Network Management Contracts

Network Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Network Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 445 603
Rank change year-on-year +100 +158 -58
Contract jobs citing Network Management 266 259 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.47% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.52% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 165 165
10th Percentile £180 £200 £199
25th Percentile £450 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £588
90th Percentile - £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £481 £415
% change year-on-year +7.21% +15.80% +14.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 12 18
10th Percentile £40.00 £21.48 £26.38
25th Percentile £45.63 £44.69 £49.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +11.11% +116.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £88.13 £60.38
90th Percentile £74.25 £101.25 £63.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £48.75 £54.00
% change year-on-year +43.59% -9.72% +145.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Network Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +124 248 £525 +5.79% 74
UK excluding London +99 232 £515 +7.21% 69
South West +82 119 £500 +150.00% 7
Work from Home +103 80 £490 -0.51% 29
South East +52 75 £650 +36.76% 12
London +46 25 £475 -13.64% 18
North of England +27 21 £515 +14.44% 17
North West +13 18 £514 +14.17% 11
Scotland +41 11 £340 -32.00% 15
East of England -34 4 £198 -71.79% 6
Yorkshire - 3 £610 - 5
Midlands +10 2 - - 10
West Midlands +9 2 - - 6

Network Management
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 27 (10.15%) Confluence
1 27 (10.15%) SharePoint
2 26 (9.77%) SharePoint Server
3 8 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.38%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 7 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 52 (19.55%) Azure
2 31 (11.65%) SaaS
3 28 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
4 27 (10.15%) Azure Stack
4 27 (10.15%) IaaS
4 27 (10.15%) PaaS
5 21 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.63%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.50%) AWS
8 1 (0.38%) GCP
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.38%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 85 (31.95%) BGP
2 79 (29.70%) WAN
3 65 (24.44%) Firewall
4 49 (18.42%) Cisco Firepower
5 43 (16.17%) LAN
6 35 (13.16%) MPLS
7 32 (12.03%) Wi-Fi
8 30 (11.28%) OSPF
9 27 (10.15%) NetScaler
10 26 (9.77%) SSL
11 25 (9.40%) Cisco ISE
12 24 (9.02%) IPsec
13 23 (8.65%) Cisco ASA
13 23 (8.65%) EIGRP
13 23 (8.65%) HSRP
14 20 (7.52%) DNS
15 16 (6.02%) DHCP
15 16 (6.02%) SNMP
16 12 (4.51%) Spanning Tree
17 11 (4.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.51%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.38%) GIS
3 1 (0.38%) Power BI
3 1 (0.38%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (10.15%) JIRA
2 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (22.93%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.42%) Public Sector
3 37 (13.91%) Finance
3 37 (13.91%) Telecoms
4 13 (4.89%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.38%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.88%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.13%) Banking
8 3 (1.13%) Billing
9 2 (0.75%) Legal
9 2 (0.75%) Military
10 1 (0.38%) Advertising
10 1 (0.38%) Electronics
10 1 (0.38%) French Language
10 1 (0.38%) Local Government
10 1 (0.38%) Marketing
10 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.38%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 121 (45.49%) Architect
2 119 (44.74%) Network Architect
3 51 (19.17%) Network Engineer
4 32 (12.03%) Lead
5 29 (10.90%) Lead Architect
6 28 (10.53%) Systems Architect
7 24 (9.02%) Analyst
8 23 (8.65%) Senior
9 14 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
10 13 (4.89%) Microsoft Engineer
11 12 (4.51%) Infrastructure Technician
12 10 (3.76%) IT Analyst
12 10 (3.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 9 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.38%) Support Engineer
14 8 (3.01%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 8 (3.01%) Infrastructure Support
14 8 (3.01%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
14 8 (3.01%) Senior Architect
14 8 (3.01%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.51%) Jinja
2 4 (1.50%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.13%) Django
3 3 (1.13%) JSON
3 3 (1.13%) REST
3 3 (1.13%) RESTful
3 3 (1.13%) YANG
4 1 (0.38%) .NET
4 1 (0.38%) Ajax
4 1 (0.38%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.38%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.38%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (0.38%) CSS
4 1 (0.38%) CSS3
4 1 (0.38%) HTML
4 1 (0.38%) HTML5
4 1 (0.38%) jQuery
4 1 (0.38%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (0.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (18.05%) Data Centre
2 30 (11.28%) Private Cloud
3 25 (9.40%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.51%) NHS
5 8 (3.01%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.01%) Clustering
6 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.13%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.38%) PKI
8 1 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 66 (24.81%) Windows
2 23 (8.65%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.01%) Unix
4 7 (2.63%) Linux
4 7 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (22.56%) ITIL
2 47 (17.67%) ITSM
3 40 (15.04%) Capacity Management
4 39 (14.66%) Network Design
5 34 (12.78%) SIEM
6 32 (12.03%) Service Management
7 31 (11.65%) Zero Trust
8 30 (11.28%) Open Source
9 28 (10.53%) Security Monitoring
9 28 (10.53%) Systems Engineering
10 27 (10.15%) Business Strategy
10 27 (10.15%) Customer Requirements
11 26 (9.77%) Strategic Thinking
11 26 (9.77%) Technical Leadership
12 25 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 20 (7.52%) Migration
14 18 (6.77%) Requirements Management
15 16 (6.02%) Change Management
15 16 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (5.64%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.02%) Python
2 15 (5.64%) PowerShell
3 12 (4.51%) Perl
3 12 (4.51%) Tcl
4 4 (1.50%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.50%) SQL
4 4 (1.50%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.13%) Bash
5 3 (1.13%) Java
6 1 (0.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 196 (73.68%) Security Cleared
2 88 (33.08%) SC Cleared
3 82 (30.83%) DV Cleared
4 40 (15.04%) Degree
5 15 (5.64%) CCNA
5 15 (5.64%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (5.26%) CCNP
7 7 (2.63%) MCSE
7 7 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.26%) MCP
9 3 (1.13%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.38%) CISA
10 1 (0.38%) CISM
10 1 (0.38%) CISSP
10 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.38%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.38%) PMP
10 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.77%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (0.38%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.38%) QA
2 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (10.90%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.02%) Firmware
3 11 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.01%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (3.01%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (9.77%) Endace
2 20 (7.52%) SCCM
3 17 (6.39%) Ansible
3 17 (6.39%) SCOM
4 9 (3.38%) WSUS
5 8 (3.01%) Microsoft Clustering
5 8 (3.01%) Nagios
5 8 (3.01%) NetBackup
6 5 (1.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.50%) Terraform
8 3 (1.13%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.75%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 71 (26.69%) Cisco
2 69 (25.94%) Microsoft
3 34 (12.78%) Palo Alto
4 33 (12.41%) Juniper
5 30 (11.28%) F5
6 29 (10.90%) Citrix
7 26 (9.77%) Atlassian
8 24 (9.02%) SolarWinds
9 23 (8.65%) VMware
10 13 (4.89%) Veeam
11 8 (3.01%) Hitachi
11 8 (3.01%) NetApp
12 7 (2.63%) Meraki
13 4 (1.50%) Ericsson
13 4 (1.50%) Nokia
14 3 (1.13%) Aruba
14 3 (1.13%) Fortinet
14 3 (1.13%) Genesys
14 3 (1.13%) Google
14 3 (1.13%) TOWER Software