Network Design Contracts in Berkshire

Network Design
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 75 85
Rank change year-on-year -42 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Network Design 8 41 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.40% 2.24% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 2.45% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 22 36
10th Percentile £483 £275 £381
25th Percentile £505 £341 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £498 £609
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -18.28% +41.16%
75th Percentile £605 £567 £650
90th Percentile £624 £694 £656
South East median daily rate £450 £498 £555
% change year-on-year -9.55% -10.36% +9.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
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
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,786 1,674 2,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.26% 91.53% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 1,074 1,390
10th Percentile £213 £350 £275
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.30 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £74.20 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.41 £80.25 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £46.87 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.26% +122.22% -11.76%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Network Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in Berkshire

Network Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Network Design in Berkshire

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design in Berkshire over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in Berkshire

Network Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Design in Berkshire

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Maidenhead - 4 - -
Bracknell -9 2 - - 2
Network Design
South East

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) WAN
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (37.50%) BGP
3 3 (37.50%) MPLS
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (25.00%) SSL
5 1 (12.50%) DNS
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Design Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Design Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Design Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) CCTV
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 4 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (25.00%) Network Management
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Change Control
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Service Migration
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (62.50%) CCNA
2 5 (62.50%) CCNP
3 4 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (25.00%) CCDP
4 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) CCIE
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (12.50%) Degree
5 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) JNCIE
5 1 (12.50%) JNCIS
5 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Endace
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 4 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) Juniper
4 2 (25.00%) F5