Network Architect Jobs in England

Network Architect
UK > England

The median Network Architect salary in England is £67,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 720 796
Rank change year-on-year +168 +76 +154
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Architect 132 122 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 108 85 60
10th Percentile £56,250 £49,300 £61,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +6.15% -21.21%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,750 £85,000 £72,625
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% -1.43% -15.15%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Network Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architect in England

Network Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Network Architect in England

Network Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Architect in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Architect in England

Network Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
West Midlands +105 48 £65,000 - 35
Midlands +101 48 £65,000 - 58
South East +61 36 £65,000 -7.14% 78
London +111 12 £90,000 +20.00% 23
North of England +34 10 £62,500 +4.17% 59
North West -4 8 £62,500 +4.17% 24
East of England +48 7 £57,500 -11.88% 41
Yorkshire +60 2 - - 27
North East - 2 - - 10
South West +110 1 - - 42
Network Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 across the England region featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 106 (80.30%) Security Cleared
2 103 (78.03%) SC Cleared
3 99 (75.00%) Cisco
4 93 (70.45%) WAN
5 70 (53.03%) Juniper
6 51 (38.64%) LAN
7 44 (33.33%) Network Management
8 35 (26.52%) Firewall
9 34 (25.76%) MPLS
10 32 (24.24%) Azure
11 31 (23.48%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (23.48%) CCNP
12 30 (22.73%) Cisco ISE
13 29 (21.97%) SD-WAN
13 29 (21.97%) VMware
14 28 (21.21%) Ethernet
14 28 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
14 28 (21.21%) Data Centre
15 26 (19.70%) BGP
15 26 (19.70%) F5
16 25 (18.94%) Public Cloud
16 25 (18.94%) FortiGate
17 24 (18.18%) GCP
18 23 (17.42%) Terraform
18 23 (17.42%) Network Design
18 23 (17.42%) Python
18 23 (17.42%) CCNA
18 23 (17.42%) CheckPoint
19 22 (16.67%) IPsec
19 22 (16.67%) JNCIS

Network Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (0.76%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.76%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.24%) Azure
2 24 (18.18%) GCP
3 7 (5.30%) AWS
4 2 (1.52%) Cloudflare
4 2 (1.52%) SaaS
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (0.76%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.76%) Serverless
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 93 (70.45%) WAN
2 51 (38.64%) LAN
3 35 (26.52%) Firewall
4 34 (25.76%) MPLS
5 30 (22.73%) Cisco ISE
6 29 (21.97%) SD-WAN
7 28 (21.21%) Ethernet
8 26 (19.70%) BGP
9 22 (16.67%) IPsec
10 21 (15.91%) Junos
11 18 (13.64%) Cisco IOS
12 11 (8.33%) Network Security
13 8 (6.06%) SDH
14 7 (5.30%) ATM
14 7 (5.30%) Frame Relay
14 7 (5.30%) VoIP
14 7 (5.30%) VPN
14 7 (5.30%) Wi-Fi
15 4 (3.03%) Wireless
16 3 (2.27%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.76%) GitLab
General
1 19 (14.39%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.36%) Finance
3 13 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.27%) Advertising
5 1 (0.76%) Automotive
5 1 (0.76%) Banking
5 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.91%) JSON
2 2 (1.52%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.21%) Data Centre
2 25 (18.94%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.52%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.76%) PKI
4 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.30%) Linux
1 7 (5.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.33%) Network Management
2 28 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
3 23 (17.42%) Network Design
4 21 (15.91%) Due Diligence
5 19 (14.39%) Requirements Gathering
6 13 (9.85%) Customer Requirements
7 9 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (6.06%) Configuration Management
8 8 (6.06%) Requirements Management
9 7 (5.30%) Performance Monitoring
9 7 (5.30%) Presales
9 7 (5.30%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (4.55%) Network Architecture
11 5 (3.79%) Roadmaps
11 5 (3.79%) Technology Strategy
12 4 (3.03%) DevOps
12 4 (3.03%) Network Virtualisation
12 4 (3.03%) Service Delivery
12 4 (3.03%) Zero Trust
13 3 (2.27%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.42%) Python
2 2 (1.52%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.76%) Bash
3 1 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 106 (80.30%) Security Cleared
2 103 (78.03%) SC Cleared
3 31 (23.48%) CCNP
3 31 (23.48%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (17.42%) CCNA
5 22 (16.67%) JNCIS
6 11 (8.33%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.27%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.27%) CCIE
8 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.52%) Degree
9 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.76%) CCSA
9 1 (0.76%) CISSP
9 1 (0.76%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.76%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.12%) SLA
2 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.52%) NIST
3 1 (0.76%) COBIT
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.76%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (15.91%) VMware NSX
2 7 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (18.94%) FortiGate
2 23 (17.42%) Terraform
3 21 (15.91%) Ansible
4 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 99 (75.00%) Cisco
2 70 (53.03%) Juniper
3 29 (21.97%) VMware
4 26 (19.70%) F5
5 23 (17.42%) CheckPoint
6 21 (15.91%) Blue Coat
6 21 (15.91%) Google
7 10 (7.58%) Fortinet
8 7 (5.30%) Red Hat
8 7 (5.30%) SevOne
9 6 (4.55%) Aruba
10 4 (3.03%) Meraki
11 3 (2.27%) Palo Alto
12 2 (1.52%) Microsoft
12 2 (1.52%) Riverbed
12 2 (1.52%) Zscaler
13 1 (0.76%) Avaya
13 1 (0.76%) Extreme Networks
13 1 (0.76%) Mitel