Network Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Network Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £573 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 358 500
Rank change year-on-year +87 +142 -87
Contract jobs requiring a Network Architect 73 114 123
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.44% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.47% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 66 91
10th Percentile £500 £487 £469
25th Percentile £525 £567 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £700
90th Percentile £745 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 1
10th Percentile - £63.63 -
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.92
% change year-on-year - +14.90% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Network Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Network Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Architect
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 Architect.

Network Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Architect over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Network Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Architect
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 Architect.

Network Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Network Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 34 (46.58%) Security Cleared
2 33 (45.21%) SC Cleared
3 29 (39.73%) Telecoms
4 26 (35.62%) Cisco
5 25 (34.25%) WAN
5 25 (34.25%) Systems Engineering
6 24 (32.88%) Network Management
7 22 (30.14%) Degree
8 21 (28.77%) Strategic Thinking
8 21 (28.77%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (24.66%) LAN
10 14 (19.18%) Firewall
11 13 (17.81%) F5
12 12 (16.44%) SD-WAN
13 11 (15.07%) Network Architecture
14 10 (13.70%) AWS
15 9 (12.33%) VPN
15 9 (12.33%) MPLS
16 8 (10.96%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (10.96%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (10.96%) Azure
16 8 (10.96%) DevOps
16 8 (10.96%) Data Centre
17 7 (9.59%) Terraform
17 7 (9.59%) Social Skills
17 7 (9.59%) Cisco Nexus
17 7 (9.59%) CCIE
17 7 (9.59%) CCNP
18 6 (8.22%) ITIL
18 6 (8.22%) Disaster Recovery

Network Architect Skill Set
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 5 (6.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.70%) AWS
2 8 (10.96%) Azure
3 4 (5.48%) GCP
3 4 (5.48%) GitHub
4 2 (2.74%) Datadog
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.74%) Route 53
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (34.25%) WAN
2 18 (24.66%) LAN
3 14 (19.18%) Firewall
4 12 (16.44%) SD-WAN
5 9 (12.33%) MPLS
5 9 (12.33%) VPN
6 8 (10.96%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (9.59%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (6.85%) Network Security
8 5 (6.85%) VoIP
8 5 (6.85%) WLAN
9 4 (5.48%) BGP
9 4 (5.48%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (5.48%) OSPF
9 4 (5.48%) Wireless
10 3 (4.11%) DNS
10 3 (4.11%) PBX
11 2 (2.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (2.74%) SNMP
11 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (4.11%) JIRA
3 2 (2.74%) GitLab
General
1 29 (39.73%) Telecoms
2 7 (9.59%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.22%) Finance
4 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Banking
6 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Law
7 1 (1.37%) Legal
7 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.37%) Police
7 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) JSON
2 3 (4.11%) LDAP
2 3 (4.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.77%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (10.96%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.48%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.74%) IVR
4 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.74%) Linux
1 2 (2.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.25%) Systems Engineering
2 24 (32.88%) Network Management
3 21 (28.77%) Strategic Thinking
4 11 (15.07%) Network Architecture
5 8 (10.96%) DevOps
6 6 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (8.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (8.22%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (8.22%) ITIL
7 5 (6.85%) Load Balancing
7 5 (6.85%) Performance Management
7 5 (6.85%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (6.85%) Roadmaps
8 4 (5.48%) CI/CD
8 4 (5.48%) Customer Requirements
8 4 (5.48%) Information Assurance
8 4 (5.48%) MODAF
8 4 (5.48%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 4 (5.48%) SysML
8 4 (5.48%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.85%) Python
2 2 (2.74%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 34 (46.58%) Security Cleared
2 33 (45.21%) SC Cleared
3 22 (30.14%) Degree
4 8 (10.96%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (9.59%) CCIE
5 7 (9.59%) CCNP
6 4 (5.48%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.11%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (1.37%) CCNA
8 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.37%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) NCSC
2 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.37%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.74%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (2.74%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (9.59%) Terraform
2 5 (6.85%) Ansible
3 4 (5.48%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 26 (35.62%) Cisco
2 13 (17.81%) F5
3 6 (8.22%) Palo Alto
4 5 (6.85%) Genesys
5 4 (5.48%) Splunk
5 4 (5.48%) Zscaler
6 3 (4.11%) Aruba
6 3 (4.11%) Fortinet
6 3 (4.11%) Google
6 3 (4.11%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.11%) VMware
7 2 (2.74%) BigPanda
7 2 (2.74%) CA
7 2 (2.74%) Juniper
7 2 (2.74%) Meraki
7 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.74%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.37%) Arista
8 1 (1.37%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.37%) Extreme Networks