Network Security Architect Jobs

Network Security Architect
UK

The median Network Security Architect salary in the UK is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 719 874 944
Rank change year-on-year +155 +70 +260
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Architect 10 9 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.009% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.010% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 12
10th Percentile £73,750 - -
25th Percentile £96,250 £57,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -25.00% -3.03%
75th Percentile £142,500 £65,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £97,500 £60,000 -
% change year-on-year +62.50% - -

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 50,837 94,491 90,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 94.69% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27,317 67,546 57,366
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%

Network Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Architect in the UK

Network Security Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Security Architect in the UK

Network Security Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security Architect over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Security Architect in the UK

Network Security Architect
Top 10 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
UK excluding London +174 7 £97,500 +62.50% 6
England +127 6 £116,250 +93.75% 4
Work from Home +125 3 £135,000 +125.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £110,000 - 3
London - 3 £135,000 - 2
Midlands +64 2 £97,500 - 1
West Midlands +48 2 £97,500 - 1
North of England +39 1 £62,500 +4.17%
North West -7 1 £62,500 +4.17%
Scotland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 featuring Network Security Architect in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) Network Security
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) CCNP
2 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (40.00%) Terraform
4 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (40.00%) WAN
4 4 (40.00%) VPN
5 3 (30.00%) CISSP
5 3 (30.00%) Firewall
5 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) Azure
5 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (30.00%) CASB
5 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (20.00%) GitOps
6 2 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
6 2 (20.00%) Community of Practice
6 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (20.00%) Coaching

Network Security 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 (20.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (20.00%) Route 53
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Network Security
2 4 (40.00%) VPN
2 4 (40.00%) WAN
3 3 (30.00%) Firewall
4 2 (20.00%) DNS
4 2 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (20.00%) TACACS
5 1 (10.00%) BGP
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (10.00%) LAN
5 1 (10.00%) MPLS
5 1 (10.00%) OSPF
5 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (10.00%) VLAN
5 1 (10.00%) VoIP
5 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (20.00%) Law
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (20.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (10.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) Coaching
4 2 (20.00%) Community of Practice
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CCNP
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (30.00%) CISSP
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (20.00%) CCNA
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) CASB
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) F5
2 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) Aruba
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Meraki
3 1 (10.00%) Zscaler