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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 37 23
Rank change year-on-year -31 -14 +12
Contract jobs citing Network Design 7 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.86% 0.35% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.43% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
England median daily rate £525 £503 £500
% change year-on-year +4.48% +0.50% -13.04%

All Process & 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 680 232 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.74% 81.69% 86.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 136 99
10th Percentile £313 £200 £303
25th Percentile £368 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £570 £572
90th Percentile £650 £625 £684
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 17 26
10th Percentile £17.00 £11.60 £14.22
25th Percentile £38.50 £13.37 £16.06
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.30 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +189.02% -62.54% +77.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £49.05
90th Percentile - £42.40 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 30 August 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
Tyne and Wear - 7 £650 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) OCI
2 4 (57.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
1 7 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 7 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 7 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) OSPF
1 7 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 6 (85.71%) SD-WAN
2 6 (85.71%) WAN
3 4 (57.14%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (57.14%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
1 5 (71.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 7 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 7 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Network Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Arista
1 7 (100.00%) F5
1 7 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 6 (85.71%) Aruba