Network Design Job Trends in the West Midlands

Network Design
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Network Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 192 138
Rank change year-on-year +20 -54 +145
Permanent jobs citing Network Design 9 24 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.19% 0.48% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.55% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5 15 30
10th Percentile £41,500 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £62,350
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -3.77% -22.06%
75th Percentile £77,250 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £89,175 £80,000 £88,000
England median annual salary £66,750 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.25% -7.69% +13.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,904 4,360 3,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.62% 87.46% 92.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,123 1,988 2,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,175 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
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 West Midlands

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

Network Design job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Network Design
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Network Design
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Design in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

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 13 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
Birmingham +28 4 £68,750 -14.06% 3
Staffordshire -13 4 - -
Solihull - 1 £55,000 -
Network Design
England

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 (22.22%) WinCC
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) LAN
2 5 (55.56%) WAN
3 4 (44.44%) Modbus
4 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
4 2 (22.22%) VPN
5 1 (11.11%) DHCP
5 1 (11.11%) DNS
5 1 (11.11%) MPLS
5 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (11.11%) WLAN
General
1 4 (44.44%) Manufacturing
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Network Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Operational Technology
1 4 (44.44%) Renewable Energy
1 4 (44.44%) SCADA
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Driving Licence
2 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Project Delivery
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Domain Models
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Presales
3 2 (22.22%) Red Team
3 2 (22.22%) Requirements Management
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) CCNP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) IEC 61131
1 2 (22.22%) IEC 61508
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) NIST 800
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Endace
2 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 1 (11.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
2 2 (22.22%) Juniper
2 2 (22.22%) Rockwell
2 2 (22.22%) Siemens
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Meraki
3 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds