Network Design Contracts in London

Network Design
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Network Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Design over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 420 465
Rank change year-on-year +90 +45 -71
Contract jobs citing Network Design 58 81 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.33% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 33 90
10th Percentile £509 £378 £424
25th Percentile £513 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -
75th Percentile £601 £675 £658
90th Percentile £786 £830 £700
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £23.45 - £22.05
25th Percentile £23.75 - £26.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £70.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% +77.22% -44.65%
75th Percentile £47.38 - £51.63
90th Percentile £60.95 - £60.25
England median hourly rate £47.25 £70.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -32.50% +62.79% +7.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,690 24,329 35,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.98% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,247 17,488 26,241
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.34 £63.81 £50.94
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Network Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in London

Network Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Design in London.

Daily rate trend for Network Design in London

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in London

Network Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Design in London.

Hourly rate trend for Network Design in London

Network Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Design in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Design in London

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Design within the London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +35 5 £525 -6.67% 5
East London - 2 £520 -
Network Design
England

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.72%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.07%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (6.90%) Azure
3 3 (5.17%) AWS
4 1 (1.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.72%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (56.90%) Firewall
2 29 (50.00%) BGP
3 21 (36.21%) WAN
4 19 (32.76%) MPLS
4 19 (32.76%) Network Security
5 17 (29.31%) VPN
6 15 (25.86%) LAN
7 14 (24.14%) OSPF
8 11 (18.97%) Wireless
9 9 (15.52%) EIGRP
10 8 (13.79%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (13.79%) RSVP
11 7 (12.07%) 5G
11 7 (12.07%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (12.07%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 7 (12.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 7 (12.07%) InfiniBand
11 7 (12.07%) IOS XR
11 7 (12.07%) SD-WAN
11 7 (12.07%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.72%) DB2
1 1 (1.72%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Manufacturing
2 7 (12.07%) Telecoms
3 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Finance
5 1 (1.72%) Banking
5 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Legal
5 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (70.69%) Network Engineer
2 20 (34.48%) Design Engineer
2 20 (34.48%) Network Design Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Senior
4 8 (13.79%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Network Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Core Network Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Consultant
7 3 (5.17%) Lead
7 3 (5.17%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Network Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Associate Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Network Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Network Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) Network Design Consultant
8 2 (3.45%) Switch Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) JSON
1 12 (20.69%) NETCONF
1 12 (20.69%) XML
1 12 (20.69%) YANG
2 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.79%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (5.17%) PKI
4 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) LPAR
4 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
2 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 12 (20.69%) Business Strategy
2 12 (20.69%) DevOps
2 12 (20.69%) Roadmaps
3 10 (17.24%) Load Balancing
4 9 (15.52%) Agile
4 9 (15.52%) Migration
5 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (12.07%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (10.34%) Business Case
7 6 (10.34%) Network Architecture
8 5 (8.62%) Capacity Management
8 5 (8.62%) Configuration Management
8 5 (8.62%) High Availability
8 5 (8.62%) ITIL
8 5 (8.62%) Scrum
8 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (6.90%) Knowledge Transfer
9 4 (6.90%) Low Latency
9 4 (6.90%) Network Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.59%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (24.14%) CCNP
3 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
4 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
5 6 (10.34%) CCNA
6 5 (8.62%) Degree
7 3 (5.17%) CCIE
8 2 (3.45%) BC Cleared
8 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (3.45%) CCDP
8 2 (3.45%) CCIP
8 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (18.97%) FortiGate
2 6 (10.34%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) CASB
3 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (50.00%) Cisco
2 19 (32.76%) Nokia
2 19 (32.76%) Palo Alto
3 13 (22.41%) Juniper
4 12 (20.69%) F5
4 12 (20.69%) Fortinet
5 4 (6.90%) CheckPoint
5 4 (6.90%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (5.17%) Dell
7 2 (3.45%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 2 (3.45%) Huawei
7 2 (3.45%) Meraki
7 2 (3.45%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.45%) WatchGuard
8 1 (1.72%) Arista
8 1 (1.72%) Aruba
8 1 (1.72%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.72%) Riverbed
8 1 (1.72%) Zscaler