Network Design Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Network Design Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Design Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £549, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 366 395
Rank change year-on-year -21 +29 +84
Contract jobs requiring a Network Design Engineer 2 3 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.017% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.019% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £490 - £413
25th Percentile £512 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £375 £488
Median % change year-on-year +46.40% -23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £586 £388 £531
90th Percentile £608 - £538
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £549
% change year-on-year -13.64% +0.23% +21.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year - +13.67% +4.35%
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year - +13.67% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 14,338 15,955 19,850
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.63% 92.23% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 9,086 13,230
10th Percentile £208 £220 £220
25th Percentile £363 £371 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £670 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,199 1,255
10th Percentile £13.57 £14.73 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £41.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.76% -6.74% +97.78%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.47 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.92 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -38.66% -8.89% +69.81%

Network Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Network Design Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Network Design Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Network Design Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Design Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Design Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Network Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Design Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Design Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Design Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Network Design Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Design Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
South West +11 1 £475 - 3
North of England - 1 £623 -
North West - 1 £623 -
Network Design Engineer
UK

Network Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 October 2025, Network Design Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Network Design Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) 2G
2 1 (50.00%) 4G
2 1 (50.00%) 5G
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) BMC
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Co-Creation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Instructional Design
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation

Network Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) 2G
1 1 (50.00%) 4G
1 1 (50.00%) 5G
1 1 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) NB-IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Co-Creation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Instructional Design
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BMC
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy