Network Architect Jobs

Network Architect
UK

The median Network Architect salary in the UK is £66,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 June 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 759 752
Rank change year-on-year +188 -7 +228
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Architect 158 149 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.15% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 126 112 109
10th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £60,657
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -15.15%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -9.72%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 50,763 102,595 85,167
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 94.88% 91.22%
Number of salaries quoted 26,743 72,457 55,296
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,524 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +5.94%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Architect.

Salary trend for Network Architect in the UK

Network Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Architect over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Architect in the UK

Network Architect
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +173 142 £65,000 -7.14% 55
UK excluding London +179 120 £65,000 -7.14% 53
Midlands +132 50 £65,000 - 5
West Midlands +109 50 £65,000 - 2
South East +66 40 £65,000 -7.14% 21
Work from Home +70 17 £68,750 -19.12% 33
North of England +39 13 £62,500 -26.47% 6
London +112 12 £90,000 +20.00% 10
North West -8 10 £62,500 -3.85% 1
East of England +44 7 £57,500 -11.88% 4
Scotland - 4 - -
South West +107 3 £60,500 +16.35% 12
North East +51 3 £60,000 -29.41% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £110,000 - 3
Yorkshire +43 2 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2025, Network Architect 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 permanent job ads featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 119 (75.32%) Security Cleared
2 116 (73.42%) SC Cleared
3 106 (67.09%) Cisco
4 100 (63.29%) WAN
5 72 (45.57%) Juniper
6 62 (39.24%) LAN
7 42 (26.58%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (26.58%) CCNP
7 42 (26.58%) Azure
8 41 (25.95%) Network Management
9 39 (24.68%) Firewall
10 37 (23.42%) Technical Leadership
11 36 (22.78%) F5
11 36 (22.78%) Public Cloud
12 35 (22.15%) GCP
13 34 (21.52%) Cisco ISE
13 34 (21.52%) SD-WAN
13 34 (21.52%) VMware
14 33 (20.89%) CCNA
14 33 (20.89%) MPLS
14 33 (20.89%) Ethernet
14 33 (20.89%) Terraform
14 33 (20.89%) Data Centre
15 32 (20.25%) FortiGate
16 28 (17.72%) Python
16 28 (17.72%) CheckPoint
16 28 (17.72%) BGP
17 26 (16.46%) JSON
17 26 (16.46%) Blue Coat
17 26 (16.46%) Google

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 6 (3.80%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.63%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 42 (26.58%) Azure
2 35 (22.15%) GCP
3 13 (8.23%) AWS
4 6 (3.80%) OpenShift
5 3 (1.90%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.27%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.63%) SaaS
7 1 (0.63%) Serverless
7 1 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 100 (63.29%) WAN
2 62 (39.24%) LAN
3 39 (24.68%) Firewall
4 34 (21.52%) Cisco ISE
4 34 (21.52%) SD-WAN
5 33 (20.89%) Ethernet
5 33 (20.89%) MPLS
6 28 (17.72%) BGP
7 26 (16.46%) Junos
8 22 (13.92%) IPsec
8 22 (13.92%) Network Security
9 18 (11.39%) Cisco IOS
10 14 (8.86%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (8.23%) SDH
11 13 (8.23%) VPN
12 12 (7.59%) ATM
12 12 (7.59%) Frame Relay
13 9 (5.70%) VoIP
14 8 (5.06%) DNS
14 8 (5.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (3.80%) GitLab
General
1 26 (16.46%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.66%) Finance
3 14 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.53%) Advertising
5 2 (1.27%) Law
5 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.63%) Automotive
6 1 (0.63%) Banking
6 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.63%) Local Government
6 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.46%) JSON
2 2 (1.27%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 36 (22.78%) Public Cloud
2 33 (20.89%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.80%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.53%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.27%) PKI
5 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.27%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.63%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.63%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.43%) Linux
1 7 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (25.95%) Network Management
2 37 (23.42%) Technical Leadership
3 26 (16.46%) Due Diligence
4 24 (15.19%) Network Design
4 24 (15.19%) Requirements Gathering
5 14 (8.86%) Customer Requirements
6 10 (6.33%) Roadmaps
7 9 (5.70%) DevOps
7 9 (5.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (5.70%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (5.70%) Requirements Management
7 9 (5.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (5.70%) Thought Leadership
8 8 (5.06%) Configuration Management
8 8 (5.06%) Observability
8 8 (5.06%) Product Roadmap
8 8 (5.06%) Test Automation
9 7 (4.43%) Mentoring
9 7 (4.43%) Presales
9 7 (4.43%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.72%) Python
2 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.63%) Bash
3 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 119 (75.32%) Security Cleared
2 116 (73.42%) SC Cleared
3 42 (26.58%) CCNP
3 42 (26.58%) Cisco Certification
4 33 (20.89%) CCNA
5 22 (13.92%) JNCIS
6 11 (6.96%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.16%) JNCIA
8 4 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.53%) Degree
9 3 (1.90%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.90%) CCIE
10 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.63%) CCSA
10 1 (0.63%) CISSP
10 1 (0.63%) JNCIE
10 1 (0.63%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.13%) SLA
2 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.90%) NIST
3 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.63%) COBIT
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
System Software
1 26 (16.46%) VMware NSX
2 7 (4.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (20.89%) Terraform
2 32 (20.25%) FortiGate
3 26 (16.46%) Ansible
4 6 (3.80%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.90%) CASB
Vendors
1 106 (67.09%) Cisco
2 72 (45.57%) Juniper
3 36 (22.78%) F5
4 34 (21.52%) VMware
5 28 (17.72%) CheckPoint
6 26 (16.46%) Blue Coat
6 26 (16.46%) Google
7 12 (7.59%) Fortinet
8 7 (4.43%) Aruba
8 7 (4.43%) Red Hat
8 7 (4.43%) SevOne
9 5 (3.16%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.53%) Meraki
10 4 (2.53%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.90%) Zscaler
12 2 (1.27%) Riverbed
13 1 (0.63%) Avaya
13 1 (0.63%) Extreme Networks
13 1 (0.63%) Mitel
13 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds
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