Network Architecture Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Network Architecture
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Network Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 43 58
Rank change year-on-year -38 +15 +23
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 3 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.30% 2.22% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 2.54% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £466 £530 £490
25th Percentile £472 £613 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £651 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.06% +18.27% -22.54%
75th Percentile £497 £651 £588
90th Percentile £499 £695 £610
England median daily rate £550 £600 £595
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% -6.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 849 512 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.48% 87.37% 81.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 320 432
10th Percentile £190 £202 £188
25th Percentile £359 £325 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £538
90th Percentile £625 £600 £650
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 19 63
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.46 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +28.57% +3.98%
75th Percentile £24.86 £27.33 £27.63
90th Percentile £25.77 £34.94 £51.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £34.25
% change year-on-year -21.43% +2.19% -2.14%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Network Architecture job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Network Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Network Architecture

Network Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Network Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Network Architecture

Network Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 February 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
Derbyshire -9 1 £500 -20.00%
Lincolnshire -14 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £475 - 1
Network Architecture
England

Network Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler