Network Design Jobs in the West Midlands

Network Design
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Network Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Network Design over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 254 271
Rank change year-on-year +35 +17 -82
Permanent jobs citing Network Design 29 20 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.40% 0.30% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.31% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 22 12 8
10th Percentile £56,250 £50,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,938 £52,500 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% +25.00% +7.32%
75th Percentile £115,000 £79,688 £61,875
90th Percentile - £82,500 £66,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Network Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,005 6,515 6,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.09% 96.86% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,520 3,307 4,728
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,550 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Network Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in the West Midlands

Network Design
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Design in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Network Design in the West Midlands

Network Design
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Design in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Design in the West Midlands

Network Design
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Birmingham +7 21 £80,000 +3.23% 3
Warwickshire - 4 - -
Coventry - 3 £63,000 -
Network Design
England

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (13.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
1 1 (3.45%) Simulink
1 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) Azure
2 14 (48.28%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (34.48%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (34.48%) IaaS
3 10 (34.48%) PaaS
4 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
4 4 (13.79%) OneDrive
5 3 (10.34%) AWS
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (34.48%) NGFW
1 10 (34.48%) VPN
1 10 (34.48%) WAN
2 8 (27.59%) BGP
2 8 (27.59%) SD-WAN
3 7 (24.14%) Firewall
3 7 (24.14%) MPLS
4 6 (20.69%) DHCP
4 6 (20.69%) DNS
4 6 (20.69%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (17.24%) LAN
6 4 (13.79%) Ethernet
6 4 (13.79%) iSCSI
6 4 (13.79%) SNMP
7 3 (10.34%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (10.34%) Junos
7 3 (10.34%) Wireless
8 2 (6.90%) IPsec
8 2 (6.90%) MGCP
8 2 (6.90%) OSPF
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Automotive
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Architect
2 10 (34.48%) Citrix Architect
2 10 (34.48%) Cloud Architect
2 10 (34.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 10 (34.48%) DevOps Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Design Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Manager
3 4 (13.79%) IP Design Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) IP Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 4 (13.79%) IT Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Juniper Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Network Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Network Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Software Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) ARM Templates
1 10 (34.48%) JSON
1 10 (34.48%) YAML
2 1 (3.45%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Private Cloud
1 10 (34.48%) Public Cloud
2 6 (20.69%) Data Centre
3 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.45%) IoT
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) VMS
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
1 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Agile
2 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
2 10 (34.48%) DevOps
2 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (34.48%) Network Virtualisation
2 10 (34.48%) SDLC
3 6 (20.69%) ITIL
3 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
4 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (17.24%) Project Management
5 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (13.79%) Data Centre Operations
5 4 (13.79%) Information Security
5 4 (13.79%) IT Strategy
5 4 (13.79%) Line Management
5 4 (13.79%) Network Management
5 4 (13.79%) Project Delivery
5 4 (13.79%) Server Management
6 2 (6.90%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.79%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) MATLAB
3 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (13.79%) Azure Certification
3 4 (13.79%) JNCIE
3 4 (13.79%) JNCIP
4 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) CCNP
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.45%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) AUTOSAR
1 2 (6.90%) SLA
2 1 (3.45%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (34.48%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (34.48%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (34.48%) vSphere
3 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.79%) Hyper-V
3 4 (13.79%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Nagios
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) VMware
2 11 (37.93%) Cisco
3 10 (34.48%) Citrix
3 10 (34.48%) Juniper
4 5 (17.24%) Fortinet
4 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
4 5 (17.24%) Nokia
5 4 (13.79%) BroadSoft
5 4 (13.79%) Brocade
5 4 (13.79%) Dell
5 4 (13.79%) Dell Compellent
5 4 (13.79%) QNAP
5 4 (13.79%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (13.79%) Veeam
5 4 (13.79%) Zerto
6 3 (10.34%) Ruckus Wireless
7 2 (6.90%) CheckPoint
7 2 (6.90%) F5
7 2 (6.90%) Meraki
7 2 (6.90%) Riverbed