Network Security Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Security Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Security Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £97,500 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 564 756 757
Rank change year-on-year +192 +1 +104
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Architect 7 9 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.018% 0.012% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.013% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £66,250 - -
25th Percentile £77,500 £57,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% - -
75th Percentile £106,875 £65,000 -
90th Percentile £111,750 - -
UK median annual salary £97,500 £60,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +60.49% -24.06% -3.03%

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 Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Network Security Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Network Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Network Security Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Network Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Network Security 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 Security 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
Northern Ireland - 3 £110,000 - 2
West Midlands +64 2 £97,500 -
Midlands +60 2 £97,500 -
North of England +35 1 £62,500 +4.17%
North West -5 1 £62,500 +4.17%
Scotland - 1 - - 1
Network Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Network Security 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 Security Architect in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Network Security
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
3 3 (42.86%) CASB
3 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
3 3 (42.86%) CCNP
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
4 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) TACACS
4 2 (28.57%) Law
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito

Network Security 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 (14.29%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Cloudflare
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) TACACS
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) MPLS
3 1 (14.29%) OSPF
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) VoIP
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Law
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (14.29%) PKI
3 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Coaching
3 1 (14.29%) Community of Practice
3 1 (14.29%) Contingency Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CCNP
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) CCIE
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) CASB
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Aruba
3 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 1 (14.29%) Meraki
3 1 (14.29%) Zscaler