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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 420 471
Rank change year-on-year +82 +51 -62
Contract jobs citing Network Design 55 73 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.29% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.31% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 29 84
10th Percentile £440 £413 £433
25th Percentile £510 £475 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £587 £545
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +7.71% +3.81%
75th Percentile £601 £788 £653
90th Percentile £690 £830 £696
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - - £20.15
25th Percentile £23.25 - £26.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.43% +77.22% -34.72%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £44.50
90th Percentile - - £55.30
England median hourly rate £29.25 £70.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -58.21% +62.79% +4.46%

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 15,473 23,264 35,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 90.93% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,093 16,856 26,215
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £449 £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 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 265 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +9.86% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

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 2 June 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
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 2 June 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 +29 6 £450 -43.75% 1
East London - 1 - - 4
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:

Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.73%) Azure
2 5 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (3.64%) AWS
3 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.82%) Azure Storage
4 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.82%) GCP
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (45.45%) Firewall
2 22 (40.00%) BGP
3 15 (27.27%) MPLS
3 15 (27.27%) WAN
4 13 (23.64%) Network Security
5 11 (20.00%) 5G
5 11 (20.00%) OSPF
6 10 (18.18%) SD-WAN
6 10 (18.18%) VPN
7 9 (16.36%) LAN
7 9 (16.36%) Wireless
8 8 (14.55%) DNS
9 7 (12.73%) InfiniBand
10 6 (10.91%) 4G
10 6 (10.91%) IPv6
10 6 (10.91%) RSVP
10 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
11 5 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (9.09%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) DB2
1 2 (3.64%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Git
General
1 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.18%) Manufacturing
2 10 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Finance
5 2 (3.64%) Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Legal
6 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (69.09%) Network Engineer
2 19 (34.55%) Design Engineer
3 17 (30.91%) Network Design Engineer
4 8 (14.55%) Senior
4 8 (14.55%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Consultant
5 3 (5.45%) Core Network Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Lead
5 3 (5.45%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Network Migration Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) RAN Design Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) RAN Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Associate Consultant
6 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Network Consultant
6 2 (3.64%) Network Design Consultant
6 2 (3.64%) Network Specialist
6 2 (3.64%) SAP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.55%) JSON
1 8 (14.55%) NETCONF
1 8 (14.55%) XML
1 8 (14.55%) YANG
2 1 (1.82%) Web Services
2 1 (1.82%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.91%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (5.45%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.64%) LPAR
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.82%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) PKI
5 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Linux
1 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.64%) zOS
2 1 (1.82%) Windows
2 1 (1.82%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.00%) Load Balancing
1 11 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 10 (18.18%) DevOps
2 10 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 8 (14.55%) Business Strategy
3 8 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (10.91%) Migration
4 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (9.09%) Configuration Management
5 5 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (9.09%) Use Case
6 4 (7.27%) Bill of Materials
6 4 (7.27%) Business Case
6 4 (7.27%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (7.27%) Low Latency
6 4 (7.27%) Network Management
6 4 (7.27%) Network Optimisation
6 4 (7.27%) Project Delivery
7 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (5.45%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.36%) Python
2 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (20.00%) CCNP
3 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
4 5 (9.09%) CCNA
5 3 (5.45%) CCIE
5 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.64%) Degree
6 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.82%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.82%) CCDP
7 1 (1.82%) CCIP
7 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.82%) NIST
1 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (12.73%) FortiGate
2 6 (10.91%) Ansible
3 3 (5.45%) Terraform
4 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.82%) CASB
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (43.64%) Cisco
2 17 (30.91%) Nokia
3 14 (25.45%) Palo Alto
4 12 (21.82%) F5
4 12 (21.82%) Fortinet
5 7 (12.73%) Juniper
6 3 (5.45%) Dell
6 3 (5.45%) Ericsson
7 2 (3.64%) CheckPoint
7 2 (3.64%) Dynatrace
7 2 (3.64%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (3.64%) Huawei
7 2 (3.64%) IBM
7 2 (3.64%) Meraki
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.64%) SAP
7 2 (3.64%) VMware
7 2 (3.64%) WatchGuard
8 1 (1.82%) Arista
8 1 (1.82%) Zscaler