Network Design Job Trends in the Midlands

Network Design
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Network Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 213 194
Rank change year-on-year +9 -19 +120
Permanent jobs citing Network Design 15 29 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.19% 0.43% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.48% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 10 20 32
10th Percentile £34,525 £47,000 £41,524
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,123 £53,750 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.02% -17.42%
75th Percentile £66,125 £65,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,238 £80,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.69% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,399 6,010 4,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.52% 89.54% 88.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,536 2,661 3,680
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
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 Midlands

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Network Design
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Network Design

Network Design
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Design in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Design in the Midlands

Network Design
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
West Midlands +16 11 £65,000 +23.81%
East Midlands +1 4 £53,000 -3.64% 2
Network Design
England

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) Firewall
2 6 (40.00%) LAN
2 6 (40.00%) WAN
3 4 (26.67%) Modbus
4 3 (20.00%) VPN
5 2 (13.33%) MPLS
5 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (6.67%) BGP
6 1 (6.67%) DHCP
6 1 (6.67%) DNS
6 1 (6.67%) NAS
6 1 (6.67%) Network Security
6 1 (6.67%) OSPF
6 1 (6.67%) SAN
6 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
6 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (6.67%) WLAN
General
1 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Network Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Network Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Designer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Network Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Network Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) SCADA
2 5 (33.33%) Operational Technology
3 4 (26.67%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (20.00%) Driving Licence
5 2 (13.33%) CCTV
5 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (20.00%) High Availability
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (13.33%) Domain Models
4 2 (13.33%) Network Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Presales
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Red Team
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Management
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) C
1 2 (13.33%) C#
1 2 (13.33%) C++
1 2 (13.33%) Ladder Logic
1 2 (13.33%) VB
1 2 (13.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) HND
4 1 (6.67%) CCNA
4 1 (6.67%) CCNP
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) IEC 61131
1 2 (13.33%) IEC 61508
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
1 2 (13.33%) NIST 800
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Endace
2 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.67%) Nagios
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Cisco
2 4 (26.67%) Fortinet
3 3 (20.00%) Juniper
3 3 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (13.33%) Rockwell
4 2 (13.33%) Siemens
5 1 (6.67%) Meraki
5 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds