Network Planning Contract Job Trends in London

Network Planning
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Network Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 341 395
Rank change year-on-year -42 +54 +148
Contract jobs citing Network Planning 2 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.072% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.080% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £491 - £405
25th Percentile £505 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £325 £453
Median % change year-on-year +67.31% -28.18% -21.30%
75th Percentile £592 - £483
90th Percentile £612 - £507
England median daily rate £575 £463 £453
% change year-on-year +24.32% +2.21% +19.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.00 £49.28 £19.00
% change year-on-year -59.42% +159.37% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Network Planning 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 12,937 12,504 16,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.26% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,531 7,979 11,519
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 152 259
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Network Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Network Planning job vacancy trend in London

Network Planning
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Network Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Planning in London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Planning in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Network Planning
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) Unicast
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Supply Chain Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Case
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Arista
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft