Network Architecture Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Network Architecture
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Network Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 108 130
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 +26
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 3 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.21% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.28% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £522 £407
25th Percentile - £560 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £624 £700
Median % change year-on-year -35.87% -10.89% -
75th Percentile - £687 -
90th Percentile - £725 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,273 1,408 2,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.01% 90.20% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 822 1,271
10th Percentile £246 £230 £259
25th Percentile £383 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £567 £538 £588
90th Percentile £638 £649 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 48 54
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.56 £14.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +4.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £56.05
90th Percentile £56.50 £42.96 £74.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Network Architecture job vacancy trend in Scotland

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Network Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Network Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Glasgow +3 1 £400 -
Edinburgh -1 1 - - 3
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Network Architecture
UK

Network Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Life Science
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Compliance Management
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Flow Diagram
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Management
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Rockwell