Senior Network Engineer Contracts

Senior Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £513, 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 445 537 692
Rank change year-on-year +92 +155 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 140 161 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.29% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.31% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 97 95
10th Percentile £350 £425 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% +0.10% +8.33%
75th Percentile £572 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £619 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £480 £475
% change year-on-year +6.77% +1.05% +12.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.75 - -
Median hourly rate £73.50 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% - -
75th Percentile £76.12 £71.50 -
90th Percentile £76.64 £74.79 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.50 £66.00 -
% change year-on-year +11.36% - -

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%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
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 Senior Network 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 +95 135 £513 +5.13% 43
UK excluding London +7 72 £513 +6.77% 39
London +108 62 £525 -2.33% 13
South East +34 48 £513 +5.34% 15
Work from Home +71 35 £563 +15.38% 23
North of England +5 18 £513 +10.81% 4
North West +7 17 £514 +11.08% 1
Scotland +43 2 £550 +4.76% 4
Midlands +12 2 £550 +22.22% 8
East of England -8 2 - - 1
West Midlands +12 1 - - 5
North East - 1 £450 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 3

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

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

1 95 (67.86%) Cisco
2 69 (49.29%) Firewall
3 66 (47.14%) Cisco Certification
4 36 (25.71%) CheckPoint
4 36 (25.71%) Security Cleared
5 35 (25.00%) CCNP
6 33 (23.57%) Migration
7 32 (22.86%) Banking
7 32 (22.86%) Palo Alto
8 30 (21.43%) WAN
9 29 (20.71%) Finance
10 27 (19.29%) LAN
10 27 (19.29%) DMZ
11 26 (18.57%) Arista
12 25 (17.86%) Network Security
12 25 (17.86%) CCNA
12 25 (17.86%) B2B
13 23 (16.43%) BGP
14 20 (14.29%) OSPF
15 19 (13.57%) SolarWinds
15 19 (13.57%) Public Sector
16 18 (12.86%) IPsec
16 18 (12.86%) Change Management
17 17 (12.14%) EIGRP
17 17 (12.14%) Juniper
17 17 (12.14%) DV Cleared
18 16 (11.43%) AWS
18 16 (11.43%) Cisco ASA
19 15 (10.71%) Network Management
19 15 (10.71%) DNS

Senior Network 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.43%) nginx
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (11.43%) AWS
2 10 (7.14%) Azure
3 5 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (3.57%) OCI
4 3 (2.14%) GCP
5 2 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.43%) Cloudflare
5 2 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) GitHub
6 1 (0.71%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (49.29%) Firewall
2 30 (21.43%) WAN
3 27 (19.29%) DMZ
3 27 (19.29%) LAN
4 25 (17.86%) Network Security
5 23 (16.43%) BGP
6 20 (14.29%) OSPF
7 18 (12.86%) IPsec
8 17 (12.14%) EIGRP
9 16 (11.43%) Cisco ASA
10 15 (10.71%) DNS
10 15 (10.71%) Wireless
11 14 (10.00%) HSRP
11 14 (10.00%) VPN
12 11 (7.86%) Cisco ISE
12 11 (7.86%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (7.86%) DHCP
12 11 (7.86%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (7.14%) MPLS
13 10 (7.14%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.14%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.71%) JIRA
General
1 32 (22.86%) Banking
2 29 (20.71%) Finance
3 19 (13.57%) Public Sector
4 14 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 8 (5.71%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Legal
7 3 (2.14%) Military
8 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.71%) Jinja
2 5 (3.57%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.71%) JSON
3 1 (0.71%) Web Services
3 1 (0.71%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.14%) PKI
3 2 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.71%) CMDB
4 1 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.71%) Life Science
4 1 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.86%) Linux
2 3 (2.14%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.57%) Migration
2 25 (17.86%) B2B
3 18 (12.86%) Change Management
4 15 (10.71%) Network Management
5 13 (9.29%) Service Delivery
6 12 (8.57%) Network Design
7 11 (7.86%) DevOps
7 11 (7.86%) ITIL
7 11 (7.86%) Roadmaps
8 9 (6.43%) ITSM
9 8 (5.71%) Availability Management
9 8 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (5.00%) Line Management
10 7 (5.00%) Network Architecture
11 6 (4.29%) Computer Science
11 6 (4.29%) Impact Analysis
11 6 (4.29%) Load Balancing
11 6 (4.29%) Low Latency
12 5 (3.57%) Network Monitoring
12 5 (3.57%) Network Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.71%) Python
2 8 (5.71%) Perl
2 8 (5.71%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 66 (47.14%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (25.71%) Security Cleared
3 35 (25.00%) CCNP
4 25 (17.86%) CCNA
5 17 (12.14%) DV Cleared
6 14 (10.00%) SC Cleared
7 9 (6.43%) CCIE
8 7 (5.00%) AWS Certification
9 5 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.57%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.14%) Degree
11 1 (0.71%) CCIE Data Center
11 1 (0.71%) CCNA CyberOps
11 1 (0.71%) CCSA
11 1 (0.71%) CCSE
11 1 (0.71%) Check Point Certification
11 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.71%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.71%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (7.14%) Firmware
2 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.43%) Squid
3 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (7.14%) Ansible
2 8 (5.71%) FortiGate
2 8 (5.71%) Terraform
3 6 (4.29%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (1.43%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (1.43%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.71%) Netcool
5 1 (0.71%) NetMRI
Vendors
1 95 (67.86%) Cisco
2 36 (25.71%) CheckPoint
3 32 (22.86%) Palo Alto
4 26 (18.57%) Arista
5 19 (13.57%) SolarWinds
6 17 (12.14%) Juniper
7 11 (7.86%) Citrix
7 11 (7.86%) F5
7 11 (7.86%) Fortinet
8 9 (6.43%) Microsoft
9 7 (5.00%) Google
10 6 (4.29%) Infoblox
11 5 (3.57%) Meraki
12 2 (1.43%) Blue Coat
12 2 (1.43%) Dell
12 2 (1.43%) HP
12 2 (1.43%) Zscaler
13 1 (0.71%) CA
13 1 (0.71%) Nokia
13 1 (0.71%) WatchGuard