Network Architecture Contracts in Manchester

Network Architecture
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Network Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 95 114
Rank change year-on-year +23 +19 +25
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 7 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.76% 0.066% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.076% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £413 - £494
25th Percentile £438 - £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £510
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.34%
75th Percentile £684 - £612
90th Percentile £713 - £665
North West median daily rate £475 - £509
% change year-on-year - - -19.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Network Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architecture in Manchester

Network Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Network Architecture in Manchester

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Architecture in Manchester

Network Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (28.57%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (28.57%) Nutanix
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) DWDM
2 2 (28.57%) Ethernet
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Internet
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) MPLS
2 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
2 2 (28.57%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (28.57%) Wireless
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Private Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Clustering
2 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) CentOS
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
1 3 (42.86%) Security Management
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Network Design
2 2 (28.57%) OWASP
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (28.57%) CCSP
1 2 (28.57%) CEH
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CISM
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) PCI DSS
2 2 (28.57%) COBIT
2 2 (28.57%) NIST
3 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Nagios
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
1 2 (28.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) Aruba
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Dell
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
2 2 (28.57%) VMware