Network Architecture Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Network Architecture
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Network Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 2 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.44% - 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% - 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile £513 - £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £614
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.35%
75th Percentile £538 - £666
90th Percentile - - £700
South East median daily rate £593 £625 £595
% change year-on-year -5.12% +5.04% -0.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 381 274 506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 83.01% 90.43% 88.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 195 376
10th Percentile £219 £210 £280
25th Percentile £356 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% - +1.52%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £602
90th Percentile £636 £650 £731
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 6 27
10th Percentile - £15.35 £15.94
25th Percentile £15.91 £22.03 £19.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% +51.58% +41.79%
75th Percentile £29.61 £49.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £35.36 £55.63 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £42.69 £50.00
% change year-on-year -44.78% -14.62% +14.94%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Network Architecture job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Network Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Network Architecture

Network Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Network Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 23 January 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 2 £525 - 1
Network Architecture
South East

Network Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Behavioural Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Darktrace
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft