Network Design Job Trends in the City of London

Network Design
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Network Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 145 172
Rank change year-on-year +1 +27 +57
Permanent jobs citing Network Design 3 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.093% 0.046% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.048% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £73,815
25th Percentile £62,500 £95,000 £79,884
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +11.11% +24.14%
75th Percentile £67,500 £105,000 £107,500
90th Percentile - - £118,000
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £91,250 £90,000
% change year-on-year -28.77% +1.39% +24.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,708 2,067 2,894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 84.05% 95.92% 92.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,900 1,516 2,484
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,625 £42,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £120,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in the City of London

Network Design
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Network Design

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (66.67%) 4G
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) Broadband
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (66.67%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (66.67%) IOS XR
1 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Associate Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Jinja
1 2 (66.67%) NETCONF
1 2 (66.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Aruba