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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 232 253
Rank change year-on-year +96 +21 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 318 289 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.81% 1.13% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 1.19% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 191 278
10th Percentile £316 £315 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £556 £614 £575
90th Percentile £650 £669 £716
England median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 6
10th Percentile £29.38 - £20.63
25th Percentile £37.06 £30.38 £25.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.38 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.60% +84.86% -55.51%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £38.13
90th Percentile £48.38 - £44.67
England median hourly rate £40.00 £62.00 £28.41
% change year-on-year -35.48% +118.23% +22.19%

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 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +26 39 £518 +10.40% 9
West London +16 5 £375 -23.08% 3
East London - 4 £173 - 3
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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.

1 181 (56.92%) Cisco
2 166 (52.20%) Firewall
3 120 (37.74%) Cisco Certification
4 97 (30.50%) CCNP
5 88 (27.67%) Palo Alto
6 85 (26.73%) BGP
7 75 (23.58%) WAN
8 70 (22.01%) F5
9 67 (21.07%) Social Skills
9 67 (21.07%) Network Security
10 64 (20.13%) LAN
10 64 (20.13%) OSPF
11 57 (17.92%) Finance
12 56 (17.61%) Security Cleared
12 56 (17.61%) Fortinet
12 56 (17.61%) Data Centre
13 53 (16.67%) CCNA
14 48 (15.09%) MPLS
15 46 (14.47%) Wireless
16 45 (14.15%) Python
17 44 (13.84%) VPN
17 44 (13.84%) Cisco Nexus
17 44 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
18 43 (13.52%) CheckPoint
19 42 (13.21%) SD-WAN
20 40 (12.58%) Juniper
21 39 (12.26%) DNS
22 38 (11.95%) Network Design
22 38 (11.95%) AWS
23 36 (11.32%) CCIE

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 3 (0.94%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (0.63%) nginx
3 1 (0.31%) Confluence
3 1 (0.31%) IIS
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.52%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 38 (11.95%) AWS
2 30 (9.43%) Azure
3 9 (2.83%) GCP
4 8 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (1.89%) WhatsApp
6 5 (1.57%) OCI
7 2 (0.63%) Akamai
7 2 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.63%) IaaS
7 2 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.31%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.31%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.31%) GitHub
8 1 (0.31%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.31%) SaaS
8 1 (0.31%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 166 (52.20%) Firewall
2 85 (26.73%) BGP
3 75 (23.58%) WAN
4 67 (21.07%) Network Security
5 64 (20.13%) LAN
5 64 (20.13%) OSPF
6 48 (15.09%) MPLS
7 46 (14.47%) Wireless
8 44 (13.84%) Cisco Nexus
8 44 (13.84%) VPN
9 42 (13.21%) SD-WAN
10 39 (12.26%) DNS
11 28 (8.81%) Cisco ASA
11 28 (8.81%) DHCP
12 27 (8.49%) EIGRP
13 25 (7.86%) IPsec
14 24 (7.55%) Internet
14 24 (7.55%) TCP/IP
15 16 (5.03%) Cisco IOS
15 16 (5.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.94%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (0.31%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 12 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
2 9 (2.83%) Git
3 2 (0.63%) GitLab
3 2 (0.63%) JIRA
4 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
General
1 67 (21.07%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.92%) Finance
3 31 (9.75%) Banking
4 30 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 24 (7.55%) Telecoms
6 20 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.09%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.83%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.52%) Marketing
10 6 (1.89%) Retail
11 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.94%) Legal
11 3 (0.94%) Military
12 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Aviation
13 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.46%) NETCONF
2 10 (3.14%) JSON
3 9 (2.83%) XML
3 9 (2.83%) YANG
4 8 (2.52%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.63%) .NET
5 2 (0.63%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.31%) gRPC
6 1 (0.31%) HTML
6 1 (0.31%) LDAP
6 1 (0.31%) OAuth
6 1 (0.31%) OpenID
6 1 (0.31%) React
6 1 (0.31%) SAML
6 1 (0.31%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.31%) XMPP
6 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.61%) Data Centre
2 9 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 7 (2.20%) Hedge funds
5 6 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (1.57%) Clustering
6 5 (1.57%) PKI
6 5 (1.57%) Social Media
7 4 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.26%) NHS
8 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.94%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.94%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.63%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.31%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.35%) Linux
2 14 (4.40%) Windows
3 10 (3.14%) Unix
4 9 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.31%) CentOS
6 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (11.95%) Network Design
3 26 (8.18%) Load Balancing
4 25 (7.86%) Change Management
4 25 (7.86%) Roadmaps
5 22 (6.92%) DevOps
6 21 (6.60%) Migration
7 20 (6.29%) Computer Science
8 19 (5.97%) Service Delivery
9 18 (5.66%) Low Latency
10 17 (5.35%) Agile
11 16 (5.03%) High Availability
11 16 (5.03%) Network Monitoring
12 14 (4.40%) Configuration Management
13 13 (4.09%) Customer Service
13 13 (4.09%) ITIL
14 12 (3.77%) Incident Management
14 12 (3.77%) ITSM
14 12 (3.77%) Vulnerability Assessment
15 11 (3.46%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (14.15%) Python
2 7 (2.20%) Bash
3 4 (1.26%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.94%) C#
4 3 (0.94%) Go
4 3 (0.94%) SQL
5 2 (0.63%) Java
5 2 (0.63%) Ruby
6 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 120 (37.74%) Cisco Certification
2 97 (30.50%) CCNP
3 56 (17.61%) Security Cleared
4 53 (16.67%) CCNA
5 36 (11.32%) CCIE
6 33 (10.38%) DV Cleared
7 24 (7.55%) SC Cleared
8 21 (6.60%) Degree
9 15 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (4.09%) AWS Certification
11 11 (3.46%) JNCIA
12 6 (1.89%) CCDP
12 6 (1.89%) CISSP
13 5 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.57%) Azure Certification
14 4 (1.26%) JNCIP
15 2 (0.63%) CEH
15 2 (0.63%) JNCIS
15 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.63%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.40%) SLA
2 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 8 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.89%) Firmware
2 6 (1.89%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.26%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.26%) vSphere
4 3 (0.94%) Docker
5 2 (0.63%) KVM
5 2 (0.63%) Squid
6 1 (0.31%) PowerDNS
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (8.49%) Ansible
2 16 (5.03%) FortiGate
3 12 (3.77%) Terraform
4 7 (2.20%) Puppet
4 7 (2.20%) SolarWinds Orion
5 3 (0.94%) Kibana
5 3 (0.94%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.63%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.63%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (0.63%) Nmap
6 2 (0.63%) OpenNMS
6 2 (0.63%) Stealthwatch
6 2 (0.63%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.31%) CASB
7 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.31%) Grafana
7 1 (0.31%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.31%) NetMRI
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 181 (56.92%) Cisco
2 88 (27.67%) Palo Alto
3 70 (22.01%) F5
4 56 (17.61%) Fortinet
5 43 (13.52%) CheckPoint
6 40 (12.58%) Juniper
7 26 (8.18%) SolarWinds
8 25 (7.86%) Nokia
9 23 (7.23%) Microsoft
10 22 (6.92%) Arista
11 21 (6.60%) Infoblox
12 17 (5.35%) Aruba
13 13 (4.09%) VMware
14 11 (3.46%) Meraki
15 9 (2.83%) Zscaler
16 8 (2.52%) Riverbed
17 7 (2.20%) Google
18 6 (1.89%) Blue Coat
18 6 (1.89%) Huawei
19 5 (1.57%) Citrix