Network Design Contracts in Hampshire

Network Design
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring Network Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 30 87
Rank change year-on-year -22 +57 +11
Contract jobs citing Network Design 17 80 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.28% 4.97% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 5.93% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 31 8
10th Percentile £525 - £375
25th Percentile £538 £425 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% +2.86% -2.99%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £516
90th Percentile - £650 £683
South East median daily rate £575 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +27.78% -9.09% -10.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 671 1,348 1,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.95% 83.73% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 715 797
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 162 104
10th Percentile £20.10 £13.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £29.38 £25.52 £22.85
Median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Network Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in Hampshire

Network Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Network Design in Hampshire

Network Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Design in Hampshire

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire 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
Portsmouth - 7 £575 - 6
Havant - 5 £600 -
Basingstoke -16 3 £600 +33.33% 3
Eastleigh - 1 £500 - 2
Fareham - 1 - - 1
Network Design
South East

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Cloudflare
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) MPLS
1 4 (23.53%) VPN
1 4 (23.53%) WAN
2 2 (11.76%) BGP
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (11.76%) DMVPN
2 2 (11.76%) EIGRP
2 2 (11.76%) OSPF
3 1 (5.88%) ATM
3 1 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) Frame Relay
3 1 (5.88%) SDH
3 1 (5.88%) VoIP
General
1 13 (76.47%) Social Skills
2 11 (64.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.88%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
1 7 (41.18%) Network Architect
1 7 (41.18%) Network Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco Network Architect
3 3 (17.65%) IT Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Juniper Architect
4 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Integrator
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (29.41%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Network Architecture
2 5 (29.41%) Architecture Roadmap
2 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
2 5 (29.41%) Service Design
3 4 (23.53%) Zero Trust
4 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security
5 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) High Availability
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (5.88%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (5.88%) Proactive Management
5 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.88%) Risk Management
5 1 (5.88%) Security Operations
5 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.88%) SIEM
5 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
3 9 (52.94%) DV Cleared
4 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
5 7 (41.18%) CCNA
5 7 (41.18%) CCNP
5 7 (41.18%) JNCIS
6 4 (23.53%) CCIE
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
7 1 (5.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Cisco
2 13 (76.47%) Fortinet
3 9 (52.94%) Juniper
4 6 (35.29%) Fujitsu
5 4 (23.53%) CheckPoint
5 4 (23.53%) Citrix
5 4 (23.53%) F5
5 4 (23.53%) Zscaler
6 2 (11.76%) McAfee
7 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
7 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto