Network Architect Contracts in London

Network Architect
England > London

The median Network Architect daily rate in London is £563 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 361 427 502
Rank change year-on-year +66 +75 -73
Contract jobs requiring a Network Architect 29 66 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.27% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 41 70
10th Percentile £484 £538 £510
25th Percentile £513 £581 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £684 £715 £734
90th Percentile £736 £743 £875
England median daily rate £650 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +23.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,306 24,641 36,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 95.23% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,788 17,910 26,919
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.63 £22.94
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.68 £49.92
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.63
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Network Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architect in London

Network Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Network Architect in London

Network Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Network Architect in London

Network Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Architect in London

Network Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +36 10 £575 +2.22%
West London - 4 £525 -
Network Architect
England

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

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 London region featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 16 (55.17%) Cisco
2 14 (48.28%) Firewall
3 12 (41.38%) Azure
4 11 (37.93%) WAN
5 10 (34.48%) LAN
5 10 (34.48%) Data Centre
6 9 (31.03%) SD-WAN
7 8 (27.59%) Roadmaps
7 8 (27.59%) Finance
7 8 (27.59%) Load Balancing
8 7 (24.14%) Network Security
8 7 (24.14%) DNS
8 7 (24.14%) Palo Alto
8 7 (24.14%) AWS
8 7 (24.14%) Network Architecture
9 6 (20.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
9 6 (20.69%) Migration
10 5 (17.24%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (17.24%) Juniper
10 5 (17.24%) MPLS
10 5 (17.24%) Windows
10 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
10 5 (17.24%) GCP
10 5 (17.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (13.79%) Terraform
11 4 (13.79%) Ansible
11 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
11 4 (13.79%) Aruba
11 4 (13.79%) FortiGate

Network Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (10.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
3 5 (17.24%) GCP
4 4 (13.79%) SaaS
5 3 (10.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.90%) Datadog
6 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 14 (48.28%) Firewall
2 11 (37.93%) WAN
3 10 (34.48%) LAN
4 9 (31.03%) SD-WAN
5 7 (24.14%) DNS
5 7 (24.14%) Network Security
6 5 (17.24%) MPLS
6 5 (17.24%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (13.79%) HTTP
7 4 (13.79%) HTTPS
7 4 (13.79%) IPsec
7 4 (13.79%) Wireless
8 3 (10.34%) WLAN
9 2 (6.90%) BGP
9 2 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (6.90%) EIGRP
9 2 (6.90%) OSPF
9 2 (6.90%) SNMP
9 2 (6.90%) VoIP
9 2 (6.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 8 (27.59%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.45%) Police
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) SAML
2 2 (6.90%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Data Centre
2 6 (20.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (17.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 3 (10.34%) PKI
5 2 (6.90%) IVR
6 1 (3.45%) NHS
6 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Linux
3 2 (6.90%) Unix
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Load Balancing
1 8 (27.59%) Roadmaps
2 7 (24.14%) Network Architecture
3 6 (20.69%) Migration
4 4 (13.79%) Agile
4 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
4 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
4 4 (13.79%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (10.34%) Business Case
5 3 (10.34%) DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (10.34%) Kanban
5 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.34%) RBAC
5 3 (10.34%) Scrum
5 3 (10.34%) SIEM
5 3 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (6.90%) Network Design
6 2 (6.90%) Performance Management
6 2 (6.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) CCIE
1 3 (10.34%) CCNP
1 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) GDPR
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Ansible
1 4 (13.79%) FortiGate
1 4 (13.79%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) NetMRI
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Cisco
2 7 (24.14%) Palo Alto
3 5 (17.24%) Juniper
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.79%) Aruba
4 4 (13.79%) Genesys
4 4 (13.79%) SolarWinds
5 3 (10.34%) Arista
5 3 (10.34%) Dynatrace
5 3 (10.34%) F5
5 3 (10.34%) Google
5 3 (10.34%) New Relic
6 2 (6.90%) BigPanda
6 2 (6.90%) HP
6 2 (6.90%) Meraki
6 2 (6.90%) Splunk
7 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.45%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.45%) Riverbed
7 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow