Network Design Job Trends in the South East

Network Design
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Network Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 234 302
Rank change year-on-year -28 +68 +41
Permanent jobs citing Network Design 30 41 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.21% 0.52% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.58% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 14 34 58
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,468 £42,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,450 £58,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.43% +2.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,375 £72,500
90th Percentile - £78,750 £78,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £57,847
% change year-on-year +12.50% +3.72% +5.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,390 7,112 13,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.84% 90.56% 84.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,048 3,380 9,805
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,969 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,550 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in the South East

Network Design
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

Network Design
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Design in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Network Design in the South East

Network Design
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Design within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Hampshire -37 14 £77,950 +41.73% 5
Thames Valley +14 11 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Berkshire +14 10 - - 2
Surrey -10 3 £45,000 - 3
West Sussex - 2 £75,900 -
Oxfordshire -2 1 £55,000 -38.89%
Network Design
England

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (23.33%) CATIA
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) AWS
1 1 (3.33%) Azure
1 1 (3.33%) dbt
1 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (40.00%) Firewall
2 11 (36.67%) VPN
3 9 (30.00%) BGP
4 8 (26.67%) MPLS
5 7 (23.33%) WAN
6 5 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (16.67%) HTTP
6 5 (16.67%) SNMP
7 4 (13.33%) LAN
7 4 (13.33%) Network Security
7 4 (13.33%) OSPF
8 3 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (10.00%) IPsec
8 3 (10.00%) Multicast
8 3 (10.00%) VoIP
9 1 (3.33%) DHCP
9 1 (3.33%) DNS
9 1 (3.33%) NGFW
9 1 (3.33%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) JIRA
1 7 (23.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 14 (46.67%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.67%) Military
5 1 (3.33%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Architect
2 6 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Lead
3 5 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Lead Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Associate Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Network Architect
6 1 (3.33%) OSS Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Acoustics
1 6 (20.00%) Augmented Reality
2 5 (16.67%) PKI
3 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.67%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Windows
1 9 (30.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Technical Leadership
2 8 (26.67%) Requirements Management
3 7 (23.33%) Agile
3 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
3 7 (23.33%) Systems Engineering
3 7 (23.33%) Waterfall
4 5 (16.67%) Capacity Management
4 5 (16.67%) Cryptography
4 5 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 5 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 5 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
4 5 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (13.33%) Security Testing
5 4 (13.33%) Service Design
6 2 (6.67%) High Availability
6 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (6.67%) Mathematics
6 2 (6.67%) Mentoring
7 1 (3.33%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
4 6 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (16.67%) CCNP
5 5 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (13.33%) CCNA
7 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
1 7 (23.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 3 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) vRealize
2 6 (20.00%) Endace
3 3 (10.00%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.33%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Cisco
1 9 (30.00%) VMware
2 7 (23.33%) IBM
3 6 (20.00%) Juniper
4 5 (16.67%) F5
5 3 (10.00%) Fortinet