Network Design Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Design
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 312 326
Rank change year-on-year +94 +14 -43
Contract jobs citing Network Design 178 137 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.57% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.64% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 83 118
10th Percentile - £365 £375
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £504
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.27% +6.67%
75th Percentile £528 £550 £623
90th Percentile £606 £638 £664
UK median daily rate £486 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -2.80% -11.50% +18.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 18 2
10th Percentile - £58.81 £49.13
25th Percentile - £63.23 £49.41
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £50.49
Median % change year-on-year - +38.66% +55.75%
75th Percentile - - £51.28
90th Percentile - - £51.38
UK median hourly rate £47.25 £70.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -32.50% +62.79% +7.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in the UK excluding London

Network Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Design in the UK excluding London

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in the UK excluding London

Network Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Design in the UK excluding London

Network Design
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East +59 93 £450 -6.49% 26
Midlands +57 36 £375 -15.73% 16
West Midlands +48 32 £375 -5.06% 10
South West +20 20 £294 -33.24% 12
North of England +20 17 £475 -7.32% 16
East of England +1 11 £475 -5.00% 4
North West +15 8 £463 -7.50% 7
Yorkshire +23 7 £475 -13.64% 8
East Midlands +17 4 £575 +29.21% 6
North East - 2 - - 1
Scotland +34 1 £600 +23.71% 6
Network Design
UK

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (1.12%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (1.69%) AWS
1 3 (1.69%) Azure
2 2 (1.12%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (1.12%) GCP
2 2 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (0.56%) Cloudflare
3 1 (0.56%) IaaS
3 1 (0.56%) OpenShift
3 1 (0.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (42.70%) BGP
2 64 (35.96%) WAN
3 55 (30.90%) Firewall
3 55 (30.90%) MPLS
4 42 (23.60%) VPN
5 32 (17.98%) Cisco Firepower
6 27 (15.17%) OSPF
7 26 (14.61%) Network Security
8 25 (14.04%) 4G
8 25 (14.04%) IPsec
8 25 (14.04%) Junos
8 25 (14.04%) SSL
9 23 (12.92%) EIGRP
10 22 (12.36%) DMVPN
11 18 (10.11%) Wireless
12 15 (8.43%) 5G
13 12 (6.74%) 3GPP
13 12 (6.74%) LTE
13 12 (6.74%) Radio Access Network
13 12 (6.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.56%) Big Data
1 1 (0.56%) DB2
1 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (1.12%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Git
General
1 29 (16.29%) Finance
2 25 (14.04%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.99%) Telecoms
4 11 (6.18%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.56%) Advertising
5 1 (0.56%) Banking
5 1 (0.56%) Law
5 1 (0.56%) Local Government
5 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (36.52%) Network Engineer
2 49 (27.53%) Architect
3 44 (24.72%) Network Architect
4 24 (13.48%) Network Specialist
5 20 (11.24%) 3rd Line Support
5 20 (11.24%) Network Support
6 14 (7.87%) Cisco Engineer
6 14 (7.87%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 9 (5.06%) Design Engineer
7 9 (5.06%) Network Design Engineer
8 7 (3.93%) Network Design Specialist
8 7 (3.93%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 7 (3.93%) Senior
9 6 (3.37%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 5 (2.81%) Core Network Specialist
10 5 (2.81%) IP Design Engineer
10 5 (2.81%) IP Engineer
10 5 (2.81%) Mobile Specialist
10 5 (2.81%) Senior Architect
10 5 (2.81%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.69%) EDI
1 3 (1.69%) XML
2 2 (1.12%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.12%) Web Services
2 2 (1.12%) XSLT
3 1 (0.56%) JSON
3 1 (0.56%) NETCONF
3 1 (0.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.24%) PKI
2 6 (3.37%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.25%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.69%) CCTV
4 3 (1.69%) SCADA
5 2 (1.12%) NHS
5 2 (1.12%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Clustering
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.25%) Linux
2 3 (1.69%) zOS
3 2 (1.12%) Unix
3 2 (1.12%) Windows
3 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.21%) Customer Requirements
2 33 (18.54%) Load Balancing
3 31 (17.42%) Network Management
4 27 (15.17%) Technical Leadership
5 16 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (8.99%) Project Management
6 15 (8.43%) Network Virtualisation
7 12 (6.74%) High Availability
8 7 (3.93%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (3.93%) Migration
9 5 (2.81%) Computer Science
9 5 (2.81%) Configuration Management
9 5 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (2.81%) Network Architecture
10 4 (2.25%) Architectural Design
10 4 (2.25%) Collaborative Culture
10 4 (2.25%) Incident Response
10 4 (2.25%) Infrastructure Management
10 4 (2.25%) Prototyping
10 4 (2.25%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.12%) Java
2 1 (0.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 117 (65.73%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.10%) SC Cleared
3 27 (15.17%) DV Cleared
4 20 (11.24%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (9.55%) CCNP
6 13 (7.30%) CCNA
7 7 (3.93%) Degree
8 6 (3.37%) CCIE
9 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.12%) JNCIP
10 2 (1.12%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.56%) CCDP
11 1 (0.56%) CCIE Data Center
11 1 (0.56%) CISM
11 1 (0.56%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.25%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.69%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.12%) GDPR
3 2 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.12%) SLA
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.25%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) KVM
2 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (15.73%) Endace
2 22 (12.36%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.12%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.56%) Nagios
4 1 (0.56%) Puppet
4 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 116 (65.17%) Cisco
2 100 (56.18%) Juniper
3 51 (28.65%) Fortinet
4 31 (17.42%) F5
5 13 (7.30%) Nokia
6 12 (6.74%) Actix
6 12 (6.74%) Ericsson
6 12 (6.74%) Huawei
7 8 (4.49%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.37%) VMware
9 4 (2.25%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.25%) Google
10 3 (1.69%) Meraki
11 2 (1.12%) Extreme Networks
11 2 (1.12%) Microsoft
12 1 (0.56%) Fujitsu
12 1 (0.56%) IBM
12 1 (0.56%) Oracle
12 1 (0.56%) Radianz
12 1 (0.56%) SAP