Network Architecture Job Trends in the South East

Network Architecture
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Network Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 281 247
Rank change year-on-year +15 -34 +163
Permanent jobs citing Network Architecture 15 34 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.16% 0.30% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.37% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 23
10th Percentile £55,500 £56,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% - -
75th Percentile £63,250 £66,250 £75,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Network Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,947 9,151 7,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 86.19% 81.44% 93.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,658 4,760 4,966
10th Percentile £27,187 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.50%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Network Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Network Architecture job vacancy trend in the South East

Network Architecture
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Network Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Network Architecture

Network Architecture
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Architecture in the South East over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Architecture in the South East

Network Architecture
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Architecture within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
Thames Valley +12 5 £63,750 -20.31% 4
Hampshire +25 3 £59,500 -4.80% 4
East Sussex +9 3 £59,000 -
Kent +7 2 - -
Berkshire -6 2 £57,500 -28.13% 2
Middlesex - 2 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £83,750 - 2
Buckinghamshire +4 1 - -
Network Architecture
England

Network Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) FactoryTalk
1 1 (6.67%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) AutoCAD
1 1 (6.67%) EPLAN
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) PaaS
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (20.00%) IaaS
3 3 (20.00%) Mimecast
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 7 (46.67%) VPN
3 5 (33.33%) Network Security
4 4 (26.67%) LAN
4 4 (26.67%) WAN
5 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (13.33%) HTTP
6 2 (13.33%) Junos
6 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
7 1 (6.67%) BGP
7 1 (6.67%) Modbus
7 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Snyk
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Design Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Electrical Design Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Electrical Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Field Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Network Field Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Network Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) SCADA
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) VMS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) CRM
4 2 (13.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Information Security
4 2 (13.33%) Network Design
4 2 (13.33%) OWASP
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
4 2 (13.33%) SEO
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Static Application Security Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (20.00%) CCNA
2 3 (20.00%) CCNP
2 3 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (20.00%) ISSEP
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (20.00%) SSCP
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) JNCIA
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) CCIE
4 1 (6.67%) CISSP
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GRC
2 1 (6.67%) IEC 61508
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) CASB
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Qualys
3 3 (20.00%) Forcepoint
3 3 (20.00%) Juniper
4 2 (13.33%) Checkmarx
4 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (6.67%) Aruba
5 1 (6.67%) HP
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.67%) Rockwell
5 1 (6.67%) Siemens
5 1 (6.67%) VMware