Network Design Job Trends in Basingstoke

Network Design
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Network Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 22 31
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 +11
Permanent jobs citing Network Design 18 39 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 5.52% 6.30% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.29% 9.68% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 16 36 9
10th Percentile £51,250 - £47,590
25th Percentile £52,188 £52,500 £52,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.45% -9.84% +6.09%
75th Percentile £76,875 £58,000 £73,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,250 -
Hampshire median annual salary £69,000 £55,000 £59,750
% change year-on-year +25.45% -7.95% +22.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

Network Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basingstoke.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 247 403 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 75.77% 65.11% 90.73%
Number of salaries quoted 213 294 173
10th Percentile £29,750 £43,545 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £51,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,772 £60,000 £49,694
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +20.74% -9.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,550 £85,000 £78,500
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,961 £52,000
% change year-on-year -10.65% +7.62% -5.45%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Network Design
Salary Trend in Basingstoke

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Network Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Network Design

Network Design
Salary Histogram in Basingstoke

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Design in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Network Design in Basingstoke

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) VPN
2 15 (83.33%) LAN
3 12 (66.67%) WAN
4 11 (61.11%) Firewall
5 7 (38.89%) Network Security
6 6 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (22.22%) BGP
7 4 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (22.22%) IPsec
7 4 (22.22%) Junos
7 4 (22.22%) MPLS
8 2 (11.11%) IPv4
8 2 (11.11%) IPv6
8 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
8 2 (11.11%) VLAN
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 11 (61.11%) Design Engineer
2 11 (61.11%) Network Design Engineer
3 9 (50.00%) Senior
3 9 (50.00%) Senior Design Engineer
3 9 (50.00%) Senior Network Design Engineer
3 9 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (33.33%) Architect
4 6 (33.33%) Network Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Network Security Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Requirements Gathering
2 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 6 (33.33%) Requirements Management
3 5 (27.78%) High Availability
4 4 (22.22%) Network Management
4 4 (22.22%) Project Management
5 2 (11.11%) Capacity Management
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
6 1 (5.56%) Presales
6 1 (5.56%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 15 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (72.22%) DV Cleared
3 10 (55.56%) CCNA
3 10 (55.56%) CCNP
3 10 (55.56%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (55.56%) JNCIS
4 2 (11.11%) JNCIA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) KVM
1 2 (11.11%) RHEV
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (11.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Endace
2 2 (11.11%) Nagios
2 2 (11.11%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) Cisco
1 16 (88.89%) Juniper
2 6 (33.33%) F5
3 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
3 2 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Fortinet