Network Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Network Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £46,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 186 170
Rank change year-on-year +68 -16 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 151 80 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.02% 1.28% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 1.42% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 124 65 98
10th Percentile £26,700 £30,750 £31,600
25th Percentile £33,313 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £56,250 £48,258 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £58,100 £60,000
England median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 7,068 5,623 7,051
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 90.14% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 5,273 3,232 4,781
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Birmingham +38 66 £43,227 -13.55% 9
Staffordshire -17 24 £52,500 +24.26% 8
Coventry +37 19 £46,090 +22.91% 1
Warwickshire +45 15 £57,500 +16.75% 4
Worcestershire -15 8 £52,500 +16.34% 1
Solihull +4 5 £26,900 -11.80% 8
Sutton Coldfield - 3 - -
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 West Midlands region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 100 (66.23%) Cisco
2 88 (58.28%) Firewall
3 63 (41.72%) Security Cleared
4 62 (41.06%) SC Cleared
5 52 (34.44%) Azure
6 48 (31.79%) WAN
7 44 (29.14%) Juniper
7 44 (29.14%) SD-WAN
8 40 (26.49%) Cisco Certification
9 38 (25.17%) CheckPoint
10 37 (24.50%) MPLS
11 35 (23.18%) CCNA
12 33 (21.85%) AWS
13 29 (19.21%) Palo Alto
14 26 (17.22%) Finance
15 24 (15.89%) Network Security
16 23 (15.23%) IPsec
17 22 (14.57%) CCNP
17 22 (14.57%) VPN
17 22 (14.57%) Network Monitoring
18 20 (13.25%) Cybersecurity
19 19 (12.58%) Meraki
19 19 (12.58%) Aruba
19 19 (12.58%) ITIL
19 19 (12.58%) Wi-Fi
19 19 (12.58%) Wireless
20 18 (11.92%) Service Management
20 18 (11.92%) LAN
21 17 (11.26%) DNS
22 15 (9.93%) Problem-Solving

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (34.44%) Azure
2 33 (21.85%) AWS
3 13 (8.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 12 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.31%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (1.99%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.32%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 88 (58.28%) Firewall
2 48 (31.79%) WAN
3 44 (29.14%) SD-WAN
4 37 (24.50%) MPLS
5 24 (15.89%) Network Security
6 23 (15.23%) IPsec
7 22 (14.57%) VPN
8 19 (12.58%) Wi-Fi
8 19 (12.58%) Wireless
9 18 (11.92%) LAN
10 17 (11.26%) DNS
11 14 (9.27%) BGP
11 14 (9.27%) OSPF
12 13 (8.61%) VLAN
13 12 (7.95%) Cisco Firepower
14 11 (7.28%) TCP/IP
14 11 (7.28%) WLAN
15 9 (5.96%) Cisco ASA
15 9 (5.96%) DHCP
16 8 (5.30%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.32%) MySQL
1 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.32%) JIRA
1 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (17.22%) Finance
2 14 (9.27%) Telecoms
3 12 (7.95%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.96%) Police
4 9 (5.96%) Retail
5 8 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.64%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.31%) Law
8 3 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Legal
9 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.95%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.62%) Driving Licence
2 8 (5.30%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.99%) CMDB
3 3 (1.99%) PKI
4 2 (1.32%) NHS
5 1 (0.66%) CCTV
5 1 (0.66%) EPoS
5 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.66%) IoT
5 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.95%) Windows
2 8 (5.30%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.97%) Linux
4 2 (1.32%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (14.57%) Network Monitoring
2 20 (13.25%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (12.58%) ITIL
4 18 (11.92%) Service Management
5 15 (9.93%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (9.27%) Change Management
6 14 (9.27%) Customer Service
7 13 (8.61%) Mentoring
8 12 (7.95%) Configuration Management
8 12 (7.95%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (7.95%) Fault Management
8 12 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (6.62%) Project Delivery
10 9 (5.96%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 8 (5.30%) ITSM
11 8 (5.30%) Migration
11 8 (5.30%) Network Architecture
11 8 (5.30%) Programme Management
12 7 (4.64%) Change Control
12 7 (4.64%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.99%) C
1 3 (1.99%) SQL
2 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 63 (41.72%) Security Cleared
2 62 (41.06%) SC Cleared
3 40 (26.49%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (23.18%) CCNA
5 22 (14.57%) CCNP
6 9 (5.96%) Degree
7 8 (5.30%) AWS Certification
7 8 (5.30%) CCSA
8 6 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.97%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.31%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (2.65%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.65%) JNCIA
11 3 (1.99%) MCSE
11 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (5.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (3.31%) QA
4 2 (1.32%) GDPR
4 2 (1.32%) SLA
5 1 (0.66%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (6.62%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.30%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (3.97%) Nagios
2 3 (1.99%) Ansible
2 3 (1.99%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.32%) SCCM
4 1 (0.66%) Icinga
4 1 (0.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 100 (66.23%) Cisco
2 44 (29.14%) Juniper
3 38 (25.17%) CheckPoint
4 29 (19.21%) Palo Alto
5 19 (12.58%) Aruba
5 19 (12.58%) Meraki
6 12 (7.95%) VMware
7 11 (7.28%) Microsoft
8 10 (6.62%) Fortinet
9 9 (5.96%) SolarWinds
10 7 (4.64%) Zscaler
11 6 (3.97%) Avaya
11 6 (3.97%) F5
11 6 (3.97%) HP
12 4 (2.65%) ZyXEL
13 3 (1.99%) Ericsson
13 3 (1.99%) Infoblox
13 3 (1.99%) Ruckus Wireless
13 3 (1.99%) Sophos
14 2 (1.32%) Acronis