Network Design Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Network Design
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Network Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 81 87
Rank change year-on-year -25 +6 +29
Contract jobs citing Network Design 5 2 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.27% 0.19% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.22% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile - £411 -
25th Percentile £406 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile - £503 £488
90th Percentile £463 £524 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +10.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,470 915 1,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 80.15% 86.81% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 463 826
10th Percentile £197 £243 £250
25th Percentile £350 £391 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +2.46% -2.50%
75th Percentile £592 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £695 £707
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 151 507
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.45 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +31.16% +15.69%
75th Percentile £64.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £28.55 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -18.43% +2.31% -2.92%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in the East of England

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Network Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Network Design

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Network Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Network Design

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 March 2026. 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
Bedfordshire - 4 £419 - 1
Suffolk +8 1 £475 -9.52%
Network Design
England

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Dynamics 365
1 4 (80.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Aviation
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) OpenID
1 4 (80.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) CRM
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki