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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 120 88
Rank change year-on-year +28 -32 +52
Permanent jobs citing Network Design 4 10 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.26% 0.49% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.55% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 19
10th Percentile £39,400 £47,500 £50,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £55,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £82,219 - -
90th Percentile £91,163 - £115,000
West Midlands median annual salary £61,000 £60,000 £62,350
% change year-on-year +1.67% -3.77% -22.06%

All Process and 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 1,280 1,820 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.32% 88.87% 92.81%
Number of salaries quoted 901 885 890
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,850 £31,343
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,652 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £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 12 December 2025.

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 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) MPLS
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Network Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Endace
2 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds