Network Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 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 59 83 154
Rank change year-on-year +24 +71 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 621 676 521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.06% 2.94% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.31% 3.12% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 449 326
10th Percentile £274 £273 £230
25th Percentile £335 £325 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% +20.09%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £505
90th Percentile £634 £588 £575
UK median daily rate £465 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -1.06% +4.44% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 20 22
10th Percentile £15.60 £21.88 £21.00
25th Percentile £20.74 £51.02 £28.41
Median hourly rate £72.50 £62.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% +34.05% +96.81%
75th Percentile £73.75 £66.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £75.24 £80.33 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £63.23 £44.12
% change year-on-year -36.74% +43.31% +10.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South East +33 254 £500 +11.11% 61
North of England +20 133 £433 +15.33% 43
North West +13 100 £433 +11.79% 25
South West +4 95 £488 -2.50% 29
Midlands +21 91 £350 - 41
West Midlands +23 69 £350 - 27
Scotland -1 31 £340 -28.42% 26
East Midlands +10 22 £425 +21.43% 14
Yorkshire +2 21 £205 -45.33% 15
East of England -26 21 £350 +7.69% 12
North East +21 12 £400 -7.51% 4
Northern Ireland +9 5 - - 2
Wales -18 3 £263 -38.24% 2
Network Engineer
UK

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 390 (62.80%) Cisco
2 282 (45.41%) Firewall
3 236 (38.00%) Security Cleared
4 187 (30.11%) Cisco Certification
5 139 (22.38%) Juniper
6 136 (21.90%) SC Cleared
7 128 (20.61%) WAN
8 122 (19.65%) CCNA
9 106 (17.07%) VPN
9 106 (17.07%) Data Centre
10 105 (16.91%) CCNP
10 105 (16.91%) LAN
11 85 (13.69%) BGP
12 84 (13.53%) Palo Alto
13 83 (13.37%) F5
13 83 (13.37%) Fortinet
14 82 (13.20%) Cisco Nexus
15 81 (13.04%) Social Skills
16 79 (12.72%) CheckPoint
17 78 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
18 77 (12.40%) Public Sector
19 74 (11.92%) MPLS
19 74 (11.92%) Wireless
20 70 (11.27%) Finance
21 69 (11.11%) Migration
22 68 (10.95%) Network Security
23 64 (10.31%) VMware
24 62 (9.98%) Network Design
25 60 (9.66%) IPsec
25 60 (9.66%) SolarWinds

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (1.29%) Apache
1 8 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.32%) IBM Domino
2 2 (0.32%) IIS
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.32%) WordPress
3 1 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.16%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 22 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 38 (6.12%) Azure
2 31 (4.99%) AWS
3 15 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (1.45%) GCP
5 4 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (0.48%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (0.48%) BigCommerce
7 2 (0.32%) Cloudflare
7 2 (0.32%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.32%) Nutanix
7 2 (0.32%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.32%) SaaS
8 1 (0.16%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.16%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.16%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 282 (45.41%) Firewall
2 128 (20.61%) WAN
3 106 (17.07%) VPN
4 105 (16.91%) LAN
5 85 (13.69%) BGP
6 82 (13.20%) Cisco Nexus
7 74 (11.92%) MPLS
7 74 (11.92%) Wireless
8 68 (10.95%) Network Security
9 60 (9.66%) IPsec
10 58 (9.34%) OSPF
11 57 (9.18%) Cisco ASA
12 53 (8.53%) DMZ
12 53 (8.53%) Wi-Fi
13 46 (7.41%) SD-WAN
14 45 (7.25%) Cisco ISE
15 40 (6.44%) DNS
16 33 (5.31%) EIGRP
17 31 (4.99%) DHCP
18 30 (4.83%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.29%) MongoDB
1 8 (1.29%) NoSQL
1 8 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.13%) QGIS
3 6 (0.97%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.48%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (1.77%) JIRA
2 8 (1.29%) GitLab
2 8 (1.29%) Robot Framework
2 8 (1.29%) TestRail
3 7 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.16%) Git
4 1 (0.16%) Hudson
4 1 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 81 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 77 (12.40%) Public Sector
3 70 (11.27%) Finance
4 41 (6.60%) Banking
5 36 (5.80%) Telecoms
6 35 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (2.58%) Legal
8 12 (1.93%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.93%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.61%) Law
9 10 (1.61%) Marketing
10 7 (1.13%) Electronics
11 6 (0.97%) Retail
12 5 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.64%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.48%) Military
15 2 (0.32%) Advertising
15 2 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.16%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.93%) Jinja
1 12 (1.93%) YANG
2 11 (1.77%) REST
3 9 (1.45%) NETCONF
4 8 (1.29%) RESTCONF
4 8 (1.29%) SOAP
5 7 (1.13%) 802.1X
6 5 (0.81%) HTML
6 5 (0.81%) JSON
7 3 (0.48%) Django
7 3 (0.48%) RESTful
7 3 (0.48%) VML
8 2 (0.32%) LAMP
8 2 (0.32%) XML
9 1 (0.16%) J2EE
9 1 (0.16%) Middleware
9 1 (0.16%) SPML
9 1 (0.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 106 (17.07%) Data Centre
2 18 (2.90%) Driving Licence
2 18 (2.90%) Private Cloud
3 12 (1.93%) PKI
4 9 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (1.45%) Replication
5 7 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (1.13%) Operational Technology
6 6 (0.97%) NHS
7 5 (0.81%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.48%) CMDB
9 3 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.48%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.32%) CCTV
10 2 (0.32%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.32%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.32%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.48%) Linux
2 26 (4.19%) Windows
3 13 (2.09%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.77%) Unix
5 4 (0.64%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.64%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.64%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.32%) CentOS
7 2 (0.32%) Debian
7 2 (0.32%) Solaris
7 2 (0.32%) VMS
7 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (11.11%) Migration
3 62 (9.98%) Network Design
4 52 (8.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 42 (6.76%) ITIL
6 37 (5.96%) ITSM
7 35 (5.64%) Load Balancing
8 33 (5.31%) Network Management
9 32 (5.15%) Change Management
10 31 (4.99%) Customer Requirements
11 29 (4.67%) Network Architecture
12 28 (4.51%) B2B
12 28 (4.51%) High Availability
13 24 (3.86%) Agile
13 24 (3.86%) Computer Science
14 23 (3.70%) Network Monitoring
15 18 (2.90%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (2.90%) Virtual Infrastructure
16 17 (2.74%) Change Control
16 17 (2.74%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (7.41%) Python
2 20 (3.22%) Perl
3 12 (1.93%) SQL
3 12 (1.93%) Tcl
4 9 (1.45%) Java
5 5 (0.81%) Bash
5 5 (0.81%) PHP
6 4 (0.64%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.64%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.48%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.16%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.16%) C
Qualifications
1 236 (38.00%) Security Cleared
2 187 (30.11%) Cisco Certification
3 136 (21.90%) SC Cleared
4 122 (19.65%) CCNA
5 105 (16.91%) CCNP
6 54 (8.70%) DV Cleared
7 35 (5.64%) Degree
8 22 (3.54%) CCIE
9 16 (2.58%) JNCIA
10 15 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.61%) JNCIS
12 5 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.64%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.64%) VCAP
14 3 (0.48%) CCSA
14 3 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.32%) CCDP
15 2 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 2 (0.32%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.09%) SLA
2 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (0.48%) QA
4 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (6.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (3.86%) VMware NSX
3 20 (3.22%) Firmware
3 20 (3.22%) vSphere
4 11 (1.77%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.45%) Active Directory
6 8 (1.29%) Docker
6 8 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.64%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.32%) KVM
8 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (6.28%) FortiGate
2 32 (5.15%) Ansible
3 22 (3.54%) vCenter Server
4 11 (1.77%) Terraform
5 7 (1.13%) SCCM
6 5 (0.81%) Endace
6 5 (0.81%) OpenView
7 4 (0.64%) Nessus
8 3 (0.48%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.48%) Netcool
9 2 (0.32%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.16%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.16%) Iperf
10 1 (0.16%) Observium
10 1 (0.16%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 390 (62.80%) Cisco
2 139 (22.38%) Juniper
3 84 (13.53%) Palo Alto
4 83 (13.37%) F5
4 83 (13.37%) Fortinet
5 79 (12.72%) CheckPoint
6 64 (10.31%) VMware
7 60 (9.66%) SolarWinds
8 38 (6.12%) Aruba
9 32 (5.15%) Meraki
10 30 (4.83%) Microsoft
11 25 (4.03%) Arista
12 22 (3.54%) Citrix
13 21 (3.38%) Dell
14 19 (3.06%) Blue Coat
15 13 (2.09%) HP
16 11 (1.77%) Brocade
17 10 (1.61%) Nokia
17 10 (1.61%) SAP
18 9 (1.45%) Veeam