Network Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Network Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Network Engineer salary in Scotland is £63,500 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 208 187 222
Rank change year-on-year -21 +35 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 74 28 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.08% 0.65% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 0.73% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 49 20 36
10th Percentile £47,788 - £36,153
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £37,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £45,493 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.58% -17.29% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £55,530 £83,000
90th Percentile £167,400 £60,000 -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,634 3,842 6,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.72% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,931 2,088 3,091
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Scotland

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in Scotland

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in Scotland

Network Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +44 28 £75,000 +36.36% 6
Glasgow -89 21 £50,000 +25.00% 6
Aberdeen -3 12 £152,200 +176.73%
Dundee - 5 £49,990 -
West Lothian - 2 - - 3
Highlands - 2 £152,200 -
Stirling -4 1 £31,500 -18.18% 2
Lanarkshire - 1 £52,500 - 4
Renfrewshire - 1 £152,200 -
Perth and Kinross - 1 £152,200 -
Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Scotland region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (21.62%) Firewall
1 16 (21.62%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (18.92%) LAN
2 14 (18.92%) WAN
2 14 (18.92%) Network Design
3 13 (17.57%) CCNP
3 13 (17.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (12.16%) BGP
6 8 (10.81%) CI/CD
6 8 (10.81%) Cisco
6 8 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (10.81%) Azure
6 8 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (10.81%) Data Centre
6 8 (10.81%) Social Skills
7 7 (9.46%) Finance
7 7 (9.46%) Degree
7 7 (9.46%) Windows
8 6 (8.11%) VPN
8 6 (8.11%) OSPF
8 6 (8.11%) Project Planning
8 6 (8.11%) Asset Management
8 6 (8.11%) ITIL
8 6 (8.11%) Quality Management
8 6 (8.11%) Wireless
8 6 (8.11%) Project Delivery
8 6 (8.11%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (8.11%) SaaS

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (10.81%) Azure
2 6 (8.11%) SaaS
3 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.05%) GCP
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.62%) Firewall
2 14 (18.92%) LAN
2 14 (18.92%) WAN
3 9 (12.16%) BGP
4 6 (8.11%) OSPF
4 6 (8.11%) VPN
4 6 (8.11%) Wireless
5 5 (6.76%) Network Security
6 4 (5.41%) DNS
6 4 (5.41%) IPsec
7 3 (4.05%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (4.05%) VoIP
8 2 (2.70%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (2.70%) HSRP
8 2 (2.70%) MPLS
8 2 (2.70%) NX-OS
8 2 (2.70%) SAN
8 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.70%) VRRP
8 2 (2.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Git
General
1 13 (17.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.46%) Finance
4 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.35%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.05%) ADO
2 1 (1.35%) CSS
2 1 (1.35%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Data Centre
1 8 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (8.11%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (6.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.70%) PKI
5 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.35%) CCTV
6 1 (1.35%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.46%) Windows
2 5 (6.76%) Linux
3 1 (1.35%) Android
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.92%) Network Design
2 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (10.81%) CI/CD
3 8 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (8.11%) Asset Management
4 6 (8.11%) Incident Response
4 6 (8.11%) ITIL
4 6 (8.11%) Project Delivery
4 6 (8.11%) Project Planning
4 6 (8.11%) QMS
4 6 (8.11%) Quality Management
5 5 (6.76%) Configuration Management
5 5 (6.76%) DDoS Mitigation
5 5 (6.76%) Proactive Monitoring
5 5 (6.76%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (6.76%) Service Delivery
5 5 (6.76%) Software Engineering
5 5 (6.76%) Visualisation
6 4 (5.41%) Service Delivery Management
6 4 (5.41%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.41%) Python
2 3 (4.05%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (21.62%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (17.57%) CCNP
3 7 (9.46%) Degree
4 4 (5.41%) CCDP
4 4 (5.41%) CCIE
4 4 (5.41%) CCNA
4 4 (5.41%) CCSP
4 4 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.41%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.70%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.76%) Ansible
2 2 (2.70%) Puppet
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (10.81%) Cisco
2 4 (5.41%) VMware
3 3 (4.05%) Meraki
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.35%) Aruba
5 1 (1.35%) Dell
5 1 (1.35%) ForeScout
5 1 (1.35%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.35%) Splunk