Network Design Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Network Design Architect
England > London

The median Network Design Architect daily rate in London is £431, 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 375 - 404
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Network Design Architect 14 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.098% - 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 1
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - £1,000
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile £635 - -
England median daily rate £438 £538 £1,000
% change year-on-year -18.60% -46.25% +66.67%

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 13,145 14,173 17,825
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 93.50% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 9,174 12,891
10th Percentile £340 £338 £329
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £683
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 152 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.19 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £27.71 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.49% +2.14% -
75th Percentile £56.63 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%

Network Design Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Network Design Architect job vacancy trend in London

Network Design Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Network Design Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Design Architect in London

Network Design 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 Design Architect within the London 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
West London - 7 £425 -
Network Design Architect
England

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

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 London region featuring Network Design Architect in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Network Design
2 11 (78.57%) Cisco
2 11 (78.57%) Firewall
2 11 (78.57%) Fortinet
2 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
2 11 (78.57%) SD-WAN
2 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
3 10 (71.43%) Cisco Nexus
3 10 (71.43%) LAN
3 10 (71.43%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (42.86%) WAN
5 5 (35.71%) VPN
6 4 (28.57%) Windows
7 2 (14.29%) Network Architecture
7 2 (14.29%) Virgin Media
8 1 (7.14%) 3GPP
8 1 (7.14%) Ansible
8 1 (7.14%) Anycast
8 1 (7.14%) Arista
8 1 (7.14%) AWS
8 1 (7.14%) Azure
8 1 (7.14%) BGP
8 1 (7.14%) C
8 1 (7.14%) CCIE
8 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (7.14%) CISSP
8 1 (7.14%) Customer Engagement
8 1 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
8 1 (7.14%) DNS
8 1 (7.14%) eBPF

Network Design Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (7.14%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) IaaS
1 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
1 1 (7.14%) PaaS
1 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) Firewall
1 11 (78.57%) SD-WAN
2 10 (71.43%) Cisco Nexus
2 10 (71.43%) LAN
2 10 (71.43%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (42.86%) WAN
4 5 (35.71%) VPN
5 1 (7.14%) 3GPP
5 1 (7.14%) Anycast
5 1 (7.14%) BGP
5 1 (7.14%) DNS
5 1 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (7.14%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.14%) VXLAN
General
1 10 (71.43%) Telecoms
2 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Network Design
2 2 (14.29%) Network Architecture
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (7.14%) SIEM
3 1 (7.14%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) C
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) CCIE
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) JNCIE
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Cisco
1 11 (78.57%) Fortinet
2 2 (14.29%) Virgin Media
3 1 (7.14%) Arista
3 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Wind River