Network Architect Contracts in the North of England

Network Architect
England > North of England

The median Network Architect daily rate in the North of England is £625, 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 154 172 205
Rank change year-on-year +18 +33 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Network Architect 12 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.27% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.29% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 7
10th Percentile £550 - £558
25th Percentile £603 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £694
90th Percentile £700 - £720
England median daily rate £600 £650 £631
% change year-on-year -7.69% +2.97% -1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +14.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architect in the North of England

Network Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Architect in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Network Architect in the North of England

Network Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Architect in the North of England

Network Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Architect in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Network Architect in the North of England

Network Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +18 9 £625 -9.09% 42
Yorkshire +7 2 £700 +47.37% 37
North East -1 1 £550 +3.53% 11
Network Architect
England

Network Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (41.67%) Business Strategy
3 5 (41.67%) Firewall
3 5 (41.67%) DBS Check
4 4 (33.33%) VPN
4 4 (33.33%) Cisco
5 3 (25.00%) Wireless
5 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (25.00%) Network Design
5 3 (25.00%) Network Security
6 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
6 2 (16.67%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (16.67%) Threat Detection
6 2 (16.67%) Legal
6 2 (16.67%) LAN
6 2 (16.67%) WAN
6 2 (16.67%) MPLS
6 2 (16.67%) OSPF
6 2 (16.67%) BGP
6 2 (16.67%) EIGRP
6 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
7 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
7 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
7 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology

Network Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) VPN
3 3 (25.00%) Network Security
3 3 (25.00%) Wireless
4 2 (16.67%) BGP
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Wireless
4 2 (16.67%) EIGRP
4 2 (16.67%) LAN
4 2 (16.67%) MPLS
4 2 (16.67%) OSPF
4 2 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (16.67%) WAN
5 1 (8.33%) DHCP
5 1 (8.33%) DNS
5 1 (8.33%) IPsec
5 1 (8.33%) ISDN
5 1 (8.33%) PSTN
5 1 (8.33%) SSL
5 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (8.33%) VLAN
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Legal
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (8.33%) SCADA
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (41.67%) Business Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Network Design
4 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (16.67%) Threat Detection
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
5 1 (8.33%) Due Diligence
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 1 (8.33%) Information Management
5 1 (8.33%) Information Security
5 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
5 1 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Security Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (8.33%) CCNA
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CISSP
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Aruba
3 1 (8.33%) F5