Network Design Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Network Design
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Network Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs citing Network Design 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.27% 1.53% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 1.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
South East median daily rate £513 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -10.87% +21.05% -7.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 284 117 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 76.34% 89.31% 77.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 70 129
10th Percentile £225 £179 £173
25th Percentile £353 £250 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -6.94% -
75th Percentile £588 £547 £500
90th Percentile £704 £688 £623
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 13 34
10th Percentile £14.37 £14.24 £11.80
25th Percentile £19.34 £20.85 £13.00
Median hourly rate £45.78 £25.30 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.95% +29.74% -39.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.30 £29.75
90th Percentile £60.00 - £65.00
South East median hourly rate £53.90 £24.66 £47.64
% change year-on-year +118.57% -48.24% -4.72%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Oxford -1 1 £500 -9.09% 1
Network Design
South East

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HSRP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto