Network Architecture Contracts in London

Network Architecture
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Network Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Architecture over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 421 509
Rank change year-on-year +80 +88 -98
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 49 70 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.29% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 55 55
10th Percentile £418 £372 £453
25th Percentile £513 £523 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +6.38% +11.90%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £674 £790 £798
England median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £38.90
25th Percentile - - £39.88
Median hourly rate - - £43.00
75th Percentile - - £46.54
90th Percentile - - £47.76
England median hourly rate £52.00 £66.25 £48.04
% change year-on-year -21.51% +37.91% -3.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Network Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,688 24,387 35,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 91.02% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,246 17,526 26,214
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 425
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.56 £17.20
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +7.11% +10.84%
75th Percentile £47.34 £64.06 £50.75
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.50
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architecture in London

Network Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Architecture in London

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Architecture in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Architecture in London

Network Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Architecture in London

Network Architecture
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 Architecture within the London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 +44 8 £550 - 3
East London - 1 £520 -
Network Architecture
England

Network Architecture
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 3 (6.12%) nginx
2 1 (2.04%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.53%) Azure
2 9 (18.37%) AWS
3 5 (10.20%) GCP
4 4 (8.16%) GitHub
5 3 (6.12%) Nutanix
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.04%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 23 (46.94%) WAN
2 22 (44.90%) Firewall
3 18 (36.73%) Network Security
4 15 (30.61%) BGP
4 15 (30.61%) LAN
5 14 (28.57%) OSPF
6 12 (24.49%) SNA
6 12 (24.49%) VPN
7 10 (20.41%) SD-WAN
8 9 (18.37%) TCP/IP
8 9 (18.37%) VLAN
9 8 (16.33%) EIGRP
10 6 (12.24%) DNS
10 6 (12.24%) MPLS
11 5 (10.20%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (10.20%) DHCP
11 5 (10.20%) VSAN
11 5 (10.20%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (8.16%) HSRP
12 4 (8.16%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Git
2 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.08%) JIRA
4 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.04%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.04%) Maven
4 1 (2.04%) Selenium
4 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (22.45%) Finance
2 7 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 5 (10.20%) Banking
3 5 (10.20%) Military
3 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.16%) Mandarin Language
5 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Network Engineer
2 12 (24.49%) Senior
3 10 (20.41%) Architect
4 6 (12.24%) Lead
4 6 (12.24%) Network Architect
5 4 (8.16%) Azure Architect
5 4 (8.16%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (8.16%) Security Architect
5 4 (8.16%) Security Manager
5 4 (8.16%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 4 (8.16%) Senior Manager
5 4 (8.16%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) Delivery Project Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Security Project Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (4.08%) Programme Manager
7 2 (4.08%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) YAML
2 1 (2.04%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Data Centre
2 6 (12.24%) PKI
3 5 (10.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (8.16%) CCTV
4 4 (8.16%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.16%) Security Posture
4 4 (8.16%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (6.12%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (4.08%) NHS
7 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.04%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Windows
2 6 (12.24%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.12%) Linux
4 1 (2.04%) Android
4 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (20.41%) Agile
3 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (16.33%) Project Delivery
5 7 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (14.29%) Project Management
5 7 (14.29%) Zero Trust
6 6 (12.24%) High Availability
6 6 (12.24%) Network Design
6 6 (12.24%) PRINCE2
6 6 (12.24%) Supplier Management
6 6 (12.24%) User Stories
6 6 (12.24%) Waterfall
7 5 (10.20%) Budgeting
7 5 (10.20%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.20%) Data Analysis
7 5 (10.20%) Decision-Making
7 5 (10.20%) Programme Management
7 5 (10.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) Python
2 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.04%) Bash
3 1 (2.04%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
1 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.41%) Degree
3 5 (10.20%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (10.20%) PMI Certification
3 5 (10.20%) PMP
4 4 (8.16%) CCNP
4 4 (8.16%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.12%) CISM
5 3 (6.12%) CISSP
6 2 (4.08%) CCIE
6 2 (4.08%) CCNA
6 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.04%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.04%) JNCIP
7 1 (2.04%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.08%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (16.33%) VMware NSX
2 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.20%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (10.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.08%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.08%) Squid
4 1 (2.04%) Docker
4 1 (2.04%) iptables
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (20.41%) Terraform
2 8 (16.33%) Ansible
3 7 (14.29%) vRealize
4 5 (10.20%) vCenter Server
5 3 (6.12%) Progress Chef
5 3 (6.12%) Puppet
5 3 (6.12%) VxRail
6 2 (4.08%) HAProxy
7 1 (2.04%) CASB
7 1 (2.04%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) Cisco
2 11 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.45%) Palo Alto
2 11 (22.45%) VMware
3 6 (12.24%) CheckPoint
4 5 (10.20%) Juniper
5 4 (8.16%) Fortinet
5 4 (8.16%) Google
5 4 (8.16%) Huawei
5 4 (8.16%) SolarWinds
6 3 (6.12%) AlienVault
6 3 (6.12%) ArcSight
6 3 (6.12%) Dell
6 3 (6.12%) LogRhythm
6 3 (6.12%) Meraki
6 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.12%) Splunk
7 2 (4.08%) Aruba
7 2 (4.08%) F5
7 2 (4.08%) HP