Network Architecture Contracts in the South East

Network Architecture
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 159 182
Rank change year-on-year +28 +23 +48
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 35 41 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.03% 0.75% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.90% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 28 17
10th Percentile £425 £459 -
25th Percentile £490 £538 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +17.07% +2.50%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £600
90th Percentile - £727 £671
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £160.00 - £14.00
75th Percentile - - £17.25
90th Percentile - - £19.20
England median hourly rate £160.00 £66.43 £87.50
% change year-on-year +140.86% -24.08% +82.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,061 4,554 5,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.98% 82.77% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,904 2,678 3,538
10th Percentile £250 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £672 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 405 245
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.10 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.35 £22.16
Median hourly rate £23.25 £54.88 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.63% +9.75% +122.22%
75th Percentile £53.69 £70.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architecture in the South East

Network Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Architecture in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Network Architecture in the South East

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Architecture in the South East over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Architecture in the South East

Network Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Architecture in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Network Architecture in the South East

Network Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Hampshire +36 21 £533 -9.67% 6
Thames Valley +9 10 £550 -8.33% 6
Berkshire +16 8 £575 -4.17% 6
Surrey +17 3 - - 2
Buckinghamshire +7 2 £525 -
Network Architecture
England

Network Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (2.86%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.86%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) AWS
1 8 (22.86%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) Cloudflare
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.86%) GCP
3 1 (2.86%) Lucidchart
3 1 (2.86%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (45.71%) VPN
2 13 (37.14%) Network Security
3 12 (34.29%) Firewall
4 9 (25.71%) WAN
5 7 (20.00%) BGP
5 7 (20.00%) MPLS
6 5 (14.29%) OSPF
7 3 (8.57%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (8.57%) VLAN
8 2 (5.71%) 5G
8 2 (5.71%) IPsec
8 2 (5.71%) SD-WAN
8 2 (5.71%) SSL
8 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
9 1 (2.86%) 3GPP
9 1 (2.86%) Ethernet
9 1 (2.86%) NAS
9 1 (2.86%) SAN
9 1 (2.86%) VoIP
9 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) GitLab
1 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
1 1 (2.86%) MLflow
General
1 25 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 21 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.71%) Advertising
5 1 (2.86%) Aviation
5 1 (2.86%) Billing
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 13 (37.14%) Architect
3 9 (25.71%) Network Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Cisco Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Cisco Network Architect
5 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) IT Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Juniper Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Product Architect
6 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Systems Integrator
7 1 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Data Centre Architect
7 1 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Senior
7 1 (2.86%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 5 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 4 (11.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.57%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.71%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.86%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (8.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Network Design
2 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (31.43%) Migration
4 10 (28.57%) Validation
5 8 (22.86%) Computer Science
6 5 (14.29%) Service Design
6 5 (14.29%) Zero Trust
7 4 (11.43%) Architecture Roadmap
7 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
8 3 (8.57%) Data Protection
8 3 (8.57%) High Availability
8 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (8.57%) Service Delivery
8 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (5.71%) Kalman Filter
9 2 (5.71%) Knowledge Transfer
9 2 (5.71%) Project Delivery
9 2 (5.71%) Project Management
9 2 (5.71%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (68.57%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (57.14%) CCNP
3 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
4 13 (37.14%) CCNA
4 13 (37.14%) SC Cleared
5 10 (28.57%) Degree
6 9 (25.71%) DV Cleared
7 7 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (17.14%) JNCIS
9 5 (14.29%) CCIE
10 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
11 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
11 1 (2.86%) CCDE
11 1 (2.86%) CCDP
11 1 (2.86%) JNCIP
11 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
11 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
11 1 (2.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) EU AI Act
1 1 (2.86%) NIST
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Ansible
2 4 (11.43%) Terraform
3 2 (5.71%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.86%) Kubeflow
4 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) Cisco
2 12 (34.29%) Fortinet
3 7 (20.00%) Juniper
4 6 (17.14%) Fujitsu
5 5 (14.29%) F5
5 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 4 (11.43%) CheckPoint
6 4 (11.43%) Citrix
6 4 (11.43%) Zscaler
7 3 (8.57%) Mellanox
7 3 (8.57%) NVIDIA
7 3 (8.57%) VMware
8 2 (5.71%) Meraki
9 1 (2.86%) Dell
9 1 (2.86%) Ericsson
9 1 (2.86%) Google
9 1 (2.86%) Isilon
9 1 (2.86%) NetApp
9 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.86%) Veeam