Network Architecture Contracts in the North of England

Network Architecture
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 133 180 214
Rank change year-on-year +47 +34 +4
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 33 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.00% 0.10% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 1 4
10th Percentile £396 - £462
25th Percentile £413 £605 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £610 £509
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +19.90% +7.11%
75th Percentile £680 £615 £568
90th Percentile £705 - £647
England median daily rate £563 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +9.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Network Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Network Architecture in the North of England

Network Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Architecture in the North of England

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Architecture in the North of England

Network Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Architecture in the North of England

Network Architecture
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 Architecture 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 +42 26 £475 - 19
Yorkshire +12 7 £680 +11.48% 15
Network Architecture
England

Network Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.06%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) AWS
2 3 (9.09%) Azure
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
3 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (6.06%) GCP
3 2 (6.06%) Nutanix
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 25 (75.76%) Firewall
2 17 (51.52%) WAN
3 15 (45.45%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (39.39%) Cisco ISE
5 12 (36.36%) NetScaler
6 9 (27.27%) Network Security
7 8 (24.24%) VPN
8 6 (18.18%) DNS
8 6 (18.18%) LAN
9 5 (15.15%) DWDM
9 5 (15.15%) MPLS
10 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
11 3 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (9.09%) DHCP
11 3 (9.09%) NAS
11 3 (9.09%) VLAN
12 2 (6.06%) BGP
12 2 (6.06%) Ethernet
12 2 (6.06%) OSPF
12 2 (6.06%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Eclipse
1 3 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (15.15%) Banking
2 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (57.58%) Network Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Architect
4 6 (18.18%) Security Architect
5 5 (15.15%) DevSecOps Architect
6 4 (12.12%) Consultant
6 4 (12.12%) DevSecOps Consultant
6 4 (12.12%) Security Consultant
6 4 (12.12%) Senior
6 4 (12.12%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Designer
8 2 (6.06%) Network Architect
8 2 (6.06%) Network Designer
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Cisco Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Solutions Designer
9 1 (3.03%) Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (36.36%) 802.1X
2 3 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (42.42%) Data Centre
2 6 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (15.15%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Clustering
5 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.03%) SCADA
5 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.06%) CentOS
3 2 (6.06%) Windows
3 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Network Design
2 14 (42.42%) Load Balancing
2 14 (42.42%) Network Management
3 12 (36.36%) Impact Assessments
4 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
4 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (15.15%) DevSecOps
4 5 (15.15%) Security Management
4 5 (15.15%) Use Case
5 4 (12.12%) DevOps
5 4 (12.12%) OWASP
6 3 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (6.06%) IT Strategy
7 2 (6.06%) Roadmaps
7 2 (6.06%) Service Design
7 2 (6.06%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (6.06%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) C++
1 3 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (15.15%) CISSP
3 5 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (15.15%) Degree
4 4 (12.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (12.12%) CCNP
4 4 (12.12%) CCSP
4 4 (12.12%) CEH
4 4 (12.12%) CISM
4 4 (12.12%) OSCP
5 3 (9.09%) CCNA
6 2 (6.06%) CCIE
6 2 (6.06%) JNCIA
6 2 (6.06%) JNCIE
6 2 (6.06%) JNCIS
6 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) NIST
1 7 (21.21%) PCI DSS
2 4 (12.12%) COBIT
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.06%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Ansible
1 5 (15.15%) Terraform
2 3 (9.09%) SELinux
3 2 (6.06%) Nagios
3 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.06%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (66.67%) Cisco
2 14 (42.42%) Palo Alto
3 11 (33.33%) Meraki
4 4 (12.12%) HP
5 3 (9.09%) Arista
5 3 (9.09%) Aruba
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 3 (9.09%) Splunk
6 2 (6.06%) Dell
6 2 (6.06%) F5
6 2 (6.06%) Fortinet
6 2 (6.06%) IBM
6 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
6 2 (6.06%) VMware