Network Architect Contracts in London

Network Architect
England > London

The median Network Architect daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 363 428
Rank change year-on-year +58 +65 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Network Architect 48 28 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.17% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 21 41
10th Percentile £508 £481 £538
25th Percentile £550 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% -4.41%
75th Percentile £713 £600 £715
90th Percentile £785 £738 £743
England median daily rate £600 £650 £631
% change year-on-year -7.69% +2.97% -1.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Network Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architect in London

Network Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Architect in London

Network Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Architect in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Architect in London

Network Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Architect in London

Network Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +4 9 £750 +30.43% 8
Network Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Network 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 London region featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 26 (54.17%) Firewall
1 26 (54.17%) Cisco
2 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 17 (35.42%) Network Security
4 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
4 15 (31.25%) WAN
5 14 (29.17%) Fortinet
6 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (25.00%) Azure
8 11 (22.92%) DNS
8 11 (22.92%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (20.83%) BGP
9 10 (20.83%) AWS
9 10 (20.83%) Palo Alto
10 9 (18.75%) Data Centre
10 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
10 9 (18.75%) CheckPoint
11 8 (16.67%) CCNP
11 8 (16.67%) LAN
12 7 (14.58%) Python
12 7 (14.58%) VPN
12 7 (14.58%) CCIE
12 7 (14.58%) Ansible
12 7 (14.58%) Network Architecture
12 7 (14.58%) SD-WAN
13 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
13 6 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (12.50%) High Availability
13 6 (12.50%) Juniper
13 6 (12.50%) OSPF

Network Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.00%) Azure
2 10 (20.83%) AWS
3 5 (10.42%) GCP
4 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.08%) Cloudflare
4 1 (2.08%) IaaS
4 1 (2.08%) PaaS
4 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (54.17%) Firewall
2 17 (35.42%) Network Security
3 15 (31.25%) WAN
4 11 (22.92%) DNS
5 10 (20.83%) BGP
6 8 (16.67%) LAN
7 7 (14.58%) SD-WAN
7 7 (14.58%) VPN
8 6 (12.50%) OSPF
8 6 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (10.42%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (10.42%) MPLS
10 4 (8.33%) DHCP
10 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
10 4 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (6.25%) IPsec
11 3 (6.25%) Wireless
12 2 (4.17%) EIGRP
12 2 (4.17%) Internet
12 2 (4.17%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) GitLab
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Finance
2 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.17%) Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.08%) Military
7 1 (2.08%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Police
7 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.17%) PKI
4 1 (2.08%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (14.58%) Network Architecture
3 6 (12.50%) High Availability
4 5 (10.42%) DevOps
4 5 (10.42%) Network Design
4 5 (10.42%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (10.42%) Roadmaps
4 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (10.42%) Zero Trust
5 4 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (8.33%) Network Management
5 4 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
5 4 (8.33%) Security Architecture
6 3 (6.25%) Migration
6 3 (6.25%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (6.25%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (4.17%) CI/CD
7 2 (4.17%) Observability
7 2 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.58%) Python
2 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.08%) Bash
3 1 (2.08%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 11 (22.92%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (16.67%) CCNP
5 7 (14.58%) CCIE
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.08%) CCIE Security
6 1 (2.08%) CCSA
6 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.08%) Degree
6 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) JNCIP
6 1 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) NIST
2 4 (8.33%) SLA
3 3 (6.25%) GRC
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (14.58%) Ansible
2 5 (10.42%) Terraform
3 3 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.08%) CASB
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (54.17%) Cisco
2 14 (29.17%) Fortinet
3 10 (20.83%) Palo Alto
4 9 (18.75%) CheckPoint
5 6 (12.50%) Juniper
6 5 (10.42%) F5
7 4 (8.33%) AlgoSec
7 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
7 4 (8.33%) Tufin
7 4 (8.33%) VMware
8 2 (4.17%) Ericsson
8 2 (4.17%) Google
8 2 (4.17%) Infoblox
8 2 (4.17%) NetScout
8 2 (4.17%) Oracle
9 1 (2.08%) Aruba
9 1 (2.08%) HP
9 1 (2.08%) Meraki
9 1 (2.08%) Ruckus Wireless
9 1 (2.08%) SolarWinds