Network Operations Engineer Contracts

Network Operations Engineer
UK

The median Network Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £425, 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 551 676 826
Rank change year-on-year +125 +150 -96
Contract jobs requiring a Network Operations Engineer 33 21 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.038% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.040% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 18
10th Percentile £352 £275 £394
25th Percentile £363 £325 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -17.07% +32.26%
75th Percentile £675 £500 £589
90th Percentile £700 £583 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £400 £543
% change year-on-year -6.25% -26.27% -

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 Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Operations Engineer in the UK

Network Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Operations Engineer in the UK

Network Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Operations Engineer in the UK

Network Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Operations Engineer in the UK

Network Operations Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Operations Engineer 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 +100 33 £425 -2.86% 6
London +103 23 £675 +42.11% 2
Work from Home +121 13 £345 -27.37% 4
UK excluding London +21 10 £375 -6.25% 4
North of England - 7 £375 -
South East +7 6 £375 -11.76% 2
North East - 6 £375 -
North West - 1 £416 -

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

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

1 27 (81.82%) Firewall
2 16 (48.48%) Cisco
3 15 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
4 11 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 10 (30.30%) Service Delivery
6 9 (27.27%) CCNP
6 9 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (27.27%) Public Sector
7 8 (24.24%) Juniper
8 7 (21.21%) Data Centre
8 7 (21.21%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (15.15%) High Availability
10 5 (15.15%) Incident Management
10 5 (15.15%) JNCIA
10 5 (15.15%) CCNA
11 4 (12.12%) CheckPoint
11 4 (12.12%) MPLS
11 4 (12.12%) OSPF
11 4 (12.12%) BGP
11 4 (12.12%) EIGRP
11 4 (12.12%) Change Management
11 4 (12.12%) Finance
11 4 (12.12%) JNCIS
11 4 (12.12%) F5
11 4 (12.12%) Palo Alto
11 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (9.09%) Low Latency
12 3 (9.09%) Ansible

Network Operations Engineer 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.03%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 27 (81.82%) Firewall
2 7 (21.21%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (12.12%) BGP
4 4 (12.12%) EIGRP
4 4 (12.12%) MPLS
4 4 (12.12%) OSPF
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (6.06%) LAN
5 2 (6.06%) WAN
5 2 (6.06%) Wireless
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (3.03%) DMZ
6 1 (3.03%) IP Telephony
6 1 (3.03%) Network Security
6 1 (3.03%) NX-OS
6 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.03%) VPN
General
1 9 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) CMDB
2 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 10 (30.30%) Service Delivery
3 5 (15.15%) High Availability
3 5 (15.15%) Incident Management
4 4 (12.12%) Change Management
4 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (9.09%) Low Latency
6 2 (6.06%) Data Centre Operations
6 2 (6.06%) Network Monitoring
7 1 (3.03%) Agile
7 1 (3.03%) Data Protection
7 1 (3.03%) Incident Response
7 1 (3.03%) ITSM
7 1 (3.03%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) DV Cleared
1 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) CCNP
2 9 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (15.15%) CCNA
3 5 (15.15%) JNCIA
4 4 (12.12%) JNCIS
5 3 (9.09%) CCIE
6 1 (3.03%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Cisco
2 8 (24.24%) Juniper
3 4 (12.12%) CheckPoint
3 4 (12.12%) F5
3 4 (12.12%) Palo Alto
4 3 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 3 (9.09%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.06%) Arista
6 1 (3.03%) Blue Coat