Network Architecture Contracts

Network Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Network Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Architecture over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 530 633
Rank change year-on-year +97 +103 -86
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 159 178 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.34% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 121 117
10th Percentile £451 £406 £363
25th Percentile £514 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +12.24%
75th Percentile £673 £680 £688
90th Percentile £774 £725 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% +31.58% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 14
10th Percentile £21.10 £36.70 £28.41
25th Percentile £31.75 £62.50 £30.87
Median hourly rate £52.00 £67.50 £48.04
Median % change year-on-year -22.96% +40.51% -3.92%
75th Percentile £74.75 £70.00 £52.00
90th Percentile £86.90 - £63.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.00 £66.25 £50.50
% change year-on-year -21.51% +31.19% +27.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Network Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 9 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Architecture over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Architecture in the UK

Network Architecture
Top 13 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 9 May 2024. 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 +109 146 £600 -4.00% 51
UK excluding London +65 95 £600 -4.00% 47
South East +49 54 £590 +11.75% 6
London +72 46 £575 -4.17% 11
Work from Home +96 41 £590 -7.45% 74
Midlands +32 23 £613 -9.93% 6
West Midlands +21 17 £650 -4.41% 5
South West +8 11 £688 +5.77% 11
North of England +31 6 £610 +20.20% 10
East Midlands +22 6 £600 -15.49% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £610 - 2
North East - 3 - - 2
East of England +8 1 £575 - 3

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 (1.89%) nginx
2 2 (1.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (6.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (18.24%) Azure
2 26 (16.35%) AWS
3 8 (5.03%) SaaS
4 6 (3.77%) Cloudflare
4 6 (3.77%) GCP
4 6 (3.77%) IaaS
4 6 (3.77%) PaaS
5 5 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (3.14%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.14%) GitHub
6 4 (2.52%) Azure API Management
6 4 (2.52%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.89%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.89%) Nutanix
7 3 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (35.85%) Firewall
2 51 (32.08%) WAN
3 34 (21.38%) VPN
4 32 (20.13%) MPLS
4 32 (20.13%) Network Security
5 28 (17.61%) LAN
6 23 (14.47%) SD-WAN
7 19 (11.95%) DNS
8 16 (10.06%) SNA
9 13 (8.18%) 5G
9 13 (8.18%) BGP
9 13 (8.18%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (7.55%) Cisco Nexus
10 12 (7.55%) Radio Access Network
10 12 (7.55%) WLAN
11 11 (6.92%) OSPF
12 10 (6.29%) Internet
12 10 (6.29%) LTE
12 10 (6.29%) TCP/IP
12 10 (6.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.52%) Power BI
1 4 (2.52%) Tableau
2 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (5.03%) Git
2 5 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.52%) JIRA
4 3 (1.89%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.63%) Maven
5 1 (0.63%) Selenium
5 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (23.27%) Telecoms
2 29 (18.24%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.69%) Finance
4 10 (6.29%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.66%) Financial Institution
6 7 (4.40%) Banking
7 6 (3.77%) Military
7 6 (3.77%) Multimedia
7 6 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.52%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.89%) Law
9 3 (1.89%) Mandarin Language
9 3 (1.89%) Marketing
10 2 (1.26%) Automotive
10 2 (1.26%) Electronics
10 2 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Aviation
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 52 (32.70%) Architect
2 43 (27.04%) Network Engineer
3 34 (21.38%) Network Architect
4 21 (13.21%) Lead
5 15 (9.43%) Senior
6 10 (6.29%) Security Engineer
7 8 (5.03%) Analyst
7 8 (5.03%) Security Architect
8 7 (4.40%) Senior Network Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Azure Architect
9 6 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Security Manager
9 6 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.14%) Design Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (3.14%) Lead Architect
10 5 (3.14%) Network Security Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) Project Manager
11 4 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.52%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.55%) Web Services
2 8 (5.03%) YAML
3 4 (2.52%) .NET
4 2 (1.26%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.63%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.63%) LDAP
5 1 (0.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.35%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.29%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.66%) PKI
4 8 (5.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (4.40%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.14%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (2.52%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.89%) CCTV
9 3 (1.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.89%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.26%) NHS
10 2 (1.26%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.63%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.55%) Windows
2 5 (3.14%) Linux
2 5 (3.14%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.63%) Android
4 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.63%) Debian
4 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (15.09%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (11.95%) Zero Trust
3 16 (10.06%) Computer Science
3 16 (10.06%) Programme Management
4 15 (9.43%) Agile
4 15 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (9.43%) Migration
4 15 (9.43%) Project Delivery
5 14 (8.81%) Analytics
6 13 (8.18%) Cloud Security
6 13 (8.18%) Network Design
7 12 (7.55%) Project Management
7 12 (7.55%) Roadmaps
8 11 (6.92%) Architectural Design
8 11 (6.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (6.29%) High Availability
9 10 (6.29%) Security Architecture
10 9 (5.66%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 19 (11.95%) Python
2 11 (6.92%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.52%) C#
3 4 (2.52%) Java
4 3 (1.89%) PHP
4 3 (1.89%) Ruby
5 1 (0.63%) Bash
5 1 (0.63%) C
5 1 (0.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.27%) SC Cleared
3 32 (20.13%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (13.84%) Degree
5 19 (11.95%) CCIE
6 17 (10.69%) CCNP
7 14 (8.81%) DV Cleared
8 13 (8.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (5.66%) CCIE Data Center
9 9 (5.66%) CCNA
10 6 (3.77%) PMI Certification
10 6 (3.77%) PMP
11 4 (2.52%) CISSP
12 3 (1.89%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.89%) BC Cleared
12 3 (1.89%) CISM
13 2 (1.26%) CASP
13 2 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (1.26%) GCED
13 2 (1.26%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.52%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.89%) GDPR
3 3 (1.89%) QA
4 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) COBIT
4 1 (0.63%) GRC
4 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.63%) NIST
4 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
4 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (10.06%) VMware NSX
2 12 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.03%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (3.14%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.52%) Docker
5 4 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.26%) Squid
7 1 (0.63%) iptables
Systems Management
1 17 (10.69%) Ansible
2 16 (10.06%) Terraform
3 11 (6.92%) vRealize
4 8 (5.03%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.52%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.52%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.52%) Puppet
5 4 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.52%) VxRail
6 2 (1.26%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.26%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.26%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.63%) CASB
7 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.63%) Icinga
7 1 (0.63%) Nagios
Vendors
1 43 (27.04%) Cisco
2 26 (16.35%) F5
3 24 (15.09%) Microsoft
3 24 (15.09%) SolarWinds
4 23 (14.47%) VMware
5 17 (10.69%) Palo Alto
6 16 (10.06%) Fortinet
7 15 (9.43%) CheckPoint
8 14 (8.81%) Juniper
9 13 (8.18%) Zscaler
10 7 (4.40%) Meraki
11 6 (3.77%) Citrix
11 6 (3.77%) Empirix
11 6 (3.77%) LogRhythm
11 6 (3.77%) NetScout
11 6 (3.77%) ServiceNow
12 5 (3.14%) Aruba
12 5 (3.14%) Google
12 5 (3.14%) Infoblox
12 5 (3.14%) Symantec