Network Architecture Contracts

Network Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 425 521
Rank change year-on-year +96 +96 +122
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 198 158 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.42% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 97 136
10th Percentile £413 £420 £406
25th Percentile £450 £519 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% -4.00% +9.94%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £705 £775 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +31.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £21.10 £41.00
25th Percentile - £31.75 £62.50
Median hourly rate - £52.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year - -21.51% +37.91%
75th Percentile - £74.75 £69.69
90th Percentile - £86.90 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +28.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architecture in the UK

Network Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Architecture in the UK

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Architecture over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Network Architecture in the UK

Network Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Architecture in the UK

Network Architecture
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +73 164 £563 -6.25% 109
UK excluding London +89 115 £575 -4.17% 70
Work from Home +50 49 £513 -14.76% 62
London +31 44 £500 -13.04% 62
South East +37 41 £550 -6.70% 28
North of England +47 33 £500 -18.03% 6
South West +65 29 £600 -17.24% 13
North West +42 26 £475 - 5
Yorkshire +12 7 £680 +11.48% 1
Midlands +5 6 £651 +6.20% 7
East of England +34 5 £525 -8.70% 6
West Midlands +1 4 £688 +5.77% 5
East Midlands +6 2 £651 +8.42% 1
Scotland - 1 £750 - 5

Network Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (1.52%) IIS
2 2 (1.01%) Confluence
2 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.51%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 33 (16.67%) AWS
2 27 (13.64%) Azure
3 10 (5.05%) GCP
4 9 (4.55%) Cloudflare
5 8 (4.04%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.01%) GitHub
7 2 (1.01%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.01%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.51%) OCI
8 1 (0.51%) PaaS
8 1 (0.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 94 (47.47%) Firewall
2 62 (31.31%) Network Security
3 60 (30.30%) WAN
4 51 (25.76%) VPN
5 34 (17.17%) Radio Access Network
6 32 (16.16%) 4G
7 31 (15.66%) 5G
8 29 (14.65%) LAN
9 28 (14.14%) 3G
10 24 (12.12%) MPLS
11 23 (11.62%) LTE
12 22 (11.11%) BGP
12 22 (11.11%) VoLTE
12 22 (11.11%) Wireshark
13 21 (10.61%) Diameter Protocol
14 20 (10.10%) RANAP
15 19 (9.60%) OSPF
16 16 (8.08%) Cisco ISE
16 16 (8.08%) NetScaler
16 16 (8.08%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 7 (3.54%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (2.02%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.52%) Eclipse
3 3 (1.52%) GitLab
3 3 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 71 (35.86%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (7.07%) Telecoms
4 11 (5.56%) Banking
5 8 (4.04%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.54%) Finance
7 4 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.52%) Advertising
8 3 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.52%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.01%) Military
10 1 (0.51%) Aviation
10 1 (0.51%) Billing
10 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (34.85%) Architect
2 66 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 41 (20.71%) Network Architect
4 19 (9.60%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 16 (8.08%) Technical Architect
6 12 (6.06%) Security Architect
6 12 (6.06%) Senior
7 11 (5.56%) Consultant
7 11 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.55%) Design Engineer
8 9 (4.55%) DevSecOps Architect
8 9 (4.55%) Network Technical Architect
9 8 (4.04%) DevSecOps Consultant
9 8 (4.04%) Security Consultant
10 6 (3.03%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (3.03%) Radio Design Engineer
10 6 (3.03%) Radio Engineer
10 6 (3.03%) Senior Network Engineer
11 5 (2.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (2.53%) Cloud Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.07%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.53%) Spine.js
3 3 (1.52%) LDAP
4 1 (0.51%) JSON
4 1 (0.51%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 16 (8.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (7.58%) Private Cloud
4 8 (4.04%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.54%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.53%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.52%) SCADA
9 2 (1.01%) Clustering
9 2 (1.01%) IoT
9 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.01%) PKI
9 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.51%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.51%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.51%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 1 (0.51%) NB-IoT
10 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.57%) Linux
2 4 (2.02%) Windows
3 3 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.01%) CentOS
4 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (25.76%) Network Design
2 33 (16.67%) Migration
3 31 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (12.63%) Computer Science
5 23 (11.62%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (11.11%) Network Management
7 21 (10.61%) Customer Experience
7 21 (10.61%) Validation
8 20 (10.10%) Performance Improvement
9 19 (9.60%) Performance Analysis
9 19 (9.60%) Translating Business Requirements
10 18 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
11 16 (8.08%) Roadmaps
11 16 (8.08%) Zero Trust
12 15 (7.58%) High Availability
12 15 (7.58%) Load Balancing
13 14 (7.07%) Agile
14 13 (6.57%) DevOps
14 13 (6.57%) Impact Assessments
15 12 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.10%) Python
2 3 (1.52%) C++
2 3 (1.52%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.01%) Bash
3 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.51%) Bicep
4 1 (0.51%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 77 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 70 (35.35%) Cisco Certification
3 59 (29.80%) SC Cleared
4 50 (25.25%) CCNP
5 30 (15.15%) Degree
6 26 (13.13%) CCNA
7 24 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (9.60%) CCIE
9 17 (8.59%) DV Cleared
10 12 (6.06%) JNCIS
11 10 (5.05%) CISSP
12 9 (4.55%) OSCP
13 8 (4.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (4.04%) CCSP
13 8 (4.04%) CEH
13 8 (4.04%) CISM
14 6 (3.03%) AWS Certification
14 6 (3.03%) Azure Certification
14 6 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 5 (2.53%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.10%) NIST
2 12 (6.06%) PCI DSS
3 9 (4.55%) COBIT
4 7 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.01%) GDPR
5 2 (1.01%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.51%) GRC
6 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.51%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.51%) NCSC
6 1 (0.51%) RMADS
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.53%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.02%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.52%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (12.63%) Ansible
2 18 (9.09%) Terraform
3 6 (3.03%) vCenter Server
4 5 (2.53%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.52%) Puppet
5 3 (1.52%) SELinux
6 2 (1.01%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.01%) Iperf
6 2 (1.01%) Nagios
6 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.01%) VxRail
6 2 (1.01%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.51%) NSN NetAct
7 1 (0.51%) OPNET
7 1 (0.51%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.51%) vRealize
Vendors
1 77 (38.89%) Cisco
2 26 (13.13%) Fortinet
3 22 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 22 (11.11%) VMware
4 20 (10.10%) Empirix
4 20 (10.10%) NetScout
5 15 (7.58%) Juniper
5 15 (7.58%) Meraki
5 15 (7.58%) Microsoft
6 13 (6.57%) F5
7 12 (6.06%) CheckPoint
8 9 (4.55%) SolarWinds
8 9 (4.55%) Zscaler
9 8 (4.04%) Citrix
10 6 (3.03%) Arista
10 6 (3.03%) Fujitsu
10 6 (3.03%) Google
11 5 (2.53%) Dell
11 5 (2.53%) HP
12 4 (2.02%) Aruba