Network Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 234 285
Rank change year-on-year +35 +51 -75
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 1,071 809 939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.36% 1.45% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 1.64% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 841 603 739
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £63,750 £63,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 74,927 49,444 72,458
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 88.83% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 29,284 42,904
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 +35 337 £49,000 +3.16% 60
North of England -2 210 £42,500 -9.57% 20
Midlands +47 195 £46,090 +6.26% 45
West Midlands +51 160 £46,500 +6.90% 32
South West +5 152 £45,000 +8.43% 17
North West -4 139 £42,500 -15.00% 12
East of England -6 72 £45,000 -16.28% 10
Scotland -19 72 £61,750 +35.74% 23
Yorkshire +61 60 £42,500 -8.11% 7
Wales +44 42 £44,886 -0.25% 4
East Midlands -22 31 £31,500 -33.68% 13
North East -39 17 £40,750 -4.12% 2
Northern Ireland +11 3 £32,500 -23.53% 1
Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Network Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 583 (54.44%) Cisco
2 489 (45.66%) Firewall
3 342 (31.93%) Cisco Certification
4 295 (27.54%) WAN
5 293 (27.36%) Security Cleared
6 251 (23.44%) Juniper
7 247 (23.06%) LAN
8 213 (19.89%) CCNA
9 210 (19.61%) CCNP
10 192 (17.93%) Azure
11 170 (15.87%) Wireless
12 167 (15.59%) SC Cleared
13 166 (15.50%) BGP
14 164 (15.31%) VPN
15 157 (14.66%) Network Security
16 149 (13.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 147 (13.73%) Social Skills
18 146 (13.63%) Microsoft
19 144 (13.45%) VMware
20 136 (12.70%) MPLS
21 131 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
22 127 (11.86%) Wi-Fi
23 123 (11.48%) Fortinet
24 118 (11.02%) OSPF
25 111 (10.36%) SD-WAN
26 109 (10.18%) Data Centre
27 108 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
28 105 (9.80%) Windows
29 101 (9.43%) TCP/IP
29 101 (9.43%) AWS

Network Engineer 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 34 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.31%) Skype for Business
4 8 (0.75%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.47%) IIS
6 4 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.28%) Simulink
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 192 (17.93%) Azure
2 108 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
3 101 (9.43%) AWS
4 39 (3.64%) GCP
5 32 (2.99%) Entra ID
6 15 (1.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (1.12%) SaaS
8 11 (1.03%) OneDrive
9 8 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (0.47%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.28%) IaaS
13 2 (0.19%) AWS Direct Connect
13 2 (0.19%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.19%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.19%) PaaS
13 2 (0.19%) Twilio
14 1 (0.093%) Mimecast
14 1 (0.093%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 489 (45.66%) Firewall
2 295 (27.54%) WAN
3 247 (23.06%) LAN
4 170 (15.87%) Wireless
5 166 (15.50%) BGP
6 164 (15.31%) VPN
7 157 (14.66%) Network Security
8 136 (12.70%) MPLS
9 127 (11.86%) Wi-Fi
10 118 (11.02%) OSPF
11 111 (10.36%) SD-WAN
12 101 (9.43%) TCP/IP
13 92 (8.59%) DNS
14 90 (8.40%) VLAN
15 71 (6.63%) DHCP
16 69 (6.44%) Cisco ASA
17 56 (5.23%) IPsec
18 48 (4.48%) Software-Defined Networking
19 47 (4.39%) Cisco Firepower
20 44 (4.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.68%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.75%) GIS
3 6 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.19%) MySQL
5 1 (0.093%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (0.65%) GitLab
2 6 (0.56%) JIRA
3 4 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.28%) Git
4 3 (0.28%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.19%) Hudson
6 1 (0.093%) Selenium
6 1 (0.093%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 147 (13.73%) Social Skills
2 58 (5.42%) Telecoms
3 53 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (4.48%) Finance
5 40 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (3.73%) Retail
6 33 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 24 (2.24%) Manufacturing
8 20 (1.87%) Aerospace
9 16 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (1.49%) Police
10 11 (1.03%) Law
11 8 (0.75%) Marketing
12 7 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.47%) Advertising
13 5 (0.47%) Automotive
13 5 (0.47%) Local Government
13 5 (0.47%) Military
14 4 (0.37%) Legal
15 3 (0.28%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.43%) 802.1X
2 4 (0.37%) Akka
2 4 (0.37%) LAMP
3 3 (0.28%) ADO
4 2 (0.19%) EDI
5 1 (0.093%) CSS
5 1 (0.093%) HTML
5 1 (0.093%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 109 (10.18%) Data Centre
2 67 (6.26%) Driving Licence
3 22 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (1.68%) Management Information System
5 14 (1.31%) Replication
6 13 (1.21%) Security Posture
7 12 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (0.84%) Public Cloud
9 8 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.65%) PKI
10 7 (0.65%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.47%) PMI
13 4 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.37%) Educational Technology
13 4 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.28%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.28%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.28%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 105 (9.80%) Windows
2 85 (7.94%) Linux
3 59 (5.51%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.59%) VyOS
5 13 (1.21%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.93%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.75%) Android
7 8 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.65%) Debian
9 6 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.37%) VMS
12 3 (0.28%) CatOS
12 3 (0.28%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.19%) CentOS
13 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (13.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 131 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (8.40%) Customer Service
3 90 (8.40%) Network Monitoring
4 74 (6.91%) ITIL
5 71 (6.63%) Cybersecurity
6 69 (6.44%) Network Design
7 68 (6.35%) Project Delivery
8 61 (5.70%) Network Management
9 55 (5.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (4.86%) Computer Science
11 48 (4.48%) Mentoring
12 46 (4.30%) Migration
13 43 (4.01%) Agile
13 43 (4.01%) Disaster Recovery
14 40 (3.73%) Network Architecture
15 37 (3.45%) Configuration Management
16 35 (3.27%) Incident Management
17 31 (2.89%) Change Management
17 31 (2.89%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (4.39%) Python
2 22 (2.05%) PowerShell
3 10 (0.93%) Shell Script
4 9 (0.84%) Bash
5 6 (0.56%) SQL
6 5 (0.47%) Java
7 4 (0.37%) C#
8 3 (0.28%) C
8 3 (0.28%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.19%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.093%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 342 (31.93%) Cisco Certification
2 293 (27.36%) Security Cleared
3 213 (19.89%) CCNA
4 210 (19.61%) CCNP
5 167 (15.59%) SC Cleared
6 93 (8.68%) DV Cleared
7 92 (8.59%) Degree
8 50 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 38 (3.55%) CCIE
10 37 (3.45%) JNCIA
11 15 (1.40%) CISSP
12 13 (1.21%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.21%) Network+ Certification
13 12 (1.12%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.12%) CCDP
14 11 (1.03%) JNCIP
15 9 (0.84%) CCSA
15 9 (0.84%) JNCIS
15 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.65%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (2.71%) SLA
2 13 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 12 (1.12%) GDPR
4 10 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.75%) QA
5 8 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.093%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.093%) NCSC
System Software
1 90 (8.40%) Active Directory
2 63 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (4.95%) Hyper-V
4 26 (2.43%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (1.12%) vSphere
7 10 (0.93%) Firmware
8 8 (0.75%) pfSense
9 7 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.56%) Docker
11 5 (0.47%) SRDF
12 4 (0.37%) vCloud
13 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 56 (5.23%) FortiGate
2 44 (4.11%) Ansible
3 19 (1.77%) Terraform
4 18 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (1.40%) ZABBIX
6 9 (0.84%) Nagios
7 8 (0.75%) Cisco Prime
7 8 (0.75%) vCenter Server
8 7 (0.65%) Kubernetes
9 6 (0.56%) Grafana
9 6 (0.56%) SCCM
10 5 (0.47%) OfficeScan
10 5 (0.47%) Opsview
10 5 (0.47%) Puppet
10 5 (0.47%) WSUS
11 4 (0.37%) Cacti
12 3 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.28%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.28%) VxRail
13 2 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 583 (54.44%) Cisco
2 251 (23.44%) Juniper
3 146 (13.63%) Microsoft
4 144 (13.45%) VMware
5 123 (11.48%) Fortinet
6 92 (8.59%) Palo Alto
7 80 (7.47%) Aruba
8 79 (7.38%) Meraki
9 61 (5.70%) CheckPoint
10 47 (4.39%) F5
11 35 (3.27%) Nokia
11 35 (3.27%) SolarWinds
12 34 (3.17%) HP
13 30 (2.80%) Ruckus Wireless
14 29 (2.71%) Citrix
15 23 (2.15%) Dell
16 20 (1.87%) Avaya
16 20 (1.87%) Mitel
17 17 (1.59%) Vyatta
18 14 (1.31%) Veeam