Network Design Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Network Design
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester 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 107 81 98
Rank change year-on-year -26 +17 +6
Contract jobs citing Network Design 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.24% 0.33% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.37% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £573 £383 £340
25th Percentile £588 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +15.15% -21.43%
75th Percentile £638 £488 £488
90th Percentile - - £556
North West median daily rate £522 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +4.35% +8.11% -7.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,438 811 1,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 84.49% 89.61% 87.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 906 562 883
10th Percentile £307 £301 £325
25th Percentile £382 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -5.25% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £596
90th Percentile £650 £675 £694
North West median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.09% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 34 76
10th Percentile £21.00 £15.32 £12.45
25th Percentile £36.13 £24.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £32.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.57% +25.96% -30.29%
75th Percentile £77.50 £70.31 £57.50
90th Percentile £92.50 £78.38 £72.50
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 Manchester

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in Manchester

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) OCI
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) VXLAN
3 2 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
4 1 (25.00%) LAN
4 1 (25.00%) MPLS
4 1 (25.00%) SNMP
4 1 (25.00%) SSL
4 1 (25.00%) TACACS
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) F5
1 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) Arista
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet