Senior Network Engineer Jobs

Senior Network Engineer
UK

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 691 916
Rank change year-on-year +112 +225 -247
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 364 260 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.27% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.30% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 275 212 269
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £46,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £71,500 £74,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £92,250 £83,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £55,750
% change year-on-year -1.90% -5.83% +3.72%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the UK

Senior Network Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +80 306 £57,250 -4.58% 48
UK excluding London +71 255 £51,500 -1.90% 41
Work from Home +62 131 £60,000 - 23
London +95 94 £74,750 -4.17% 18
South West +29 72 £45,000 +1.12% 4
South East +10 51 £60,000 - 13
Midlands +13 45 £52,500 +14.70% 5
West Midlands +11 40 £53,750 +17.43% 4
North of England +17 37 £60,000 +14.29% 5
Wales - 24 £44,886 - 2
Scotland -49 22 £55,000 -8.33% 10
North West -21 20 £60,000 +14.29% 1
Yorkshire +62 13 £40,000 -24.53% 3
East of England -6 5 £55,000 +0.46% 2
East Midlands -17 5 £40,000 -10.72% 1
North East -8 4 £70,000 +42.49% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 - 1

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 200 (54.95%) Cisco
2 199 (54.67%) Firewall
3 120 (32.97%) WAN
4 88 (24.18%) Cisco Certification
5 84 (23.08%) LAN
6 83 (22.80%) Wireless
7 80 (21.98%) Network Security
8 73 (20.05%) MPLS
9 66 (18.13%) BGP
10 64 (17.58%) Juniper
10 64 (17.58%) CCNP
10 64 (17.58%) Security Cleared
11 63 (17.31%) SD-WAN
12 57 (15.66%) Data Centre
13 56 (15.38%) Palo Alto
13 56 (15.38%) Network Management
14 53 (14.56%) VPN
15 52 (14.29%) Microsoft
15 52 (14.29%) CheckPoint
15 52 (14.29%) Azure
16 46 (12.64%) Meraki
17 44 (12.09%) AWS
18 43 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
19 42 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
19 42 (11.54%) OSPF
20 39 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
20 39 (10.71%) Social Skills
21 36 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
21 36 (9.89%) CCNA
21 36 (9.89%) SolarWinds

Senior Network Engineer 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 14 (3.85%) Skype for Business
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (2.47%) MS Visio
2 8 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (14.29%) Azure
2 44 (12.09%) AWS
3 13 (3.57%) SaaS
4 12 (3.30%) PaaS
5 11 (3.02%) Datadog
5 11 (3.02%) Rubrik
6 10 (2.75%) IaaS
7 8 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.82%) GCP
12 2 (0.55%) AWS Direct Connect
12 2 (0.55%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 1 (0.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 199 (54.67%) Firewall
2 120 (32.97%) WAN
3 84 (23.08%) LAN
4 83 (22.80%) Wireless
5 80 (21.98%) Network Security
6 73 (20.05%) MPLS
7 66 (18.13%) BGP
8 63 (17.31%) SD-WAN
9 53 (14.56%) VPN
10 42 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
10 42 (11.54%) OSPF
11 39 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
12 35 (9.62%) Cisco ISE
13 28 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
14 27 (7.42%) TCP/IP
15 26 (7.14%) DNS
16 23 (6.32%) VLAN
17 21 (5.77%) WLAN
18 20 (5.49%) Software-Defined Networking
19 19 (5.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.27%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.37%) GitLab
2 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (10.71%) Social Skills
2 34 (9.34%) Finance
3 19 (5.22%) Aerospace
3 19 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.95%) Public Sector
4 18 (4.95%) Retail
5 16 (4.40%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.75%) Law
8 7 (1.92%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.92%) Police
9 6 (1.65%) Local Government
10 5 (1.37%) Banking
10 5 (1.37%) Military
11 4 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.10%) Games
11 4 (1.10%) Legal
11 4 (1.10%) Marketing
12 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.10%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.82%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (15.66%) Data Centre
2 12 (3.30%) Driving Licence
3 9 (2.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (1.37%) PKI
5 4 (1.10%) Educational Technology
5 4 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
6 3 (0.82%) Hedge funds
6 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.55%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.55%) CMDB
7 2 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.55%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (0.55%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.55%) Molecular Biology
7 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.67%) Windows
2 14 (3.85%) Linux
3 11 (3.02%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.37%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.55%) Android
6 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (15.38%) Network Management
2 43 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (9.62%) Network Monitoring
5 34 (9.34%) ITIL
6 33 (9.07%) Network Design
7 24 (6.59%) Business Continuity
8 22 (6.04%) Agile
8 22 (6.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (6.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (5.77%) Actionable Insight
9 21 (5.77%) Incident Management
10 18 (4.95%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (4.95%) Mentoring
10 18 (4.95%) Network Architecture
11 17 (4.67%) Load Balancing
12 16 (4.40%) Computer Science
12 16 (4.40%) Customer Service
13 15 (4.12%) Customer Requirements
14 14 (3.85%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 27 (7.42%) Python
2 13 (3.57%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.10%) Bash
4 3 (0.82%) C#
4 3 (0.82%) SQL
5 2 (0.55%) C
Qualifications
1 88 (24.18%) Cisco Certification
2 64 (17.58%) CCNP
2 64 (17.58%) Security Cleared
3 36 (9.89%) CCNA
4 34 (9.34%) SC Cleared
5 31 (8.52%) DV Cleared
6 27 (7.42%) Degree
7 18 (4.95%) CCIE
8 16 (4.40%) JNCIP
9 15 (4.12%) JNCIA
10 14 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (3.02%) AWS Certification
12 10 (2.75%) CCSA
13 8 (2.20%) JNCIE
13 8 (2.20%) JNCIS
14 6 (1.65%) Azure Certification
15 5 (1.37%) CWNA
16 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
17 3 (0.82%) CCIE Routing and Switching
17 3 (0.82%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.40%) SLA
2 8 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (1.65%) NCSC
4 3 (0.82%) NIST
5 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (6.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (4.12%) VMware NSX
3 7 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.10%) Docker
4 4 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.10%) vSphere
5 3 (0.82%) Firmware
5 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (7.42%) Ansible
2 24 (6.59%) FortiGate
3 19 (5.22%) Terraform
4 7 (1.92%) Cisco Prime
5 6 (1.65%) Kubernetes
6 5 (1.37%) Opsview
6 5 (1.37%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.10%) Cacti
7 4 (1.10%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (1.10%) Nessus
8 3 (0.82%) Stealthwatch
9 2 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.55%) CASB
9 2 (0.55%) Grafana
9 2 (0.55%) Nagios
9 2 (0.55%) Puppet
9 2 (0.55%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.55%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.27%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 200 (54.95%) Cisco
2 64 (17.58%) Juniper
3 56 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 52 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 52 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 46 (12.64%) Meraki
6 36 (9.89%) SolarWinds
7 35 (9.62%) Aruba
8 33 (9.07%) VMware
9 28 (7.69%) Nokia
10 26 (7.14%) Fortinet
11 24 (6.59%) HP
12 21 (5.77%) Mitel
13 14 (3.85%) Avaya
13 14 (3.85%) F5
14 13 (3.57%) NetApp
14 13 (3.57%) Veeam
15 12 (3.30%) LogicMonitor
16 7 (1.92%) Riverbed
17 6 (1.65%) Remedy