Network Design Jobs

Network Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Network Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 600 672 810
Rank change year-on-year +72 +138 -222
Permanent jobs citing Network Design 328 282 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.31% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 221 187 327
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -17.86% +27.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £83,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £83,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £52,250
% change year-on-year +0.91% +5.26% +4.50%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Design over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +59 284 £57,500 - 102
UK excluding London +18 233 £55,500 +0.91% 64
South East +29 87 £57,500 - 16
London +113 86 £82,500 +17.86% 36
Work from Home +5 71 £62,500 +4.17% 48
North of England +35 45 £61,185 +35.97% 19
South West -26 38 £35,000 -48.15% 8
Midlands -3 32 £77,500 +29.17% 10
Yorkshire +86 29 £62,500 +17.92% 9
West Midlands -8 26 £80,000 +33.33% 6
Scotland -50 23 £62,500 +4.17% 4
Wales +20 13 £27,500 - 1
North West -21 12 £61,185 +35.97% 8
East of England -17 7 £48,500 -39.38% 7
East Midlands -14 6 £37,500 - 4
North East -18 4 £45,000 +20.00% 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 9 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.91%) WinCC
4 1 (0.30%) Confluence
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Simulink
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 59 (17.99%) Azure
2 47 (14.33%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (10.06%) AWS
4 18 (5.49%) IaaS
4 18 (5.49%) PaaS
5 16 (4.88%) Entra ID
6 15 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (4.57%) SaaS
7 4 (1.22%) OCI
7 4 (1.22%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.30%) GCP
9 1 (0.30%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.30%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.30%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.30%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 98 (29.88%) Firewall
2 91 (27.74%) WAN
3 69 (21.04%) LAN
4 67 (20.43%) BGP
5 60 (18.29%) TCP/IP
6 50 (15.24%) OSPF
7 49 (14.94%) MPLS
8 47 (14.33%) VPN
9 32 (9.76%) Cisco ASA
9 32 (9.76%) Internet
10 31 (9.45%) Wireless
11 29 (8.84%) EIGRP
12 28 (8.54%) DMVPN
13 27 (8.23%) Network Security
13 27 (8.23%) SD-WAN
13 27 (8.23%) VLAN
14 25 (7.62%) DNS
15 24 (7.32%) DHCP
16 20 (6.10%) Cisco IOS
17 16 (4.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.52%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.30%) Big Data
3 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (1.83%) LabVIEW
1 6 (1.83%) NetBeans
1 6 (1.83%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.30%) CppUnit
3 1 (0.30%) JIRA
3 1 (0.30%) JUnit
3 1 (0.30%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (0.30%) Selenium
3 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 70 (21.34%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (13.72%) Telecoms
4 39 (11.89%) Finance
5 18 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.96%) Retail
8 12 (3.66%) Legal
9 10 (3.05%) Banking
10 8 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.13%) Marketing
12 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.52%) Law
13 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.22%) Police
14 3 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.61%) Billing
Job Titles
1 105 (32.01%) Network Engineer
2 68 (20.73%) Senior
3 61 (18.60%) Architect
4 39 (11.89%) Network Architect
5 33 (10.06%) Senior Network Engineer
6 31 (9.45%) Lead
7 18 (5.49%) Network Manager
8 17 (5.18%) Senior Architect
9 14 (4.27%) Network Specialist
10 13 (3.96%) Consultant
10 13 (3.96%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (3.96%) Principal Network Engineer
10 13 (3.96%) Senior Network Architect
11 12 (3.66%) Juniper Engineer
11 12 (3.66%) Senior Consultant
11 12 (3.66%) Senior Network Consultant
12 11 (3.35%) Project Consultant
12 11 (3.35%) Senior Project Consultant
13 10 (3.05%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (3.05%) Core Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.44%) ARM Templates
1 8 (2.44%) JSON
1 8 (2.44%) YAML
2 7 (2.13%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.83%) JavaFX
4 2 (0.61%) HTML
5 1 (0.30%) .NET
5 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.30%) Node-RED
5 1 (0.30%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 87 (26.52%) Data Centre
2 14 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.44%) Hedge funds
3 8 (2.44%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.44%) Private Cloud
3 8 (2.44%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.13%) Operational Technology
5 6 (1.83%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.52%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.52%) CCTV
6 5 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.22%) SCADA
8 3 (0.91%) IoT
8 3 (0.91%) PMI
9 2 (0.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 53 (16.16%) Windows
2 39 (11.89%) Linux
3 22 (6.71%) Windows 10
4 17 (5.18%) Windows Server
5 13 (3.96%) Android
6 12 (3.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.52%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.22%) VMS
10 2 (0.61%) CentOS
11 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (17.07%) Roadmaps
3 53 (16.16%) Customer Service
4 48 (14.63%) Mentoring
5 39 (11.89%) Technical Leadership
6 38 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 36 (10.98%) Technology Roadmap
8 35 (10.67%) Agile
9 33 (10.06%) Network Management
10 31 (9.45%) ITIL
11 30 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (9.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
13 26 (7.93%) Network Monitoring
14 25 (7.62%) Computer Science
14 25 (7.62%) Infrastructure Management
14 25 (7.62%) Line Management
15 24 (7.32%) Data Modelling
16 23 (7.01%) Change Management
17 22 (6.71%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 26 (7.93%) PowerShell
2 19 (5.79%) Python
3 17 (5.18%) SQL
4 10 (3.05%) Java
5 8 (2.44%) MATLAB
6 6 (1.83%) C++
6 6 (1.83%) Fortran
7 5 (1.52%) C#
8 3 (0.91%) Bash
8 3 (0.91%) C
9 1 (0.30%) Bicep
9 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (28.05%) Security Cleared
2 72 (21.95%) Degree
3 68 (20.73%) Cisco Certification
4 52 (15.85%) SC Cleared
5 42 (12.80%) CCNP
6 34 (10.37%) CCNA
7 22 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (5.18%) CCIE
9 12 (3.66%) JNCIE
10 10 (3.05%) AWS Certification
11 9 (2.74%) DV Cleared
12 8 (2.44%) Azure Certification
12 8 (2.44%) JNCIP
12 8 (2.44%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (1.22%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.22%) MCP
13 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.91%) CISSP
14 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.49%) SLA
2 6 (1.83%) ISO 9001
3 5 (1.52%) GDPR
3 5 (1.52%) TickIT
4 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.22%) QA
5 2 (0.61%) AUTOSAR
5 2 (0.61%) NIST
6 1 (0.30%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.30%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (10.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (9.45%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.27%) vSphere
4 13 (3.96%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.22%) pfSense
7 3 (0.91%) Firmware
8 2 (0.61%) Docker
8 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.30%) KVM
Systems Management
1 39 (11.89%) FortiGate
2 20 (6.10%) Ansible
2 20 (6.10%) Terraform
3 9 (2.74%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.74%) Nagios
4 7 (2.13%) Icinga
5 6 (1.83%) Endace
6 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.91%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.91%) Puppet
7 3 (0.91%) Wonderware InTouch
8 2 (0.61%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.61%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.61%) SCCM
8 2 (0.61%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.30%) Iperf
9 1 (0.30%) Stealthwatch
9 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 108 (32.93%) Cisco
2 86 (26.22%) Juniper
3 69 (21.04%) Fortinet
4 40 (12.20%) VMware
5 39 (11.89%) Microsoft
6 28 (8.54%) Palo Alto
7 27 (8.23%) McAfee
8 20 (6.10%) CheckPoint
9 19 (5.79%) Sandvine
10 15 (4.57%) Oracle
10 15 (4.57%) Veeam
11 14 (4.27%) Citrix
11 14 (4.27%) SolarWinds
12 12 (3.66%) F5
13 11 (3.35%) Nokia
14 10 (3.05%) Meraki
15 7 (2.13%) Aruba
16 6 (1.83%) Atlassian
16 6 (1.83%) IBM
17 5 (1.52%) Dell