Network Design Job Trends in the East Midlands

Network Design
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Network Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 129 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Permanent jobs citing Network Design 5 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.20% 0.045% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.051% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £38,000 - -
25th Percentile £42,875 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
75th Percentile £56,992 £57,500 -
90th Percentile £58,187 - -
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +27.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,989 1,976 1,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.85% 88.69% 85.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 832 1,280
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,775 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Network Design
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Network Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Network Design

Network Design
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Design in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Network Design in the East Midlands

Network Design
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Design within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire -13 3 £45,750 -16.82% 2
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 1
Network Design
England

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) BGP
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) 4G
2 1 (20.00%) Broadband
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (20.00%) IOS XR
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Associate Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Project Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Jinja
1 1 (20.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (20.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) SCADA
2 2 (40.00%) CCTV
3 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (20.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) TestOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) Ladder Logic
1 2 (40.00%) VB
1 2 (40.00%) VBA
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) HND
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) VMware