Network Design Contracts

Network Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 459 477
Rank change year-on-year +125 +18 -69
Contract jobs citing Network Design 251 248 424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.44% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.49% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 136 281
10th Percentile £363 £375 £406
25th Percentile £419 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £560
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -8.48% +17.89%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £650
90th Percentile £638 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 21 8
10th Percentile - £62.00 £23.45
25th Percentile £23.25 £63.23 £35.38
Median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £46.60
Median % change year-on-year -66.43% +50.21% +13.20%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £53.28
90th Percentile - - £59.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £50.49
% change year-on-year - +38.66% +55.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Top 15 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 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 +141 233 £475 -5.00% 106
UK excluding London +102 179 £450 -9.09% 86
South East +61 93 £450 -8.86% 25
Work from Home +47 50 £550 +4.76% 43
London +60 49 £588 +4.44% 32
Midlands +59 38 £375 -15.73% 18
West Midlands +53 32 £375 -9.64% 12
North of England +26 21 £475 -9.52% 19
South West -3 20 £288 -34.66% 13
North West +8 9 £463 -7.50% 10
Yorkshire +16 7 £475 -13.64% 8
East Midlands +14 6 £550 +23.60% 6
East of England -1 6 £475 -5.00% 6
North East - 5 - - 1
Scotland +39 1 £600 +21.83% 4

Network Design
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 (0.80%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.80%) Revit
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (4.38%) AWS
1 11 (4.38%) Azure
2 6 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (1.99%) GCP
4 3 (1.20%) Cloudflare
5 2 (0.80%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (0.80%) IaaS
5 2 (0.80%) PaaS
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (0.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.40%) SaaS
6 1 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 99 (39.44%) BGP
2 88 (35.06%) WAN
3 83 (33.07%) Firewall
4 77 (30.68%) MPLS
5 51 (20.32%) VPN
6 39 (15.54%) OSPF
7 35 (13.94%) Network Security
8 33 (13.15%) Cisco Firepower
9 30 (11.95%) Wireless
10 28 (11.16%) IPsec
11 27 (10.76%) EIGRP
12 26 (10.36%) SSL
13 25 (9.96%) Junos
14 24 (9.56%) 4G
15 23 (9.16%) LAN
16 22 (8.76%) 5G
16 22 (8.76%) DMVPN
17 16 (6.37%) Wi-Fi
18 15 (5.98%) Radio Access Network
19 14 (5.58%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.20%) DB2
1 3 (1.20%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.40%) Big Data
2 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (2.79%) Git
2 2 (0.80%) JIRA
3 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.40%) GitLab
3 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
General
1 38 (15.14%) Finance
2 36 (14.34%) Social Skills
3 24 (9.56%) Telecoms
4 22 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.78%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.59%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.20%) Banking
8 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.80%) Local Government
8 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Advertising
9 1 (0.40%) Automotive
9 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Law
9 1 (0.40%) Legal
9 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 110 (43.82%) Network Engineer
2 57 (22.71%) Architect
3 50 (19.92%) Network Architect
4 25 (9.96%) Design Engineer
4 25 (9.96%) Senior
5 24 (9.56%) Network Design Engineer
5 24 (9.56%) Network Specialist
6 20 (7.97%) 3rd Line Support
6 20 (7.97%) Network Support
7 16 (6.37%) Cisco Engineer
7 16 (6.37%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 13 (5.18%) Senior Network Engineer
9 11 (4.38%) Consultant
10 10 (3.98%) Network Consultant
11 7 (2.79%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 6 (2.39%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.39%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 6 (2.39%) Senior Consultant
12 6 (2.39%) Senior Network Consultant
13 5 (1.99%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.98%) XML
2 8 (3.19%) JSON
2 8 (3.19%) NETCONF
2 8 (3.19%) YANG
3 6 (2.39%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.20%) EDI
4 3 (1.20%) Web Services
5 2 (0.80%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.37%) PKI
2 16 (6.37%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.39%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (2.39%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.59%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.20%) CCTV
5 3 (1.20%) SCADA
6 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.80%) LPAR
6 2 (0.80%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.80%) NHS
6 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.40%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.40%) Clustering
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.40%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.40%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.79%) Linux
2 5 (1.99%) zOS
3 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.20%) Windows
4 2 (0.80%) Unix
4 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (21.51%) Customer Requirements
2 42 (16.73%) Load Balancing
3 37 (14.74%) Network Management
4 30 (11.95%) Technical Leadership
5 27 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (7.97%) Project Management
7 18 (7.17%) Network Virtualisation
8 15 (5.98%) High Availability
9 14 (5.58%) Migration
9 14 (5.58%) Network Architecture
10 12 (4.78%) DevOps
10 12 (4.78%) Roadmaps
11 11 (4.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (4.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 9 (3.59%) Capacity Planning
12 9 (3.59%) Computer Science
13 8 (3.19%) Business Strategy
13 8 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (3.19%) Requirements Gathering
14 7 (2.79%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.98%) Python
2 2 (0.80%) Java
3 1 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 123 (49.00%) Security Cleared
2 44 (17.53%) Cisco Certification
3 41 (16.33%) SC Cleared
4 38 (15.14%) CCNP
5 29 (11.55%) DV Cleared
6 22 (8.76%) CCIE
7 18 (7.17%) CCNA
8 12 (4.78%) Degree
9 6 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.80%) CCDP
11 2 (0.80%) JNCIP
11 2 (0.80%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.40%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.40%) CCIE Data Center
12 1 (0.40%) CCIP
12 1 (0.40%) CISM
12 1 (0.40%) CISSP
12 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.59%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.20%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.80%) GDPR
3 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.80%) NIST
3 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.80%) SLA
4 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 12 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (3.98%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) Docker
3 1 (0.40%) KVM
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (11.95%) FortiGate
2 29 (11.55%) Endace
3 10 (3.98%) Ansible
4 2 (0.80%) CASB
4 2 (0.80%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.80%) Terraform
5 1 (0.40%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.40%) Nagios
5 1 (0.40%) Puppet
5 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 151 (60.16%) Cisco
2 105 (41.83%) Juniper
3 63 (25.10%) Fortinet
4 45 (17.93%) F5
5 29 (11.55%) Palo Alto
6 28 (11.16%) Nokia
7 14 (5.58%) Ericsson
7 14 (5.58%) Huawei
7 14 (5.58%) VMware
8 12 (4.78%) Actix
9 9 (3.59%) Meraki
10 8 (3.19%) CheckPoint
11 6 (2.39%) Google
12 4 (1.59%) Dell
12 4 (1.59%) Extreme Networks
12 4 (1.59%) Zscaler
13 3 (1.20%) IBM
13 3 (1.20%) Microsoft
13 3 (1.20%) SAP
14 2 (0.80%) Citrix