Network Design Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Network Design Architect
UK > England

The median Network Design Architect daily rate in England is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 508 563
Rank change year-on-year -21 +55 +176
Contract jobs requiring a Network Design Architect 15 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.048% 0.010% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.011% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 1
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £406 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £538 £1,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% -46.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £520 £597 -
90th Percentile £630 £621 -
UK median daily rate £444 £544 £1,000
% change year-on-year -18.39% -45.63% +66.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 28,372 27,015 35,117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.91% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,130 16,817 24,123
10th Percentile £290 £300 £290
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,748 878 1,358
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.70 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%

Network Design Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Network Design Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Network Design Architect job vacancy trend in England

Network Design Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Design Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Network Design Architect job vacancies in England

Network Design Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design Architect in England over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design Architect in England

Network Design Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Design Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Network Design Architect job vacancies in England

Network Design Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Design Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
London - 14 £431 -
Network Design Architect
UK

Network Design Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, Network Design Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Network Design Architect in the job title.

1 14 (93.33%) Network Design
2 12 (80.00%) Cisco
2 12 (80.00%) Firewall
3 11 (73.33%) Fortinet
3 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (73.33%) SD-WAN
3 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
4 10 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 10 (66.67%) LAN
4 10 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (40.00%) WAN
6 5 (33.33%) VPN
7 4 (26.67%) Windows
8 2 (13.33%) Network Architecture
8 2 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
8 2 (13.33%) Virgin Media
9 1 (6.67%) 3GPP
9 1 (6.67%) Ansible
9 1 (6.67%) Anycast
9 1 (6.67%) Arista
9 1 (6.67%) AWS
9 1 (6.67%) Azure
9 1 (6.67%) BGP
9 1 (6.67%) Broadcom
9 1 (6.67%) C
9 1 (6.67%) CCIE
9 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (6.67%) CISSP
9 1 (6.67%) Customer Engagement
9 1 (6.67%) Customer Requirements

Network Design Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) IaaS
1 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
1 1 (6.67%) PaaS
1 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) Firewall
2 11 (73.33%) SD-WAN
3 10 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 10 (66.67%) LAN
3 10 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (40.00%) WAN
5 5 (33.33%) VPN
6 1 (6.67%) 3GPP
6 1 (6.67%) Anycast
6 1 (6.67%) BGP
6 1 (6.67%) DNS
6 1 (6.67%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (6.67%) NX-OS
6 1 (6.67%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
6 1 (6.67%) VXLAN
General
1 10 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Network Design
2 2 (13.33%) Network Architecture
2 2 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (6.67%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (6.67%) Network Packet Capture
3 1 (6.67%) Password Management
3 1 (6.67%) SIEM
3 1 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) C
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CCIE
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) JNCIE
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Cisco
2 11 (73.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (13.33%) Virgin Media
4 1 (6.67%) Arista
4 1 (6.67%) Broadcom
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) Wind River