Network Architecture Contracts with Work from Home Options

Network Architecture
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 392 524
Rank change year-on-year +86 +132 -109
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 40 80 99
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.31% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.34% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 52 66
10th Percentile £456 £406 £372
25th Percentile £533 £455 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £637 £581
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +9.69% +6.51%
75th Percentile £655 £680 £700
90th Percentile £738 £723 -
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £569
% change year-on-year -4.00% +9.79% +13.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - £36.70 -
25th Percentile - £62.50 £28.41
Median hourly rate £14.00 £65.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -78.46% +57.58% +117.11%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £48.62
90th Percentile - £69.50 £50.55
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £66.25 £48.04
% change year-on-year -21.51% +37.91% -3.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,424 23,231 40,628
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.86% 89.84% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,419 29,475
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 532 547
10th Percentile £15.12 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.89
Median hourly rate £40.28 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Network Architecture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Architecture trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Architecture.

Network Architecture daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Architecture over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Network Architecture daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Architecture.

Network Architecture hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (7.50%) nginx
2 2 (5.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) AWS
2 7 (17.50%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (7.50%) GitHub
4 3 (7.50%) IaaS
4 3 (7.50%) PaaS
4 3 (7.50%) SaaS
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.00%) GCP
5 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.50%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) WAN
2 11 (27.50%) Firewall
2 11 (27.50%) MPLS
3 9 (22.50%) Network Security
4 8 (20.00%) SNA
5 7 (17.50%) VPN
6 6 (15.00%) LAN
7 4 (10.00%) 3GPP
7 4 (10.00%) 4G
7 4 (10.00%) 5G
7 4 (10.00%) 5G NR
7 4 (10.00%) LTE
7 4 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (10.00%) WLAN
8 3 (7.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (7.50%) PBX
8 3 (7.50%) SD-WAN
8 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
8 3 (7.50%) VoIP
8 3 (7.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Power BI
1 4 (10.00%) Tableau
2 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Git
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.50%) IntelliJ
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Maven
2 1 (2.50%) Selenium
2 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (27.50%) Telecoms
2 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Military
3 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Aviation
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Architect
2 11 (27.50%) Network Architect
3 8 (20.00%) Senior
4 6 (15.00%) Lead
4 6 (15.00%) Security Manager
5 4 (10.00%) Design Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Radio Design Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Radio Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Delivery Project Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Security Project Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Delivery Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Information Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) Web Services
2 3 (7.50%) YAML
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.50%) IoT
5 1 (2.50%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (2.50%) NHS
5 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Android
3 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.50%) Debian
3 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (17.50%) Analytics
1 7 (17.50%) Programme Management
2 6 (15.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (12.50%) Agile
3 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (12.50%) Project Management
3 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (10.00%) SDLC
4 4 (10.00%) User Stories
4 4 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) Python
2 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) Bash
4 1 (2.50%) C#
4 1 (2.50%) PHP
4 1 (2.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (22.50%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (17.50%) CCNP
4 6 (15.00%) CCIE
5 4 (10.00%) PMI Certification
5 4 (10.00%) PMP
6 3 (7.50%) CCIE Data Center
7 2 (5.00%) JNCIP
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.50%) BC Cleared
8 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.50%) CCIE Service Provider
8 1 (2.50%) Degree
8 1 (2.50%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) COBIT
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.50%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.00%) Docker
4 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.00%) Squid
4 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.50%) iptables
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Terraform
2 5 (12.50%) Ansible
3 4 (10.00%) vRealize
4 3 (7.50%) vCenter Server
5 2 (5.00%) HAProxy
5 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.00%) Puppet
5 2 (5.00%) VxRail
6 1 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.50%) Icinga
6 1 (2.50%) Nagios
6 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Cisco
2 8 (20.00%) VMware
3 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (7.50%) Juniper
6 2 (5.00%) CheckPoint
6 2 (5.00%) Dell
6 2 (5.00%) F5
6 2 (5.00%) Google
6 2 (5.00%) LogRhythm
6 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.50%) Aruba
7 1 (2.50%) AVEVA
7 1 (2.50%) Citrix
7 1 (2.50%) Genesys
7 1 (2.50%) MikroTik
7 1 (2.50%) TP-LINK
7 1 (2.50%) ZyXEL