Network Design Contracts in the North of England

Network Design
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Network Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Design over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 188 189
Rank change year-on-year +25 +1 -26
Contract jobs citing Network Design 15 30 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.31% 0.51% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.56% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 38
10th Percentile £370 £363 £373
25th Percentile £455 £426 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +12.36%
75th Percentile £511 £550 £569
90th Percentile £606 - £675
England median daily rate £475 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.25 £70.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -32.50% +62.79% +7.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Network Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,106 5,321 6,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.76% 90.96% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,532 3,702 4,670
10th Percentile £294 £300 £236
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.79%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £688 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 218 264
10th Percentile £11.00 £10.63 £10.64
25th Percentile £12.43 £15.86 £12.97
Median hourly rate £17.61 £27.60 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.20% +49.19% -1.04%
75th Percentile £44.57 £45.05 £32.97
90th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £51.66
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Network Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in the North of England

Network Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Design in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Network Design in the North of England

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in the North of England

Network Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Design in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Network Design in the North of England

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire +27 7 £475 -13.64% 4
North West +2 7 £475 - 8
North East - 1 - - 3
Network Design
England

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) WAN
2 4 (26.67%) Firewall
3 3 (20.00%) 5G
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (20.00%) VPN
3 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (13.33%) 2G
4 2 (13.33%) 3G
4 2 (13.33%) 4G
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (13.33%) DHCP
4 2 (13.33%) DNS
4 2 (13.33%) LAN
4 2 (13.33%) NetScaler
4 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (13.33%) VLAN
5 1 (6.67%) DMZ
5 1 (6.67%) MPLS
5 1 (6.67%) Network Security
5 1 (6.67%) PBX
General
1 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Network Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Design Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco Design Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco Network Design Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Network Migration Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Presales Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Presales Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Radio Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Radio Planner
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Design Authority
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) 802.1X
1 2 (13.33%) XML
1 2 (13.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
1 2 (13.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (13.33%) Architectural Design
2 2 (13.33%) Business Case
2 2 (13.33%) Customer Experience
2 2 (13.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
2 2 (13.33%) Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Network Architecture
2 2 (13.33%) Network Management
2 2 (13.33%) Network Optimisation
2 2 (13.33%) Network Planning
2 2 (13.33%) Parallel Processing
2 2 (13.33%) Project Management
2 2 (13.33%) Radio Network Optimisation
2 2 (13.33%) SOA
2 2 (13.33%) Statistics
2 2 (13.33%) Supplier Management
3 1 (6.67%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) CCNA
3 1 (6.67%) CCNP
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) F5
2 3 (20.00%) Juniper
3 2 (13.33%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) Meraki
3 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Radianz
4 1 (6.67%) Ribbon