Network Designer Contracts in England

Network Designer
UK > England

The median Network Designer daily rate in England 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 482 528 642
Rank change year-on-year +46 +114 +124
Contract jobs requiring a Network Designer 3 14 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.038% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.041% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 5
10th Percentile - £153 £433
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £663
90th Percentile - - £730
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £75.34
25th Percentile - - £77.37
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £95.87
90th Percentile - - £99.85
UK median hourly rate - - £85.00
% change year-on-year - - +43.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Network Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Designer in England

Network Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Designer in England

Network Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Designer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Network Designer in England

Network Designer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
North West - 2 £475 -
North of England - 2 £475 - 1
London +37 1 - -
Network Designer
UK

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

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 England region featuring Network Designer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
1 3 (100.00%) Service Design
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (66.67%) F5
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) JNCIE
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) CCIE
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification

Network Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) 3G
3 1 (33.33%) 4G
3 1 (33.33%) 5G
3 1 (33.33%) LTE
3 1 (33.33%) VSAN
3 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Service Design
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Product Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCIE
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) JNCIE
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Ericsson
2 1 (33.33%) Mavenir
2 1 (33.33%) Nokia
2 1 (33.33%) VMware