Network Architect Jobs

Network Architect
UK

The median Network Architect salary in the UK is £67,500 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 571 779 785
Rank change year-on-year +208 +6 +150
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Architect 142 131 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 113 94 113
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.43% -15.15%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,250 £95,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.80% +6.15% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

Network Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Architect in the UK

Network Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Architect in the UK

Network Architect
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Network Architect in the UK

Network Architect
Top 15 Job Locations

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 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
England +168 132 £67,000 -2.90% 82
UK excluding London +201 107 £65,000 -5.80% 71
West Midlands +105 48 £65,000 - 12
Midlands +101 48 £65,000 - 14
South East +61 36 £65,000 -7.14% 24
London +111 12 £90,000 +20.00% 19
Work from Home +91 10 £72,500 +1.75% 29
North of England +34 10 £62,500 +4.17% 12
North West -4 8 £62,500 +4.17% 4
East of England +48 7 £57,500 -11.88% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £110,000 - 2
Yorkshire +60 2 - - 6
North East - 2 - - 4
Scotland - 2 - - 1
South West +110 1 - - 14

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

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 featuring Network Architect in the job title.

1 110 (77.46%) Security Cleared
2 107 (75.35%) SC Cleared
3 103 (72.54%) Cisco
4 98 (69.01%) WAN
5 70 (49.30%) Juniper
6 56 (39.44%) LAN
7 44 (30.99%) Network Management
8 40 (28.17%) Firewall
9 38 (26.76%) Azure
10 34 (23.94%) MPLS
10 34 (23.94%) Cisco ISE
10 34 (23.94%) SD-WAN
11 33 (23.24%) Data Centre
11 33 (23.24%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (23.24%) CCNP
11 33 (23.24%) VMware
12 32 (22.54%) Ethernet
13 31 (21.83%) F5
13 31 (21.83%) Public Cloud
14 30 (21.13%) GCP
14 30 (21.13%) FortiGate
15 29 (20.42%) Technical Leadership
16 28 (19.72%) Terraform
17 27 (19.01%) Python
17 27 (19.01%) CheckPoint
17 27 (19.01%) BGP
18 25 (17.61%) JSON
18 25 (17.61%) Blue Coat
18 25 (17.61%) Google
18 25 (17.61%) Ansible

Network Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (1.41%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.70%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 38 (26.76%) Azure
2 30 (21.13%) GCP
3 9 (6.34%) AWS
4 3 (2.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.41%) Cloudflare
5 2 (1.41%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.41%) SaaS
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.70%) Serverless
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 98 (69.01%) WAN
2 56 (39.44%) LAN
3 40 (28.17%) Firewall
4 34 (23.94%) Cisco ISE
4 34 (23.94%) MPLS
4 34 (23.94%) SD-WAN
5 32 (22.54%) Ethernet
6 27 (19.01%) BGP
7 22 (15.49%) IPsec
8 21 (14.79%) Junos
9 18 (12.68%) Cisco IOS
10 16 (11.27%) Network Security
11 8 (5.63%) SDH
11 8 (5.63%) VPN
11 8 (5.63%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (4.93%) ATM
12 7 (4.93%) Frame Relay
12 7 (4.93%) VoIP
13 4 (2.82%) DNS
13 4 (2.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.41%) GitLab
General
1 22 (15.49%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.56%) Finance
3 13 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.11%) Advertising
5 2 (1.41%) Law
6 1 (0.70%) Automotive
6 1 (0.70%) Banking
6 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.61%) JSON
2 2 (1.41%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.24%) Data Centre
2 31 (21.83%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.41%) PKI
4 2 (1.41%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.41%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.70%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.93%) Linux
1 7 (4.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.99%) Network Management
2 29 (20.42%) Technical Leadership
3 25 (17.61%) Due Diligence
4 24 (16.90%) Network Design
5 19 (13.38%) Requirements Gathering
6 13 (9.15%) Customer Requirements
7 9 (6.34%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (5.63%) Configuration Management
8 8 (5.63%) Requirements Management
9 7 (4.93%) Performance Monitoring
9 7 (4.93%) Presales
9 7 (4.93%) Roadmaps
9 7 (4.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (4.23%) Network Architecture
11 5 (3.52%) DevOps
11 5 (3.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (3.52%) Technology Strategy
11 5 (3.52%) Thought Leadership
12 4 (2.82%) Network Virtualisation
12 4 (2.82%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 27 (19.01%) Python
2 2 (1.41%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.70%) Bash
3 1 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 110 (77.46%) Security Cleared
2 107 (75.35%) SC Cleared
3 33 (23.24%) CCNP
3 33 (23.24%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (16.90%) CCNA
5 22 (15.49%) JNCIS
6 11 (7.75%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.82%) Degree
8 3 (2.11%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.11%) CCIE
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.70%) CCSA
9 1 (0.70%) CISSP
9 1 (0.70%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.70%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.27%) SLA
2 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.41%) NIST
3 1 (0.70%) COBIT
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.70%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (17.61%) VMware NSX
2 7 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (21.13%) FortiGate
2 28 (19.72%) Terraform
3 25 (17.61%) Ansible
4 3 (2.11%) CASB
5 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 103 (72.54%) Cisco
2 70 (49.30%) Juniper
3 33 (23.24%) VMware
4 31 (21.83%) F5
5 27 (19.01%) CheckPoint
6 25 (17.61%) Blue Coat
6 25 (17.61%) Google
7 11 (7.75%) Fortinet
8 7 (4.93%) Red Hat
8 7 (4.93%) SevOne
9 6 (4.23%) Aruba
10 5 (3.52%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.82%) Meraki
11 4 (2.82%) Palo Alto
12 3 (2.11%) Zscaler
13 2 (1.41%) Riverbed
14 1 (0.70%) Avaya
14 1 (0.70%) Extreme Networks
14 1 (0.70%) Mitel