Network Planning Contracts

Network Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Network Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Planning over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 571 642
Rank change year-on-year +31 +71 +205
Contract jobs citing Network Planning 8 22 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.051% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.060% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 13
10th Percentile - £325 -
25th Percentile - £403 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £497 £445
Median % change year-on-year -29.51% +11.57% +1.71%
75th Percentile - £500 £550
90th Percentile - £529 £570
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £412 £448
% change year-on-year -15.05% -7.93% +10.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 4
10th Percentile - £19.40 -
25th Percentile - £23.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - +76.47% -54.67%
75th Percentile - £43.45 £21.75
90th Percentile - £51.91 £24.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year - +105.88% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Network Planning 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,604 36,487 50,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.43% 85.35% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,633 23,275 34,708
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% +0.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,516 2,444 1,698
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £13.17
25th Percentile £17.45 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%
75th Percentile £53.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.62 £38.12 £37.93
% change year-on-year -35.41% +0.51% +77.30%

Network Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Planning in the UK

Network Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Planning in the UK

Network Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Planning in the UK

Network Planning
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 13 July 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
England +26 7 £350 -30.00% 16
UK excluding London +13 7 £350 -15.05% 13
North West +10 5 - -
North of England +8 5 - - 4
Work from Home +29 3 - - 7
South East +42 1 £350 -15.05% 4
West Midlands +6 1 - - 5
Midlands +1 1 - - 5

Network Planning
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (25.00%) SAP APO
3 1 (12.50%) SAP MM
3 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (12.50%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) BGP
1 4 (50.00%) EIGRP
1 4 (50.00%) IPv4
1 4 (50.00%) MPLS
1 4 (50.00%) OSPF
1 4 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) GIS
1 1 (12.50%) IDMS
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) IP Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) Transmission Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Fibre Planner
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) IP Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) SAP APO Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) SAP Integration Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) SAP SCM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) SAP Core Interface
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 1 (12.50%) Logistics
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Management
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CCNP
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) BMC
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco
1 4 (50.00%) Huawei
1 4 (50.00%) Remedy
2 3 (37.50%) SAP