 (15.38%) DHCP
7 6 (15.38%) Junos
8 5 (12.82%) Ethereal
8 5 (12.82%) Ethernet
8 5 (12.82%) Wireshark
9 4 (10.26%) SD-WAN
10 3 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (7.69%) Network Security
10 3 (7.69%) OSPF
10 3 (7.69%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
2 7 (17.95%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.13%) Legal
4 1 (2.56%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.38%) PKI
3 1 (2.56%) CCTV
3 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
3 4 (10.26%) ITIL
4 3 (7.69%) Load Balancing
5 2 (5.13%) Data Protection
5 2 (5.13%) Incident Response
5 2 (5.13%) Mentoring
5 2 (5.13%) Network Design
5 2 (5.13%) Network Management
5 2 (5.13%) Project Delivery
6 1 (2.56%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (2.56%) Change Control
6 1 (2.56%) Customer Service
6 1 (2.56%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (2.56%) Inventory Management
6 1 (2.56%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (2.56%) Patch Management
6 1 (2.56%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (33.33%) CCNA
3 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
4 7 (17.95%) CCNP
5 5 (12.82%) Degree
6 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.56%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Firmware
1 1 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) OpenView
2 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 22 (56.41%) Cisco
2 12 (30.77%) Juniper
3 3 (7.69%) F5
3 3 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 2 (5.13%) Aruba
4 2 (5.13%) Citrix
4 2 (5.13%) HP
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.56%) Broadcom
5 1 (2.56%) Brocade
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) VMware
5 1 (2.56%) Zscaler