Network Design Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Design Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Design Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £534 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 443 496
Rank change year-on-year +52 +53 -70
Contract jobs requiring a Network Design Engineer 10 18 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.048% 0.075% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.079% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 14
10th Percentile £467 £373 -
25th Percentile £490 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £480 £417
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% +15.15% -1.92%
75th Percentile £571 £528 £512
90th Percentile £590 £625 £560
UK median daily rate £538 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +13.21% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.23 -
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,242 22,667 29,600
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.17% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 15,893 20,733
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £595 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,165 1,485
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.45 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.51
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Network Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Design Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Network Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Design Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Design Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
East of England - 6 - -
North of England +36 2 £534 -11.08%
Midlands +31 1 - -
West Midlands +26 1 - -
North West +20 1 £602 +0.33%
South East +10 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £465 -
Network Design Engineer
UK

Network Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Network Design Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
1 10 (100.00%) Network Design
2 8 (80.00%) VPN
3 7 (70.00%) Firewall
4 6 (60.00%) Juniper
4 6 (60.00%) 4G
4 6 (60.00%) Load Balancing
4 6 (60.00%) Network Security
4 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (60.00%) 5G
4 6 (60.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (30.00%) MPLS
6 2 (20.00%) CCNP
6 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (20.00%) WAN
6 2 (20.00%) PBX
6 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (10.00%) Finance
7 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
7 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (10.00%) JSON
7 1 (10.00%) Nokia
7 1 (10.00%) DMZ
7 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 1 (10.00%) VoIP
7 1 (10.00%) WLAN
7 1 (10.00%) Web Services

Network Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) VPN
2 7 (70.00%) Firewall
3 6 (60.00%) 4G
3 6 (60.00%) 5G
3 6 (60.00%) Network Security
4 3 (30.00%) MPLS
5 2 (20.00%) PBX
5 2 (20.00%) WAN
6 1 (10.00%) BGP
6 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (10.00%) DMZ
6 1 (10.00%) IOS XR
6 1 (10.00%) LAN
6 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
6 1 (10.00%) VoIP
6 1 (10.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
1 1 (10.00%) XML
1 1 (10.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Network Design
2 6 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 6 (60.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (10.00%) Presales
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (10.00%) SOA
3 1 (10.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) CCNP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CCIE
3 1 (10.00%) CCIE Data Center
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Nokia
3 1 (10.00%) Radianz
3 1 (10.00%) Ribbon