Network Design Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Network Design
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Network Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 105 88
Rank change year-on-year -39 -17 +26
Contract jobs citing Network Design 8 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.28% 0.34% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.37% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £511 £466 £466
25th Percentile £516 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £564 £563 £525
90th Percentile £638 £630 £570
England median daily rate £525 £523 £475
% change year-on-year +0.48% +10.00% -13.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,384 1,362 1,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.30% 91.84% 83.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,443 852 777
10th Percentile £327 £265 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £669 £618 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 61 49
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 -
25th Percentile £16.82 £18.35 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +64.00% -32.50%
75th Percentile £28.00 £25.15 £22.00
90th Percentile £43.96 £34.46 £36.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Network Design

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in Yorkshire

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Network Design

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
West Yorkshire -18 5 £515 -20.77% 5
South Yorkshire -18 3 £519 +6.46% 4
Network Design
England

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 3 (37.50%) OCI
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (25.00%) Datadog
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) BIG-IP
1 4 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) BGP
2 3 (37.50%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (37.50%) OSPF
2 3 (37.50%) SD-WAN
2 3 (37.50%) VXLAN
2 3 (37.50%) WAN
2 3 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (37.50%) WLAN
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) NAS
3 2 (25.00%) SAN
3 2 (25.00%) VSAN
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP
4 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security
4 1 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (12.50%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Storage Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) IP Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (25.00%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (25.00%) EMC VNX
4 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (25.00%) Replication
5 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (12.50%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Network Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Zero Trust
5 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (25.00%) Key Management
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) RBAC
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (25.00%) NCDA
2 2 (25.00%) NCIE
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (12.50%) CEH
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (25.00%) NFS
1 2 (25.00%) SRDF
1 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Argo
2 2 (25.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (25.00%) EMC VPLEX
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (25.00%) SnapMirror
2 2 (25.00%) SnapVault
2 2 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (12.50%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) F5
2 3 (37.50%) Arista
2 3 (37.50%) Aruba
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
3 2 (25.00%) 3PAR
3 2 (25.00%) Brocade
3 2 (25.00%) Dell
3 2 (25.00%) EMC
3 2 (25.00%) NetApp
3 2 (25.00%) Pure Storage
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (25.00%) Veeam
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper