Network Consultant Contracts

Network Consultant
UK

The median Network Consultant daily rate in the UK is £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 641 753
Rank change year-on-year +106 +112 -106
Contract jobs requiring a Network Consultant 49 56 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 38 64
10th Percentile £375 £413 £375
25th Percentile £458 £472 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £658 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £538 £413
% change year-on-year -9.30% +30.30% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Network Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Consultant in the UK

Network Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Consultant in the UK

Network Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Consultant over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Consultant in the UK

Network Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Consultant in the UK

Network Consultant
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +76 32 £494 -10.23% 13
UK excluding London +23 17 £488 -9.30% 6
Work from Home +98 16 £625 +17.65% 3
London +79 13 £600 +2.13% 6
South East +23 11 £494 -28.18% 4
South West +1 4 £400 -33.33%
North of England +17 2 £466 +24.33% 2
Yorkshire +14 2 £466 +24.33% 2
Scotland +49 1 £700 -

Network Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Network Consultant 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 featuring Network Consultant in the job title.

1 29 (59.18%) Cisco
2 19 (38.78%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (38.78%) Firewall
3 18 (36.73%) CCNP
3 18 (36.73%) WAN
4 17 (34.69%) Network Security
5 13 (26.53%) VMware
5 13 (26.53%) Palo Alto
6 11 (22.45%) VMware NSX
6 11 (22.45%) CCIE
6 11 (22.45%) LAN
7 10 (20.41%) Wireless
7 10 (20.41%) Network Design
7 10 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (20.41%) Cisco ISE
8 9 (18.37%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (18.37%) WLAN
9 8 (16.33%) CheckPoint
9 8 (16.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 8 (16.33%) Network Virtualisation
9 8 (16.33%) Zscaler
9 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
9 8 (16.33%) SD-WAN
10 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
11 6 (12.24%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
11 6 (12.24%) DV Cleared
11 6 (12.24%) Fortinet
11 6 (12.24%) Information Security
12 5 (10.20%) Wi-Fi

Network Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.08%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.20%) Azure
2 4 (8.16%) AWS
2 4 (8.16%) GCP
3 2 (4.08%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.04%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (38.78%) Firewall
2 18 (36.73%) WAN
3 17 (34.69%) Network Security
4 11 (22.45%) LAN
5 10 (20.41%) Cisco ISE
5 10 (20.41%) Wireless
6 9 (18.37%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (18.37%) WLAN
7 8 (16.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 8 (16.33%) SD-WAN
8 5 (10.20%) VPN
8 5 (10.20%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (8.16%) MPLS
9 4 (8.16%) NGFW
9 4 (8.16%) Unified Communications
10 3 (6.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (6.12%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (6.12%) NX-OS
11 2 (4.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 2 (4.08%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.24%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Finance
4 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.04%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.08%) CMDB
2 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.08%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.04%) IoT
3 1 (2.04%) IPTV
3 1 (2.04%) NB-IoT
3 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Unix
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.41%) Network Design
2 8 (16.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (12.24%) Information Security
4 5 (10.20%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (10.20%) ITIL
4 5 (10.20%) Migration
4 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (8.16%) Decision-Making
6 3 (6.12%) Agile
6 3 (6.12%) Application Security
6 3 (6.12%) Data Loss Prevention
6 3 (6.12%) Incident Response
6 3 (6.12%) Network Architecture
6 3 (6.12%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (6.12%) Project Delivery
6 3 (6.12%) Security Architecture
6 3 (6.12%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (4.08%) Customer Service
7 2 (4.08%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (4.08%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.12%) Python
2 2 (4.08%) Bash
3 1 (2.04%) Groovy
3 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (38.78%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (36.73%) CCNP
3 11 (22.45%) CCIE
4 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
5 6 (12.24%) DV Cleared
5 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
6 5 (10.20%) CCNA
7 3 (6.12%) Degree
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
8 2 (4.08%) RIBA
9 1 (2.04%) CCIE Routing and Switching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) GDPR
1 2 (4.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (22.45%) VMware NSX
2 10 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.16%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.08%) KVM
4 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Ansible
2 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.04%) Nessus
2 1 (2.04%) Puppet
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (59.18%) Cisco
2 13 (26.53%) Palo Alto
2 13 (26.53%) VMware
3 8 (16.33%) CheckPoint
3 8 (16.33%) Zscaler
4 6 (12.24%) Fortinet
5 5 (10.20%) F5
5 5 (10.20%) Juniper
6 4 (8.16%) Aruba
7 3 (6.12%) HP
7 3 (6.12%) Tufin
8 2 (4.08%) Blue Coat
8 2 (4.08%) Dell
8 2 (4.08%) McAfee
8 2 (4.08%) Meraki
8 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.08%) Veeam
9 1 (2.04%) BMC
9 1 (2.04%) EMC
9 1 (2.04%) Remedy