Network Architecture Contracts in Berkshire

Network Architecture
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Network Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 101 95
Rank change year-on-year +13 -6 +23
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 8 17 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.66% 0.91% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.05% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 8
10th Percentile £544 £445 -
25th Percentile £553 £472 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £428
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +40.35% +42.50%
75th Percentile £591 £688 £447
90th Percentile £596 £707 £558
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -8.33% +17.07% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
75th Percentile - - £17.25
90th Percentile - - £19.20
South East median hourly rate £160.00 - £14.00
% change year-on-year - - -68.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Network Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,112 1,617 1,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.05% 86.38% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 826 1,044
10th Percentile £350 £303 £325
25th Percentile £413 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £715
South East median daily rate £500 £518 £515
% change year-on-year -3.39% +0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 90 57
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.90 £18.10
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.31 £24.50
Median hourly rate £37.28 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.48% +2.67% +166.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £72.33 £73.59
90th Percentile £87.40 £87.46 £76.20
South East median hourly rate £21.99 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.94% +9.75% +112.77%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Network Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Network Architecture in Berkshire

Network Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Network Architecture in Berkshire

Network Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Architecture in Berkshire

Network Architecture
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 Architecture within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Reading +21 1 £600 -14.29% 2
Wokingham -17 1 £550 -8.33% 1
Slough - 1 - - 1
Network Architecture
South East

Network Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) 5G
1 2 (25.00%) BGP
1 2 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (12.50%) 3GPP
2 1 (12.50%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) VoLTE
2 1 (12.50%) VoWiFi
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) MLflow
General
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Product Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Architect
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Network Design
2 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) MLOps
4 1 (12.50%) Model Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Product Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) SOAR
4 1 (12.50%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CCNP
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) JNCIP
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) EU AI Act
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubeflow
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) Ericsson
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) VMware