Network Design Contracts in England

Network Design
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Network Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Design over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 447 455
Rank change year-on-year +125 +8 -55
Contract jobs citing Network Design 233 197 340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.64% 0.41% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.45% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 99 216
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £422 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £638
90th Percentile £638 £778 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £563
% change year-on-year -5.00% -11.11% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 21 8
10th Percentile - £62.00 £23.45
25th Percentile £23.25 £63.23 £35.38
Median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £46.60
Median % change year-on-year -66.43% +50.21% +13.20%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £53.28
90th Percentile - - £59.88
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £46.60
% change year-on-year -66.43% +50.21% +13.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Network Design 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,440 43,538 63,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.46% 90.17% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,583 30,556 45,375
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,239 1,538 1,750
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +6.79%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Network Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in England

Network Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Design in England

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in England

Network Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Design in England

Network Design
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 Design within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
South East +66 93 £450 -5.26% 20
London +77 49 £588 +4.44% 28
Midlands +61 38 £375 -15.73% 15
West Midlands +47 32 £375 -9.64% 11
North of England +20 20 £475 -9.52% 16
South West +14 20 £288 -34.66% 13
North West +11 9 £463 -7.50% 7
Yorkshire +23 7 £475 -13.64% 7
East of England +2 7 £475 -5.00% 5
East Midlands +16 6 £550 +23.60% 4
North East - 4 - - 2
Network Design
UK

Network Design
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:

Applications
1 2 (0.86%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.86%) Revit
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (3.86%) AWS
1 9 (3.86%) Azure
2 6 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (1.72%) GCP
4 3 (1.29%) Cloudflare
5 2 (0.86%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.43%) IaaS
6 1 (0.43%) PaaS
6 1 (0.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (41.20%) BGP
2 83 (35.62%) WAN
3 75 (32.19%) Firewall
4 72 (30.90%) MPLS
5 52 (22.32%) VPN
6 36 (15.45%) Network Security
6 36 (15.45%) OSPF
7 33 (14.16%) Cisco Firepower
8 29 (12.45%) Wireless
9 28 (12.02%) IPsec
10 27 (11.59%) EIGRP
11 26 (11.16%) SSL
12 25 (10.73%) 4G
12 25 (10.73%) Junos
13 22 (9.44%) 5G
13 22 (9.44%) DMVPN
13 22 (9.44%) LAN
14 15 (6.44%) Radio Access Network
15 14 (6.01%) 3GPP
15 14 (6.01%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.29%) DB2
1 3 (1.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (3.00%) Git
2 2 (0.86%) JIRA
General
1 36 (15.45%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.59%) Finance
3 23 (9.87%) Telecoms
4 22 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.72%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.86%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.29%) Banking
8 2 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Advertising
9 1 (0.43%) Automotive
9 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Law
9 1 (0.43%) Legal
9 1 (0.43%) Local Government
9 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 103 (44.21%) Network Engineer
2 55 (23.61%) Architect
3 49 (21.03%) Network Architect
4 25 (10.73%) Network Specialist
5 24 (10.30%) Design Engineer
6 23 (9.87%) Network Design Engineer
7 20 (8.58%) 3rd Line Support
7 20 (8.58%) Network Support
8 16 (6.87%) Senior
9 15 (6.44%) Cisco Engineer
9 15 (6.44%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 11 (4.72%) Senior Network Engineer
11 7 (3.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 6 (2.58%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 6 (2.58%) Network Design Specialist
13 5 (2.15%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (2.15%) Consultant
13 5 (2.15%) Senior Architect
13 5 (2.15%) Senior Network Architect
14 4 (1.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.29%) XML
2 8 (3.43%) JSON
2 8 (3.43%) NETCONF
2 8 (3.43%) YANG
3 4 (1.72%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.29%) EDI
4 3 (1.29%) Web Services
5 2 (0.86%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.01%) PKI
2 14 (6.01%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.58%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (2.58%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.72%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.29%) CCTV
5 3 (1.29%) SCADA
6 2 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.86%) LPAR
6 2 (0.86%) NHS
6 2 (0.86%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.58%) Linux
2 5 (2.15%) zOS
3 3 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.29%) Windows
4 2 (0.86%) Unix
4 2 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (23.18%) Customer Requirements
2 41 (17.60%) Load Balancing
3 35 (15.02%) Network Management
4 29 (12.45%) Technical Leadership
5 26 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (8.15%) Project Management
7 14 (6.01%) High Availability
8 13 (5.58%) Migration
8 13 (5.58%) Network Virtualisation
9 12 (5.15%) Network Architecture
9 12 (5.15%) Roadmaps
10 11 (4.72%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 10 (4.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (3.86%) Capacity Planning
13 8 (3.43%) Business Strategy
13 8 (3.43%) Computer Science
13 8 (3.43%) DevOps
13 8 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (3.43%) Requirements Gathering
14 7 (3.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.72%) Python
2 2 (0.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 121 (51.93%) Security Cleared
2 38 (16.31%) SC Cleared
3 33 (14.16%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (12.45%) DV Cleared
5 27 (11.59%) CCNP
6 18 (7.73%) CCNA
7 11 (4.72%) CCIE
7 11 (4.72%) Degree
8 5 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.86%) CCDP
10 2 (0.86%) JNCIP
10 2 (0.86%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.43%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.43%) CCIE Data Center
11 1 (0.43%) CCIP
11 1 (0.43%) CISM
11 1 (0.43%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.72%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.29%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.86%) GDPR
3 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.86%) NIST
3 2 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.86%) SLA
4 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.72%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (12.88%) FortiGate
2 29 (12.45%) Endace
3 6 (2.58%) Ansible
4 1 (0.43%) CASB
4 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 138 (59.23%) Cisco
2 105 (45.06%) Juniper
3 62 (26.61%) Fortinet
4 44 (18.88%) F5
5 28 (12.02%) Nokia
6 21 (9.01%) Palo Alto
7 14 (6.01%) Ericsson
7 14 (6.01%) Huawei
8 12 (5.15%) Actix
9 8 (3.43%) CheckPoint
10 7 (3.00%) Meraki
11 6 (2.58%) VMware
12 5 (2.15%) Google
13 4 (1.72%) Dell
13 4 (1.72%) Extreme Networks
13 4 (1.72%) Zscaler
14 3 (1.29%) IBM
14 3 (1.29%) SAP
15 2 (0.86%) Citrix
15 2 (0.86%) Microsoft