Network Design Contracts in the Thames Valley

Network Design
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 100 119
Rank change year-on-year -32 +19 -10
Contract jobs citing Network Design 8 51 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.30% 1.74% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 1.90% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 33 39
10th Percentile £627 £283 £381
25th Percentile £648 £438 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £694 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +38.75% -16.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £736 £576 £640
90th Percentile £756 £635 £656
South East median daily rate £450 £495 £555
% change year-on-year -9.09% -10.81% +9.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +180.00% - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £25.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year +180.00% -50.76% +19.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,337 2,689 3,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.10% 91.56% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 1,867 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 87
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Design in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Network Design in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Design in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Network Design in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Berkshire -38 7 £694 +39.45% 3
Buckinghamshire +20 1 - - 2
Network Design
South East

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) WAN
2 4 (50.00%) MPLS
3 3 (37.50%) BGP
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (37.50%) Firewall
3 3 (37.50%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (25.00%) SSL
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (12.50%) IOS XR
5 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Design Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) EDI
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) NETCONF
2 1 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) CCTV
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (37.50%) Operational Technology
1 3 (37.50%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Network Virtualisation
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (25.00%) Network Management
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Business Case
3 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (12.50%) Service Design
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (62.50%) CCNP
3 4 (50.00%) CCNA
4 3 (37.50%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (12.50%) CCDP
6 1 (12.50%) CCIE
6 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (12.50%) Degree
6 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (37.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Endace
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
3 3 (37.50%) VMware
4 2 (25.00%) F5
4 2 (25.00%) Juniper
5 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 1 (12.50%) Nokia
5 1 (12.50%) Zscaler