Network Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Architect salary in the UK excluding London 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 464 665 672
Rank change year-on-year +201 +7 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Architect 107 100 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 83 77 55
10th Percentile £56,250 £50,200 £61,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +6.15% -7.14%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £69,598
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £72,500
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Network Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architect in the UK excluding London

Network Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Network Architect in the UK excluding London

Network Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Network Architect in the UK excluding London

Network Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
West Midlands +105 48 £65,000 - 12
Midlands +101 48 £65,000 - 14
South East +61 36 £65,000 -7.14% 18
North of England +34 10 £62,500 +4.17% 9
North West -4 8 £62,500 +4.17% 1
East of England +48 7 £57,500 -11.88% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £110,000 - 2
Yorkshire +60 2 - - 6
North East - 2 - - 4
Scotland - 2 - - 1
South West +110 1 - - 12
Network Architect
UK

Network Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 85 (79.44%) Security Cleared
2 82 (76.64%) SC Cleared
3 74 (69.16%) Cisco
4 70 (65.42%) Juniper
5 68 (63.55%) WAN
6 44 (41.12%) Network Management
7 31 (28.97%) MPLS
8 28 (26.17%) LAN
9 26 (24.30%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (24.30%) CCNP
9 26 (24.30%) Technical Leadership
10 25 (23.36%) BGP
11 23 (21.50%) CCNA
11 23 (21.50%) Network Design
12 22 (20.56%) JNCIS
12 22 (20.56%) IPsec
13 21 (19.63%) Junos
14 19 (17.76%) Requirements Gathering
15 18 (16.82%) Cisco IOS
16 17 (15.89%) Social Skills
17 16 (14.95%) SLA
18 14 (13.08%) Finance
19 13 (12.15%) Customer Requirements
20 12 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
21 11 (10.28%) DV Cleared
22 9 (8.41%) Network Security
23 8 (7.48%) Requirements Management
23 8 (7.48%) Fortinet
23 8 (7.48%) Cisco ISE
23 8 (7.48%) VMware

Network Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (0.93%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.67%) AWS
1 5 (4.67%) Azure
2 3 (2.80%) Entra ID
3 2 (1.87%) GCP
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (0.93%) Cloudflare
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.93%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.93%) SaaS
4 1 (0.93%) Serverless
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 68 (63.55%) WAN
2 31 (28.97%) MPLS
3 28 (26.17%) LAN
4 25 (23.36%) BGP
5 22 (20.56%) IPsec
6 21 (19.63%) Junos
7 18 (16.82%) Cisco IOS
8 9 (8.41%) Network Security
9 8 (7.48%) Cisco ISE
9 8 (7.48%) Firewall
9 8 (7.48%) SDH
10 7 (6.54%) ATM
10 7 (6.54%) Ethernet
10 7 (6.54%) Frame Relay
10 7 (6.54%) VoIP
10 7 (6.54%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (3.74%) SD-WAN
11 4 (3.74%) VPN
12 3 (2.80%) TACACS
13 2 (1.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.93%) GitLab
General
1 17 (15.89%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.08%) Finance
3 12 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.80%) Advertising
5 2 (1.87%) Law
6 1 (0.93%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.87%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
1 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
1 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
2 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (1.87%) PKI
2 2 (1.87%) Taxonomies
3 1 (0.93%) Driving Licence
3 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
3 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
3 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.93%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.54%) Linux
1 7 (6.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.12%) Network Management
2 26 (24.30%) Technical Leadership
3 23 (21.50%) Network Design
4 19 (17.76%) Requirements Gathering
5 13 (12.15%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (7.48%) Configuration Management
6 8 (7.48%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (7.48%) Requirements Management
7 7 (6.54%) Performance Monitoring
7 7 (6.54%) Presales
7 7 (6.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (4.67%) Technology Strategy
9 4 (3.74%) Cloud Security
9 4 (3.74%) Network Architecture
10 3 (2.80%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (2.80%) Impact Assessments
10 3 (2.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (2.80%) Project Management
10 3 (2.80%) Roadmaps
10 3 (2.80%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
1 1 (0.93%) Python
1 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 85 (79.44%) Security Cleared
2 82 (76.64%) SC Cleared
3 26 (24.30%) CCNP
3 26 (24.30%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (21.50%) CCNA
5 22 (20.56%) JNCIS
6 11 (10.28%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.87%) Degree
8 1 (0.93%) CCIE
8 1 (0.93%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.95%) SLA
2 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.80%) CASB
2 2 (1.87%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 74 (69.16%) Cisco
2 70 (65.42%) Juniper
3 8 (7.48%) Fortinet
3 8 (7.48%) VMware
4 7 (6.54%) Red Hat
4 7 (6.54%) SevOne
5 6 (5.61%) Aruba
6 4 (3.74%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.87%) F5
7 2 (1.87%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.93%) Avaya
8 1 (0.93%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.93%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.93%) Meraki
8 1 (0.93%) Mitel
8 1 (0.93%) Zscaler