Network Design Contracts in Birmingham

Network Design
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Network Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 61 69
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 +20
Contract jobs citing Network Design 2 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.38% 0.78% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.93% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile £179 - £385
25th Percentile £234 £425 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £450 £458
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% -1.64% +7.65%
75th Percentile £435 £513 £500
90th Percentile £492 £525 -
West Midlands median daily rate £438 £375 £458
% change year-on-year +16.67% -18.03% -24.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in Birmingham

Network Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Network Design in Birmingham

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in Birmingham

Network Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Design in Birmingham

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless Security
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Network Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler