Network Engineer Jobs

Network Engineer
UK

The median Network Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 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 217 281 390
Rank change year-on-year +64 +109 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 1,380 1,198 1,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.31% 1.27% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.39% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,130 903 1,245
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,550 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%

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%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the UK

Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the UK

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the UK

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 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 +63 1,244 £50,000 - 231
UK excluding London +51 1,034 £47,500 +5.56% 183
Work from Home -13 387 £52,500 +5.00% 89
South East +33 322 £49,000 +3.16% 62
London +96 303 £60,000 -7.69% 77
North of England +4 202 £42,500 -9.57% 26
Midlands +68 195 £46,500 +3.33% 33
West Midlands +56 161 £46,500 +3.33% 25
South West +10 153 £45,000 +8.43% 22
North West -5 134 £42,500 -15.00% 16
East of England -4 67 £47,500 -9.52% 12
Scotland -30 62 £64,250 +26.02% 27
Yorkshire +52 57 £42,500 -15.00% 9
Wales +40 42 £44,886 -0.25% 3
East Midlands -8 30 £31,500 -33.68% 8
North East -35 17 £40,750 -4.12% 2
Northern Ireland +16 3 £32,500 -23.53% 3

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 763 (55.29%) Cisco
2 658 (47.68%) Firewall
3 468 (33.91%) Cisco Certification
4 458 (33.19%) WAN
5 389 (28.19%) LAN
6 319 (23.12%) Juniper
7 298 (21.59%) Security Cleared
8 297 (21.52%) CCNP
9 294 (21.30%) Azure
10 280 (20.29%) CCNA
11 264 (19.13%) VPN
12 263 (19.06%) Network Security
13 261 (18.91%) Wireless
14 249 (18.04%) BGP
15 206 (14.93%) Social Skills
16 204 (14.78%) MPLS
17 201 (14.57%) Wi-Fi
18 197 (14.28%) Microsoft
19 193 (13.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 193 (13.99%) Data Centre
20 186 (13.48%) SD-WAN
21 179 (12.97%) Fortinet
22 175 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
23 168 (12.17%) SC Cleared
23 168 (12.17%) OSPF
24 165 (11.96%) VMware
25 157 (11.38%) Palo Alto
26 149 (10.80%) TCP/IP
27 146 (10.58%) DNS
28 143 (10.36%) ITIL

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 44 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.01%) Skype for Business
4 9 (0.65%) IIS
5 8 (0.58%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.22%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 294 (21.30%) Azure
2 137 (9.93%) AWS
3 120 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (2.97%) GCP
5 33 (2.39%) Entra ID
6 27 (1.96%) SaaS
7 22 (1.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 20 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (1.45%) IaaS
9 16 (1.16%) PaaS
10 15 (1.09%) OneDrive
11 11 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (0.80%) Datadog
11 11 (0.80%) Rubrik
12 10 (0.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (0.58%) AWS Direct Connect
14 5 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (0.29%) Mimecast
15 4 (0.29%) Nutanix
16 2 (0.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 658 (47.68%) Firewall
2 458 (33.19%) WAN
3 389 (28.19%) LAN
4 264 (19.13%) VPN
5 263 (19.06%) Network Security
6 261 (18.91%) Wireless
7 249 (18.04%) BGP
8 204 (14.78%) MPLS
9 201 (14.57%) Wi-Fi
10 186 (13.48%) SD-WAN
11 168 (12.17%) OSPF
12 149 (10.80%) TCP/IP
13 146 (10.58%) DNS
14 128 (9.28%) VLAN
15 123 (8.91%) DHCP
16 85 (6.16%) Cisco Firepower
16 85 (6.16%) Internet
17 80 (5.80%) IPsec
18 78 (5.65%) Cisco ASA
19 61 (4.42%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (2.03%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.58%) GIS
3 7 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.14%) MySQL
4 2 (0.14%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.072%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (0.58%) GitLab
2 6 (0.43%) JIRA
3 4 (0.29%) Git
3 4 (0.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.14%) Hudson
4 2 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.072%) Selenium
General
1 206 (14.93%) Social Skills
2 99 (7.17%) Telecoms
3 94 (6.81%) Finance
4 80 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 46 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 44 (3.19%) Retail
7 30 (2.17%) Law
8 23 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 20 (1.45%) Aerospace
9 20 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (1.30%) Police
11 17 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.01%) Legal
13 12 (0.87%) Marketing
14 9 (0.65%) Banking
15 6 (0.43%) Local Government
15 6 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.36%) Advertising
16 5 (0.36%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.61%) 802.1X
2 8 (0.58%) LAMP
3 5 (0.36%) ADO
3 5 (0.36%) XMPP
4 4 (0.29%) Akka
4 4 (0.29%) HTML
5 2 (0.14%) EDI
6 1 (0.072%) CSS
6 1 (0.072%) JSON
6 1 (0.072%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.072%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 193 (13.99%) Data Centre
2 70 (5.07%) Driving Licence
3 39 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (2.32%) PKI
5 25 (1.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 23 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 19 (1.38%) Replication
8 17 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (0.94%) Security Posture
10 11 (0.80%) Public Cloud
11 7 (0.51%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.36%) Hedge funds
13 5 (0.36%) PMI
14 4 (0.29%) Educational Technology
14 4 (0.29%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.29%) NHS
15 3 (0.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (9.28%) Windows
2 99 (7.17%) Linux
3 76 (5.51%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.30%) Ubuntu
4 18 (1.30%) VyOS
5 17 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (1.16%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.58%) Android
8 8 (0.58%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.58%) VMS
9 7 (0.51%) Debian
10 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.22%) CatOS
12 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.22%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.14%) CentOS
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.072%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (13.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 175 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
3 143 (10.36%) ITIL
4 122 (8.84%) Customer Service
5 120 (8.70%) Network Monitoring
6 114 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
7 105 (7.61%) Network Design
8 90 (6.52%) Project Delivery
9 86 (6.23%) Network Management
10 75 (5.43%) Mentoring
11 66 (4.78%) Disaster Recovery
12 63 (4.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 60 (4.35%) Computer Science
14 57 (4.13%) Agile
15 52 (3.77%) Migration
16 51 (3.70%) Network Architecture
17 45 (3.26%) DevOps
17 45 (3.26%) Incident Management
17 45 (3.26%) Service Delivery
18 43 (3.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 62 (4.49%) Python
2 36 (2.61%) PowerShell
3 16 (1.16%) Bash
4 11 (0.80%) Shell Script
5 9 (0.65%) SQL
6 7 (0.51%) C#
7 5 (0.36%) Java
8 3 (0.22%) C
8 3 (0.22%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.14%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.072%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 468 (33.91%) Cisco Certification
2 298 (21.59%) Security Cleared
3 297 (21.52%) CCNP
4 280 (20.29%) CCNA
5 168 (12.17%) SC Cleared
6 129 (9.35%) Degree
7 99 (7.17%) DV Cleared
8 54 (3.91%) CCIE
8 54 (3.91%) JNCIA
9 51 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (2.25%) JNCIP
11 24 (1.74%) CISSP
12 18 (1.30%) Azure Certification
13 16 (1.16%) AWS Certification
14 15 (1.09%) CCDP
14 15 (1.09%) JNCIS
15 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
17 11 (0.80%) CCSA
18 10 (0.72%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (3.26%) SLA
2 19 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 12 (0.87%) GDPR
5 11 (0.80%) QA
6 8 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.51%) NCSC
8 6 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.22%) NIST
11 1 (0.072%) Accessibility
System Software
1 100 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 68 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (4.20%) Hyper-V
4 28 (2.03%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (1.16%) vSphere
6 10 (0.72%) Firmware
7 8 (0.58%) pfSense
8 7 (0.51%) Docker
8 7 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.36%) SRDF
10 4 (0.29%) vCloud
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 80 (5.80%) FortiGate
2 53 (3.84%) Ansible
3 31 (2.25%) Terraform
4 23 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.16%) ZABBIX
6 10 (0.72%) Kubernetes
6 10 (0.72%) Nagios
6 10 (0.72%) SCCM
7 8 (0.58%) Cisco Prime
7 8 (0.58%) Grafana
7 8 (0.58%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.36%) OfficeScan
8 5 (0.36%) Opsview
8 5 (0.36%) WSUS
9 4 (0.29%) Cacti
9 4 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.29%) Nessus
9 4 (0.29%) Puppet
10 3 (0.22%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.22%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 763 (55.29%) Cisco
2 319 (23.12%) Juniper
3 197 (14.28%) Microsoft
4 179 (12.97%) Fortinet
5 165 (11.96%) VMware
6 157 (11.38%) Palo Alto
7 129 (9.35%) Meraki
8 109 (7.90%) Aruba
9 97 (7.03%) CheckPoint
10 95 (6.88%) SolarWinds
11 72 (5.22%) F5
12 60 (4.35%) HP
13 53 (3.84%) Nokia
14 35 (2.54%) Citrix
14 35 (2.54%) Ruckus Wireless
15 33 (2.39%) Veeam
16 27 (1.96%) Dell
17 26 (1.88%) Mitel
18 21 (1.52%) Sandvine
19 20 (1.45%) Avaya