Network Architecture Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Network Architecture
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales 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 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.31% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £309 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 257 276 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 78.59% 87.62% 86.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 159 217
10th Percentile £206 £176 £166
25th Percentile £290 £228 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £513 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £695 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £413
% change year-on-year -2.94% +3.03% -13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 34 23
10th Percentile £12.98 £16.68 £14.06
25th Percentile £15.96 £20.12 £21.30
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.50 £27.17
Median % change year-on-year -18.34% -13.49% +36.44%
75th Percentile £26.75 £28.44 £53.13
90th Percentile £85.00 £41.25 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £23.75 £27.17
% change year-on-year -23.45% -12.57% +49.22%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Network Architecture job vacancy trend in South Wales

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Network Architecture

Network Architecture
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales 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
Newport - 1 £413 - 2
Network Architecture
Wales

Network Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Rubrik
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) VMware