Network Security Architect Jobs in England

Network Security Architect
UK > England

The median Network Security Architect salary in England is £116,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 687 814 916
Rank change year-on-year +127 +102 +211
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Architect 6 9 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.010% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.011% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 1
10th Percentile £70,000 - -
25th Percentile £86,875 £57,500 £93,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £116,250 £60,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +93.75% -38.46% -2.50%
75th Percentile £142,500 £65,000 £101,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £110,000 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +83.33% -25.00% -3.03%

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 45,134 81,676 80,812
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 94.55% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,494 60,830 51,454
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,126 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Network Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Architect in England

Network Security Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Network Security Architect in England

Network Security Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Security Architect in England

Network Security 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 Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London - 3 £135,000 - 2
Midlands +64 2 £97,500 - 1
West Midlands +48 2 £97,500 - 1
North of England +39 1 £62,500 +4.17%
North West -7 1 £62,500 +4.17%
Network Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Network Security 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 Security Architect in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) CCNP
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 4 (66.67%) VPN
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) CISSP
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Route 53
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) TACACS
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) GitOps
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment

Network Security 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 (16.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Route 53
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) VPN
1 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 2 (33.33%) TACACS
4 1 (16.67%) BGP
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (16.67%) MPLS
4 1 (16.67%) OSPF
4 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (16.67%) VLAN
4 1 (16.67%) VoIP
4 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) GitOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CCNP
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) CISSP
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (16.67%) CCIE
4 1 (16.67%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Aruba
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Meraki
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto