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 £464 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 135 136 249
Rank change year-on-year +1 +113 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 245 451 474
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.66% 1.83% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.77% 1.92% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 285 307
10th Percentile £298 £350 £313
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £486 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +5.08% +15.63%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £619 £624 £609
UK median daily rate £465 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -1.06% +4.44% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 9
10th Percentile £16.33 £41.51 £24.60
25th Percentile £18.50 £70.03 £25.50
Median hourly rate £20.74 £78.50 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -73.58% +176.31% -54.90%
75th Percentile £23.75 £80.44 £30.25
90th Percentile £24.80 £81.00 £42.32
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
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 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 16 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 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 132 (53.88%) Cisco
2 109 (44.49%) Firewall
3 84 (34.29%) Cisco Certification
4 69 (28.16%) CCNP
5 56 (22.86%) BGP
6 44 (17.96%) OSPF
6 44 (17.96%) Fortinet
6 44 (17.96%) Network Security
6 44 (17.96%) Palo Alto
7 41 (16.73%) Social Skills
7 41 (16.73%) CCNA
8 40 (16.33%) WAN
8 40 (16.33%) Finance
9 39 (15.92%) Python
10 38 (15.51%) F5
11 36 (14.69%) Security Cleared
12 34 (13.88%) VPN
13 31 (12.65%) Juniper
14 30 (12.24%) LAN
15 29 (11.84%) MPLS
16 28 (11.43%) Public Sector
16 28 (11.43%) Cisco Nexus
16 28 (11.43%) Ansible
17 27 (11.02%) Wireless
17 27 (11.02%) Network Design
18 25 (10.20%) DNS
18 25 (10.20%) SD-WAN
19 24 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
19 24 (9.80%) CCIE
19 24 (9.80%) SolarWinds

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 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
1 2 (0.82%) nginx
1 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.41%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (0.41%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.41%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 17 (6.94%) AWS
1 17 (6.94%) Azure
2 6 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (1.22%) GCP
3 3 (1.22%) WhatsApp
4 2 (0.82%) Akamai
4 2 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (0.82%) GitHub
5 1 (0.41%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (0.41%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.41%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.41%) IaaS
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.41%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 109 (44.49%) Firewall
2 56 (22.86%) BGP
3 44 (17.96%) Network Security
3 44 (17.96%) OSPF
4 40 (16.33%) WAN
5 34 (13.88%) VPN
6 30 (12.24%) LAN
7 29 (11.84%) MPLS
8 28 (11.43%) Cisco Nexus
9 27 (11.02%) Wireless
10 25 (10.20%) DNS
10 25 (10.20%) SD-WAN
11 23 (9.39%) Cisco ASA
12 21 (8.57%) Cisco ISE
13 20 (8.16%) EIGRP
13 20 (8.16%) Wi-Fi
14 18 (7.35%) IPsec
15 17 (6.94%) TCP/IP
16 15 (6.12%) DHCP
16 15 (6.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.86%) QGIS
2 3 (1.22%) NonStop SQL
2 3 (1.22%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (2.45%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.82%) JIRA
3 1 (0.41%) Git
3 1 (0.41%) GitLab
3 1 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 41 (16.73%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.33%) Finance
3 28 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.31%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.49%) Banking
6 11 (4.49%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.86%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.63%) Retail
9 3 (1.22%) Legal
10 2 (0.82%) Advertising
10 2 (0.82%) Marketing
11 1 (0.41%) Back Office
11 1 (0.41%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.41%) German Language
11 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Law
11 1 (0.41%) Military
11 1 (0.41%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.27%) JSON
2 6 (2.45%) Jinja
3 4 (1.63%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.63%) YANG
4 3 (1.22%) Django
4 3 (1.22%) REST
4 3 (1.22%) RESTful
5 2 (0.82%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.41%) J2EE
6 1 (0.41%) Middleware
6 1 (0.41%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.39%) Data Centre
2 6 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.04%) Clustering
3 5 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.04%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.22%) NHS
4 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (0.82%) Cyberattack
5 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.82%) Device Driver
5 2 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (0.82%) PKI
5 2 (0.82%) Private Cloud
5 2 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.41%) FMCG
6 1 (0.41%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.41%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.35%) Linux
2 12 (4.90%) Unix
3 6 (2.45%) Windows
4 5 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.22%) CentOS
5 3 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.82%) Debian
6 2 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (11.02%) Network Design
2 24 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (8.57%) Migration
4 18 (7.35%) Change Management
5 16 (6.53%) ITIL
6 15 (6.12%) Load Balancing
7 13 (5.31%) DevOps
7 13 (5.31%) High Availability
7 13 (5.31%) Low Latency
8 12 (4.90%) Network Management
9 11 (4.49%) OO
10 10 (4.08%) Agile
11 9 (3.67%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (3.27%) ITSM
13 7 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 7 (2.86%) Investment Management
13 7 (2.86%) Network Monitoring
14 6 (2.45%) Knowledge Transfer
14 6 (2.45%) Roadmaps
15 5 (2.04%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 39 (15.92%) Python
2 15 (6.12%) Perl
3 6 (2.45%) Tcl
4 5 (2.04%) Bash
4 5 (2.04%) Java
4 5 (2.04%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.04%) SQL
5 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.82%) ActionScript
6 2 (0.82%) C
6 2 (0.82%) C++
Qualifications
1 84 (34.29%) Cisco Certification
2 69 (28.16%) CCNP
3 41 (16.73%) CCNA
4 36 (14.69%) Security Cleared
5 24 (9.80%) CCIE
6 21 (8.57%) SC Cleared
7 12 (4.90%) DV Cleared
7 12 (4.90%) JNCIA
8 9 (3.67%) Degree
9 8 (3.27%) CCDP
9 8 (3.27%) JNCIS
10 5 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.63%) CISSP
12 2 (0.82%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.82%) CCIP
12 2 (0.82%) CEH
12 2 (0.82%) CISM
12 2 (0.82%) JNCIE
12 2 (0.82%) RHCE
12 2 (0.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.67%) SLA
2 3 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (1.22%) QA
3 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (5.31%) Firmware
2 5 (2.04%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.82%) Squid
4 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.41%) Docker
5 1 (0.41%) KVM
5 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (11.43%) Ansible
2 15 (6.12%) FortiGate
3 7 (2.86%) Terraform
4 3 (1.22%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (1.22%) Kibana
5 2 (0.82%) HAProxy
5 2 (0.82%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 2 (0.82%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.82%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.41%) Endace
6 1 (0.41%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.41%) Puppet
6 1 (0.41%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 132 (53.88%) Cisco
2 44 (17.96%) Fortinet
2 44 (17.96%) Palo Alto
3 38 (15.51%) F5
4 31 (12.65%) Juniper
5 24 (9.80%) SolarWinds
6 15 (6.12%) Aruba
7 14 (5.71%) CheckPoint
8 11 (4.49%) Arista
9 10 (4.08%) Meraki
9 10 (4.08%) Nokia
10 9 (3.67%) Microsoft
10 9 (3.67%) Zscaler
11 8 (3.27%) Citrix
12 7 (2.86%) Infoblox
12 7 (2.86%) VMware
13 4 (1.63%) Extreme Networks
13 4 (1.63%) Riverbed
13 4 (1.63%) Splunk
14 3 (1.22%) Blue Coat