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 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 287 396
Rank change year-on-year +72 +109 -127
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 1,412 1,198 1,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.32% 1.28% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.40% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,143 904 1,253
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +7.00%
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 101,543 85,646 164,275
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 91.24% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 71,805 55,459 85,654
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,750
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 6 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 6 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 +65 1,272 £50,000 - 214
UK excluding London +43 1,056 £47,500 +5.56% 177
Work from Home -18 390 £52,500 +5.00% 77
South East +32 329 £49,000 +3.16% 64
London +74 314 £60,000 -5.97% 66
North of England -4 209 £42,500 -9.57% 22
Midlands +72 195 £46,500 +3.33% 36
West Midlands +49 161 £46,500 +3.33% 28
South West +4 153 £45,000 +7.14% 18
North West -6 139 £42,500 -15.00% 14
East of England -14 71 £45,000 -13.04% 10
Scotland -36 66 £63,500 +24.55% 28
Yorkshire +62 59 £42,500 -10.53% 7
Wales +42 42 £44,886 -0.25% 1
East Midlands -12 30 £31,500 -33.68% 8
North East -41 17 £40,750 -4.12% 2
Northern Ireland +14 3 £32,500 -23.53% 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 769 (54.46%) Cisco
2 668 (47.31%) Firewall
3 473 (33.50%) Cisco Certification
4 457 (32.37%) WAN
5 387 (27.41%) LAN
6 315 (22.31%) Juniper
7 302 (21.39%) Azure
8 301 (21.32%) CCNP
9 299 (21.18%) Security Cleared
10 278 (19.69%) CCNA
11 268 (18.98%) VPN
11 268 (18.98%) Network Security
12 265 (18.77%) Wireless
13 256 (18.13%) BGP
14 211 (14.94%) Social Skills
15 206 (14.59%) MPLS
16 202 (14.31%) Wi-Fi
16 202 (14.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 199 (14.09%) Microsoft
18 194 (13.74%) Data Centre
19 184 (13.03%) SD-WAN
20 182 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
21 181 (12.82%) Fortinet
22 172 (12.18%) OSPF
23 171 (12.11%) SC Cleared
24 164 (11.61%) VMware
25 161 (11.40%) Palo Alto
26 150 (10.62%) TCP/IP
27 147 (10.41%) DNS
28 144 (10.20%) AWS

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 43 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.99%) Skype for Business
4 9 (0.64%) IIS
5 8 (0.57%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.21%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 302 (21.39%) Azure
2 144 (10.20%) AWS
3 120 (8.50%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (3.19%) GCP
5 33 (2.34%) Entra ID
6 29 (2.05%) SaaS
7 22 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 21 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (1.49%) IaaS
9 17 (1.20%) PaaS
10 15 (1.06%) OneDrive
11 12 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (0.78%) Datadog
12 11 (0.78%) Rubrik
13 9 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (0.57%) AWS Direct Connect
15 5 (0.35%) Azure Sentinel
16 4 (0.28%) Mimecast
16 4 (0.28%) Nutanix
17 2 (0.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 668 (47.31%) Firewall
2 457 (32.37%) WAN
3 387 (27.41%) LAN
4 268 (18.98%) Network Security
4 268 (18.98%) VPN
5 265 (18.77%) Wireless
6 256 (18.13%) BGP
7 206 (14.59%) MPLS
8 202 (14.31%) Wi-Fi
9 184 (13.03%) SD-WAN
10 172 (12.18%) OSPF
11 150 (10.62%) TCP/IP
12 147 (10.41%) DNS
13 133 (9.42%) VLAN
14 122 (8.64%) DHCP
15 85 (6.02%) Cisco Firepower
15 85 (6.02%) Internet
16 84 (5.95%) IPsec
17 81 (5.74%) Cisco ASA
18 60 (4.25%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (1.98%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.57%) GIS
3 7 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.14%) MySQL
4 2 (0.14%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.071%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (0.64%) GitLab
2 6 (0.42%) JIRA
3 5 (0.35%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.28%) Git
4 4 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.14%) Hudson
6 1 (0.071%) Selenium
6 1 (0.071%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 211 (14.94%) Social Skills
2 102 (7.22%) Telecoms
3 96 (6.80%) Finance
4 82 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (3.26%) Public Sector
7 45 (3.19%) Retail
8 30 (2.12%) Law
9 24 (1.70%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.42%) Aerospace
10 20 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (1.27%) Police
12 17 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (0.99%) Legal
14 12 (0.85%) Marketing
15 9 (0.64%) Banking
16 6 (0.42%) Local Government
16 6 (0.42%) Mandarin Language
16 6 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.35%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.55%) 802.1X
2 8 (0.57%) LAMP
3 5 (0.35%) ADO
3 5 (0.35%) XMPP
4 4 (0.28%) Akka
5 3 (0.21%) HTML
6 2 (0.14%) EDI
7 1 (0.071%) CSS
7 1 (0.071%) JSON
7 1 (0.071%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (0.071%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 194 (13.74%) Data Centre
2 71 (5.03%) Driving Licence
3 40 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (2.20%) PKI
5 26 (1.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 23 (1.63%) Management Information System
7 19 (1.35%) Replication
8 18 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (0.99%) Security Posture
11 11 (0.78%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.50%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.42%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.35%) PMI
15 4 (0.28%) CCTV
15 4 (0.28%) Educational Technology
15 4 (0.28%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (0.28%) Hedge funds
15 4 (0.28%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 128 (9.07%) Windows
2 99 (7.01%) Linux
3 76 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 17 (1.20%) VyOS
5 17 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (1.13%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.57%) Android
8 8 (0.57%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.57%) VMS
9 7 (0.50%) Debian
10 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.21%) CatOS
12 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.21%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.14%) CentOS
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.071%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (14.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 182 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
3 143 (10.13%) ITIL
4 124 (8.78%) Customer Service
5 121 (8.57%) Network Monitoring
6 116 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
7 107 (7.58%) Network Design
8 91 (6.44%) Network Management
9 90 (6.37%) Project Delivery
10 77 (5.45%) Mentoring
11 64 (4.53%) Disaster Recovery
12 63 (4.46%) Computer Science
12 63 (4.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (4.11%) Agile
14 52 (3.68%) Migration
15 51 (3.61%) Network Architecture
16 47 (3.33%) DevOps
17 45 (3.19%) Incident Management
18 44 (3.12%) Roadmaps
18 44 (3.12%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 63 (4.46%) Python
2 35 (2.48%) PowerShell
3 17 (1.20%) Bash
4 11 (0.78%) Shell Script
5 8 (0.57%) SQL
6 6 (0.42%) C#
7 5 (0.35%) Java
8 3 (0.21%) C
8 3 (0.21%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.14%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.071%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 473 (33.50%) Cisco Certification
2 301 (21.32%) CCNP
3 299 (21.18%) Security Cleared
4 278 (19.69%) CCNA
5 171 (12.11%) SC Cleared
6 134 (9.49%) Degree
7 98 (6.94%) DV Cleared
8 57 (4.04%) CCIE
9 53 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (3.75%) JNCIA
10 30 (2.12%) JNCIP
11 24 (1.70%) CISSP
12 18 (1.27%) Azure Certification
13 16 (1.13%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.13%) JNCIS
14 15 (1.06%) CCDP
15 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.85%) CCSA
16 12 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
17 9 (0.64%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (3.26%) SLA
2 19 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 12 (0.85%) GDPR
5 11 (0.78%) QA
6 8 (0.57%) NCSC
6 8 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.35%) NIST
8 5 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.071%) Accessibility
System Software
1 100 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 68 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (4.11%) Hyper-V
4 28 (1.98%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (1.13%) vSphere
6 10 (0.71%) Firmware
7 8 (0.57%) pfSense
8 7 (0.50%) Docker
8 7 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.35%) SRDF
10 4 (0.28%) vCloud
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 84 (5.95%) FortiGate
2 54 (3.82%) Ansible
3 31 (2.20%) Terraform
4 23 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.13%) ZABBIX
6 10 (0.71%) Kubernetes
6 10 (0.71%) SCCM
7 9 (0.64%) Nagios
8 8 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
8 8 (0.57%) Grafana
8 8 (0.57%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.35%) Nessus
9 5 (0.35%) OfficeScan
9 5 (0.35%) Opsview
9 5 (0.35%) Puppet
9 5 (0.35%) WSUS
10 4 (0.28%) Cacti
11 3 (0.21%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.21%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 769 (54.46%) Cisco
2 315 (22.31%) Juniper
3 199 (14.09%) Microsoft
4 181 (12.82%) Fortinet
5 164 (11.61%) VMware
6 161 (11.40%) Palo Alto
7 129 (9.14%) Meraki
8 109 (7.72%) Aruba
9 99 (7.01%) CheckPoint
10 97 (6.87%) SolarWinds
11 72 (5.10%) F5
12 60 (4.25%) HP
13 51 (3.61%) Nokia
14 38 (2.69%) Citrix
15 33 (2.34%) Ruckus Wireless
15 33 (2.34%) Veeam
16 27 (1.91%) Dell
17 26 (1.84%) Mitel
18 21 (1.49%) Sandvine
19 20 (1.42%) Avaya