Network Design Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Network Design
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Network Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Network Design 5 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.03% - 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% - 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £331 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £575 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate - - £25.00

All Process & 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 343 241 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 70.72% 88.93% 81.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 175 151
10th Percentile £300 £190 £161
25th Percentile £356 £274 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £412
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -2.91% -13.26%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £547
90th Percentile £750 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £483 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +20.63% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 24 40
10th Percentile £12.74 £13.08 £15.48
25th Percentile £15.75 £13.94 £20.12
Median hourly rate £21.25 £15.50 £25.36
Median % change year-on-year +37.10% -38.88% -4.60%
75th Percentile £43.96 £20.75 £41.88
90th Percentile £55.00 £22.21 £53.75
Wales median hourly rate £15.72 £20.50 £25.36
% change year-on-year -23.32% -19.16% -2.46%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in South Wales

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Network Design

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design in South Wales over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in South Wales

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Network Design

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 27 September 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
Cardiff - 5 £575 - 1
Network Design
Wales

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) ArcGIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VLAN
1 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (40.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) GIS
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Network Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) GIS Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Data Cleansing
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Debt
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ESRI
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Meraki