Network Design Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Network Design
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Network Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 32 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Network Design 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.40% 0.86% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 1.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South Wales median daily rate - - £450
% change year-on-year - - -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
South Wales median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 210 183 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 84.34% 78.88% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 131 173
10th Percentile £213 £162 £176
25th Percentile £290 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £492 £550 £538
90th Percentile £613 £650 £625
South Wales median daily rate £408 £419 £450
% change year-on-year -2.69% -6.94% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £13.08 £21.62 £17.60
25th Percentile £14.04 £23.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £16.44 £25.60 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.80% -1.54% +52.81%
75th Percentile £20.63 £27.50 £34.50
90th Percentile £23.74 £38.00 £47.00
South Wales median hourly rate £18.69 £25.18 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.79% -3.15% +30.59%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Modbus
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) 3D Printing
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Enablement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Internal Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco