Network Design Contracts

Network Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 443 473
Rank change year-on-year +94 +30 -54
Contract jobs citing Network Design 253 281 444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.47% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.52% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 162 292
10th Percentile £363 £357 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £564
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.31% +18.68%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £650
90th Percentile £638 £673 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £513
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.34% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 9
10th Percentile £23.55 £62.00 £24.15
25th Percentile £24.00 £63.23 £26.75
Median hourly rate £47.25 £70.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +62.79% +7.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £51.45
90th Percentile - - £59.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £50.49
% change year-on-year - +38.66% +55.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,683 54,210 80,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.89% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,351 37,527 56,743
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,790 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.07 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Design over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Design in the UK

Network Design
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +109 230 £475 -4.52% 77
UK excluding London +67 169 £450 -6.25% 66
South East +42 87 £450 -9.55% 23
Work from Home +44 64 £538 +7.50% 28
London +83 60 £575 +2.22% 18
Midlands +54 31 £375 -15.73% 11
West Midlands +61 30 £375 -18.03% 9
South West +20 18 £300 -35.48% 7
East of England +12 15 £475 -5.00% 3
North of England +14 14 £475 -5.00% 13
Yorkshire +22 7 £475 -13.64% 5
North West 0 7 £475 - 6
Scotland +27 3 £600 +26.32% 7
East Midlands +13 1 - - 2
Wales +10 1 £450 -14.29% 1

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.79%) Revit
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (5.14%) Azure
2 11 (4.35%) AWS
3 10 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (2.37%) GCP
5 2 (0.79%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (0.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (0.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (0.40%) IaaS
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.40%) PaaS
6 1 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 107 (42.29%) Firewall
2 105 (41.50%) BGP
3 89 (35.18%) WAN
4 73 (28.85%) MPLS
5 60 (23.72%) VPN
6 50 (19.76%) Network Security
7 44 (17.39%) OSPF
8 34 (13.44%) EIGRP
9 32 (12.65%) Wireless
10 29 (11.46%) IPsec
11 28 (11.07%) Cisco Firepower
11 28 (11.07%) LAN
12 27 (10.67%) 4G
13 24 (9.49%) SSL
14 23 (9.09%) 5G
14 23 (9.09%) DMVPN
14 23 (9.09%) Junos
15 20 (7.91%) Cisco ASA
16 16 (6.32%) Wi-Fi
17 14 (5.53%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.40%) Big Data
1 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (4.35%) Git
2 3 (1.19%) JIRA
3 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.40%) GitLab
3 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
General
1 44 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.44%) Finance
3 24 (9.49%) Telecoms
4 19 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.74%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.16%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.79%) Local Government
7 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.40%) Advertising
8 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.40%) Law
8 1 (0.40%) Legal
8 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 119 (47.04%) Network Engineer
2 48 (18.97%) Architect
3 44 (17.39%) Network Architect
4 33 (13.04%) Senior
5 32 (12.65%) Design Engineer
5 32 (12.65%) Network Design Engineer
6 31 (12.25%) Network Specialist
7 19 (7.51%) Cisco Engineer
7 19 (7.51%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 19 (7.51%) Senior Network Engineer
8 18 (7.11%) 3rd Line Support
8 18 (7.11%) Network Support
9 13 (5.14%) Consultant
10 12 (4.74%) Network Consultant
11 9 (3.56%) Network Design Specialist
12 7 (2.77%) Core Network Specialist
12 7 (2.77%) IP Engineer
12 7 (2.77%) IP Network Engineer
12 7 (2.77%) Senior Consultant
12 7 (2.77%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.53%) XML
2 12 (4.74%) JSON
2 12 (4.74%) NETCONF
2 12 (4.74%) YANG
3 6 (2.37%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.58%) EDI
5 2 (0.79%) XSLT
6 1 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.88%) Data Centre
2 21 (8.30%) PKI
3 7 (2.77%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (1.98%) Operational Technology
4 5 (1.98%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.58%) CCTV
5 4 (1.58%) SCADA
6 3 (1.19%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) Clustering
8 1 (0.40%) CMDB
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.40%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.40%) NHS
8 1 (0.40%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.98%) Linux
2 4 (1.58%) Windows
3 3 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.79%) Unix
4 2 (0.79%) zOS
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (20.16%) Customer Requirements
2 46 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 32 (12.65%) Network Management
4 27 (10.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 24 (9.49%) Technical Leadership
6 22 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (6.32%) DevOps
8 15 (5.93%) High Availability
8 15 (5.93%) Project Management
8 15 (5.93%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 14 (5.53%) Migration
10 12 (4.74%) Business Strategy
10 12 (4.74%) Roadmaps
11 11 (4.35%) Agile
11 11 (4.35%) Network Architecture
11 11 (4.35%) Requirements Gathering
12 10 (3.95%) Configuration Management
13 9 (3.56%) Business Case
13 9 (3.56%) Capacity Management
14 8 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.91%) Python
2 2 (0.79%) Java
3 1 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 131 (51.78%) Security Cleared
2 51 (20.16%) Cisco Certification
3 45 (17.79%) CCNP
4 40 (15.81%) SC Cleared
5 30 (11.86%) DV Cleared
6 21 (8.30%) CCNA
7 20 (7.91%) CCIE
8 11 (4.35%) Degree
9 4 (1.58%) CCDP
9 4 (1.58%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.19%) JNCIS
11 2 (0.79%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.79%) CCIP
11 2 (0.79%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.40%) CCIE Data Center
12 1 (0.40%) CCIE Service Provider
12 1 (0.40%) CISSP
12 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.79%) GDPR
1 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (0.79%) NIST
1 2 (0.79%) QA
1 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (0.79%) SLA
2 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
System Software
1 12 (4.74%) VMware NSX
2 11 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.40%) Docker
4 1 (0.40%) KVM
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (13.04%) FortiGate
2 24 (9.49%) Endace
3 9 (3.56%) Ansible
4 2 (0.79%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.79%) Terraform
5 1 (0.40%) CASB
5 1 (0.40%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.40%) Nagios
5 1 (0.40%) Puppet
5 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 170 (67.19%) Cisco
2 115 (45.45%) Juniper
3 67 (26.48%) Fortinet
4 41 (16.21%) F5
5 38 (15.02%) Palo Alto
6 29 (11.46%) Nokia
7 17 (6.72%) VMware
8 12 (4.74%) Huawei
9 11 (4.35%) CheckPoint
10 10 (3.95%) Actix
10 10 (3.95%) Ericsson
11 8 (3.16%) Meraki
12 7 (2.77%) Google
13 6 (2.37%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.98%) Extreme Networks
15 4 (1.58%) Arista
15 4 (1.58%) Dell
15 4 (1.58%) Microsoft
16 3 (1.19%) Infoblox
17 2 (0.79%) Broadcom