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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 453 492
Rank change year-on-year +102 +39 -74
Contract jobs citing Network Design 259 249 406
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.45% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.50% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 138 273
10th Percentile £363 £388 £400
25th Percentile £425 £418 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +13.70%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £638
90th Percentile £638 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 7
10th Percentile £24.43 £56.68 £22.35
25th Percentile £26.19 £62.92 £32.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £70.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.21% +62.79% +1.18%
75th Percentile £32.19 - £51.11
90th Percentile £33.88 - £55.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £50.49
% change year-on-year -50.00% +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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Top 14 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 9 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 +130 240 £475 -9.52% 81
UK excluding London +88 182 £450 -10.00% 59
South East +65 97 £463 -8.64% 15
London +66 56 £551 -6.26% 25
Work from Home +47 49 £550 - 34
Midlands +56 40 £388 -12.92% 8
West Midlands +40 31 £375 -9.64% 5
South West +4 23 £375 -14.77% 8
North of England +27 21 £475 -9.52% 16
East Midlands +19 9 £550 +9.45% 3
North East - 8 - - 2
Yorkshire +15 7 £475 -13.64% 7
North West +4 6 £526 +5.20% 7
Scotland +32 1 £600 +20.00% 4

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%) ArcGIS
1 1 (0.39%) Smallworld
Applications
1 4 (1.54%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.39%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (5.02%) Azure
2 8 (3.09%) AWS
3 5 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.16%) Cloudflare
4 3 (1.16%) GCP
5 2 (0.77%) IaaS
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.77%) PaaS
6 1 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.39%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.39%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (0.39%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (0.39%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.39%) SaaS
6 1 (0.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 99 (38.22%) BGP
2 87 (33.59%) WAN
3 79 (30.50%) MPLS
4 78 (30.12%) Firewall
5 43 (16.60%) VPN
6 39 (15.06%) OSPF
7 33 (12.74%) Cisco Firepower
8 32 (12.36%) Network Security
9 28 (10.81%) Wireless
10 27 (10.42%) EIGRP
10 27 (10.42%) IPsec
11 26 (10.04%) SSL
12 25 (9.65%) Junos
13 22 (8.49%) DMVPN
13 22 (8.49%) LAN
13 22 (8.49%) Wi-Fi
14 21 (8.11%) 5G
15 20 (7.72%) 4G
16 18 (6.95%) Radio Access Network
17 17 (6.56%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.16%) DB2
1 3 (1.16%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.39%) Big Data
2 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.39%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (2.70%) Git
2 2 (0.77%) JIRA
3 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.39%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (16.60%) Finance
2 33 (12.74%) Social Skills
3 29 (11.20%) Telecoms
4 21 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.63%) Manufacturing
5 12 (4.63%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.16%) Banking
6 3 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.77%) Local Government
8 1 (0.39%) Advertising
8 1 (0.39%) Automotive
8 1 (0.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 111 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 60 (23.17%) Architect
3 52 (20.08%) Network Architect
4 24 (9.27%) Senior
5 23 (8.88%) Design Engineer
6 20 (7.72%) 3rd Line Support
6 20 (7.72%) Network Design Engineer
6 20 (7.72%) Network Specialist
6 20 (7.72%) Network Support
7 15 (5.79%) Cisco Engineer
7 15 (5.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 13 (5.02%) Consultant
9 12 (4.63%) Senior Network Engineer
10 10 (3.86%) Network Consultant
11 8 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (2.70%) Designer
12 7 (2.70%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 7 (2.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 6 (2.32%) Senior Consultant
13 6 (2.32%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.86%) XML
2 8 (3.09%) JSON
2 8 (3.09%) NETCONF
2 8 (3.09%) YANG
3 6 (2.32%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.16%) EDI
4 3 (1.16%) Web Services
5 2 (0.77%) XSLT
6 1 (0.39%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.72%) PKI
2 17 (6.56%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.32%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (2.32%) Security Posture
4 5 (1.93%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.54%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.16%) CCTV
6 3 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.16%) SCADA
7 2 (0.77%) LPAR
7 2 (0.77%) NHS
8 1 (0.39%) Clustering
8 1 (0.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.39%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.39%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.39%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.39%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.70%) Linux
2 5 (1.93%) zOS
3 4 (1.54%) Windows
4 3 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.77%) Unix
5 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (21.62%) Customer Requirements
2 39 (15.06%) Network Management
3 38 (14.67%) Load Balancing
4 33 (12.74%) Technical Leadership
5 28 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (7.34%) Network Architecture
7 17 (6.56%) Project Management
8 16 (6.18%) Roadmaps
8 16 (6.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (5.79%) DevOps
9 15 (5.79%) High Availability
10 13 (5.02%) Computer Science
11 12 (4.63%) Network Virtualisation
12 11 (4.25%) Migration
12 11 (4.25%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 10 (3.86%) Configuration Management
14 8 (3.09%) Business Strategy
14 8 (3.09%) Capacity Planning
15 7 (2.70%) Knowledge Transfer
15 7 (2.70%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.41%) Python
2 3 (1.16%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.77%) Java
4 1 (0.39%) Go
Qualifications
1 116 (44.79%) Security Cleared
2 46 (17.76%) Cisco Certification
3 39 (15.06%) CCNP
3 39 (15.06%) SC Cleared
4 29 (11.20%) DV Cleared
5 22 (8.49%) CCIE
6 20 (7.72%) CCNA
7 15 (5.79%) Degree
8 10 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.16%) CCDP
9 3 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.77%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.77%) JNCIP
10 2 (0.77%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.39%) CCIE Data Center
11 1 (0.39%) CCIP
11 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.54%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.16%) HIPAA
2 3 (1.16%) SLA
3 2 (0.77%) GDPR
3 2 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.39%) NIST
4 1 (0.39%) QA
System Software
1 12 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (3.86%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.39%) Docker
4 1 (0.39%) Firmware
4 1 (0.39%) KVM
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (11.20%) Endace
1 29 (11.20%) FortiGate
2 12 (4.63%) Ansible
3 5 (1.93%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.93%) Terraform
4 2 (0.77%) CASB
5 1 (0.39%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.39%) Nagios
5 1 (0.39%) Puppet
5 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 151 (58.30%) Cisco
2 98 (37.84%) Juniper
3 63 (24.32%) Fortinet
4 46 (17.76%) F5
5 32 (12.36%) Nokia
6 31 (11.97%) Palo Alto
7 16 (6.18%) Ericsson
8 15 (5.79%) VMware
9 14 (5.41%) Huawei
10 12 (4.63%) Actix
11 10 (3.86%) Meraki
12 8 (3.09%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.93%) Microsoft
13 5 (1.93%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.54%) Dell
14 4 (1.54%) Google
15 3 (1.16%) Extreme Networks
15 3 (1.16%) IBM
15 3 (1.16%) SAP
16 2 (0.77%) Ekahau