Network Design Engineer Contracts

Network Design Engineer
UK

The median Network Design Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 651 800
Rank change year-on-year +102 +149 -156
Contract jobs requiring a Network Design Engineer 30 49 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.082% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.086% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 31 42
10th Percentile £499 £356 £381
25th Percentile £510 £397 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +2.70% +2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £594
90th Percentile £590 £619 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £460 £444
% change year-on-year +15.98% +3.61% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.23 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £62.00 -
% change year-on-year +12.90% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Network Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Network Design Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Design Engineer in the UK

Network Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Design Engineer in the UK

Network Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design Engineer in the UK

Network Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Design Engineer in the UK

Network Design Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +110 29 £525 +25.37% 1
London +116 19 £525 +31.24% 1
UK excluding London +60 10 £534 +15.98%
Work from Home +103 9 £575 +15.00%
East of England - 6 - -
North of England +28 2 £534 -11.08%
West Midlands +29 1 - -
Midlands +24 1 - -
North West +20 1 £602 +0.33%
South East +20 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £465 -

Network Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Network Design Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Network Design Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Network Design
2 23 (76.67%) Cisco
3 19 (63.33%) Firewall
4 18 (60.00%) MPLS
5 15 (50.00%) Nokia
5 15 (50.00%) BGP
6 14 (46.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 12 (40.00%) CCNP
7 12 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (40.00%) Python
7 12 (40.00%) DevOps
7 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
7 12 (40.00%) Business Strategy
7 12 (40.00%) Roadmaps
8 11 (36.67%) NETCONF
8 11 (36.67%) YANG
8 11 (36.67%) 5G
8 11 (36.67%) XML
8 11 (36.67%) JSON
8 11 (36.67%) Load Balancing
8 11 (36.67%) Network Security
9 10 (33.33%) VPN
9 10 (33.33%) Git
10 8 (26.67%) WAN
10 8 (26.67%) Juniper
11 7 (23.33%) RSVP
11 7 (23.33%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (23.33%) F5
11 7 (23.33%) IOS XR
11 7 (23.33%) Ansible

Network Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 19 (63.33%) Firewall
2 18 (60.00%) MPLS
3 15 (50.00%) BGP
4 11 (36.67%) 5G
4 11 (36.67%) Network Security
5 10 (33.33%) VPN
6 8 (26.67%) WAN
7 7 (23.33%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (23.33%) IOS XR
7 7 (23.33%) RSVP
8 6 (20.00%) 4G
8 6 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 6 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (16.67%) LAN
10 4 (13.33%) Wireless
11 3 (10.00%) Broadband
12 2 (6.67%) IPv6
12 2 (6.67%) PBX
12 2 (6.67%) VPLS
12 2 (6.67%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Git
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) JSON
1 11 (36.67%) NETCONF
1 11 (36.67%) XML
1 11 (36.67%) YANG
2 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Network Design
2 14 (46.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 12 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 12 (40.00%) DevOps
3 12 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 11 (36.67%) Load Balancing
5 7 (23.33%) Business Case
5 7 (23.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 6 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (13.33%) Migration
8 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
8 2 (6.67%) Presales
9 1 (3.33%) Customer Requirements
9 1 (3.33%) Defect Management
9 1 (3.33%) IT Strategy
9 1 (3.33%) Mentoring
9 1 (3.33%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (3.33%) Storage Management
9 1 (3.33%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) CCNP
1 12 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) CCNA
4 2 (6.67%) CCIE
5 1 (3.33%) CCIE Data Center
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Ansible
2 5 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 23 (76.67%) Cisco
2 15 (50.00%) Nokia
3 8 (26.67%) Juniper
4 7 (23.33%) F5
5 6 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 6 (20.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (6.67%) Huawei
6 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.67%) WatchGuard
7 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.33%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.33%) Radianz
7 1 (3.33%) Ribbon
7 1 (3.33%) Riverbed