Network Architect Contracts in England

Network Architect
UK > England

The median Network Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 452 573
Rank change year-on-year +180 +121 -98
Contract jobs requiring a Network Architect 302 198 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.81% 0.39% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.41% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 112 138
10th Percentile £463 £481 £509
25th Percentile £525 £555 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £631 £644
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -1.94% +22.15%
75th Percentile £675 £691 £700
90th Percentile £700 £749 £816
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 1
10th Percentile - £63.63 -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.92
Median % change year-on-year - +14.90% -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.92
% change year-on-year - +14.90% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Network Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Network Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Architect in England

Network Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Architect in England

Network Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Architect in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Architect in England

Network Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Architect in England

Network Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Architect in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Architect in England

Network Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
South East +82 148 £650 +13.54% 5
South West +67 76 £650 - 2
London +70 28 £550 -15.38% 6
Midlands +40 24 £600 +17.07% 2
West Midlands +40 21 £463 -9.66%
North of England +28 14 £538 -17.31% 3
North West +21 9 £625 -5.66% 2
East of England +12 8 £563 -25.00% 1
Yorkshire +23 3 £475 -17.39%
East Midlands +23 3 £640 +23.28% 2
North East - 2 £531 - 1
Network Architect
UK

Network Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Network Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 227 (75.17%) Security Cleared
2 154 (50.99%) WAN
3 123 (40.73%) LAN
4 121 (40.07%) Network Management
5 120 (39.74%) Cisco
6 83 (27.48%) Juniper
7 82 (27.15%) SC Cleared
8 72 (23.84%) DV Cleared
9 57 (18.87%) Public Sector
10 54 (17.88%) Customer Requirements
11 53 (17.55%) Data Centre
11 53 (17.55%) Firewall
12 47 (15.56%) MPLS
13 44 (14.57%) Network Design
14 43 (14.24%) SIEM
15 41 (13.58%) Finance
15 41 (13.58%) BGP
16 38 (12.58%) F5
17 36 (11.92%) Technical Leadership
18 35 (11.59%) SD-WAN
18 35 (11.59%) VPN
18 35 (11.59%) Telecoms
19 34 (11.26%) Cisco Firepower
20 33 (10.93%) Wi-Fi
21 32 (10.60%) Zero Trust
22 31 (10.26%) Business Strategy
22 31 (10.26%) SaaS
22 31 (10.26%) Network Architecture
23 29 (9.60%) Presales
24 28 (9.27%) Cloud Computing

Network Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (1.32%) Confluence
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 31 (10.26%) SaaS
2 28 (9.27%) Cloud Computing
3 27 (8.94%) IaaS
3 27 (8.94%) PaaS
4 18 (5.96%) Azure
5 15 (4.97%) AWS
6 7 (2.32%) GCP
7 4 (1.32%) GitHub
8 3 (0.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.99%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.66%) Route 53
9 2 (0.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.33%) Datadog
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.33%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 154 (50.99%) WAN
2 123 (40.73%) LAN
3 53 (17.55%) Firewall
4 47 (15.56%) MPLS
5 41 (13.58%) BGP
6 35 (11.59%) SD-WAN
6 35 (11.59%) VPN
7 34 (11.26%) Cisco Firepower
8 33 (10.93%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (8.61%) SSL
10 18 (5.96%) Network Security
11 12 (3.97%) Unified Communications
12 10 (3.31%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (3.31%) WLAN
13 9 (2.98%) IPsec
13 9 (2.98%) Junos
13 9 (2.98%) OSPF
14 8 (2.65%) Wireless
15 6 (1.99%) DNS
16 5 (1.66%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (0.99%) JIRA
1 3 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.33%) GitLab
General
1 57 (18.87%) Public Sector
2 41 (13.58%) Finance
3 35 (11.59%) Telecoms
4 13 (4.30%) Social Skills
5 6 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (0.99%) Banking
6 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.66%) Legal
8 1 (0.33%) Advertising
8 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.33%) Law
8 1 (0.33%) Local Government
8 1 (0.33%) Marketing
8 1 (0.33%) Military
8 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.33%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.66%) JSON
2 3 (0.99%) LDAP
2 3 (0.99%) SAML
2 3 (0.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.55%) Data Centre
2 23 (7.62%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.66%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (0.99%) Operational Technology
5 3 (0.99%) PKI
6 2 (0.66%) IVR
6 2 (0.66%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.66%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.33%) CMDB
7 1 (0.33%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.99%) Windows
2 4 (1.32%) Linux
3 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) Unix
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (40.07%) Network Management
2 54 (17.88%) Customer Requirements
3 44 (14.57%) Network Design
4 43 (14.24%) SIEM
5 36 (11.92%) Technical Leadership
6 32 (10.60%) Zero Trust
7 31 (10.26%) Business Strategy
7 31 (10.26%) Network Architecture
8 29 (9.60%) Presales
9 27 (8.94%) Open Source
9 27 (8.94%) Systems Engineering
10 26 (8.61%) Strategic Thinking
11 25 (8.28%) Agile
12 21 (6.95%) Project Delivery
12 21 (6.95%) Project Management
13 19 (6.29%) Requirements Management
14 14 (4.64%) Migration
15 13 (4.30%) Roadmaps
16 12 (3.97%) ITIL
17 11 (3.64%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (1.66%) Python
2 3 (0.99%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.66%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 227 (75.17%) Security Cleared
2 82 (27.15%) SC Cleared
3 72 (23.84%) DV Cleared
4 26 (8.61%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (8.28%) CCNP
5 25 (8.28%) Degree
6 12 (3.97%) CCIE
7 10 (3.31%) CCNA
7 10 (3.31%) JNCIS
8 4 (1.32%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.32%) CCDP
8 4 (1.32%) CCIE Security
8 4 (1.32%) CISSP
8 4 (1.32%) JNCIA
9 3 (0.99%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.33%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.97%) SLA
2 4 (1.32%) NCSC
3 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.33%) GDPR
3 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.99%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (8.28%) Endace
2 10 (3.31%) Terraform
3 7 (2.32%) Ansible
3 7 (2.32%) FortiGate
4 4 (1.32%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.33%) NetMRI
5 1 (0.33%) SCCM
5 1 (0.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 120 (39.74%) Cisco
2 83 (27.48%) Juniper
3 38 (12.58%) F5
4 18 (5.96%) Fortinet
4 18 (5.96%) Palo Alto
5 10 (3.31%) SolarWinds
6 7 (2.32%) Microsoft
7 5 (1.66%) Aruba
7 5 (1.66%) Genesys
8 4 (1.32%) Google
8 4 (1.32%) VMware
9 3 (0.99%) Arista
9 3 (0.99%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.99%) HP
9 3 (0.99%) Meraki
9 3 (0.99%) New Relic
9 3 (0.99%) Splunk
10 2 (0.66%) CA
10 2 (0.66%) Nokia
10 2 (0.66%) Zscaler