Network Design Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Network Design
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 119 115 132
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 +53
Contract jobs citing Network Design 7 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.38% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.21% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £416 - £541
25th Percentile £421 £463 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -19.23% +20.93%
75th Percentile £488 £631 £791
90th Percentile £1,020 £658 £795
Central London median daily rate £459 £525 £594
% change year-on-year -12.62% -11.62% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,653 1,895 2,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.53% 92.17% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,156 1,604
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £422 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.84% +37.25% -37.04%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in the City of London

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Design

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in the City of London

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Design

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Akamai
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (28.57%) Modbus
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) 2G
3 1 (14.29%) 4G
3 1 (14.29%) 5G
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (14.29%) SNMP
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Managing Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Operational Technology
1 3 (42.86%) SCADA
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Insider Threat
2 2 (28.57%) Life Science
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (28.57%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (14.29%) IoT
3 1 (14.29%) NB-IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
1 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 2 (28.57%) Antivirus Management
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Data Flow Diagram
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security Management
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (28.57%) Security Management
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Data Security
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (28.57%) CCNA
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) CISM
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (28.57%) NIST
3 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
1 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
1 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
1 2 (28.57%) Rockwell
2 1 (14.29%) AlgoSec
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
2 1 (14.29%) Meraki
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Tufin