Network Design Architect Contracts in England

Network Design Architect
UK > England

The median Network Design Architect daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 554 624
Rank change year-on-year +59 +70 +163
Contract jobs requiring a Network Design Architect 11 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.003% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 1
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £406 £613 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £450 £638 £594
90th Percentile £600 - -
UK median daily rate £431 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -31.00% +4.17% -

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 25,107 32,714 44,480
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.78% 93.01% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,311 21,566 31,402
10th Percentile £288 £300 £310
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -0.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,255 2,147 1,392
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.51 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £44.06
Median % change year-on-year -35.98% -3.53% +72.76%
75th Percentile £56.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £43.69
% change year-on-year -37.63% -7.70% +70.13%

Network Design Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Network Design Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Design Architect in England

Network Design Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Design Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Network Design Architect 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 23 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design Architect in England

Network Design Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Design Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Network Design Architect 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 23 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
London - 11 £425 - 5
Network Design Architect
UK

Network Design Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 July 2025, Network Design Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Network Design Architect in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) Network Design
1 10 (90.91%) LAN
1 10 (90.91%) Cisco
1 10 (90.91%) Firewall
1 10 (90.91%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (81.82%) Fortinet
2 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
2 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 9 (81.82%) Cisco Nexus
2 9 (81.82%) SD-WAN
3 8 (72.73%) Telecoms
4 5 (45.45%) WAN
5 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
6 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
6 3 (27.27%) VPN
6 3 (27.27%) Windows
7 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
8 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (9.09%) Technology Roadmap
8 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (9.09%) eBPF
8 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
8 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
8 1 (9.09%) Terraform
8 1 (9.09%) VXLAN
8 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
8 1 (9.09%) Anycast
8 1 (9.09%) Arista

Network Design Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) IaaS
1 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
1 1 (9.09%) PaaS
1 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) Firewall
1 10 (90.91%) LAN
1 10 (90.91%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (81.82%) Cisco Nexus
2 9 (81.82%) SD-WAN
3 5 (45.45%) WAN
4 3 (27.27%) VPN
5 1 (9.09%) 3GPP
5 1 (9.09%) Anycast
5 1 (9.09%) BGP
5 1 (9.09%) DNS
5 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (9.09%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (9.09%) VXLAN
General
1 8 (72.73%) Telecoms
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Network Design
2 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architecture
3 1 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
3 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (9.09%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CCIE
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) JNCIE
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Cisco
2 9 (81.82%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Arista
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Wind River