Network Architecture Contracts

Network Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Network Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Network Architecture over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 514 616
Rank change year-on-year +85 +102 -47
Contract jobs citing Network Architecture 146 169 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.34% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 110 119
10th Percentile £428 £425 £323
25th Percentile £504 £493 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £546
Median % change year-on-year - +9.89% +9.20%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £638
90th Percentile £775 £723 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £475
% change year-on-year - +26.32% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 14
10th Percentile - - £28.41
25th Percentile - £14.00 £30.87
Median hourly rate £14.00 £20.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -55.56% -9.69%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £51.19
90th Percentile - £69.00 £62.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.00 £17.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -17.65% -62.22% +13.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Network Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Network Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Architecture in the UK

Network Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Architecture in the UK

Network Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Architecture over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Architecture in the UK

Network Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Architecture in the UK

Network Architecture
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +72 132 £600 - 53
UK excluding London +49 90 £600 - 28
South East +27 47 £590 +11.75% 5
Work from Home +78 39 £575 -9.70% 30
London +72 36 £559 -6.88% 25
Midlands +20 23 £624 -8.31% 5
West Midlands +12 16 £675 -0.74% 3
South West +3 10 £650 - 2
North of England +27 9 £610 +21.09% 14
East Midlands +11 7 £600 -15.49% 2
North East - 7 - - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £610 - 5
East of England +5 1 £575 - 1

Network Architecture
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 3 (2.05%) nginx
2 2 (1.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (6.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 28 (19.18%) Azure
2 26 (17.81%) AWS
3 8 (5.48%) SaaS
4 7 (4.79%) GCP
5 6 (4.11%) Cloudflare
5 6 (4.11%) IaaS
5 6 (4.11%) PaaS
6 5 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (3.42%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.74%) Azure API Management
7 4 (2.74%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.05%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.05%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.68%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 53 (36.30%) Firewall
1 53 (36.30%) WAN
2 33 (22.60%) VPN
3 32 (21.92%) MPLS
4 30 (20.55%) LAN
4 30 (20.55%) Network Security
5 25 (17.12%) SD-WAN
6 18 (12.33%) DNS
7 17 (11.64%) 5G
8 16 (10.96%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (10.27%) WLAN
10 12 (8.22%) Radio Access Network
10 12 (8.22%) TCP/IP
11 11 (7.53%) BGP
11 11 (7.53%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (6.85%) 4G
12 10 (6.85%) Internet
12 10 (6.85%) LTE
13 9 (6.16%) DHCP
13 9 (6.16%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.74%) Power BI
1 4 (2.74%) Tableau
2 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.74%) JIRA
2 3 (2.05%) Git
2 3 (2.05%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) Maven
3 1 (0.68%) Selenium
3 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (24.66%) Telecoms
2 25 (17.12%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.59%) Finance
4 11 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.16%) Financial Institution
5 9 (6.16%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.79%) Banking
7 6 (4.11%) Multimedia
7 6 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.42%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.05%) Law
9 3 (2.05%) Mandarin Language
9 3 (2.05%) Marketing
10 2 (1.37%) Automotive
10 2 (1.37%) Electronics
10 2 (1.37%) Military
11 1 (0.68%) Aviation
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (36.30%) Architect
2 40 (27.40%) Network Engineer
3 37 (25.34%) Network Architect
4 13 (8.90%) Lead
4 13 (8.90%) Senior
5 8 (5.48%) Security Architect
6 7 (4.79%) Consultant
6 7 (4.79%) Senior Network Engineer
7 6 (4.11%) Azure Architect
7 6 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.42%) Analyst
8 5 (3.42%) Design Engineer
8 5 (3.42%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (3.42%) Lead Architect
8 5 (3.42%) Security Engineer
8 5 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.74%) Project Manager
9 4 (2.74%) Radio Engineer
9 4 (2.74%) Security Manager
9 4 (2.74%) Technical Design Authority
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.22%) Web Services
2 3 (2.05%) .NET
2 3 (2.05%) YAML
3 2 (1.37%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.68%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.68%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.18%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.85%) Public Cloud
3 9 (6.16%) PKI
4 7 (4.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.79%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.74%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.05%) CCTV
6 3 (2.05%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.05%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.05%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.37%) NHS
7 2 (1.37%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.68%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.53%) Windows
2 5 (3.42%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.74%) Linux
4 2 (1.37%) Unix
5 1 (0.68%) Android
5 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (14.38%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (13.01%) Computer Science
2 19 (13.01%) Zero Trust
3 18 (12.33%) Network Design
4 16 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (9.59%) Analytics
6 14 (9.59%) Programme Management
6 14 (9.59%) Project Delivery
7 13 (8.90%) Agile
7 13 (8.90%) Cloud Security
7 13 (8.90%) Migration
8 11 (7.53%) Roadmaps
8 11 (7.53%) Security Architecture
9 10 (6.85%) Architectural Design
9 10 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (6.85%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (6.16%) Data Analytics
10 9 (6.16%) High Availability
10 9 (6.16%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.59%) Python
2 5 (3.42%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.74%) Java
4 3 (2.05%) C#
4 3 (2.05%) PHP
4 3 (2.05%) Ruby
5 1 (0.68%) Bash
5 1 (0.68%) C
Qualifications
1 34 (23.29%) Security Cleared
2 29 (19.86%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (17.12%) SC Cleared
4 24 (16.44%) Degree
5 20 (13.70%) CCIE
6 16 (10.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (10.27%) CCNP
8 14 (9.59%) DV Cleared
9 9 (6.16%) CCIE Data Center
10 6 (4.11%) CCNA
11 5 (3.42%) Azure Certification
12 3 (2.05%) BC Cleared
12 3 (2.05%) CISSP
12 3 (2.05%) PMI Certification
12 3 (2.05%) PMP
13 2 (1.37%) CISM
13 2 (1.37%) GCED
13 2 (1.37%) GIAC
13 2 (1.37%) GSEC
13 2 (1.37%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.74%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.05%) GDPR
3 3 (2.05%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) COBIT
4 1 (0.68%) GRC
4 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
4 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.48%) VMware NSX
3 5 (3.42%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.74%) Docker
4 4 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.05%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.37%) Squid
7 1 (0.68%) iptables
Systems Management
1 9 (6.16%) Ansible
2 8 (5.48%) Terraform
3 4 (2.74%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.05%) vCenter Server
4 3 (2.05%) vRealize
5 2 (1.37%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.37%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.68%) CASB
6 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 46 (31.51%) Cisco
2 27 (18.49%) F5
3 22 (15.07%) Microsoft
4 19 (13.01%) SolarWinds
5 17 (11.64%) Palo Alto
6 16 (10.96%) CheckPoint
6 16 (10.96%) Juniper
6 16 (10.96%) VMware
6 16 (10.96%) Zscaler
7 15 (10.27%) Fortinet
8 7 (4.79%) Meraki
9 6 (4.11%) Citrix
9 6 (4.11%) Empirix
9 6 (4.11%) NetScout
10 5 (3.42%) Aruba
10 5 (3.42%) Google
10 5 (3.42%) Infoblox
10 5 (3.42%) Symantec
11 4 (2.74%) Nokia
12 3 (2.05%) HP