Network Engineer Contracts in London

Network Engineer
England > London

The median Network Engineer daily rate in London is £500 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 141 238 260
Rank change year-on-year +97 +22 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 312 282 396
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.79% 1.09% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 1.14% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 182 261
10th Percentile £313 £328 £313
25th Percentile £381 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.58%
75th Percentile £553 £623 £575
90th Percentile £655 £675 £725
England median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 6
10th Percentile £28.50 - £20.63
25th Percentile £35.38 £30.38 £25.81
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.38 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.60% +48.16% -44.49%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £44.81
90th Percentile - - £47.37
England median hourly rate £40.00 £62.62 £28.46
% change year-on-year -36.12% +120.05% -9.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,306 24,641 36,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 95.23% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,788 17,910 26,919
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.63 £22.94
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.68 £49.92
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.63
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Engineer in London

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +18 28 £500 +5.26% 20
East London - 6 £186 - 1
West London +14 5 £375 -31.82% 4
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 job ads across the London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 173 (55.45%) Cisco
2 162 (51.92%) Firewall
3 112 (35.90%) Cisco Certification
4 89 (28.53%) CCNP
5 80 (25.64%) BGP
6 77 (24.68%) Palo Alto
7 72 (23.08%) WAN
8 66 (21.15%) Network Security
9 65 (20.83%) F5
10 62 (19.87%) LAN
11 61 (19.55%) OSPF
12 60 (19.23%) Social Skills
13 57 (18.27%) Data Centre
13 57 (18.27%) Security Cleared
14 53 (16.99%) Finance
15 51 (16.35%) VPN
16 49 (15.71%) MPLS
17 48 (15.38%) Wireless
18 47 (15.06%) Python
19 46 (14.74%) Fortinet
20 45 (14.42%) CCNA
21 42 (13.46%) Cisco Nexus
22 40 (12.82%) DNS
23 38 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
24 37 (11.86%) Juniper
24 37 (11.86%) CheckPoint
25 35 (11.22%) Network Design
25 35 (11.22%) AWS
26 33 (10.58%) Azure
26 33 (10.58%) SD-WAN

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (0.64%) Cloud Foundry
1 2 (0.64%) IIS
1 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.64%) nginx
1 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.32%) Confluence
2 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.56%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.32%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 35 (11.22%) AWS
2 33 (10.58%) Azure
3 10 (3.21%) GCP
4 8 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (1.60%) OCI
5 5 (1.60%) WhatsApp
6 4 (1.28%) Akamai
7 3 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.64%) GitHub
9 1 (0.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.32%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.32%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.32%) IaaS
9 1 (0.32%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.32%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.32%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.32%) SaaS
9 1 (0.32%) Vertex AI
9 1 (0.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 162 (51.92%) Firewall
2 80 (25.64%) BGP
3 72 (23.08%) WAN
4 66 (21.15%) Network Security
5 62 (19.87%) LAN
6 61 (19.55%) OSPF
7 51 (16.35%) VPN
8 49 (15.71%) MPLS
9 48 (15.38%) Wireless
10 42 (13.46%) Cisco Nexus
11 40 (12.82%) DNS
12 33 (10.58%) SD-WAN
13 28 (8.97%) Cisco ASA
14 27 (8.65%) IPsec
15 25 (8.01%) TCP/IP
16 23 (7.37%) DHCP
16 23 (7.37%) EIGRP
16 23 (7.37%) Internet
17 18 (5.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 18 (5.77%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.96%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (0.32%) QGIS
2 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (4.17%) Git
1 13 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.64%) GitLab
3 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.32%) JIRA
3 1 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 60 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.99%) Finance
3 30 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.65%) Banking
5 22 (7.05%) Telecoms
6 18 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.53%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.56%) Marketing
9 7 (2.24%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.60%) Retail
11 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.96%) Legal
11 3 (0.96%) Military
11 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Advertising
13 1 (0.32%) Aviation
13 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.85%) NETCONF
2 11 (3.53%) JSON
3 10 (3.21%) XML
3 10 (3.21%) YANG
4 9 (2.88%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.64%) .NET
5 2 (0.64%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.32%) gRPC
6 1 (0.32%) HTML
6 1 (0.32%) LAMP
6 1 (0.32%) LDAP
6 1 (0.32%) OAuth
6 1 (0.32%) OpenID
6 1 (0.32%) React
6 1 (0.32%) SAML
6 1 (0.32%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.32%) XMPP
6 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (18.27%) Data Centre
2 8 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (2.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.60%) Clustering
5 5 (1.60%) Hedge funds
5 5 (1.60%) PKI
5 5 (1.60%) Social Media
6 4 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.28%) NHS
7 3 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.64%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.64%) Device Driver
8 2 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.64%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.64%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.64%) Replication
9 1 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.41%) Linux
2 14 (4.49%) Windows
3 12 (3.85%) Unix
4 9 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.32%) CentOS
7 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.32%) VMS
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (11.22%) Network Design
3 29 (9.29%) Load Balancing
4 28 (8.97%) Roadmaps
5 24 (7.69%) Change Management
6 21 (6.73%) DevOps
6 21 (6.73%) Migration
7 20 (6.41%) Computer Science
8 19 (6.09%) Service Delivery
9 16 (5.13%) Configuration Management
10 15 (4.81%) Agile
10 15 (4.81%) High Availability
10 15 (4.81%) Low Latency
10 15 (4.81%) Network Monitoring
11 13 (4.17%) Customer Service
12 12 (3.85%) ITIL
12 12 (3.85%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 10 (3.21%) Incident Management
13 10 (3.21%) Mentoring
13 10 (3.21%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 47 (15.06%) Python
2 8 (2.56%) Bash
3 6 (1.92%) SQL
4 5 (1.60%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.28%) Perl
6 3 (0.96%) C#
6 3 (0.96%) Go
7 2 (0.64%) C
7 2 (0.64%) C++
7 2 (0.64%) Java
7 2 (0.64%) Ruby
8 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 112 (35.90%) Cisco Certification
2 89 (28.53%) CCNP
3 57 (18.27%) Security Cleared
4 45 (14.42%) CCNA
5 33 (10.58%) CCIE
5 33 (10.58%) DV Cleared
6 26 (8.33%) SC Cleared
7 21 (6.73%) Degree
8 14 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.21%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.56%) JNCIA
11 6 (1.92%) CCDP
12 5 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.60%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.60%) CISSP
13 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.64%) JNCIS
13 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.64%) RHCE
13 2 (0.64%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.17%) SLA
2 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 8 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.92%) Firmware
2 6 (1.92%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.60%) vSphere
4 4 (1.28%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.28%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.96%) Docker
5 3 (0.96%) KVM
6 2 (0.64%) Squid
7 1 (0.32%) PowerDNS
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (8.33%) Ansible
2 20 (6.41%) FortiGate
3 11 (3.53%) Terraform
4 6 (1.92%) SolarWinds Orion
5 5 (1.60%) Puppet
6 4 (1.28%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.96%) Kibana
8 2 (0.64%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.64%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.64%) Nmap
8 2 (0.64%) OpenNMS
8 2 (0.64%) Stealthwatch
8 2 (0.64%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.32%) CASB
9 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.32%) Grafana
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.32%) NetMRI
9 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 173 (55.45%) Cisco
2 77 (24.68%) Palo Alto
3 65 (20.83%) F5
4 46 (14.74%) Fortinet
5 37 (11.86%) CheckPoint
5 37 (11.86%) Juniper
6 26 (8.33%) Nokia
7 21 (6.73%) Arista
7 21 (6.73%) Infoblox
7 21 (6.73%) Microsoft
7 21 (6.73%) SolarWinds
8 19 (6.09%) Aruba
9 15 (4.81%) VMware
10 10 (3.21%) Meraki
11 9 (2.88%) Zscaler
12 7 (2.24%) Google
13 6 (1.92%) Blue Coat
13 6 (1.92%) Riverbed
14 5 (1.60%) Avaya
14 5 (1.60%) Splunk