Network Architect Contracts

Network Architect
UK

The median Network Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 444 588
Rank change year-on-year +161 +144 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Network Architect 335 251 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.45% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.47% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 144 170
10th Percentile £503 £487 £510
25th Percentile £543 £563 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.81% +23.76%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £700 £750 £776
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £617 £650
% change year-on-year +5.35% -5.08% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.92
Median % change year-on-year - +14.90% -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £87.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.92
% change year-on-year - +14.90% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Network Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Network Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Architect in the UK

Network Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Architect in the UK

Network Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Architect over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Architect in the UK

Network Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Architect in the UK

Network Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Architect over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Architect in the UK

Network Architect
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +161 316 £650 +4.00% 33
UK excluding London +158 286 £650 +5.35% 27
South East +82 158 £650 +8.33% 7
Work from Home +87 83 £573 -8.40% 17
South West +64 82 £650 - 2
Midlands +43 36 £620 +7.83% 2
London +50 28 £575 -11.54% 8
West Midlands +27 26 £630 +9.57% 1
North of England +17 13 £575 - 14
East Midlands +20 10 £550 +3.04% 1
North West +13 8 £688 +17.02% 7
East of England +3 8 £563 -31.82% 1
Yorkshire +18 3 £475 -17.39% 5
Scotland +38 2 £613 -
North East - 2 £531 - 2

Network Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Network Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 236 (70.45%) Security Cleared
2 150 (44.78%) WAN
3 132 (39.40%) Cisco
4 120 (35.82%) LAN
5 119 (35.52%) Network Management
6 90 (26.87%) Juniper
7 89 (26.57%) SC Cleared
8 81 (24.18%) DV Cleared
9 64 (19.10%) Data Centre
10 55 (16.42%) Public Sector
11 53 (15.82%) Customer Requirements
11 53 (15.82%) Network Design
12 52 (15.52%) MPLS
13 50 (14.93%) Finance
14 48 (14.33%) Firewall
15 46 (13.73%) SD-WAN
16 45 (13.43%) F5
17 39 (11.64%) BGP
17 39 (11.64%) Telecoms
18 37 (11.04%) Network Architecture
19 36 (10.75%) VPN
20 34 (10.15%) Wi-Fi
20 34 (10.15%) Agile
20 34 (10.15%) Cisco Firepower
20 34 (10.15%) Technical Leadership
21 33 (9.85%) Zero Trust
22 32 (9.55%) SaaS
22 32 (9.55%) SIEM
23 31 (9.25%) Business Strategy
24 28 (8.36%) Systems Engineering

Network Architect Skill Set
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 6 (1.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 32 (9.55%) SaaS
2 28 (8.36%) Cloud Computing
3 27 (8.06%) IaaS
3 27 (8.06%) PaaS
4 18 (5.37%) Azure
5 16 (4.78%) AWS
6 6 (1.79%) GCP
7 4 (1.19%) GitHub
8 3 (0.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.90%) Datadog
8 3 (0.90%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.90%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.60%) Route 53
9 2 (0.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.30%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.30%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 150 (44.78%) WAN
2 120 (35.82%) LAN
3 52 (15.52%) MPLS
4 48 (14.33%) Firewall
5 46 (13.73%) SD-WAN
6 39 (11.64%) BGP
7 36 (10.75%) VPN
8 34 (10.15%) Cisco Firepower
8 34 (10.15%) Wi-Fi
9 27 (8.06%) SSL
10 26 (7.76%) Network Security
11 16 (4.78%) NX-OS
12 11 (3.28%) WLAN
13 10 (2.99%) IPsec
14 9 (2.69%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (2.69%) DNS
14 9 (2.69%) Junos
14 9 (2.69%) Wireless
15 6 (1.79%) OSPF
15 6 (1.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (0.90%) GitLab
2 3 (0.90%) JIRA
General
1 55 (16.42%) Public Sector
2 50 (14.93%) Finance
3 39 (11.64%) Telecoms
4 11 (3.28%) Social Skills
5 6 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (0.90%) Banking
7 2 (0.60%) Law
7 2 (0.60%) Legal
7 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.30%) Advertising
8 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.30%) Local Government
8 1 (0.30%) Marketing
8 1 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.30%) Police
8 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.19%) JSON
2 3 (0.90%) SAML
2 3 (0.90%) Web Services
3 2 (0.60%) LDAP
4 1 (0.30%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 64 (19.10%) Data Centre
2 25 (7.46%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (5.37%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (0.90%) Operational Technology
6 3 (0.90%) PKI
6 3 (0.90%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.60%) IVR
7 2 (0.60%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.60%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.30%) CMDB
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.30%) NHS
8 1 (0.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.79%) Linux
1 6 (1.79%) Windows
2 3 (0.90%) Unix
3 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (35.52%) Network Management
2 53 (15.82%) Customer Requirements
2 53 (15.82%) Network Design
3 37 (11.04%) Network Architecture
4 34 (10.15%) Agile
4 34 (10.15%) Technical Leadership
5 33 (9.85%) Zero Trust
6 32 (9.55%) SIEM
7 31 (9.25%) Business Strategy
8 28 (8.36%) Network Virtualisation
8 28 (8.36%) Systems Engineering
9 27 (8.06%) Open Source
9 27 (8.06%) Strategic Thinking
10 21 (6.27%) Project Delivery
10 21 (6.27%) Project Management
11 20 (5.97%) Presales
12 16 (4.78%) Roadmaps
13 15 (4.48%) Migration
14 14 (4.18%) Network Packet Capture
15 13 (3.88%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (1.49%) Python
2 3 (0.90%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.60%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 236 (70.45%) Security Cleared
2 89 (26.57%) SC Cleared
3 81 (24.18%) DV Cleared
4 27 (8.06%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (8.06%) Degree
5 24 (7.16%) CCNP
6 17 (5.07%) CCIE
7 9 (2.69%) CCNA
8 6 (1.79%) JNCIS
9 5 (1.49%) CISSP
10 4 (1.19%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.19%) CCIE Security
10 4 (1.19%) JNCIA
11 3 (0.90%) CCIE Data Center
12 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.30%) CCSP
12 1 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.30%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.18%) SLA
2 4 (1.19%) NCSC
3 1 (0.30%) GDPR
3 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
1 20 (5.97%) VMware NSX
2 14 (4.18%) vSphere
3 7 (2.09%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (7.76%) Endace
2 13 (3.88%) CSIRT
3 9 (2.69%) Terraform
4 7 (2.09%) Ansible
5 6 (1.79%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.19%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.30%) NetMRI
7 1 (0.30%) SCCM
7 1 (0.30%) SCOM
Vendors
1 132 (39.40%) Cisco
2 90 (26.87%) Juniper
3 45 (13.43%) F5
4 21 (6.27%) Palo Alto
4 21 (6.27%) VMware
5 16 (4.78%) Fortinet
6 9 (2.69%) SolarWinds
7 6 (1.79%) Aruba
7 6 (1.79%) Microsoft
8 5 (1.49%) Meraki
8 5 (1.49%) Splunk
8 5 (1.49%) Zscaler
9 4 (1.19%) Genesys
10 3 (0.90%) Arista
10 3 (0.90%) BigPanda
10 3 (0.90%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.90%) Google
10 3 (0.90%) HP
10 3 (0.90%) New Relic
10 3 (0.90%) Nokia