Network Design Engineer Contracts in England

Network Design Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Design Engineer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 627 736
Rank change year-on-year +121 +109 -126
Contract jobs requiring a Network Design Engineer 30 33 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.081% 0.065% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.069% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 35
10th Percentile £493 £351 £381
25th Percentile £510 £370 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.37% -6.94% +5.88%
75th Percentile £557 £484 £531
90th Percentile £583 £508 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +10.53% +2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.23 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.23 -
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,509 48,061 68,243
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.57% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,973 34,073 48,458
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,449 1,922
10th Percentile £12.91 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

Network Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Design Engineer in England

Network Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Design Engineer in England

Network Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design Engineer in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design Engineer in England

Network Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Design Engineer in England

Network Design Engineer
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 Design Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
London +108 19 £525 +31.24% 1
East of England - 7 - -
North of England +41 2 £534 -11.08%
Midlands +34 1 - -
West Midlands +30 1 - -
North West +19 1 £602 +0.33%
South East +8 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £465 -
Network Design Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Network Design Engineer 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 Design Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Network Design
2 23 (76.67%) Cisco
3 19 (63.33%) Firewall
4 18 (60.00%) MPLS
5 15 (50.00%) Nokia
6 14 (46.67%) BGP
6 14 (46.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
8 12 (40.00%) Business Strategy
8 12 (40.00%) Roadmaps
8 12 (40.00%) 5G
8 12 (40.00%) DevOps
8 12 (40.00%) Load Balancing
8 12 (40.00%) Network Security
8 12 (40.00%) CCNP
8 12 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (36.67%) VPN
9 11 (36.67%) XML
9 11 (36.67%) Python
9 11 (36.67%) JSON
9 11 (36.67%) NETCONF
9 11 (36.67%) YANG
10 10 (33.33%) Git
11 8 (26.67%) Juniper
12 7 (23.33%) RSVP
12 7 (23.33%) WAN
12 7 (23.33%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
12 7 (23.33%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (23.33%) Requirements Gathering

Network Design Engineer 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:

Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 19 (63.33%) Firewall
2 18 (60.00%) MPLS
3 14 (46.67%) BGP
4 12 (40.00%) 5G
4 12 (40.00%) Network Security
5 11 (36.67%) VPN
6 7 (23.33%) 4G
6 7 (23.33%) Cisco IOS
6 7 (23.33%) IOS XR
6 7 (23.33%) RSVP
6 7 (23.33%) WAN
7 5 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 5 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (13.33%) LAN
9 3 (10.00%) Broadband
9 3 (10.00%) Wireless
10 2 (6.67%) IPv6
10 2 (6.67%) L2TP
10 2 (6.67%) PBX
10 2 (6.67%) VPLS
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Git
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) JSON
1 11 (36.67%) NETCONF
1 11 (36.67%) XML
1 11 (36.67%) YANG
2 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Network Design
2 14 (46.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 12 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 12 (40.00%) DevOps
3 12 (40.00%) Load Balancing
3 12 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 7 (23.33%) Business Case
4 7 (23.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 7 (23.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 6 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 4 (13.33%) Migration
7 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
7 2 (6.67%) Presales
8 1 (3.33%) Architectural Design
8 1 (3.33%) Customer Requirements
8 1 (3.33%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (3.33%) Programme Management
8 1 (3.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (3.33%) Storage Management
8 1 (3.33%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) CCNP
1 12 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) CCNA
4 2 (6.67%) CCIE
5 1 (3.33%) CCIE Data Center
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Ansible
2 5 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 23 (76.67%) Cisco
2 15 (50.00%) Nokia
3 8 (26.67%) Juniper
4 6 (20.00%) F5
4 6 (20.00%) Palo Alto
5 5 (16.67%) Fortinet
6 2 (6.67%) Huawei
6 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.67%) WatchGuard
7 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.33%) Radianz
7 1 (3.33%) Ribbon
7 1 (3.33%) Riverbed