Network Architect Contracts in Berkshire

Network Architect
South East > Berkshire

The median Network Architect daily rate in Berkshire is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 90 100
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Network Architect 4 34 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.34% 1.71% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 1.82% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £515 £457 £433
25th Percentile £519 £524 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £573 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -6.53% +2.08%
75th Percentile £556 £597 £644
90th Percentile £560 £621 £650
South East median daily rate £575 £650 £573
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.54% -8.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Network Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architect in Berkshire

Network Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Network Architect in Berkshire

Network Architect
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wokingham - 2 £550 -
Slough -7 1 £525 -8.30% 5
Network Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) Product Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment

Network Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Service Design
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) JNCIP
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware