Network Architecture Job Trends

Network Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Network Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 591 521
Rank change year-on-year +23 -70 +189
Permanent jobs citing Network Architecture 83 120 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.22% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.24% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 54 53 147
10th Percentile £51,625 £52,500 £33,400
25th Percentile £59,438 £61,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,250 £79,000
90th Percentile £118,375 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% +12.50% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,455 49,716 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.91% 90.02% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,359 24,660 35,854
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%

Network Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Network Architecture job vacancy trend in the UK

Network Architecture
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Network Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Network Architecture

Network Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Architecture over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Network Architecture in the UK

Network Architecture
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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 +39 73 £77,500 +10.71% 114
UK excluding London +26 44 £72,500 +7.41% 99
London +34 33 £100,000 +18.69% 25
Work from Home +55 24 £85,000 +21.43% 25
Midlands +28 11 £72,500 +93.33% 18
North of England +19 11 £72,500 +3.57% 18
South East -1 9 £63,750 +2.00% 29
West Midlands - 8 £75,000 - 10
South West -8 6 £67,500 -25.00% 12
North West +25 4 £61,750 -5.00% 10
Yorkshire -11 4 £90,000 +28.57% 7
Wales - 4 £85,000 - 2
Scotland - 4 £75,000 - 4
North East +11 3 £72,500 +43.56% 1
East Midlands -8 3 £64,873 +72.99% 7
East of England +23 1 £47,500 -47.22% 17

Network Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.41%) FactoryTalk
2 2 (2.41%) WinCC
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.20%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.20%) EPLAN
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.20%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 42 (50.60%) Azure
2 24 (28.92%) AWS
3 12 (14.46%) GCP
4 9 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.23%) SaaS
6 5 (6.02%) GitHub
7 4 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.82%) Azure AKS
7 4 (4.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (4.82%) Azure Functions
7 4 (4.82%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.82%) Azure Pipelines
7 4 (4.82%) Azure Storage
7 4 (4.82%) Datadog
7 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.82%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.82%) Serverless
8 3 (3.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (44.58%) Firewall
2 31 (37.35%) WAN
3 24 (28.92%) LAN
4 21 (25.30%) VPN
5 20 (24.10%) Network Security
6 10 (12.05%) BGP
6 10 (12.05%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (12.05%) WLAN
7 9 (10.84%) DNS
7 9 (10.84%) SD-WAN
8 8 (9.64%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (9.64%) TCP/IP
9 7 (8.43%) OSPF
10 6 (7.23%) HTTP
10 6 (7.23%) Wireless
11 5 (6.02%) SSL
11 5 (6.02%) VLAN
12 4 (4.82%) MPLS
12 4 (4.82%) NX-OS
12 4 (4.82%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Git
1 4 (4.82%) GitLab
1 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
1 4 (4.82%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (3.61%) Snyk
3 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (37.35%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.89%) Finance
3 9 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.84%) Banking
4 7 (8.43%) Financial Institution
4 7 (8.43%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.02%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.82%) Games
6 4 (4.82%) Retail
7 3 (3.61%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Marketing
9 1 (1.20%) Automotive
9 1 (1.20%) French Language
9 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Law
9 1 (1.20%) Legal
9 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (19.28%) Architect
1 16 (19.28%) Network Engineer
2 11 (13.25%) Operations Engineer
3 10 (12.05%) Network Architect
4 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Senior
5 7 (8.43%) Head of Infrastructure
6 6 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Lead
8 4 (4.82%) CloudOps Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Head of Cybersecurity
8 4 (4.82%) Operations Support Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Platform Support Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.82%) ADO
1 4 (4.82%) OAuth
1 4 (4.82%) SAML
1 4 (4.82%) YAML
2 2 (2.41%) .NET
2 2 (2.41%) NETCONF
2 2 (2.41%) REST
2 2 (2.41%) RESTCONF
3 1 (1.20%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.20%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.20%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.69%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.64%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.23%) Security Posture
4 5 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.02%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.02%) Operational Technology
4 5 (6.02%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.82%) Digital Media
5 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.82%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.82%) SCADA
6 3 (3.61%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (3.61%) Replication
7 2 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.41%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.41%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.23%) Linux
1 6 (7.23%) Windows
2 5 (6.02%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.82%) VMS
4 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.89%) High Availability
2 16 (19.28%) Computer Science
2 16 (19.28%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (18.07%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (16.87%) DevOps
4 14 (16.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (16.87%) ITIL
5 13 (15.66%) Collaborative Culture
5 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (14.46%) Business Continuity
6 12 (14.46%) CI/CD
6 12 (14.46%) Cloud Security
6 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (13.25%) Incident Response
7 11 (13.25%) IT Strategy
7 11 (13.25%) Zero Trust
8 9 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (10.84%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (10.84%) Roadmaps
8 9 (10.84%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.28%) Python
2 9 (10.84%) PowerShell
3 8 (9.64%) Bash
4 6 (7.23%) SQL
5 4 (4.82%) Go
5 4 (4.82%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (3.61%) Bicep
7 1 (1.20%) C
7 1 (1.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (20.48%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (16.87%) Degree
3 13 (15.66%) CCNP
4 10 (12.05%) Security Cleared
5 9 (10.84%) CCIE
6 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
7 7 (8.43%) AWS Certification
7 7 (8.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (8.43%) Azure Certification
8 6 (7.23%) CISSP
9 5 (6.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (6.02%) CISM
9 5 (6.02%) Master's Degree
10 4 (4.82%) CCNA
10 4 (4.82%) CEH
10 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (4.82%) CWNA
11 2 (2.41%) RIBA
12 1 (1.20%) CISA
12 1 (1.20%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (9.64%) GDPR
2 8 (9.64%) SOC 2
3 7 (8.43%) NIST
4 4 (4.82%) GRC
5 3 (3.61%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.61%) QA
6 2 (2.41%) IEC 61508
6 2 (2.41%) NCSC
7 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (19.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (9.64%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.02%) Docker
3 5 (6.02%) Hyper-V
3 5 (6.02%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.82%) Firmware
5 2 (2.41%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 20 (24.10%) Ansible
2 18 (21.69%) Terraform
3 15 (18.07%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.82%) CASB
4 4 (4.82%) Rancher
4 4 (4.82%) vRealize
5 2 (2.41%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.20%) Endace
6 1 (1.20%) Nagios
6 1 (1.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (36.14%) Cisco
2 16 (19.28%) Palo Alto
2 16 (19.28%) VMware
3 15 (18.07%) Fortinet
4 11 (13.25%) Meraki
5 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
6 8 (9.64%) CheckPoint
7 5 (6.02%) Zscaler
8 4 (4.82%) IBM
9 3 (3.61%) Checkmarx
9 3 (3.61%) F5
9 3 (3.61%) Juniper
9 3 (3.61%) Qualys
9 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
10 2 (2.41%) Arista
10 2 (2.41%) Aruba
10 2 (2.41%) Rockwell
10 2 (2.41%) Siemens
10 2 (2.41%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.41%) Splunk