Network Design Contracts in Scotland

Network Design
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 126 152
Rank change year-on-year +11 +26 +15
Contract jobs citing Network Design 4 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.090% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.10% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £373 - £429
25th Percentile £390 - £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -27.17% +26.32% +15.15%
75th Percentile £488 - £500
90th Percentile - - £505
UK median daily rate £531 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +11.84% -5.00% -12.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,509 1,967 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.49% 88.60% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,198 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Network Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in Scotland

Network Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Design in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Network Design in Scotland

Network Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Design in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Network Design in Scotland

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Aberdeen - 2 £475 -
Glasgow - 2 £387 - 1
Network Design
UK

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow