Network Design Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Network Design
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Network Design 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 0.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median annual salary £65,000 £52,470 -
% change year-on-year +23.88% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 249 88 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 64.51% 88.89% 85.04%
Number of salaries quoted 163 56 247
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £21,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £43,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £54,375 £61,500
Staffordshire median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -11.11%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Network Design
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Network Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Network Design

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto