Network Architecture Contracts in Cumbria

Network Architecture
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 17 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 9.34% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £644 - -
North West median daily rate £475 £650 £504
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.03% -18.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 145 222 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 79.67% 89.52% 92.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 115 53
10th Percentile £285 £326 £363
25th Percentile £438 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +3.83%
75th Percentile £559 £584 £488
90th Percentile £638 £670 £575
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 58 6
10th Percentile £25.15 - £30.18
25th Percentile £25.38 £10.95 £43.69
Median hourly rate £31.76 £13.00 £55.38
Median % change year-on-year +144.31% -76.52% +7.92%
75th Percentile £58.27 £63.90 £58.40
90th Percentile £66.44 £70.90 £71.33
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £28.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +3.13% -4.44% +19.40%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architecture in Cumbria

Network Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for Network Architecture in Cumbria

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Architecture in Cumbria over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Architecture in Cumbria

Network Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 22 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 15 £600 - 1
Network Architecture
North West

Network Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) Firewall
2 13 (76.47%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (70.59%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (70.59%) NetScaler
4 11 (64.71%) WAN
5 3 (17.65%) NAS
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Network Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Design Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Design Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Network Design Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) 802.1X
2 3 (17.65%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (82.35%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Load Balancing
1 14 (82.35%) Network Design
1 14 (82.35%) Network Management
2 12 (70.59%) Impact Assessments
3 3 (17.65%) Use Case
4 2 (11.76%) Information Management
5 1 (5.88%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (88.24%) SC Cleared
1 15 (88.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) SELinux
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Cisco
1 14 (82.35%) Palo Alto
2 11 (64.71%) Meraki
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
3 3 (17.65%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft