Network Design Job Trends in Birmingham

Network Design
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Network Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 110 87
Rank change year-on-year +13 -23 +57
Permanent jobs citing Network Design 6 19 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.34% 1.05% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.13% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 22
10th Percentile £44,000 - £53,750
25th Percentile £57,875 £47,500 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -41.18% +6.25%
75th Percentile £74,563 £80,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £87,188 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -19.23% -18.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,387 1,686 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.30% 93.30% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 985 786 1,003
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,563 £40,494
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,625 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Network Design
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Network Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Network Design

Network Design
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Design in Birmingham over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Network Design in Birmingham

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) LAN
1 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) MPLS
4 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Network Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Network Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Network Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
1 2 (33.33%) Requirements Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Endace
2 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Fortinet
3 2 (33.33%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) Meraki
4 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds