Network Design Contracts in South Wales

Network Design
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Design 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.50% - 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% - 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £212 - £443
25th Percentile £259 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 - £525
75th Percentile £295 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £288 - £525

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 268 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.00% 80.00% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 189 353
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £285 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in South Wales

Network Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Network Design in South Wales

Network Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Design in South Wales

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Newport - 4 £288 -
Gwent - 1 £290 -
Cardiff - 1 £180 - 4
Network Design
Wales

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Network Security
1 5 (83.33%) SD-WAN
1 5 (83.33%) Wireless
2 4 (66.67%) BGP
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
2 4 (66.67%) IPsec
2 4 (66.67%) OSPF
3 2 (33.33%) 802.11
3 2 (33.33%) HSRP
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (16.67%) ASTM
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Network Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (33.33%) Statistics
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CCNP
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (83.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Cacti
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft