Network Design Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Network Design
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Network Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 - 78
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing Network Design 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.34% - 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
Scotland median daily rate £475 - £508
% change year-on-year - - +1.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 535 548 807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.30% 92.57% 90.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 289 488
10th Percentile £236 £230 £212
25th Percentile £412 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £656 £638 £628
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 29 10
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.16 £13.12
25th Percentile - £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +33.96% -17.17%
75th Percentile £37.88 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £73.63 £29.56 £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £18.80
% change year-on-year -15.22% +25.51% +0.24%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Network Design

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Field Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Network Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) McAfee
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Veeam