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 £69,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 653 684 741
Rank change year-on-year +31 +57 -144
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Architect 98 84 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 75 46 52
10th Percentile £49,300 £61,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £59,375 - £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,938 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,750 £72,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £69,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.75% - +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,742 54,869 68,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.26% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 47,250 31,160 43,040
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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
South East +28 64 £70,000 +7.69% 9
North of England +60 18 £60,000 -14.29% 2
North West +13 15 £60,000 -14.29% 1
South West -28 9 £52,000 -20.00% 3
West Midlands +20 8 £82,500 +32.00%
Midlands +13 8 £82,500 +32.00% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £82,500 -
East of England +15 1 £58,000 - 1
North East - 1 £82,500 - 1
Network Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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 60 (61.22%) Security Cleared
2 50 (51.02%) SC Cleared
3 43 (43.88%) Cisco
4 32 (32.65%) Juniper
5 30 (30.61%) Network Management
6 28 (28.57%) Network Security
7 27 (27.55%) WAN
8 24 (24.49%) Network Design
9 22 (22.45%) SIEM
10 21 (21.43%) Presales
11 20 (20.41%) LAN
12 17 (17.35%) BGP
13 15 (15.31%) Cisco Certification
14 14 (14.29%) Data Centre
14 14 (14.29%) Network Architecture
15 13 (13.27%) OSPF
16 12 (12.24%) Firewall
16 12 (12.24%) F5
17 11 (11.22%) Multicast
17 11 (11.22%) Agile
17 11 (11.22%) Cisco Firepower
17 11 (11.22%) Social Skills
18 10 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
18 10 (10.20%) MPLS
19 9 (9.18%) CCNP
19 9 (9.18%) AWS
19 9 (9.18%) Requirements Management
19 9 (9.18%) Technical Leadership
20 8 (8.16%) Degree
20 8 (8.16%) High Availability

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:

Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.18%) AWS
2 2 (2.04%) Azure
3 1 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (1.02%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.02%) GCP
3 1 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (28.57%) Network Security
2 27 (27.55%) WAN
3 20 (20.41%) LAN
4 17 (17.35%) BGP
5 13 (13.27%) OSPF
6 12 (12.24%) Firewall
7 11 (11.22%) Cisco Firepower
7 11 (11.22%) Multicast
8 10 (10.20%) MPLS
9 7 (7.14%) SD-WAN
9 7 (7.14%) TCP/IP
10 6 (6.12%) SSL
10 6 (6.12%) WLAN
11 5 (5.10%) Wireless
12 4 (4.08%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (3.06%) Internet
13 3 (3.06%) Tactical Data Link
13 3 (3.06%) VPN
14 2 (2.04%) CATAPAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (4.08%) JIRA
1 4 (4.08%) Rational DOORS
General
1 11 (11.22%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.16%) Finance
3 7 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.06%) Retail
5 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.04%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) Akka
2 2 (2.04%) Web Services
3 1 (1.02%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.16%) Public Cloud
3 7 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.14%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.61%) Network Management
2 24 (24.49%) Network Design
3 22 (22.45%) SIEM
4 21 (21.43%) Presales
5 14 (14.29%) Network Architecture
6 11 (11.22%) Agile
7 10 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (9.18%) Requirements Management
8 9 (9.18%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (8.16%) High Availability
10 7 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
10 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (7.14%) Network Monitoring
11 6 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (6.12%) Fintech
12 5 (5.10%) Cloud Security
12 5 (5.10%) Systems Engineering
13 4 (4.08%) Collaborative Working
13 4 (4.08%) Computer Science
13 4 (4.08%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.06%) MATLAB
2 1 (1.02%) Python
Qualifications
1 60 (61.22%) Security Cleared
2 50 (51.02%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.31%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (9.18%) CCNP
5 8 (8.16%) Degree
6 6 (6.12%) CCIE
7 5 (5.10%) DV Cleared
8 4 (4.08%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (4.08%) HNC
8 4 (4.08%) HND
9 3 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.06%) CCNA
9 3 (3.06%) CISSP
10 2 (2.04%) CCDA
10 2 (2.04%) CCDP
10 2 (2.04%) CCIE Data Center
10 2 (2.04%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.02%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (8.16%) Terraform
2 6 (6.12%) Endace
3 1 (1.02%) Ansible
3 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (43.88%) Cisco
2 32 (32.65%) Juniper
3 12 (12.24%) F5
4 6 (6.12%) Palo Alto
5 5 (5.10%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.08%) Thales
7 3 (3.06%) Riverbed
8 2 (2.04%) VMware
9 1 (1.02%) Arista
9 1 (1.02%) Blue Coat
9 1 (1.02%) CA
9 1 (1.02%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.02%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.02%) Google
9 1 (1.02%) SolarWinds