Senior Network Architect Contracts

Senior Network Architect
UK

The median Senior Network Architect daily rate in the UK is £573 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 700 848
Rank change year-on-year +120 +148 -163
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Architect 20 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.027% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.029% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 7
10th Percentile - £500 £492
25th Percentile £561 £606 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £699 £775 £631
90th Percentile £748 £788 £737
UK excluding London median daily rate £573 £775 £573
% change year-on-year -26.13% +35.37% +8.02%

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Senior Network Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Architect in the UK

Senior Network Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Network Architect in the UK

Senior Network Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Architect over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Architect in the UK

Senior Network Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Network Architect in the UK

Senior Network Architect
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Network Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +121 14 £649 -7.32% 2
Work from Home +132 11 £573 -6.53%
UK excluding London +63 10 £573 -26.13%
South East +28 10 £573 -26.13%
London +111 4 £728 +11.92% 2

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Network Architect in the job title.

1 15 (75.00%) F5
2 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (40.00%) MPLS
3 8 (40.00%) Cisco
3 8 (40.00%) WAN
3 8 (40.00%) Network Management
4 6 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (25.00%) SD-WAN
5 5 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (25.00%) Endace
5 5 (25.00%) SSL
5 5 (25.00%) Juniper
5 5 (25.00%) BGP
5 5 (25.00%) Finance
5 5 (25.00%) Network Design
6 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Firewall
6 3 (15.00%) Azure
6 3 (15.00%) AWS
6 3 (15.00%) Load Balancing
6 3 (15.00%) Network Security
6 3 (15.00%) Requirements Management
6 3 (15.00%) SIEM
6 3 (15.00%) Presales
6 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
7 2 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
7 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
7 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security

Senior 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
3 1 (5.00%) IaaS
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) MPLS
1 8 (40.00%) WAN
2 5 (25.00%) BGP
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 5 (25.00%) SSL
3 3 (15.00%) Firewall
3 3 (15.00%) Network Security
4 2 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (10.00%) LAN
4 2 (10.00%) NetScaler
4 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (5.00%) Multicast
5 1 (5.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) JSON
1 2 (10.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) IVR
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Network Management
2 6 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (25.00%) Network Design
4 3 (15.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Presales
4 3 (15.00%) Requirements Management
4 3 (15.00%) SIEM
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (10.00%) Network Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
6 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (5.00%) DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (5.00%) SABSA
6 1 (5.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.00%) CCIE
3 1 (5.00%) CCSK
3 1 (5.00%) CCSP
3 1 (5.00%) CISA
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) CRISC
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) FFIEC
3 1 (5.00%) GIAC
3 1 (5.00%) SANS
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
1 1 (5.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Endace
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) F5
2 8 (40.00%) Cisco
3 5 (25.00%) Juniper
4 2 (10.00%) Genesys
4 2 (10.00%) Google
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.00%) Zscaler