Network Design Contract Job Trends in the North East

Network Design
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Network Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Network Design 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.51% 0.66% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 -
England median daily rate £475 £521 £577
% change year-on-year -8.74% -9.71% +28.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
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
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 348 282 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 87.88% 93.38% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 135 151
10th Percentile £178 £305 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £590 £575
90th Percentile £597 £712 £710
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 10
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.13 £15.46
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £28.91 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.27% +5.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in the North East

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Network Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Network Design

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Network Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Network Design

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Durham +5 1 £550 -
Northumberland - 1 - -
Network Design
England

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Information Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto