Network Design Contracts in the West Midlands

Network Design
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 133 162
Rank change year-on-year +54 +29 -45
Contract jobs citing Network Design 30 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.56% 0.25% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 0.28% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 4 9
10th Percentile - £385 £420
25th Percentile £363 £399 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £458 £605
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% -24.38% +42.35%
75th Percentile £447 £500 £850
90th Percentile £475 - £858
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +8.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,107 3,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.53% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,446 2,363
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in the West Midlands

Network Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Design in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Network Design in the West Midlands

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in the West Midlands

Network Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Design in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Network Design in the West Midlands

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Solihull - 20 £375 - 2
Birmingham +9 6 £450 -1.64% 3
Warwickshire - 2 - -
Network Design
England

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 24 (80.00%) WAN
2 23 (76.67%) Junos
3 22 (73.33%) BGP
3 22 (73.33%) MPLS
4 21 (70.00%) IPsec
5 19 (63.33%) VPN
6 5 (16.67%) LAN
7 4 (13.33%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (13.33%) Network Security
8 2 (6.67%) Internet
9 1 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (3.33%) Firewall
9 1 (3.33%) OSPF
9 1 (3.33%) PBX
9 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
9 1 (3.33%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
9 1 (3.33%) VoIP
9 1 (3.33%) Wireless
9 1 (3.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 18 (60.00%) Network Support
2 5 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Network Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Network Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Data Network Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Design Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Lead
4 1 (3.33%) Lead Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Senior
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Design Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Network Design Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (60.00%) PKI
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (13.33%) Configuration Management
2 4 (13.33%) Incident Response
2 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (13.33%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (6.67%) Agile
3 2 (6.67%) Architectural Design
3 2 (6.67%) Capacity Management
3 2 (6.67%) Kanban
3 2 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (6.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (6.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (3.33%) Performance Management
4 1 (3.33%) Resource Management
Qualifications
1 21 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (23.33%) CCNP
2 7 (23.33%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (16.67%) CCIE
4 2 (6.67%) CCNA
4 2 (6.67%) JNCIS
5 1 (3.33%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 24 (80.00%) Juniper
2 7 (23.33%) Cisco
3 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.33%) VMware