Network Design Job Trends in Southampton

Network Design
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Network Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 43 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Permanent jobs citing Network Design 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 0.32% 0.24% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.28% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 £30,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £33,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +89.39% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £35,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £75,900 £61,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year +23.41% +9.33% -2.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 679 358 653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 71.55% 87.53% 76.46%
Number of salaries quoted 516 242 503
10th Percentile £34,375 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,438 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £60,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £70,000
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% -

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in Southampton

Network Design
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Network Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Network Design

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
2 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Systems Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (66.67%) Network Management
1 2 (66.67%) PLM
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Management
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Verification and Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNA
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) Veeam
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) F5