Network Architecture Contract Job Trends in Reading

Network Architecture
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Network Architecture skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 77 84
Rank change year-on-year +19 +7 +11
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 10 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.70% 1.19% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.38% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile - £350 -
25th Percentile £536 £457 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £658 £438
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +50.29% +45.83%
75th Percentile £775 £697 £556
90th Percentile £783 £734 £703
Berkshire median daily rate £568 £600 £428
% change year-on-year -5.33% +40.35% +48.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 540 943 1,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.99% 85.96% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 515 666
10th Percentile £356 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £464 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 32 21
10th Percentile - £15.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £55.41 £53.50
Median hourly rate £20.38 £61.60 £65.13
Median % change year-on-year -66.92% -5.41% +150.48%
75th Percentile £38.42 £75.40 £74.00
90th Percentile £59.13 £87.46 £75.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.97% +2.67% +97.08%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architecture in Reading

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Network Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Network Architecture

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Architecture in Reading over the 6 months to 3 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Architecture in Reading

Network Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Network Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Network Architecture

Network Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 5 (50.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (10.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) Google Workspace
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (10.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) BGP
1 5 (50.00%) LAN
1 5 (50.00%) MPLS
1 5 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) IPsec
2 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Architect
2 5 (50.00%) IP Architect
2 5 (50.00%) IP Specialist
3 3 (30.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Consultant
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Forensic Consultant
4 2 (20.00%) Security Solutions Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) NETCONF
1 5 (50.00%) REST
1 5 (50.00%) YANG
2 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) IoT
3 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (20.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 7 (70.00%) Network Segmentation
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Network Design
2 5 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 5 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 4 (40.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 3 (30.00%) Zero Trust
5 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
5 2 (20.00%) Data Lineage
5 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
5 2 (20.00%) Supplier Management
5 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (50.00%) CCIE
2 5 (50.00%) JNCIE
3 2 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (20.00%) CCSP
3 2 (20.00%) CISM
3 2 (20.00%) CISSP
3 2 (20.00%) GCFA
3 2 (20.00%) GCFE
3 2 (20.00%) GCIH
3 2 (20.00%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) EnCase
2 2 (20.00%) FTK
3 1 (10.00%) Kubeflow
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (20.00%) Darktrace