Network Design Contracts in Scotland

Network Design
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 131 153 161
Rank change year-on-year +22 +8 -16
Contract jobs citing Network Design 2 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.090% 0.39% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.42% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 5
10th Percentile - £429 -
25th Percentile - £461 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +15.15% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £500 £600
90th Percentile - £505 £623
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £564
% change year-on-year -5.00% -11.31% +18.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,966 2,642 3,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.56% 92.60% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 1,899 2,324
10th Percentile £232 £263 £241
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 50
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.58
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 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
Edinburgh +24 1 - - 5
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (50.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Arista
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds