Network Design Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Network Design
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Network Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Design 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.31% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £425 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -8.11% -2.63% +11.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Network Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 269 135 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 88.20% 91.22% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 77 160
10th Percentile £402 £388 £313
25th Percentile £413 £500 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £628
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -4.90% +2.46% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 32
10th Percentile £25.15 £20.26 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £28.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £68.21 £41.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.36% +93.02% -61.49%
75th Percentile £73.46 £81.25 £32.90
90th Percentile £79.00 £88.00 £65.75
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -58.00% +31.16% +15.69%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Network Design job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Network Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Network Design

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 March 2026. 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
Luton - 4 £419 -
Network Design
East of England

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 4 (100.00%) PaaS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Aviation
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) OpenID
1 4 (100.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft