Network Design Engineer Contracts

Network Design Engineer
UK

The median Network Design Engineer daily rate in the UK is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 665 796
Rank change year-on-year +101 +131 -97
Contract jobs requiring a Network Design Engineer 20 32 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.058% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.061% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 38
10th Percentile £481 £381 £381
25th Percentile £511 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.93% +13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £569 £549 £575
90th Percentile £589 £619 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £475 £423
% change year-on-year +12.32% +12.27% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £63.23 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Network Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Network Design Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Design Engineer in the UK

Network Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Design Engineer in the UK

Network Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design Engineer in the UK

Network Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Design Engineer in the UK

Network Design Engineer
Top 9 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 Engineer within the UK 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +86 20 £538 +30.36% 3
London +91 17 £538 +34.42% 2
UK excluding London +18 3 £534 +12.32% 2
Work from Home +103 2 - - 1
North of England - 2 £534 -
Yorkshire - 1 £465 -
Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 £602 -
West Midlands - 1 - -

Network Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Network Design Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Network Design Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Network Design
2 14 (70.00%) MPLS
3 13 (65.00%) Cisco
4 12 (60.00%) Nokia
5 11 (55.00%) BGP
5 11 (55.00%) Firewall
6 10 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 9 (45.00%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (45.00%) CCNP
8 8 (40.00%) DevOps
8 8 (40.00%) Business Strategy
8 8 (40.00%) Roadmaps
9 7 (35.00%) NETCONF
9 7 (35.00%) YANG
9 7 (35.00%) WAN
9 7 (35.00%) XML
9 7 (35.00%) Python
9 7 (35.00%) JSON
10 6 (30.00%) RSVP
10 6 (30.00%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (30.00%) Git
10 6 (30.00%) Palo Alto
11 5 (25.00%) 5G
11 5 (25.00%) F5
11 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
11 5 (25.00%) Load Balancing
12 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
12 4 (20.00%) Network Security
12 4 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (20.00%) Telecoms

Network Design Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 14 (70.00%) MPLS
2 11 (55.00%) BGP
2 11 (55.00%) Firewall
3 7 (35.00%) WAN
4 6 (30.00%) RSVP
5 5 (25.00%) 5G
6 4 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 4 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (20.00%) IOS XR
6 4 (20.00%) LAN
6 4 (20.00%) Network Security
6 4 (20.00%) VPN
7 3 (15.00%) Broadband
7 3 (15.00%) IPv6
7 3 (15.00%) Wireless
8 2 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (10.00%) L2TP
8 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
8 2 (10.00%) VPLS
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) JSON
1 7 (35.00%) NETCONF
1 7 (35.00%) XML
1 7 (35.00%) YANG
2 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Network Design
2 10 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 8 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 8 (40.00%) DevOps
3 8 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (25.00%) Load Balancing
5 4 (20.00%) Business Case
5 4 (20.00%) Migration
5 4 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
7 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (10.00%) Presales
8 1 (5.00%) Architectural Design
8 1 (5.00%) Bill of Materials
8 1 (5.00%) Customer Requirements
8 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (5.00%) SOA
8 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (5.00%) Storage Management
8 1 (5.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) CCNP
1 9 (45.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) CCNA
3 2 (10.00%) CCIE
4 1 (5.00%) CCIE Data Center
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) FortiGate
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Cisco
2 12 (60.00%) Nokia
3 6 (30.00%) Palo Alto
4 5 (25.00%) F5
5 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (10.00%) Huawei
6 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (10.00%) WatchGuard
7 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
7 1 (5.00%) Ericsson
7 1 (5.00%) Juniper
7 1 (5.00%) Radianz
7 1 (5.00%) Ribbon
7 1 (5.00%) Riverbed