NOC Engineer Jobs

Network Operations Centre Engineer
UK

The median Network Operations Centre Engineer salary in the UK is £41,250 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 895 871 1174
Rank change year-on-year -24 +303 -281
Permanent jobs requiring a NOC Engineer 12 76 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.080% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.088% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 10 71 73
10th Percentile £31,125 £33,750 £30,165
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £41,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £47,302 £43,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £51,950 £53,750 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,500 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -13.10% +5.00% -

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%

NOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NOC Engineer in the UK

NOC Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for NOC Engineer in the UK

NOC Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for NOC Engineer in the UK

NOC Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NOC 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 -28 11 £40,000 -3.61% 11
UK excluding London -69 10 £36,500 -13.10% 10
South East -34 3 £42,500 +1.19% 1
North West - 3 £33,000 - 2
North of England - 3 £33,000 - 2
South West -30 2 £32,500 -7.14% 2
London +89 1 £50,500 +29.49% 1
Work from Home +29 1 £52,500 +23.53% 8
Midlands -14 1 - - 5
West Midlands -15 1 - - 5
Wales - 1 £46,138 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, NOC 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 NOC Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (41.67%) CCNA
4 4 (33.33%) CCNP
4 4 (33.33%) Linux
5 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Firewall
5 3 (25.00%) Information Security Management
5 3 (25.00%) Security Management
5 3 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (25.00%) VMware
5 3 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (25.00%) Information Security
5 3 (25.00%) MCSE
5 3 (25.00%) MCSA
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (25.00%) Internet
5 3 (25.00%) OSPF
5 3 (25.00%) BGP
5 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 3 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (25.00%) Raspberry Pi
5 3 (25.00%) Wireshark
6 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 2 (16.67%) Social Skills

NOC 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) BGP
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
1 3 (25.00%) Internet
1 3 (25.00%) OSPF
1 3 (25.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (25.00%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (8.33%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Information Security
1 3 (25.00%) Information Security Management
1 3 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 3 (25.00%) Security Management
1 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) Fault Analysis
3 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (8.33%) Change Control
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (8.33%) Fault Management
3 1 (8.33%) Focus Group
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL
3 1 (8.33%) ITSM
3 1 (8.33%) Line Management
3 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (8.33%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 1 (8.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (41.67%) CCNA
3 4 (33.33%) CCNP
4 3 (25.00%) MCSA
4 3 (25.00%) MCSE
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (16.67%) JNCIP
5 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 1 (8.33%) JNCIA
6 1 (8.33%) JNCIE
6 1 (8.33%) JNCIS
6 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds