Network Design Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Network Design
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Network Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Network Design 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.19% 0.55% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 £650 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% - -
75th Percentile £588 £750 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £522 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +4.35% +8.11% -7.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 195 164 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 77.08% 90.61% 79.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 84 74
10th Percentile £225 £400 £313
25th Percentile £338 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £531
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% +0.75% +1.67%
75th Percentile £706 £600 £650
90th Percentile £900 £652 £734
North West median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.09% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 22 52
10th Percentile £26.24 £15.34 -
25th Percentile £39.53 £23.43 £16.06
Median hourly rate £56.44 £28.75 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year +96.31% +28.41% -47.32%
75th Percentile £71.91 £53.07 £45.96
90th Percentile £74.02 £63.36 £47.82
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £22.98
% change year-on-year +69.23% +41.46% -37.31%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Blackpool - 3 £575 - 1
Network Design
North West

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) OCI
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 3 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Arista
1 3 (100.00%) Aruba
1 3 (100.00%) F5
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto