Network Architecture Contracts in the Thames Valley

Network Architecture
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 104 113 120
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 +41
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 10 21 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.81% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.95% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 11
10th Percentile £518 £416 -
25th Percentile £525 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £430
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +39.53% -14.00%
75th Percentile £581 £663 £619
90th Percentile £593 £700 £669
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -8.33% +17.07% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
75th Percentile - - £17.25
90th Percentile - - £19.20
South East median hourly rate £160.00 - £14.00
% change year-on-year - - -68.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,536 2,199 2,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.14% 84.67% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,202 1,826
10th Percentile £300 £251 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 152 83
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.76 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.25 £21.45
Median hourly rate £24.91 £49.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.69% -1.00% +194.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.58 £66.33
90th Percentile £82.10 £86.86 £75.59
South East median hourly rate £23.25 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year -57.63% +9.75% +122.22%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architecture in the Thames Valley

Network Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Network Architecture in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Network Architecture in the Thames Valley

Network Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Architecture in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Network Architecture in the Thames Valley

Network Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +16 8 £575 -4.17% 6
Buckinghamshire +7 2 £525 -
Network Architecture
South East

Network Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (10.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (10.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) 5G
2 2 (20.00%) BGP
2 2 (20.00%) MPLS
3 1 (10.00%) 3GPP
3 1 (10.00%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (10.00%) NAS
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (10.00%) VLAN
3 1 (10.00%) VoIP
3 1 (10.00%) VoLTE
3 1 (10.00%) VoWiFi
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 5 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Billing
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Product Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Architect
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Network Design
2 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (30.00%) Validation
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) MLOps
4 1 (10.00%) Model Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Product Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) SOAR
4 1 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CCNP
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) JNCIP
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Meraki
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Ericsson
3 1 (10.00%) F5
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Isilon
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) NetApp
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam