Network Design Contract Job Trends in Central London

Network Design
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Network Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 125 131
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +63
Contract jobs citing Network Design 8 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.40% 0.17% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.19% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 9
10th Percentile £413 - £501
25th Percentile £415 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £525 £594
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% -11.62% +8.00%
75th Percentile £484 £631 £788
90th Percentile £931 £658 £795
London median daily rate £450 £525 £585
% change year-on-year -14.29% -10.26% +14.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,818 2,145 2,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.54% 92.18% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 1,342 1,727
10th Percentile £343 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £674 £676 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £526 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.45% -2.57% -4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 16
10th Percentile £19.90 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.31 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.84% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £37.44 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.88 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.69
% change year-on-year -17.81% +11.65% -15.64%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in Central London

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Network Design

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design in Central London over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in Central London

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Network Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Network Design

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 22 December 2025. 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
City of London -4 7 £475 -9.52% 2
City of Westminster - 1 £425 -
Network Design
London

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Akamai
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (25.00%) Modbus
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) 2G
3 1 (12.50%) 4G
3 1 (12.50%) 5G
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
3 1 (12.50%) Internet
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (12.50%) SNMP
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Network Design Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Network Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Operational Technology
1 3 (37.50%) SCADA
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Insider Threat
2 2 (25.00%) Life Science
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (12.50%) IoT
3 1 (12.50%) NB-IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
1 3 (37.50%) Information Security
1 3 (37.50%) Network Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (25.00%) Security Management
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Security
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (25.00%) CCNA
2 2 (25.00%) CCNP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) CISM
3 1 (12.50%) CISSP
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (25.00%) Meraki
1 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (25.00%) Rockwell
2 1 (12.50%) AlgoSec
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Tufin