Network Design Contracts with Work from Home Options

Network Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 296 338 443
Rank change year-on-year +42 +105 -97
Contract jobs citing Network Design 53 122 187
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.36% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.56% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 73 132
10th Percentile £363 £381 £407
25th Percentile £463 £445 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £601 £619 £638
90th Percentile £638 £698 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £555
% change year-on-year -9.52% -5.41% +15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 3
10th Percentile £24.43 £56.96 £29.05
25th Percentile £26.19 - £32.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £70.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.21% +77.22% +17.04%
75th Percentile £32.19 - £42.63
90th Percentile £33.88 - £43.75
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £70.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -58.21% +62.79% +1.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Network Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Design trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Design.

Network Design daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Design over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Network Design daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Design.

Network Design hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Design
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Design over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Network Design hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (1.89%) ArcGIS
1 1 (1.89%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.89%) MicroStation
2 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.43%) Azure
2 4 (7.55%) AWS
2 4 (7.55%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (5.66%) GCP
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.89%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.89%) Serverless
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (39.62%) Firewall
2 11 (20.75%) Cisco Nexus
2 11 (20.75%) MPLS
2 11 (20.75%) Network Security
3 10 (18.87%) Cisco ASA
3 10 (18.87%) WAN
4 9 (16.98%) BGP
5 7 (13.21%) InfiniBand
5 7 (13.21%) OSPF
5 7 (13.21%) Wireless
6 6 (11.32%) TCP/IP
6 6 (11.32%) VPN
7 4 (7.55%) DNS
7 4 (7.55%) LAN
7 4 (7.55%) SD-WAN
8 3 (5.66%) 5G
8 3 (5.66%) Cisco Wireless
8 3 (5.66%) EIGRP
8 3 (5.66%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (5.66%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) CircleCI
1 1 (1.89%) GitLab
1 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (22.64%) Finance
1 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Manufacturing
3 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.32%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.89%) Local Government
5 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (45.28%) Network Engineer
2 16 (30.19%) Senior
3 9 (16.98%) Architect
3 9 (16.98%) Senior Network Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Consultant
4 8 (15.09%) Network Architect
5 6 (11.32%) Network Consultant
5 6 (11.32%) Senior Consultant
5 6 (11.32%) Senior Network Consultant
6 4 (7.55%) Design Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Network Design Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) IP Consultant
7 2 (3.77%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) WAN Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Wireless Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Wireless Network Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco Design Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Juniper Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) EDI
2 2 (3.77%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.89%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.66%) CCTV
2 3 (5.66%) Operational Technology
2 3 (5.66%) SCADA
3 2 (3.77%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (3.77%) NHS
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.89%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.89%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Windows
1 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.75%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (7.55%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (7.55%) Load Balancing
3 4 (7.55%) Low Latency
3 4 (7.55%) Migration
3 4 (7.55%) Network Optimisation
4 3 (5.66%) Decision-Making
4 3 (5.66%) DevOps
4 3 (5.66%) Network Architecture
4 3 (5.66%) Validation
5 2 (3.77%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 2 (3.77%) Business Case
5 2 (3.77%) Data Protection
5 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (3.77%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (3.77%) Process Management
5 2 (3.77%) Project Management
5 2 (3.77%) Security Architecture
5 2 (3.77%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.55%) Python
2 1 (1.89%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) CCNP
1 15 (28.30%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (20.75%) CCIE
3 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.55%) CCNA
5 3 (5.66%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (3.77%) BC Cleared
6 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.89%) CCDP
7 1 (1.89%) CCIP
7 1 (1.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.89%) NIST
1 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) VMware NSX
2 9 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Ansible
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) CASB
3 1 (1.89%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (49.06%) Cisco
2 11 (20.75%) VMware
3 9 (16.98%) Palo Alto
4 7 (13.21%) Juniper
5 5 (9.43%) Nokia
6 3 (5.66%) CheckPoint
6 3 (5.66%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (5.66%) Meraki
6 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.77%) Dell
7 2 (3.77%) Ekahau
7 2 (3.77%) F5
7 2 (3.77%) Google
8 1 (1.89%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 1 (1.89%) Aruba
8 1 (1.89%) Autodesk
8 1 (1.89%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.89%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.89%) NetApp
8 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds