Network Architect Jobs in London

Network Architect
England > London

The median Network Architect salary in London is £90,000 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 380 491 586
Rank change year-on-year +111 +95 +226
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Architect 12 21 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.096% 0.088% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.094% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £81,750 £54,150 £59,576
25th Percentile £86,063 £64,875 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +7.14% -30.00%
75th Percentile £100,625 £80,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £83,500 £111,000
England median annual salary £67,000 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.90% +6.15% -21.21%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

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

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,289 22,453 31,519
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.39% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,829 16,734 23,288
10th Percentile £41,200 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,143 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Network Architect in London

Network Architect
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Network Architect in London

Network Architect
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Architect within the London 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
Central London - 3 £90,000 - 1
Network Architect
England

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

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 London region featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 10 (83.33%) Firewall
3 8 (66.67%) Data Centre
4 7 (58.33%) F5
4 7 (58.33%) SD-WAN
4 7 (58.33%) WAN
4 7 (58.33%) Cisco
4 7 (58.33%) CCNP
4 7 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (58.33%) Network Security
5 6 (50.00%) Public Cloud
5 6 (50.00%) FortiGate
5 6 (50.00%) GCP
6 5 (41.67%) Terraform
6 5 (41.67%) LAN
7 4 (33.33%) Python
7 4 (33.33%) VPN
7 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
7 4 (33.33%) AWS
7 4 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
7 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
7 4 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
8 3 (25.00%) Meraki
8 3 (25.00%) Ansible
8 3 (25.00%) DevOps
8 3 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 3 (25.00%) VMware NSX

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 1 (8.33%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) GCP
3 4 (33.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) Firewall
2 7 (58.33%) Network Security
2 7 (58.33%) SD-WAN
2 7 (58.33%) WAN
3 5 (41.67%) LAN
4 4 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (33.33%) VPN
5 3 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (25.00%) DNS
5 3 (25.00%) Ethernet
5 3 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (25.00%) MPLS
6 2 (16.67%) BGP
6 2 (16.67%) BIG-IP
6 2 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (16.67%) Wireless
6 2 (16.67%) WLAN
7 1 (8.33%) OSPF
7 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
7 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 6 (50.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Due Diligence
2 3 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) High Availability
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (16.67%) Observability
3 2 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) CCNP
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) CCIE
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) CCNA
4 1 (8.33%) CCSA
4 1 (8.33%) JNCIE
4 1 (8.33%) JNCIP
4 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) COBIT
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 5 (41.67%) Terraform
3 3 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco
1 7 (58.33%) F5
2 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 3 (25.00%) Blue Coat
3 3 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (25.00%) Google
3 3 (25.00%) Meraki
3 3 (25.00%) VMware
4 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 2 (16.67%) Riverbed
4 2 (16.67%) Zscaler
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft