Network Architecture Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Network Architecture
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring Network Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 10.71% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £575 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27 5 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 96.43% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 16
10th Percentile £346 - £210
25th Percentile £373 - £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - £638
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.86%
75th Percentile £578 - £720
90th Percentile £594 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £535 £538
% change year-on-year +2.76% -0.42% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £22.55 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £11.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £25.52 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £49.79 £28.75 £17.62
% change year-on-year +73.17% +63.17% -58.54%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool.

Network Architecture job vacancy trend in Blackpool

Network Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in Blackpool

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Network Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Network Architecture

Network Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) OCI
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 3 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (100.00%) Network Design
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Arista
1 3 (100.00%) Aruba
1 3 (100.00%) F5
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto