Network Design Jobs in England

Network Design
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Network Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Network Design over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 573 646
Rank change year-on-year +101 +73 +137
Permanent jobs citing Network Design 220 280 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.31% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.37% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 130 196 173
10th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £44,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% +4.55% -12.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £113,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -17.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Network Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in England

Network Design
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Design in England.

Salary trend for Network Design in England

Network Design
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Design in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Design in England

Network Design
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Design within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
North of England +82 73 £75,000 +22.58% 135
Yorkshire +96 64 £85,000 +36.00% 63
London +69 42 £76,250 -7.58% 60
Midlands +94 40 £50,000 -35.48% 102
West Midlands +70 38 £50,000 -37.50% 56
South East +40 38 £60,000 +4.35% 155
South West +91 22 £56,121 +60.34% 76
North West +5 8 £61,500 +0.51% 60
East of England +44 4 £72,500 +49.48% 72
East Midlands +42 2 - - 40
North East +44 1 £76,000 +68.89% 14
Network Design
UK

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (13.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.45%) MicroStation
2 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 65 (29.55%) Azure
2 35 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (11.36%) AWS
4 19 (8.64%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.45%) OneDrive
6 11 (5.00%) Power Automate
7 10 (4.55%) GCP
8 6 (2.73%) Google Workspace
8 6 (2.73%) OCI
9 4 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.36%) IBM Cloud
11 2 (0.91%) Akamai
11 2 (0.91%) IaaS
11 2 (0.91%) PaaS
11 2 (0.91%) SaaS
12 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 137 (62.27%) Firewall
2 74 (33.64%) WAN
3 51 (23.18%) BGP
4 50 (22.73%) LAN
5 42 (19.09%) Network Security
6 34 (15.45%) VPN
7 32 (14.55%) MPLS
7 32 (14.55%) OSPF
8 25 (11.36%) TCP/IP
9 24 (10.91%) IPsec
10 23 (10.45%) Junos
10 23 (10.45%) VLAN
11 21 (9.55%) Cisco IOS
12 19 (8.64%) DNS
13 18 (8.18%) EIGRP
14 17 (7.73%) DHCP
14 17 (7.73%) Wireless
15 14 (6.36%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (4.55%) Modbus
17 9 (4.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (1.82%) Git
3 3 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.45%) GitLab
4 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 33 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.09%) Finance
3 16 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.09%) Legal
5 7 (3.18%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.18%) Police
6 6 (2.73%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.82%) Law
9 3 (1.36%) Advertising
10 2 (0.91%) Automotive
10 2 (0.91%) Aviation
10 2 (0.91%) Banking
10 2 (0.91%) Military
10 2 (0.91%) Retail
11 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.45%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Marketing
11 1 (0.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (23.18%) Network Engineer
2 43 (19.55%) IT Engineer
3 34 (15.45%) Architect
4 23 (10.45%) Network Architect
5 19 (8.64%) Instrumentation Engineer
5 19 (8.64%) Senior
6 17 (7.73%) Lead
6 17 (7.73%) Senior Network Engineer
7 16 (7.27%) Support Engineer
8 15 (6.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 15 (6.82%) Security Engineer
9 14 (6.36%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 14 (6.36%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
9 14 (6.36%) 3rd Line Support
9 14 (6.36%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 14 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (4.55%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 9 (4.09%) Designer
11 9 (4.09%) Network Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.27%) Jinja
2 3 (1.36%) YAML
3 2 (0.91%) .NET
3 2 (0.91%) CSS
3 2 (0.91%) YANG
4 1 (0.45%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.45%) Node-RED
4 1 (0.45%) OpenConfig
4 1 (0.45%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 69 (31.36%) Operational Technology
2 16 (7.27%) Management Information System
2 16 (7.27%) Onboarding
3 15 (6.82%) Cyber Threat
3 15 (6.82%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.09%) IoT
5 6 (2.73%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.73%) SCADA
6 5 (2.27%) Biopharmaceutical
6 5 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (1.82%) Industry 4.0
8 3 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.36%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.36%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.36%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.91%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.91%) Self-Driving Car
9 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 81 (36.82%) Windows
2 19 (8.64%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.27%) Windows Server 2016
3 16 (7.27%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (4.55%) Linux
5 3 (1.36%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (36.82%) Cybersecurity
2 70 (31.82%) Network Management
3 37 (16.82%) Mentoring
4 31 (14.09%) Technical Leadership
5 23 (10.45%) Infrastructure Management
6 22 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 20 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
8 19 (8.64%) Task Automation
9 17 (7.73%) Identity Management
9 17 (7.73%) Project Delivery
10 16 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (7.27%) Data Security
11 15 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (6.82%) Project Management
12 13 (5.91%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (5.91%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (5.45%) Change Management
13 12 (5.45%) Mobile Device Management
13 12 (5.45%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.82%) PowerShell
2 15 (6.82%) Python
3 10 (4.55%) SQL
4 3 (1.36%) C#
4 3 (1.36%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.91%) R
6 1 (0.45%) Bash
6 1 (0.45%) C
6 1 (0.45%) C++
6 1 (0.45%) Java
6 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (23.18%) Security Cleared
2 48 (21.82%) Cisco Certification
3 46 (20.91%) CCNP
4 37 (16.82%) CCNA
5 35 (15.91%) SC Cleared
6 21 (9.55%) JNCIS
7 16 (7.27%) Degree
7 16 (7.27%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.73%) CCIE
8 6 (2.73%) CISM
8 6 (2.73%) CISSP
8 6 (2.73%) HND
9 5 (2.27%) CCDA
9 5 (2.27%) CCDP
10 4 (1.82%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (1.82%) HNC
11 3 (1.36%) JNCIA
12 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.91%) JNCIE
12 2 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.64%) SLA
2 10 (4.55%) NIST
3 7 (3.18%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.73%) NCSC
5 5 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.82%) GDPR
7 3 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 85 (38.64%) Active Directory
2 57 (25.91%) Virtual Servers
3 23 (10.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (7.27%) XenApp
5 12 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.36%) Docker
6 3 (1.36%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.91%) Firmware
8 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (15.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (8.18%) FortiGate
2 18 (8.18%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (7.73%) Ansible
4 12 (5.45%) SCCM
5 6 (2.73%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (2.27%) CASB
6 5 (2.27%) Functional Safety
6 5 (2.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (1.36%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.36%) Nessus
7 3 (1.36%) Terraform
8 2 (0.91%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.91%) WMI
Vendors
1 88 (40.00%) Cisco
2 50 (22.73%) Juniper
3 37 (16.82%) Meraki
4 30 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 26 (11.82%) VMware
6 22 (10.00%) CheckPoint
6 22 (10.00%) Fortinet
7 16 (7.27%) Citrix
7 16 (7.27%) SonicWALL
8 12 (5.45%) Palo Alto
8 12 (5.45%) SolarWinds
9 8 (3.64%) Extreme Networks
10 7 (3.18%) Arista
10 7 (3.18%) Google
11 5 (2.27%) Aerohive Networks
11 5 (2.27%) Ekahau
11 5 (2.27%) SAP
11 5 (2.27%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.82%) Rockwell
12 4 (1.82%) Siemens