Network Engineer Contracts in England

Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Engineer daily rate in England is £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 87 127
Rank change year-on-year -33 +40 +98
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 596 929 945
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.34% 2.49% 2.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.54% 2.68% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 587 628
10th Percentile £325 £300 £264
25th Percentile £400 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £636
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 30
10th Percentile £22.41 £18.33 £21.88
25th Percentile £32.50 £22.83 £33.16
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -35.48% +118.23%
75th Percentile £61.25 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.25 £75.24 £80.33
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -35.48% +56.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 23,430 34,648 44,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.87% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,353 22,650 31,596
10th Percentile £293 £295 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 2,591 1,341
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% -10.11% +76.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.54 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £43.81
% change year-on-year -28.00% -14.39% +71.78%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 June 2025. 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
London +1 243 £500 - 250
North of England +9 132 £492 +10.56% 64
North West -1 92 £500 +11.11% 30
South East -33 89 £500 - 99
South West +2 56 £525 +7.69% 38
Midlands -32 46 £430 +18.62% 44
Yorkshire +16 38 £492 +15.76% 26
West Midlands -27 33 £275 -21.43% 33
East of England +34 25 £383 +27.50% 30
East Midlands -6 13 £450 - 11
North East 0 2 £288 -32.35% 9
Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 June 2025, 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 England region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 421 (70.64%) Cisco
2 347 (58.22%) Firewall
3 225 (37.75%) Cisco Certification
4 185 (31.04%) Security Cleared
5 183 (30.70%) BGP
6 163 (27.35%) WAN
7 160 (26.85%) CCNP
8 151 (25.34%) OSPF
9 149 (25.00%) SC Cleared
10 142 (23.83%) VPN
11 141 (23.66%) Palo Alto
12 138 (23.15%) Network Security
13 128 (21.48%) Social Skills
14 127 (21.31%) Ansible
15 116 (19.46%) CheckPoint
16 113 (18.96%) Python
17 112 (18.79%) Data Centre
18 109 (18.29%) DNS
19 108 (18.12%) LAN
20 100 (16.78%) Migration
21 90 (15.10%) Wireless
21 90 (15.10%) CCNA
22 85 (14.26%) Juniper
22 85 (14.26%) F5
23 80 (13.42%) Cisco Nexus
23 80 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
24 78 (13.09%) MPLS
25 77 (12.92%) Azure
26 73 (12.25%) Network Monitoring
27 72 (12.08%) AWS

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (1.51%) Confluence
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.67%) nginx
2 4 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.17%) Apache
3 1 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (0.17%) IIS
3 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 21 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 77 (12.92%) Azure
2 72 (12.08%) AWS
3 18 (3.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 9 (1.51%) Akamai
5 6 (1.01%) Cloudflare
5 6 (1.01%) GitHub
6 5 (0.84%) GCP
7 3 (0.50%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (0.34%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.34%) IaaS
8 2 (0.34%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.34%) Route 53
8 2 (0.34%) SaaS
8 2 (0.34%) Serverless
8 2 (0.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 347 (58.22%) Firewall
2 183 (30.70%) BGP
3 163 (27.35%) WAN
4 151 (25.34%) OSPF
5 142 (23.83%) VPN
6 138 (23.15%) Network Security
7 109 (18.29%) DNS
8 108 (18.12%) LAN
9 90 (15.10%) Wireless
10 80 (13.42%) Cisco Nexus
11 78 (13.09%) MPLS
12 72 (12.08%) Cisco ASA
13 69 (11.58%) IPsec
14 68 (11.41%) Wi-Fi
15 62 (10.40%) Cisco Firepower
16 61 (10.23%) DHCP
17 59 (9.90%) Cisco ISE
18 58 (9.73%) SD-WAN
19 57 (9.56%) EIGRP
20 50 (8.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.67%) Oracle Database
1 4 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (3.02%) Sonatype Nexus
2 14 (2.35%) JIRA
3 12 (2.01%) GitLab
4 8 (1.34%) Git
5 4 (0.67%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.34%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.17%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.17%) Subversion
General
1 128 (21.48%) Social Skills
2 60 (10.07%) Finance
3 50 (8.39%) Telecoms
4 49 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.54%) Public Sector
6 21 (3.52%) Banking
7 12 (2.01%) Manufacturing
8 11 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.17%) Legal
10 6 (1.01%) Law
11 5 (0.84%) Advertising
11 5 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.84%) Local Government
11 5 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Multimedia
14 2 (0.34%) Automotive
14 2 (0.34%) Electronics
14 2 (0.34%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.54%) 802.1X
2 16 (2.68%) ADO
3 8 (1.34%) NETCONF
3 8 (1.34%) RESTCONF
4 7 (1.17%) JSON
5 6 (1.01%) RFC 2544
6 5 (0.84%) Spine.js
6 5 (0.84%) XML
7 4 (0.67%) REST
8 2 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.34%) HTML
8 2 (0.34%) YAML
9 1 (0.17%) CSS
9 1 (0.17%) gRPC
9 1 (0.17%) Jinja
9 1 (0.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 112 (18.79%) Data Centre
2 18 (3.02%) PKI
3 16 (2.68%) Anti-Spyware
4 13 (2.18%) Hedge funds
5 12 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.51%) Fibre Optics
6 9 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.34%) CMDB
7 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.34%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.17%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.84%) Cloud Native
9 5 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (0.84%) NHS
9 5 (0.84%) Private Cloud
9 5 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (0.67%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.88%) Linux
2 23 (3.86%) Windows
3 15 (2.52%) Unix
4 11 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.84%) CatOS
6 4 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.50%) CentOS
7 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.34%) SUSE
8 2 (0.34%) VMS
8 2 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) Rocky
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (16.78%) Migration
2 80 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (12.25%) Network Monitoring
4 60 (10.07%) Network Architecture
4 60 (10.07%) Network Design
5 58 (9.73%) Load Balancing
6 49 (8.22%) Agile
7 48 (8.05%) ITIL
8 41 (6.88%) Network Management
9 38 (6.38%) Validation
10 34 (5.70%) Computer Science
10 34 (5.70%) Service Management
11 30 (5.03%) Change Management
11 30 (5.03%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (4.19%) Project Delivery
13 23 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 22 (3.69%) DevOps
14 22 (3.69%) Low Latency
15 21 (3.52%) Configuration Management
15 21 (3.52%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 113 (18.96%) Python
2 15 (2.52%) Bash
3 12 (2.01%) Perl
3 12 (2.01%) PowerShell
4 11 (1.85%) Java
5 10 (1.68%) SQL
6 8 (1.34%) VB
7 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.67%) Tcl
8 3 (0.50%) SystemVerilog
9 2 (0.34%) C++
10 1 (0.17%) Go
10 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.17%) JCL
10 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.17%) PHP
10 1 (0.17%) REXX
10 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 225 (37.75%) Cisco Certification
2 185 (31.04%) Security Cleared
3 160 (26.85%) CCNP
4 149 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 90 (15.10%) CCNA
6 63 (10.57%) Degree
7 36 (6.04%) CCIE
7 36 (6.04%) DV Cleared
8 32 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.18%) JNCIA
10 8 (1.34%) JNCIS
11 6 (1.01%) CCIE Service Provider
11 6 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (0.84%) CCSA
12 5 (0.84%) CCSE
12 5 (0.84%) CISSP
12 5 (0.84%) ISEB
12 5 (0.84%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.52%) SLA
2 5 (0.84%) QA
3 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.34%) NCSC
3 2 (0.34%) NIST
3 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.17%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.17%) GDPR
4 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.35%) Firmware
4 10 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.51%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.67%) Docker
7 4 (0.67%) iptables
8 3 (0.50%) Ceph
8 3 (0.50%) FreeRADIUS
9 2 (0.34%) vSphere
10 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 127 (21.31%) Ansible
2 50 (8.39%) Terraform
3 33 (5.54%) FortiGate
4 16 (2.68%) ZABBIX
5 13 (2.18%) Puppet
6 11 (1.85%) Nagios
7 10 (1.68%) Cisco Prime
8 7 (1.17%) CASB
8 7 (1.17%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.84%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.67%) Grafana
10 4 (0.67%) Kubernetes
10 4 (0.67%) Netcool
11 3 (0.50%) Cacti
11 3 (0.50%) Cisco UCCE
11 3 (0.50%) OpenView
11 3 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.50%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.50%) SCCM
11 3 (0.50%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 421 (70.64%) Cisco
2 141 (23.66%) Palo Alto
3 116 (19.46%) CheckPoint
4 85 (14.26%) F5
4 85 (14.26%) Juniper
5 71 (11.91%) SolarWinds
6 65 (10.91%) Fortinet
7 61 (10.23%) Arista
8 49 (8.22%) Microsoft
9 45 (7.55%) Meraki
10 41 (6.88%) VMware
11 40 (6.71%) Infoblox
12 35 (5.87%) Aruba
13 27 (4.53%) Zscaler
14 18 (3.02%) Nokia
15 16 (2.68%) ServiceNow
16 13 (2.18%) Citrix
17 12 (2.01%) Splunk
18 11 (1.85%) HP
19 8 (1.34%) Atlassian
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