Network Architect Contracts in England

Network Architect
UK > England

The median Network Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 461 571
Rank change year-on-year +187 +110 -82
Contract jobs requiring a Network Architect 301 195 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.83% 0.40% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.43% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 110 138
10th Percentile £463 £488 £512
25th Percentile £525 £563 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +23.34%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £700 £744 £795
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 1
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
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 £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.92
% change year-on-year - +14.90% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Network Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architect in England

Network Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Network Architect in England

Network Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Architect in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Architect in England

Network Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Architect in England

Network Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Network Architect in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Network Architect in England

Network Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +81 150 £650 +8.33% 10
South West +61 74 £650 - 3
London +66 29 £563 -13.46% 3
Midlands +39 23 £550 -4.35% 2
West Midlands +34 17 £457 -10.93% 1
North of England +24 13 £575 -2.13% 2
North West +15 8 £688 +14.58% 1
East of England +11 8 £563 - 1
East Midlands +18 6 £575 -2.13% 1
Yorkshire +14 3 £475 -17.39%
North East - 2 £531 - 1
Network Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 job ads across the England region featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 224 (74.42%) Security Cleared
2 148 (49.17%) WAN
3 121 (40.20%) Network Management
4 118 (39.20%) LAN
5 115 (38.21%) Cisco
6 89 (29.57%) Juniper
7 78 (25.91%) SC Cleared
8 77 (25.58%) DV Cleared
9 56 (18.60%) Public Sector
10 53 (17.61%) Customer Requirements
11 52 (17.28%) MPLS
12 50 (16.61%) Data Centre
13 49 (16.28%) Firewall
13 49 (16.28%) Network Design
14 45 (14.95%) Finance
15 41 (13.62%) Telecoms
15 41 (13.62%) BGP
16 40 (13.29%) F5
17 36 (11.96%) VPN
18 35 (11.63%) Cisco Firepower
19 34 (11.30%) SIEM
20 33 (10.96%) Wi-Fi
20 33 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
20 33 (10.96%) SD-WAN
21 32 (10.63%) Zero Trust
21 32 (10.63%) Network Architecture
22 31 (10.30%) SaaS
22 31 (10.30%) Business Strategy
23 30 (9.97%) Agile
24 29 (9.63%) Systems Engineering

Network Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.66%) Confluence
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 31 (10.30%) SaaS
2 28 (9.30%) Cloud Computing
3 27 (8.97%) IaaS
3 27 (8.97%) PaaS
4 18 (5.98%) Azure
5 15 (4.98%) AWS
6 7 (2.33%) GCP
7 4 (1.33%) GitHub
8 3 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.00%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.66%) Datadog
9 2 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.66%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.66%) Route 53
9 2 (0.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 148 (49.17%) WAN
2 118 (39.20%) LAN
3 52 (17.28%) MPLS
4 49 (16.28%) Firewall
5 41 (13.62%) BGP
6 36 (11.96%) VPN
7 35 (11.63%) Cisco Firepower
8 33 (10.96%) SD-WAN
8 33 (10.96%) Wi-Fi
9 27 (8.97%) SSL
10 22 (7.31%) Network Security
11 10 (3.32%) IPsec
11 10 (3.32%) WLAN
12 9 (2.99%) Junos
13 8 (2.66%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (2.66%) OSPF
14 7 (2.33%) DNS
14 7 (2.33%) Unified Communications
14 7 (2.33%) Wireless
15 6 (1.99%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.00%) JIRA
3 2 (0.66%) GitLab
General
1 56 (18.60%) Public Sector
2 45 (14.95%) Finance
3 41 (13.62%) Telecoms
4 9 (2.99%) Social Skills
5 6 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.00%) Banking
6 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.66%) Legal
8 1 (0.33%) Advertising
8 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.33%) Law
8 1 (0.33%) Local Government
8 1 (0.33%) Marketing
8 1 (0.33%) Military
8 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.33%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.66%) JSON
2 3 (1.00%) LDAP
2 3 (1.00%) SAML
2 3 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.61%) Data Centre
2 25 (8.31%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.66%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.00%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.00%) PKI
7 2 (0.66%) IVR
7 2 (0.66%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.66%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.33%) CMDB
8 1 (0.33%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.99%) Windows
2 5 (1.66%) Linux
3 2 (0.66%) Unix
3 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (40.20%) Network Management
2 53 (17.61%) Customer Requirements
3 49 (16.28%) Network Design
4 34 (11.30%) SIEM
5 33 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
6 32 (10.63%) Network Architecture
6 32 (10.63%) Zero Trust
7 31 (10.30%) Business Strategy
8 30 (9.97%) Agile
9 29 (9.63%) Systems Engineering
10 28 (9.30%) Strategic Thinking
11 27 (8.97%) Open Source
12 23 (7.64%) Presales
13 21 (6.98%) Project Delivery
13 21 (6.98%) Project Management
14 15 (4.98%) Requirements Management
15 14 (4.65%) Roadmaps
16 13 (4.32%) ITIL
16 13 (4.32%) Migration
17 11 (3.65%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 5 (1.66%) Python
2 3 (1.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.66%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 224 (74.42%) Security Cleared
2 78 (25.91%) SC Cleared
3 77 (25.58%) DV Cleared
4 27 (8.97%) Degree
5 24 (7.97%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (7.64%) CCNP
7 13 (4.32%) CCIE
8 10 (3.32%) CCNA
9 7 (2.33%) JNCIS
10 4 (1.33%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.33%) CCIE Security
10 4 (1.33%) CISSP
10 4 (1.33%) JNCIA
11 3 (1.00%) CCIE Data Center
12 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.33%) CCDP
12 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.33%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.98%) SLA
2 4 (1.33%) NCSC
3 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.33%) GDPR
3 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (8.64%) Endace
2 10 (3.32%) Terraform
3 7 (2.33%) Ansible
3 7 (2.33%) FortiGate
4 4 (1.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.33%) NetMRI
5 1 (0.33%) SCCM
5 1 (0.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 115 (38.21%) Cisco
2 89 (29.57%) Juniper
3 40 (13.29%) F5
4 20 (6.64%) Palo Alto
5 17 (5.65%) Fortinet
6 10 (3.32%) SolarWinds
7 7 (2.33%) Microsoft
8 6 (1.99%) Aruba
9 5 (1.66%) Genesys
9 5 (1.66%) VMware
10 4 (1.33%) Google
10 4 (1.33%) Splunk
11 3 (1.00%) Arista
11 3 (1.00%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.00%) HP
11 3 (1.00%) Meraki
11 3 (1.00%) New Relic
11 3 (1.00%) Nokia
12 2 (0.66%) CA
12 2 (0.66%) Zscaler