Network Design Contracts

Network Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 437 465
Rank change year-on-year +82 +28 -54
Contract jobs citing Network Design 255 287 442
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.53% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 166 293
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -12.97% +20.95%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £650
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £489 £513
% change year-on-year -7.93% -4.63% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 9
10th Percentile £23.55 £62.00 £24.15
25th Percentile £24.00 £63.23 £26.75
Median hourly rate £47.25 £70.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +62.79% +7.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £51.45
90th Percentile - - £59.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £50.49
% change year-on-year - +38.66% +55.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Design over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +106 233 £475 -5.00% 82
UK excluding London +74 169 £450 -7.93% 69
South East +39 89 £450 -9.09% 24
London +86 60 £575 +2.22% 19
Work from Home +34 59 £536 +7.25% 44
Midlands +47 31 £375 -15.73% 12
West Midlands +52 30 £375 -18.03% 7
South West +8 18 £294 -33.24% 8
North of England +18 15 £475 -7.32% 12
East of England +7 13 £475 -5.00% 4
Yorkshire +24 7 £475 -13.64% 5
North West +11 7 £475 -5.00% 5
Scotland +26 2 £600 +26.32% 7
East Midlands +17 1 - - 5
Wales +9 1 £450 -14.29% 1
North East - 1 - - 2

Network Design
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 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.78%) Revit
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (5.88%) Azure
2 12 (4.71%) AWS
3 10 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (2.35%) GCP
5 3 (1.18%) Cloudflare
6 2 (0.78%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.39%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (0.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.39%) IaaS
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.39%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.39%) PaaS
7 1 (0.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 106 (41.57%) BGP
2 102 (40.00%) Firewall
3 91 (35.69%) WAN
4 76 (29.80%) MPLS
5 60 (23.53%) VPN
6 49 (19.22%) Network Security
7 44 (17.25%) OSPF
8 34 (13.33%) EIGRP
9 31 (12.16%) Wireless
10 29 (11.37%) Cisco Firepower
10 29 (11.37%) LAN
11 28 (10.98%) IPsec
12 26 (10.20%) 4G
13 25 (9.80%) SSL
14 23 (9.02%) 5G
14 23 (9.02%) DMVPN
14 23 (9.02%) Junos
15 19 (7.45%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
17 14 (5.49%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.39%) Big Data
1 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (4.71%) Git
2 3 (1.18%) JIRA
3 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.39%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
General
1 44 (17.25%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.73%) Finance
3 24 (9.41%) Telecoms
4 23 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.71%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.14%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.78%) Local Government
7 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.39%) Advertising
8 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.39%) Law
8 1 (0.39%) Legal
8 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 120 (47.06%) Network Engineer
2 49 (19.22%) Architect
3 45 (17.65%) Network Architect
4 31 (12.16%) Design Engineer
4 31 (12.16%) Network Design Engineer
4 31 (12.16%) Senior
5 30 (11.76%) Network Specialist
6 19 (7.45%) Cisco Engineer
6 19 (7.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 18 (7.06%) 3rd Line Support
7 18 (7.06%) Network Support
8 17 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
9 13 (5.10%) Consultant
10 12 (4.71%) Network Consultant
11 8 (3.14%) Network Design Specialist
12 7 (2.75%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 7 (2.75%) Senior Consultant
12 7 (2.75%) Senior Network Consultant
13 6 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (2.35%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.88%) XML
2 13 (5.10%) JSON
2 13 (5.10%) NETCONF
2 13 (5.10%) YANG
3 6 (2.35%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.18%) EDI
5 2 (0.78%) XSLT
6 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.02%) Data Centre
2 21 (8.24%) PKI
3 8 (3.14%) Distributed Architecture
4 7 (2.75%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.57%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.18%) CCTV
7 3 (1.18%) SCADA
8 2 (0.78%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.39%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.39%) Clustering
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.39%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.39%) NHS
9 1 (0.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.96%) Linux
2 4 (1.57%) Windows
3 3 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.78%) Unix
4 2 (0.78%) zOS
5 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (20.39%) Customer Requirements
2 45 (17.65%) Load Balancing
3 34 (13.33%) Network Management
4 26 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
5 24 (9.41%) Network Virtualisation
6 23 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (6.67%) DevOps
7 17 (6.67%) High Availability
7 17 (6.67%) Project Management
8 16 (6.27%) Roadmaps
8 16 (6.27%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 15 (5.88%) Network Architecture
10 14 (5.49%) Migration
11 13 (5.10%) Business Strategy
12 11 (4.31%) Agile
12 11 (4.31%) Requirements Gathering
13 10 (3.92%) Configuration Management
14 9 (3.53%) Business Case
15 8 (3.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 8 (3.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (9.02%) Python
2 2 (0.78%) Java
3 1 (0.39%) Go
Qualifications
1 131 (51.37%) Security Cleared
2 51 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 43 (16.86%) CCNP
3 43 (16.86%) SC Cleared
4 29 (11.37%) DV Cleared
5 23 (9.02%) CCIE
6 19 (7.45%) CCNA
7 12 (4.71%) Degree
8 3 (1.18%) CCDP
8 3 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.78%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.78%) CCIP
9 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.78%) JNCIP
9 2 (0.78%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.39%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (0.39%) CCIE Service Provider
10 1 (0.39%) CISSP
10 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.78%) GDPR
1 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (0.78%) NIST
1 2 (0.78%) QA
1 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (0.78%) SLA
2 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (0.39%) JSP 440
System Software
1 11 (4.31%) VMware NSX
2 10 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.39%) Docker
4 1 (0.39%) KVM
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (13.73%) FortiGate
2 25 (9.80%) Endace
3 11 (4.31%) Ansible
4 2 (0.78%) CASB
4 2 (0.78%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.78%) Terraform
5 1 (0.39%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.39%) Nagios
5 1 (0.39%) Puppet
5 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 169 (66.27%) Cisco
2 112 (43.92%) Juniper
3 71 (27.84%) Fortinet
4 44 (17.25%) F5
5 38 (14.90%) Palo Alto
6 31 (12.16%) Nokia
7 15 (5.88%) VMware
8 13 (5.10%) Huawei
9 12 (4.71%) CheckPoint
10 11 (4.31%) Actix
10 11 (4.31%) Ericsson
11 9 (3.53%) Meraki
12 7 (2.75%) Google
13 5 (1.96%) Extreme Networks
14 4 (1.57%) Dell
14 4 (1.57%) Microsoft
14 4 (1.57%) Zscaler
15 3 (1.18%) Arista
15 3 (1.18%) SolarWinds
16 2 (0.78%) Ekahau