Network Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Network Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £350, 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 48 54 124
Rank change year-on-year +6 +70 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 68 77 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.33% 3.48% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.64% 3.68% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 41 43
10th Percentile - £263 £174
25th Percentile £263 £313 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £363
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £438 £463 £412
90th Percentile £514 £525 £450
England median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £62.00 £28.41
% change year-on-year -35.48% +118.23% -28.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,870 2,090 3,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 94.44% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 1,426 2,483
10th Percentile £250 £260 £230
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 63 67
10th Percentile £12.02 £12.50 £12.60
25th Percentile £14.75 £14.75 £14.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £39.69 £28.38 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £56.75 £24.05
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +13 36 £350 -6.67% 16
Solihull -1 18 £285 -45.19% 5
Warwickshire +1 5 £325 -18.75% 5
Staffordshire +6 4 £200 -27.27% 7
Coventry -10 4 £263 -32.26%
Worcestershire 0 1 £400 -35.38% 1
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 12 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 West Midlands region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (52.94%) Juniper
2 35 (51.47%) WAN
3 33 (48.53%) MPLS
3 33 (48.53%) Security Cleared
4 30 (44.12%) Cisco
5 29 (42.65%) IPsec
6 23 (33.82%) SC Cleared
7 22 (32.35%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (30.88%) CCNA
9 18 (26.47%) Firewall
10 17 (25.00%) BGP
10 17 (25.00%) LAN
11 13 (19.12%) Load Balancing
11 13 (19.12%) VPN
12 11 (16.18%) Wireless
12 11 (16.18%) Social Skills
13 10 (14.71%) Junos
13 10 (14.71%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (13.24%) F5
14 9 (13.24%) Data Centre
14 9 (13.24%) Public Sector
14 9 (13.24%) PKI
15 8 (11.76%) Degree
15 8 (11.76%) DNS
16 7 (10.29%) Aruba
16 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 7 (10.29%) FortiGate
17 6 (8.82%) Azure
17 6 (8.82%) Computer Science
17 6 (8.82%) Network Design

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (2.94%) IIS
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
1 2 (2.94%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (7.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.82%) Azure
2 3 (4.41%) AWS
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.94%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 35 (51.47%) WAN
2 33 (48.53%) MPLS
3 29 (42.65%) IPsec
4 18 (26.47%) Firewall
5 17 (25.00%) BGP
5 17 (25.00%) LAN
6 13 (19.12%) VPN
7 11 (16.18%) Wireless
8 10 (14.71%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (14.71%) Junos
9 8 (11.76%) DNS
10 6 (8.82%) DHCP
10 6 (8.82%) Ethernet
11 5 (7.35%) Ethereal
11 5 (7.35%) Network Security
11 5 (7.35%) SAN
11 5 (7.35%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (7.35%) Wireshark
12 3 (4.41%) SD-WAN
12 3 (4.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.47%) JIRA
General
1 11 (16.18%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.24%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.82%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.47%) Automotive
4 1 (1.47%) Back Office
4 1 (1.47%) Banking
4 1 (1.47%) Finance
4 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.47%) Law
4 1 (1.47%) Legal
4 1 (1.47%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.94%) LAMP
2 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Data Centre
1 9 (13.24%) PKI
2 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (2.94%) Replication
3 1 (1.47%) CMDB
3 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.41%) Linux
1 3 (4.41%) Ubuntu
1 3 (4.41%) Windows
1 3 (4.41%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.94%) VMS
2 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.47%) CentOS
3 1 (1.47%) Debian
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.12%) Load Balancing
2 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (8.82%) Computer Science
3 6 (8.82%) Network Design
4 4 (5.88%) Agile
5 3 (4.41%) Incident Management
5 3 (4.41%) ITIL
5 3 (4.41%) Project Delivery
5 3 (4.41%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (4.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (2.94%) Architectural Design
6 2 (2.94%) Change Management
6 2 (2.94%) High Availability
6 2 (2.94%) Migration
6 2 (2.94%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (2.94%) Validation
7 1 (1.47%) Design Patterns
7 1 (1.47%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (1.47%) Storage Management
7 1 (1.47%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (48.53%) Security Cleared
2 23 (33.82%) SC Cleared
3 22 (32.35%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (30.88%) CCNA
5 8 (11.76%) Degree
6 5 (7.35%) CCNP
7 2 (2.94%) CCIE
7 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.47%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (1.47%) CCSA
8 1 (1.47%) CISSP
8 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.47%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.47%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.94%) vSphere
3 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (10.29%) FortiGate
2 5 (7.35%) OpenView
3 3 (4.41%) Ansible
3 3 (4.41%) Terraform
4 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (52.94%) Juniper
2 30 (44.12%) Cisco
3 9 (13.24%) F5
4 7 (10.29%) Aruba
5 5 (7.35%) CheckPoint
6 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 4 (5.88%) VMware
7 3 (4.41%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.94%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.94%) ProCurve
8 2 (2.94%) Synology
8 2 (2.94%) Veeam
8 2 (2.94%) Zerto
9 1 (1.47%) AlgoSec
9 1 (1.47%) Blue Coat
9 1 (1.47%) Mitel
9 1 (1.47%) Red Hat