Network Designer Contracts in Cheshire

Network Designer
North West > Cheshire

The median Network Designer daily rate in Cheshire is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Network Designer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.45% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £475 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 394 472 477
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.75% 93.65% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 324 329
10th Percentile £313 £275 £263
25th Percentile £358 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.20%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £640 £629 £651
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 36 20
10th Percentile £19.00 £14.00 £14.23
25th Percentile £26.71 £16.47 £19.71
Median hourly rate £47.50 £20.11 £29.26
Median % change year-on-year +136.20% -31.27% +19.43%
75th Percentile £86.00 £38.00 £35.00
90th Percentile - £43.75 £42.58
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Network Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured Network Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Network Designer in Cheshire

Network Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Designer in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Network Designer in Cheshire

Network Designer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Designer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford - 1 £475 -
Network Designer
North West

Network Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Network Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Network Designer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
1 2 (100.00%) JNCIE
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Service Design
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy

Network Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Service Design
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) JNCIE
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet