Network Designer Contracts

Network Designer
UK

The median Network Designer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 705 837
Rank change year-on-year +128 +132 -175
Contract jobs requiring a Network Designer 14 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.022% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.023% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 11
10th Percentile £153 £265 £375
25th Percentile £475 £302 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -11.90% +32.49%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £600
90th Percentile - £719 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £625 £445
% change year-on-year -12.00% +40.45% +13.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £75.34 £53.38
25th Percentile - £77.37 £55.44
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £59.25
Median % change year-on-year - +43.45% -
75th Percentile - £95.87 £63.44
90th Percentile - £99.85 £65.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £85.00 £59.25
% change year-on-year - +43.45% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Network Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Designer in the UK

Network Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Designer in the UK

Network Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Designer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Designer in the UK

Network Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Designer in the UK

Network Designer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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 +114 14 £550 -2.22% 2
UK excluding London +70 12 £550 -12.00% 1
South East +27 10 £550 +10.00% 1
Work from Home +121 2 £475 +2.70% 1
London +101 2 £513 -2.38% 1
South West +22 2 £79 -89.44%

Network Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Network Designer 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 Designer in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Juniper
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 8 (57.14%) JNCIS
2 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco
3 4 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (21.43%) CCNP
4 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (14.29%) VPN
5 2 (14.29%) CCNA
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) F5
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 1 (7.14%) LTE
6 1 (7.14%) Git
6 1 (7.14%) Business Case
6 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
6 1 (7.14%) Business Strategy
6 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
6 1 (7.14%) Focus Group
6 1 (7.14%) NETCONF
6 1 (7.14%) YANG
6 1 (7.14%) VoLTE
6 1 (7.14%) Ansible
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (7.14%) IOS XR
6 1 (7.14%) Service Design

Network Designer 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) BGP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) IOS XR
2 1 (7.14%) LTE
2 1 (7.14%) MPLS
2 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.14%) VoLTE
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Multimedia
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) NETCONF
1 1 (7.14%) XML
1 1 (7.14%) YANG
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 2 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (7.14%) Business Case
3 1 (7.14%) Business Strategy
3 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Focus Group
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL
3 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.14%) Prototyping
3 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
3 1 (7.14%) Service Design
3 1 (7.14%) Service Management
3 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 8 (57.14%) JNCIS
2 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) CCNP
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (14.29%) CCNA
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Juniper
2 4 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) F5
4 1 (7.14%) Nokia