Network Architect Jobs in the Midlands

Network Architect
England > Midlands

The median Network Architect salary in the Midlands is £65,000 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 214 315 305
Rank change year-on-year +101 -10 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Architect 48 7 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.71% 0.056% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.059% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 37 0 10
10th Percentile £62,500 - £60,500
25th Percentile - - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.24%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £70,313
90th Percentile £80,000 - £72,500
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
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 6,261 11,918 8,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 94.53% 89.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,620 8,778 4,580
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,930 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architect in the Midlands

Network Architect
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Network Architect in the Midlands

Network Architect
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Network Architect in the Midlands

Network Architect
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Architect within the Midlands 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 - 36
Network Architect
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 45 (93.75%) Security Cleared
2 43 (89.58%) SC Cleared
3 40 (83.33%) Cisco
4 39 (81.25%) WAN
5 38 (79.17%) Juniper
6 26 (54.17%) Network Management
7 16 (33.33%) MPLS
8 15 (31.25%) BGP
8 15 (31.25%) CCNP
8 15 (31.25%) LAN
8 15 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (29.17%) JNCIS
9 14 (29.17%) CCNA
9 14 (29.17%) IPsec
10 13 (27.08%) Network Design
10 13 (27.08%) Junos
11 12 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
12 11 (22.92%) SLA
13 9 (18.75%) Finance
13 9 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
14 7 (14.58%) ATM
14 7 (14.58%) SDH
14 7 (14.58%) Frame Relay
15 6 (12.50%) VoIP
15 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
16 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
17 3 (6.25%) AWS
17 3 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
17 3 (6.25%) Network Security

Network Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.25%) AWS
2 2 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.08%) Cloudflare
3 1 (2.08%) SaaS
3 1 (2.08%) Serverless
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (81.25%) WAN
2 16 (33.33%) MPLS
3 15 (31.25%) BGP
3 15 (31.25%) LAN
4 14 (29.17%) IPsec
5 13 (27.08%) Junos
6 12 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (14.58%) ATM
7 7 (14.58%) Frame Relay
7 7 (14.58%) SDH
8 6 (12.50%) VoIP
9 3 (6.25%) Network Security
10 1 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (2.08%) Ethernet
10 1 (2.08%) Firewall
10 1 (2.08%) OSPF
10 1 (2.08%) TACACS
10 1 (2.08%) VLAN
10 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (2.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
General
1 9 (18.75%) Finance
2 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
1 1 (2.08%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
1 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) Network Management
2 15 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
3 13 (27.08%) Network Design
4 9 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (4.17%) Configuration Management
6 2 (4.17%) Migration
6 2 (4.17%) Network Architecture
6 2 (4.17%) Service Delivery
7 1 (2.08%) Agile
7 1 (2.08%) B2B
7 1 (2.08%) Business Continuity
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Security
7 1 (2.08%) Design Patterns
7 1 (2.08%) ITIL
7 1 (2.08%) Roadmaps
7 1 (2.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (2.08%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (2.08%) Technical Debt
7 1 (2.08%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 45 (93.75%) Security Cleared
2 43 (89.58%) SC Cleared
3 15 (31.25%) CCNP
3 15 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (29.17%) CCNA
4 14 (29.17%) JNCIS
5 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.92%) SLA
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 40 (83.33%) Cisco
2 38 (79.17%) Juniper
3 1 (2.08%) Aruba
3 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.08%) Meraki
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.08%) Mitel
3 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.08%) SevOne
3 1 (2.08%) VMware