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 £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 131 232
Rank change year-on-year +5 +101 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 252 458 516
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.73% 1.89% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% 1.98% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 299 347
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +5.08% +10.71%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £548
90th Percentile £650 £600 £602
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% +16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile £16.33 £18.50 £25.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £51.37 £25.50
Median hourly rate £20.74 £78.50 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -73.58% +176.31% -60.81%
75th Percentile £23.75 £80.25 £29.79
90th Percentile £24.80 £81.00 £41.53
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £62.62 £45.38
% change year-on-year -36.12% +37.99% +14.87%

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 13,614 23,092 42,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,191 16,381 30,896
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 531 571
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +37.60% +64.39%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.23 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

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 3 June 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 3 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 147 (58.33%) Cisco
2 121 (48.02%) Firewall
3 93 (36.90%) Cisco Certification
4 79 (31.35%) CCNP
5 66 (26.19%) BGP
6 57 (22.62%) Palo Alto
7 53 (21.03%) OSPF
8 51 (20.24%) Fortinet
9 50 (19.84%) F5
10 48 (19.05%) Finance
10 48 (19.05%) CCNA
11 45 (17.86%) Network Security
12 43 (17.06%) Security Cleared
13 42 (16.67%) WAN
14 39 (15.48%) Social Skills
15 38 (15.08%) Python
16 33 (13.10%) LAN
16 33 (13.10%) VPN
16 33 (13.10%) Cisco ASA
17 31 (12.30%) SD-WAN
17 31 (12.30%) Ansible
18 30 (11.90%) Cisco Nexus
19 29 (11.51%) SC Cleared
19 29 (11.51%) SolarWinds
19 29 (11.51%) MPLS
20 28 (11.11%) EIGRP
20 28 (11.11%) CCIE
20 28 (11.11%) Juniper
21 27 (10.71%) Wireless
22 25 (9.92%) IPsec

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 3 (1.19%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (0.79%) nginx
3 1 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.14%) AWS
2 16 (6.35%) Azure
3 6 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.19%) WhatsApp
5 2 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (0.79%) GCP
5 2 (0.79%) GitHub
6 1 (0.40%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.40%) IaaS
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 121 (48.02%) Firewall
2 66 (26.19%) BGP
3 53 (21.03%) OSPF
4 45 (17.86%) Network Security
5 42 (16.67%) WAN
6 33 (13.10%) Cisco ASA
6 33 (13.10%) LAN
6 33 (13.10%) VPN
7 31 (12.30%) SD-WAN
8 30 (11.90%) Cisco Nexus
9 29 (11.51%) MPLS
10 28 (11.11%) EIGRP
11 27 (10.71%) Wireless
12 25 (9.92%) IPsec
13 24 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
14 23 (9.13%) DNS
15 19 (7.54%) Cisco Firepower
15 19 (7.54%) Wi-Fi
16 17 (6.75%) TCP/IP
17 16 (6.35%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.98%) QGIS
2 3 (1.19%) NonStop SQL
2 3 (1.19%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.19%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.19%) JIRA
3 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.40%) GitLab
3 1 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (19.05%) Finance
2 39 (15.48%) Social Skills
3 25 (9.92%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.14%) Banking
6 12 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 12 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Retail
10 3 (1.19%) Legal
11 2 (0.79%) Marketing
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Back Office
12 1 (0.40%) German Language
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Military
12 1 (0.40%) Police
12 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.38%) Jinja
1 6 (2.38%) JSON
2 3 (1.19%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.19%) Django
2 3 (1.19%) REST
2 3 (1.19%) RESTful
2 3 (1.19%) YANG
3 2 (0.79%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.40%) J2EE
4 1 (0.40%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.73%) Data Centre
2 9 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.98%) Clustering
4 5 (1.98%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.19%) NHS
6 2 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.79%) Cyberattack
6 2 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.79%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.79%) PKI
6 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.40%) CCTV
7 1 (0.40%) FMCG
7 1 (0.40%) IPTV
7 1 (0.40%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.75%) Linux
2 11 (4.37%) Unix
3 6 (2.38%) Windows
4 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.19%) CentOS
5 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.79%) Debian
6 2 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (9.13%) Network Design
3 22 (8.73%) Change Management
4 21 (8.33%) Migration
5 18 (7.14%) Network Management
6 16 (6.35%) ITIL
6 16 (6.35%) Low Latency
7 14 (5.56%) DevOps
7 14 (5.56%) ITSM
8 13 (5.16%) High Availability
9 12 (4.76%) Load Balancing
10 10 (3.97%) Agile
10 10 (3.97%) OO
11 9 (3.57%) Investment Management
12 8 (3.17%) Platform Engineering
13 7 (2.78%) Configuration Management
14 6 (2.38%) Incident Management
14 6 (2.38%) Knowledge Transfer
14 6 (2.38%) Roadmaps
14 6 (2.38%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 38 (15.08%) Python
2 13 (5.16%) Perl
3 6 (2.38%) Tcl
4 5 (1.98%) Bash
4 5 (1.98%) Java
4 5 (1.98%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.98%) SQL
5 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.79%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 93 (36.90%) Cisco Certification
2 79 (31.35%) CCNP
3 48 (19.05%) CCNA
4 43 (17.06%) Security Cleared
5 29 (11.51%) SC Cleared
6 28 (11.11%) CCIE
7 13 (5.16%) JNCIA
8 12 (4.76%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.57%) Degree
10 8 (3.17%) CCDP
10 8 (3.17%) JNCIS
11 7 (2.78%) CISSP
12 6 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.19%) CCSA
14 2 (0.79%) BC Cleared
14 2 (0.79%) CCIP
14 2 (0.79%) CEH
14 2 (0.79%) CISM
14 2 (0.79%) JNCIE
14 2 (0.79%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.97%) SLA
2 3 (1.19%) QA
3 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (4.37%) Firmware
2 4 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.59%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.79%) Squid
3 2 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) Docker
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (12.30%) Ansible
2 11 (4.37%) FortiGate
3 7 (2.78%) Terraform
4 3 (1.19%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (1.19%) Kibana
5 2 (0.79%) HAProxy
5 2 (0.79%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 2 (0.79%) Puppet
5 2 (0.79%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.40%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.40%) Endace
6 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.40%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 147 (58.33%) Cisco
2 57 (22.62%) Palo Alto
3 51 (20.24%) Fortinet
4 50 (19.84%) F5
5 29 (11.51%) SolarWinds
6 28 (11.11%) Juniper
7 23 (9.13%) CheckPoint
8 17 (6.75%) Aruba
9 15 (5.95%) Citrix
10 13 (5.16%) Arista
11 12 (4.76%) Microsoft
12 10 (3.97%) Meraki
13 9 (3.57%) Nokia
14 8 (3.17%) Zscaler
15 7 (2.78%) Infoblox
16 6 (2.38%) Riverbed
17 5 (1.98%) VMware
18 4 (1.59%) AlgoSec
18 4 (1.59%) Extreme Networks
18 4 (1.59%) Splunk