Network Design Contracts in the North of England

Network Design
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Network Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Design over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 183 195
Rank change year-on-year +19 +12 -28
Contract jobs citing Network Design 21 19 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.43% 0.35% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.39% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 41
10th Percentile £452 £385 £375
25th Percentile £458 £475 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £550
90th Percentile £616 £620 £675
England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
England median hourly rate £29.25 £70.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -58.21% +62.79% +1.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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
North East - 8 - -
Yorkshire +17 7 £475 -13.64% 5
North West +6 6 £526 +5.20% 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) ArcGIS
1 1 (4.76%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Autodesk Inventor
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.76%) MicroStation
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) IaaS
1 1 (4.76%) PaaS
1 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (38.10%) 5G
3 6 (28.57%) WAN
4 4 (19.05%) Firewall
5 3 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (14.29%) LAN
5 3 (14.29%) VPN
6 2 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (9.52%) Internet
6 2 (9.52%) NetScaler
6 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
7 1 (4.76%) DMZ
7 1 (4.76%) DWDM
7 1 (4.76%) IPsec
7 1 (4.76%) MPLS
7 1 (4.76%) Network Security
7 1 (4.76%) PBX
7 1 (4.76%) SDH
7 1 (4.76%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) GIS
General
1 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Automotive
2 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
1 6 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Designer
2 4 (19.05%) Technical Design Authority
2 4 (19.05%) Technical Designer
3 3 (14.29%) Network Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Design Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Design Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Network Design Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Network Communications Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Presales Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Presales Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) 802.1X
1 2 (9.52%) XML
1 2 (9.52%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
1 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
1 2 (9.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Computer Science
2 8 (38.10%) Network Architecture
2 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (38.10%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (9.52%) Architectural Design
3 2 (9.52%) Load Balancing
3 2 (9.52%) Network Management
3 2 (9.52%) Parallel Processing
3 2 (9.52%) SOA
4 1 (4.76%) Change Management
4 1 (4.76%) Data Management
4 1 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL
4 1 (4.76%) Network Planning
4 1 (4.76%) PLM
4 1 (4.76%) Process Management
4 1 (4.76%) Software Testing
4 1 (4.76%) Statistics
4 1 (4.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Degree
2 8 (38.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) CCNA
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) BC Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.76%) CCNP
5 1 (4.76%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Cisco
2 3 (14.29%) F5
2 3 (14.29%) Juniper
3 2 (9.52%) Meraki
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.76%) Autodesk
4 1 (4.76%) Radianz
4 1 (4.76%) Ribbon