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 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 303 481 605
Rank change year-on-year +178 +124 -73
Contract jobs requiring a Network Architect 320 240 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.41% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.43% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 139 173
10th Percentile £463 £500 £500
25th Percentile £525 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £725 £744 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 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 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 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%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 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 +187 303 £650 +4.00% 25
UK excluding London +175 272 £650 +4.00% 18
South East +88 150 £650 +12.80% 9
South West +74 75 £650 - 3
Work from Home +88 73 £573 -10.20% 29
London +71 28 £550 -15.38% 7
Midlands +43 25 £600 +17.07% 2
West Midlands +36 21 £463 -9.66%
North of England +31 13 £575 - 2
North West +24 8 £688 +12.24% 1
East of England +17 8 £563 -27.42% 1
East Midlands +21 4 £620 +19.47% 2
Yorkshire +20 3 £475 -17.39%
North East - 2 £531 - 1
Scotland - 2 £613 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 226 (70.63%) Security Cleared
2 157 (49.06%) WAN
3 127 (39.69%) LAN
4 125 (39.06%) Network Management
5 124 (38.75%) Cisco
6 85 (26.56%) Juniper
7 82 (25.63%) SC Cleared
8 74 (23.13%) DV Cleared
9 59 (18.44%) Public Sector
10 54 (16.88%) Customer Requirements
10 54 (16.88%) Data Centre
10 54 (16.88%) Firewall
11 51 (15.94%) MPLS
12 47 (14.69%) Network Design
13 44 (13.75%) F5
14 43 (13.44%) Finance
15 40 (12.50%) Telecoms
15 40 (12.50%) SIEM
15 40 (12.50%) SD-WAN
16 39 (12.19%) BGP
17 37 (11.56%) Technical Leadership
18 36 (11.25%) VPN
19 35 (10.94%) Wi-Fi
20 34 (10.63%) Cisco Firepower
21 33 (10.31%) Zero Trust
21 33 (10.31%) Network Architecture
22 32 (10.00%) SaaS
23 31 (9.69%) Business Strategy
24 28 (8.75%) Systems Engineering
24 28 (8.75%) Agile

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 5 (1.56%) Confluence
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 32 (10.00%) SaaS
2 28 (8.75%) Cloud Computing
3 27 (8.44%) IaaS
3 27 (8.44%) PaaS
4 20 (6.25%) Azure
5 18 (5.63%) AWS
6 8 (2.50%) GCP
7 4 (1.25%) GitHub
8 3 (0.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.94%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.63%) Datadog
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.63%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.63%) Route 53
9 2 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.31%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.31%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 157 (49.06%) WAN
2 127 (39.69%) LAN
3 54 (16.88%) Firewall
4 51 (15.94%) MPLS
5 40 (12.50%) SD-WAN
6 39 (12.19%) BGP
7 36 (11.25%) VPN
8 35 (10.94%) Wi-Fi
9 34 (10.63%) Cisco Firepower
10 26 (8.13%) SSL
11 22 (6.88%) Network Security
12 11 (3.44%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (3.44%) WLAN
13 10 (3.13%) Wireless
14 9 (2.81%) IPsec
14 9 (2.81%) Junos
14 9 (2.81%) Unified Communications
15 8 (2.50%) DNS
16 7 (2.19%) OSPF
17 5 (1.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (0.94%) JIRA
3 2 (0.63%) GitLab
General
1 59 (18.44%) Public Sector
2 43 (13.44%) Finance
3 40 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 15 (4.69%) Social Skills
5 6 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (0.94%) Banking
6 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.63%) Legal
8 1 (0.31%) Advertising
8 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.31%) Law
8 1 (0.31%) Local Government
8 1 (0.31%) Marketing
8 1 (0.31%) Military
8 1 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.31%) Police
8 1 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.56%) JSON
2 3 (0.94%) LDAP
2 3 (0.94%) SAML
2 3 (0.94%) Web Services
3 1 (0.31%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.88%) Data Centre
2 24 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.56%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.94%) Operational Technology
6 3 (0.94%) PKI
6 3 (0.94%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.63%) IVR
7 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.63%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.31%) CMDB
8 1 (0.31%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.31%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.31%) NHS
8 1 (0.31%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.88%) Windows
2 5 (1.56%) Linux
3 2 (0.63%) Unix
3 2 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (39.06%) Network Management
2 54 (16.88%) Customer Requirements
3 47 (14.69%) Network Design
4 40 (12.50%) SIEM
5 37 (11.56%) Technical Leadership
6 33 (10.31%) Network Architecture
6 33 (10.31%) Zero Trust
7 31 (9.69%) Business Strategy
8 28 (8.75%) Agile
8 28 (8.75%) Presales
8 28 (8.75%) Systems Engineering
9 27 (8.44%) Open Source
9 27 (8.44%) Strategic Thinking
10 21 (6.56%) Project Delivery
10 21 (6.56%) Project Management
11 19 (5.94%) Requirements Management
12 16 (5.00%) Migration
13 15 (4.69%) Roadmaps
14 13 (4.06%) ITIL
15 11 (3.44%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (1.88%) Python
2 3 (0.94%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.63%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 226 (70.63%) Security Cleared
2 82 (25.63%) SC Cleared
3 74 (23.13%) DV Cleared
4 28 (8.75%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (8.13%) Degree
6 25 (7.81%) CCNP
7 16 (5.00%) CCIE
8 10 (3.13%) CCNA
9 7 (2.19%) JNCIS
10 5 (1.56%) CISSP
11 4 (1.25%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.25%) CCIE Security
11 4 (1.25%) JNCIA
12 3 (0.94%) CCIE Data Center
13 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.31%) CCDP
13 1 (0.31%) CCSP
13 1 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.31%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.69%) SLA
2 4 (1.25%) NCSC
3 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.31%) GDPR
3 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.94%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (7.81%) Endace
2 10 (3.13%) Terraform
3 8 (2.50%) Ansible
4 7 (2.19%) FortiGate
5 4 (1.25%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.31%) NetMRI
6 1 (0.31%) SCCM
6 1 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 124 (38.75%) Cisco
2 85 (26.56%) Juniper
3 44 (13.75%) F5
4 19 (5.94%) Palo Alto
5 18 (5.63%) Fortinet
6 10 (3.13%) SolarWinds
7 7 (2.19%) Microsoft
8 5 (1.56%) Aruba
8 5 (1.56%) Genesys
8 5 (1.56%) Meraki
8 5 (1.56%) VMware
8 5 (1.56%) Zscaler
9 4 (1.25%) Google
9 4 (1.25%) Splunk
10 3 (0.94%) Arista
10 3 (0.94%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.94%) HP
10 3 (0.94%) New Relic
11 2 (0.63%) BigPanda
11 2 (0.63%) ServiceNow