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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 443 488
Rank change year-on-year +114 +45 -63
Contract jobs citing Network Design 262 252 407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.45% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.50% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 138 270
10th Percentile £363 £388 £406
25th Percentile £425 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -6.67% +17.19%
75th Percentile £597 £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 21 7
10th Percentile £24.43 £62.00 £22.35
25th Percentile £26.19 £63.23 £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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Top 15 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 1 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 +123 242 £475 -7.32% 102
UK excluding London +84 185 £450 -10.00% 64
South East +63 97 £463 -8.64% 16
London +76 55 £551 -6.22% 36
Work from Home +44 53 £550 - 48
Midlands +57 41 £388 -12.92% 10
West Midlands +42 32 £375 -9.64% 6
North of England +23 22 £475 -9.52% 19
South West -1 22 £300 -31.82% 8
East Midlands +18 9 £550 +23.60% 4
North West +12 9 £475 -5.00% 8
North East - 7 - - 2
Yorkshire +20 6 £475 -13.64% 9
East of England -12 2 £475 -5.00% 7
Scotland +29 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 (0.38%) ArcGIS
1 1 (0.38%) Smallworld
Applications
1 4 (1.53%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (5.34%) Azure
2 10 (3.82%) AWS
3 6 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (1.91%) GCP
5 3 (1.15%) Cloudflare
6 2 (0.76%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.76%) IaaS
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.76%) PaaS
6 2 (0.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.38%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.38%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (38.55%) BGP
2 90 (34.35%) WAN
3 83 (31.68%) Firewall
4 79 (30.15%) MPLS
5 47 (17.94%) VPN
6 41 (15.65%) OSPF
7 34 (12.98%) Network Security
8 33 (12.60%) Cisco Firepower
9 30 (11.45%) Wireless
10 28 (10.69%) IPsec
11 27 (10.31%) EIGRP
12 26 (9.92%) SSL
13 25 (9.54%) Junos
14 24 (9.16%) LAN
15 22 (8.40%) 4G
15 22 (8.40%) 5G
15 22 (8.40%) DMVPN
16 20 (7.63%) Wi-Fi
17 17 (6.49%) Radio Access Network
18 16 (6.11%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.15%) DB2
1 3 (1.15%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.38%) Big Data
2 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.38%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (2.67%) Git
2 2 (0.76%) JIRA
3 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.38%) GitLab
3 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (16.41%) Finance
2 36 (13.74%) Social Skills
3 29 (11.07%) Telecoms
4 23 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.58%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.20%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.15%) Banking
7 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.76%) Local Government
9 1 (0.38%) Advertising
9 1 (0.38%) Automotive
9 1 (0.38%) Legal
9 1 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 112 (42.75%) Network Engineer
2 61 (23.28%) Architect
3 53 (20.23%) Network Architect
4 25 (9.54%) Senior
5 24 (9.16%) Design Engineer
6 22 (8.40%) Network Design Engineer
6 22 (8.40%) Network Specialist
7 20 (7.63%) 3rd Line Support
7 20 (7.63%) Network Support
8 16 (6.11%) Cisco Engineer
8 16 (6.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 13 (4.96%) Consultant
9 13 (4.96%) Senior Network Engineer
10 10 (3.82%) Network Consultant
11 8 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (2.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 6 (2.29%) Designer
13 6 (2.29%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 6 (2.29%) Senior Consultant
13 6 (2.29%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.82%) XML
2 8 (3.05%) JSON
2 8 (3.05%) NETCONF
2 8 (3.05%) YANG
3 6 (2.29%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.15%) EDI
4 3 (1.15%) Web Services
5 2 (0.76%) XSLT
6 1 (0.38%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.02%) PKI
2 17 (6.49%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.29%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (2.29%) Public Cloud
3 6 (2.29%) Security Posture
4 4 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.53%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.15%) CCTV
5 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.15%) SCADA
6 2 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.76%) LPAR
6 2 (0.76%) NHS
6 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.38%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.38%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.38%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.67%) Linux
2 5 (1.91%) zOS
3 4 (1.53%) Windows
4 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.76%) Unix
5 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (21.37%) Customer Requirements
2 39 (14.89%) Load Balancing
3 38 (14.50%) Network Management
4 32 (12.21%) Technical Leadership
5 29 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (6.87%) Network Architecture
6 18 (6.87%) Project Management
7 15 (5.73%) High Availability
7 15 (5.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (5.34%) DevOps
8 14 (5.34%) Migration
8 14 (5.34%) Network Virtualisation
8 14 (5.34%) Roadmaps
9 12 (4.58%) Computer Science
10 11 (4.20%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 9 (3.44%) Configuration Management
12 8 (3.05%) Business Strategy
12 8 (3.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 7 (2.67%) Project Delivery
13 7 (2.67%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.73%) Python
2 2 (0.76%) Java
2 2 (0.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 118 (45.04%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.79%) Cisco Certification
3 40 (15.27%) SC Cleared
4 38 (14.50%) CCNP
5 28 (10.69%) DV Cleared
6 22 (8.40%) CCIE
7 18 (6.87%) CCNA
8 13 (4.96%) Degree
9 9 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.15%) CCDP
10 3 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.76%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.76%) JNCIP
11 2 (0.76%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.38%) CCIE Data Center
12 1 (0.38%) CCIP
12 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.53%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.15%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.76%) GDPR
3 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.76%) SLA
4 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.38%) NIST
4 1 (0.38%) QA
System Software
1 12 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (3.82%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.38%) Docker
4 1 (0.38%) KVM
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (11.45%) FortiGate
2 29 (11.07%) Endace
3 12 (4.58%) Ansible
4 4 (1.53%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.53%) Terraform
5 2 (0.76%) CASB
6 1 (0.38%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.38%) Nagios
6 1 (0.38%) Puppet
6 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 156 (59.54%) Cisco
2 103 (39.31%) Juniper
3 66 (25.19%) Fortinet
4 47 (17.94%) F5
5 32 (12.21%) Palo Alto
6 31 (11.83%) Nokia
7 15 (5.73%) Ericsson
7 15 (5.73%) VMware
8 14 (5.34%) Huawei
9 12 (4.58%) Actix
10 10 (3.82%) Meraki
11 8 (3.05%) CheckPoint
12 6 (2.29%) Google
13 5 (1.91%) Microsoft
13 5 (1.91%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.53%) Dell
14 4 (1.53%) Extreme Networks
15 3 (1.15%) IBM
15 3 (1.15%) SAP
16 2 (0.76%) Citrix