Network Architect Contracts in London

Network Architect
England > London

The median Network Architect daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 411 511
Rank change year-on-year +41 +100 -57
Contract jobs requiring a Network Architect 30 71 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.30% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 46 66
10th Percentile £507 £538 £485
25th Percentile £513 £600 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.21%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £750
90th Percentile £713 £743 £875
England median daily rate £650 £625 £665
% change year-on-year +4.00% -6.02% +25.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

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 12 June 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 12 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
Central London +39 9 £575 -12.38%
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 12 June 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 14 (46.67%) Cisco
2 11 (36.67%) WAN
3 10 (33.33%) Firewall
3 10 (33.33%) Finance
4 9 (30.00%) Azure
4 9 (30.00%) Data Centre
5 8 (26.67%) Roadmaps
6 7 (23.33%) SD-WAN
6 7 (23.33%) Palo Alto
6 7 (23.33%) Migration
6 7 (23.33%) DNS
6 7 (23.33%) LAN
7 6 (20.00%) Network Architecture
8 5 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (16.67%) GitLab
8 5 (16.67%) Windows
8 5 (16.67%) Juniper
8 5 (16.67%) Load Balancing
8 5 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
9 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
9 4 (13.33%) Network Security
9 4 (13.33%) Wireless
9 4 (13.33%) IPsec
9 4 (13.33%) Agile
9 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
9 4 (13.33%) Linux
9 4 (13.33%) HTTPS
9 4 (13.33%) HTTP
9 4 (13.33%) GCP
9 4 (13.33%) Ansible

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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) GCP
2 4 (13.33%) SaaS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.67%) Datadog
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) WAN
2 10 (33.33%) Firewall
3 7 (23.33%) DNS
3 7 (23.33%) LAN
3 7 (23.33%) SD-WAN
4 4 (13.33%) HTTP
4 4 (13.33%) HTTPS
4 4 (13.33%) IPsec
4 4 (13.33%) Network Security
4 4 (13.33%) Wireless
5 3 (10.00%) WLAN
6 2 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (6.67%) MPLS
6 2 (6.67%) NX-OS
6 2 (6.67%) SNMP
6 2 (6.67%) VoIP
6 2 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (3.33%) DHCP
7 1 (3.33%) HSRP
7 1 (3.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) GitLab
2 4 (13.33%) JIRA
3 3 (10.00%) Git
4 2 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.33%) Police
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) JSON
1 3 (10.00%) REST
1 3 (10.00%) SAML
1 3 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (10.00%) PKI
5 1 (3.33%) IVR
5 1 (3.33%) NHS
5 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Unix
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Roadmaps
2 7 (23.33%) Migration
3 6 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 5 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 5 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (13.33%) Agile
5 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.00%) Business Case
6 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (10.00%) Kanban
6 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.00%) RBAC
6 3 (10.00%) Scrum
6 3 (10.00%) SIEM
6 3 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (10.00%) Workflow
7 2 (6.67%) Event Correlation
7 2 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (6.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) CCIE
1 3 (10.00%) CCNP
1 3 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Ansible
1 4 (13.33%) FortiGate
1 4 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) CSIRT
2 1 (3.33%) NetMRI
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Cisco
2 7 (23.33%) Palo Alto
3 5 (16.67%) Juniper
4 4 (13.33%) Aruba
5 3 (10.00%) Arista
5 3 (10.00%) Dynatrace
5 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (10.00%) New Relic
5 3 (10.00%) SolarWinds
6 2 (6.67%) BigPanda
6 2 (6.67%) Genesys
6 2 (6.67%) HP
6 2 (6.67%) Splunk
6 2 (6.67%) VMware
7 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.33%) Google
7 1 (3.33%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.33%) Meraki
7 1 (3.33%) Riverbed
7 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow