Network Design Jobs in the West Midlands

Network Design
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Network Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Network Design over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 233 291
Rank change year-on-year -7 +58 -86
Permanent jobs citing Network Design 23 20 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.35% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.36% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18 16 6
10th Percentile - £38,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +17.07% -2.38%
75th Percentile £115,000 £72,750 £60,313
90th Percentile - £81,875 £62,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Network Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,880 5,588 7,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.26% 96.69% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,789 3,127 4,852
10th Percentile £26,700 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £39,967 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Network Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in the West Midlands

Network Design
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Design in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Network Design in the West Midlands

Network Design
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Design in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Design in the West Midlands

Network Design
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Design within the West Midlands region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -12 18 £80,000 +22.61% 1
Warwickshire - 4 - -
Coventry - 1 - -
Network Design
England

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
1 1 (4.35%) Simulink
1 1 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) IaaS
3 6 (26.09%) PaaS
4 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
4 4 (17.39%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.35%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) BGP
1 9 (39.13%) MPLS
1 9 (39.13%) WAN
2 7 (30.43%) SD-WAN
3 6 (26.09%) NGFW
3 6 (26.09%) VPN
4 5 (21.74%) DHCP
4 5 (21.74%) DNS
4 5 (21.74%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (21.74%) Firewall
5 4 (17.39%) iSCSI
5 4 (17.39%) LAN
5 4 (17.39%) SNMP
6 3 (13.04%) Ethernet
7 2 (8.70%) IPsec
7 2 (8.70%) Junos
7 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (8.70%) Wireless
8 1 (4.35%) FCoE
8 1 (4.35%) MRTG
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Automotive
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Citrix Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Cloud Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Design Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps Architect
2 6 (26.09%) IP Design Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) IP Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Juniper Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Manager
3 4 (17.39%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 4 (17.39%) IT Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Network Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Senior IT Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) ARM Templates
1 6 (26.09%) JSON
1 6 (26.09%) YAML
2 1 (4.35%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Private Cloud
1 6 (26.09%) Public Cloud
2 5 (21.74%) Data Centre
3 4 (17.39%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.35%) IoT
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) VMS
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
1 4 (17.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (26.09%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (26.09%) SDLC
3 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
3 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (21.74%) Project Management
4 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (17.39%) Data Centre Operations
4 4 (17.39%) Information Security
4 4 (17.39%) IT Strategy
4 4 (17.39%) ITIL
4 4 (17.39%) Line Management
4 4 (17.39%) Network Management
4 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
4 4 (17.39%) Server Management
5 1 (4.35%) Bill of Materials
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) MATLAB
3 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
1 6 (26.09%) JNCIE
1 6 (26.09%) JNCIP
2 5 (21.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) CCNP
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.35%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (4.35%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (26.09%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (26.09%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (26.09%) vSphere
3 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
3 4 (17.39%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Functional Safety
2 1 (4.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) VMware
2 10 (43.48%) Juniper
3 7 (30.43%) Cisco
3 7 (30.43%) Nokia
4 6 (26.09%) Citrix
5 5 (21.74%) Fortinet
5 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
6 4 (17.39%) BroadSoft
6 4 (17.39%) Brocade
6 4 (17.39%) Dell
6 4 (17.39%) Dell Compellent
6 4 (17.39%) QNAP
6 4 (17.39%) Ubiquiti
6 4 (17.39%) Veeam
6 4 (17.39%) Zerto
7 2 (8.70%) Meraki
7 2 (8.70%) Ruckus Wireless
8 1 (4.35%) Aruba
8 1 (4.35%) F5
8 1 (4.35%) Riverbed