Network Design Contract Job Trends in London

Network Design
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Network Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 298 317
Rank change year-on-year +2 +19 +164
Contract jobs citing Network Design 78 77 83
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 0.52% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.57% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 40 57
10th Percentile £400 £448 £493
25th Percentile £413 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -10.26% +14.15%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £713
90th Percentile £711 £750 £880
England median daily rate £475 £520 £578
% change year-on-year -8.65% -10.03% +28.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £26.58
25th Percentile - - £30.06
Median hourly rate - - £50.50
75th Percentile - - £67.75
90th Percentile - - £69.10
England median hourly rate £74.26 £75.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year -0.99% +13.67% -5.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,080 13,458 16,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.13% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,615 8,640 11,962
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -2.57% -4.32%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 165 235
10th Percentile £18.09 £18.04 £18.40
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +11.65% -15.64%
75th Percentile £52.19 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.10 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +22.57%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in London

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design in London over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in London

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
West London -6 10 £425 -10.53% 1
Central London +5 8 £459 -12.62% 3
South London - 2 £480 - 3
Network Design
England

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.28%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.67%) Azure
2 8 (10.26%) AWS
3 3 (3.85%) GCP
3 3 (3.85%) IaaS
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.56%) PaaS
4 2 (2.56%) SaaS
5 1 (1.28%) Akamai
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.28%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 38 (48.72%) Firewall
2 29 (37.18%) LAN
3 27 (34.62%) WAN
4 23 (29.49%) Wi-Fi
5 19 (24.36%) SD-WAN
6 16 (20.51%) Cisco Nexus
7 15 (19.23%) Network Security
8 13 (16.67%) VPN
9 12 (15.38%) Radio Access Network
10 10 (12.82%) 4G
10 10 (12.82%) BGP
11 9 (11.54%) 5G
11 9 (11.54%) MPLS
12 8 (10.26%) 3GPP
12 8 (10.26%) VLAN
13 7 (8.97%) LTE
13 7 (8.97%) TCP/IP
13 7 (8.97%) Wireshark
14 5 (6.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 5 (6.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.85%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Git
2 1 (1.28%) GitLab
2 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (42.31%) Telecoms
2 14 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.10%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.85%) Finance
5 3 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.28%) Aviation
7 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Electronics
7 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Law
7 1 (1.28%) Local Government
7 1 (1.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (38.46%) Architect
2 27 (34.62%) Network Architect
3 26 (33.33%) Network Engineer
4 16 (20.51%) Network Design Specialist
4 16 (20.51%) Network Specialist
5 14 (17.95%) Network Design Architect
6 8 (10.26%) Performance Specialist
7 7 (8.97%) Design Engineer
7 7 (8.97%) Network Design Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Senior
10 4 (5.13%) Consultant
10 4 (5.13%) Juniper Engineer
11 3 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
12 2 (2.56%) Cisco Architect
12 2 (2.56%) Cisco Network Architect
12 2 (2.56%) Firewall Engineer
12 2 (2.56%) Security Engineer
12 2 (2.56%) Senior Network Architect
12 2 (2.56%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.28%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.28%) eBPF
1 1 (1.28%) JSON
1 1 (1.28%) NETCONF
1 1 (1.28%) XML
1 1 (1.28%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.97%) IoT
2 7 (8.97%) SCADA
3 5 (6.41%) Operational Technology
4 3 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.85%) NB-IoT
4 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.56%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (2.56%) Insider Threat
5 2 (2.56%) Life Science
5 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.28%) CCTV
6 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Windows
2 1 (1.28%) Linux
2 1 (1.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (20.51%) Network Architecture
2 11 (14.10%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (11.54%) Data Encryption
3 9 (11.54%) Impact Analysis
3 9 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (11.54%) Requirements Analysis
3 9 (11.54%) Service Design
4 8 (10.26%) Load Balancing
5 7 (8.97%) High Availability
5 7 (8.97%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (7.69%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 5 (6.41%) Business Strategy
7 5 (6.41%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (6.41%) DevOps
8 4 (5.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (5.13%) Migration
8 4 (5.13%) Roadmaps
9 3 (3.85%) Data Protection
9 3 (3.85%) Information Security
9 3 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.69%) Python
2 3 (3.85%) SQL
3 1 (1.28%) C
Qualifications
1 32 (41.03%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.36%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.95%) DV Cleared
4 13 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (15.38%) CCNP
6 7 (8.97%) Degree
7 4 (5.13%) CCNA
7 4 (5.13%) CISSP
8 3 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (3.85%) JNCIP
8 3 (3.85%) JNCIS
9 2 (2.56%) CCIE
9 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.28%) CISM
10 1 (1.28%) JNCIE
10 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.85%) NIST
3 2 (2.56%) GDPR
3 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (2.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.28%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.28%) DO-160
System Software
1 2 (2.56%) Firmware
1 2 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Ansible
2 6 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 6 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (1.28%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (1.28%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (1.28%) Grafana
3 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (38.46%) Cisco
2 19 (24.36%) Fortinet
3 11 (14.10%) Nokia
3 11 (14.10%) Palo Alto
4 10 (12.82%) F5
4 10 (12.82%) Juniper
5 7 (8.97%) Actix
5 7 (8.97%) Ericsson
6 4 (5.13%) CheckPoint
7 3 (3.85%) Arista
7 3 (3.85%) Aruba
7 3 (3.85%) Meraki
7 3 (3.85%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.85%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.56%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (2.56%) Rockwell
8 2 (2.56%) Virgin Media
9 1 (1.28%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.28%) NVIDIA
9 1 (1.28%) Zscaler