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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 654 644 741
Rank change year-on-year -10 +97 -129
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Architect 126 84 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.17% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 98 58 56
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,375 £61,875
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -11.56% +5.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £69,084 £86,250
90th Percentile - £72,500 -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -15.15% +13.79%

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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -5 61 £70,000 +7.69% 6
North of England +48 47 £85,000 +21.43% 7
North West -10 23 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Yorkshire - 17 £85,000 - 3
South West -48 8 £52,000 -13.33% 1
West Midlands -10 7 - - 4
Midlands -41 7 - - 4
North East - 7 £85,000 - 1
East of England -9 3 £72,500 - 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 12 June 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 53 (42.06%) Security Cleared
2 44 (34.92%) SC Cleared
2 44 (34.92%) Cisco
3 34 (26.98%) WAN
4 32 (25.40%) Juniper
5 31 (24.60%) Network Security
6 28 (22.22%) LAN
7 26 (20.63%) Presales
8 25 (19.84%) Network Management
9 23 (18.25%) Network Design
10 21 (16.67%) Network Architecture
11 18 (14.29%) SIEM
12 17 (13.49%) AWS
12 17 (13.49%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (12.70%) Finance
13 16 (12.70%) BGP
14 13 (10.32%) Firewall
14 13 (10.32%) Data Centre
15 12 (9.52%) OSPF
15 12 (9.52%) Wireless
15 12 (9.52%) Agile
15 12 (9.52%) CCNP
16 11 (8.73%) MPLS
16 11 (8.73%) Multicast
16 11 (8.73%) F5
16 11 (8.73%) Social Skills
17 10 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
17 10 (7.94%) Cisco Firepower
17 10 (7.94%) Requirements Management
18 9 (7.14%) Azure

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 (2.38%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.49%) AWS
2 9 (7.14%) Azure
3 8 (6.35%) GCP
3 8 (6.35%) OCI
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (0.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (26.98%) WAN
2 31 (24.60%) Network Security
3 28 (22.22%) LAN
4 16 (12.70%) BGP
5 13 (10.32%) Firewall
6 12 (9.52%) OSPF
6 12 (9.52%) Wireless
7 11 (8.73%) MPLS
7 11 (8.73%) Multicast
8 10 (7.94%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (6.35%) Ethernet
10 7 (5.56%) SD-WAN
10 7 (5.56%) TCP/IP
11 6 (4.76%) SSL
11 6 (4.76%) WLAN
12 5 (3.97%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (3.17%) Software-Defined Networking
14 3 (2.38%) Internet
14 3 (2.38%) Tactical Data Link
14 3 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (3.17%) JIRA
1 4 (3.17%) Rational DOORS
General
1 16 (12.70%) Finance
2 11 (8.73%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.38%) Retail
5 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.79%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.17%) Akka
2 2 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.32%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.56%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.38%) IoT
6 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.63%) Presales
2 25 (19.84%) Network Management
3 23 (18.25%) Network Design
4 21 (16.67%) Network Architecture
5 18 (14.29%) SIEM
6 12 (9.52%) Agile
7 10 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (7.94%) Requirements Management
8 9 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (6.35%) Architectural Patterns
9 8 (6.35%) Coaching
9 8 (6.35%) Design Patterns
9 8 (6.35%) High Availability
9 8 (6.35%) IT Strategy
9 8 (6.35%) Mentoring
9 8 (6.35%) Roadmaps
9 8 (6.35%) Technology Roadmap
10 7 (5.56%) Customer Requirements
10 7 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (5.56%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.38%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 53 (42.06%) Security Cleared
2 44 (34.92%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.49%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (9.52%) CCNP
5 8 (6.35%) Degree
6 6 (4.76%) CCIE
7 4 (3.17%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.17%) HNC
7 4 (3.17%) HND
8 3 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.38%) CCNA
8 3 (2.38%) CCSE
8 3 (2.38%) CISSP
9 2 (1.59%) CCIE Data Center
9 2 (1.59%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.79%) CCDA
10 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 7 (5.56%) Terraform
2 6 (4.76%) Endace
3 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (34.92%) Cisco
2 32 (25.40%) Juniper
3 11 (8.73%) F5
4 8 (6.35%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.17%) Thales
6 3 (2.38%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.38%) Riverbed
7 2 (1.59%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.79%) Arista
8 1 (0.79%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.79%) VMware