Network Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 213 207
Rank change year-on-year +80 -6 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 849 360 953
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.30% 1.31% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.48% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 402 321 805
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +8.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £63,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +8.49% +7.07% -1.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 61,115 24,359 64,492
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 88.70% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 39,195 14,667 47,120
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,075 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.21%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.32% -11.67%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Network Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Network Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2026. 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
North of England +69 216 £50,000 -5.44% 67
South East -9 208 £50,000 -4.76% 76
Midlands +71 186 £55,000 +12.24% 50
West Midlands +52 126 £55,500 +12.25% 35
North West +59 100 £50,000 -9.09% 33
Yorkshire -1 89 £45,500 +1.79% 23
South West -5 86 £59,050 +6.28% 32
East of England +25 60 £60,000 +29.73% 30
East Midlands +13 60 £55,000 +29.41% 15
Scotland +20 51 £45,000 -14.20% 28
Wales 0 38 £50,000 +16.28% 17
North East -13 27 £55,000 -4.35% 11
Northern Ireland - 11 £50,000 - 4
Network Engineer
UK

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2026, Network Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 489 (57.60%) Cisco
2 408 (48.06%) Cisco Certification
3 394 (46.41%) Azure
4 361 (42.52%) Microsoft
5 351 (41.34%) CCNA
6 329 (38.75%) Network+ Certification
7 328 (38.63%) Azure Certification
8 324 (38.16%) ForeScout
9 140 (16.49%) Firewall
10 131 (15.43%) WAN
11 103 (12.13%) LAN
12 96 (11.31%) Security Cleared
13 79 (9.31%) VPN
14 71 (8.36%) CCNP
15 69 (8.13%) Network Security
16 58 (6.83%) BGP
17 55 (6.48%) Wireless
18 54 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 53 (6.24%) VLAN
20 52 (6.12%) SC Cleared
21 51 (6.01%) Fortinet
21 51 (6.01%) SD-WAN
22 50 (5.89%) AWS
23 48 (5.65%) Python
24 47 (5.54%) DV Cleared
25 40 (4.71%) VMware
26 39 (4.59%) OSPF
27 38 (4.48%) Cisco ASA
28 37 (4.36%) Network Monitoring
28 37 (4.36%) Problem-Solving

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (0.59%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.12%) Confluence
2 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 394 (46.41%) Azure
2 50 (5.89%) AWS
3 24 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
5 10 (1.18%) OpenShift
6 9 (1.06%) GCP
7 8 (0.94%) Entra ID
8 5 (0.59%) Apigee
8 5 (0.59%) Kong
9 3 (0.35%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.24%) Cloudflare
10 2 (0.24%) GitHub
11 1 (0.12%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 140 (16.49%) Firewall
2 131 (15.43%) WAN
3 103 (12.13%) LAN
4 79 (9.31%) VPN
5 69 (8.13%) Network Security
6 58 (6.83%) BGP
7 55 (6.48%) Wireless
8 53 (6.24%) VLAN
9 51 (6.01%) SD-WAN
10 39 (4.59%) OSPF
11 38 (4.48%) Cisco ASA
12 26 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
13 24 (2.83%) DNS
14 23 (2.71%) Cisco Firepower
14 23 (2.71%) TCP/IP
15 22 (2.59%) EIGRP
15 22 (2.59%) MPLS
16 20 (2.36%) Cisco ISE
17 19 (2.24%) DHCP
18 17 (2.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 10 (1.18%) GitLab
2 8 (0.94%) Git
3 2 (0.24%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.24%) JIRA
3 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 377 (44.41%) Social Skills
2 48 (5.65%) Public Sector
3 33 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (3.65%) Telecoms
5 17 (2.00%) Law
6 14 (1.65%) Manufacturing
6 14 (1.65%) Retail
7 11 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.18%) Finance
9 8 (0.94%) Marketing
10 7 (0.82%) Banking
10 7 (0.82%) Police
11 5 (0.59%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.47%) Welsh Language
13 3 (0.35%) Back Office
13 3 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.35%) Military
14 1 (0.12%) Electronics
14 1 (0.12%) Fire and Rescue
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.53%) Jinja
2 10 (1.18%) JSON
2 10 (1.18%) YAML
3 8 (0.94%) YANG
4 5 (0.59%) 802.1X
4 5 (0.59%) REST
4 5 (0.59%) XML
5 4 (0.47%) ModSecurity
6 3 (0.35%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (0.35%) NETCONF
6 3 (0.35%) XMPP
7 1 (0.12%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.18%) Data Centre
2 14 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (1.53%) Driving Licence
3 13 (1.53%) PKI
4 8 (0.94%) Operational Technology
4 8 (0.94%) Security Posture
4 8 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (0.82%) Public Cloud
6 6 (0.71%) CMDB
7 5 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.47%) Fibre Optics
8 4 (0.47%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.35%) FlexPod
9 3 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.35%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.35%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.35%) Social Media
10 2 (0.24%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.30%) Windows
2 26 (3.06%) Linux
3 14 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.59%) Unix
5 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (4.36%) Network Monitoring
2 37 (4.36%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (3.53%) Service Management
4 28 (3.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 28 (3.30%) Cybersecurity
4 28 (3.30%) ITSM
5 24 (2.83%) High Availability
5 24 (2.83%) Network Design
6 23 (2.71%) ITIL
7 22 (2.59%) Load Balancing
7 22 (2.59%) Project Delivery
8 21 (2.47%) Customer Service
9 17 (2.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (1.88%) CI/CD
11 15 (1.77%) Mentoring
11 15 (1.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (1.65%) Computer Science
12 14 (1.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (1.65%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 48 (5.65%) Python
2 11 (1.30%) PowerShell
3 5 (0.59%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.24%) Bash
4 2 (0.24%) SQL
5 1 (0.12%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 408 (48.06%) Cisco Certification
2 351 (41.34%) CCNA
3 329 (38.75%) Network+ Certification
4 328 (38.63%) Azure Certification
5 96 (11.31%) Security Cleared
6 71 (8.36%) CCNP
7 52 (6.12%) SC Cleared
8 47 (5.54%) DV Cleared
9 25 (2.94%) CCIE
10 17 (2.00%) Degree
11 14 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.47%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.47%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.24%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.24%) CCIE Data Center
13 2 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.12%) CCIE Security
14 1 (0.12%) CCSE
14 1 (0.12%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 9 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (0.94%) PMO
3 8 (0.94%) SLA
4 7 (0.82%) QA
5 6 (0.71%) NIST
6 4 (0.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (2.71%) VMware NSX
3 19 (2.24%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.41%) Firmware
5 8 (0.94%) ProxySG
6 7 (0.82%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.35%) Docker
8 3 (0.35%) vSphere
9 2 (0.24%) KVM
10 1 (0.12%) iptables
Systems Management
1 16 (1.88%) Ansible
2 12 (1.41%) Terraform
3 11 (1.30%) FortiGate
4 7 (0.82%) vCenter Server
5 6 (0.71%) Grafana
6 3 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (0.35%) Nagios
6 3 (0.35%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.24%) Graylog
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.24%) vRealize
7 2 (0.24%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.12%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.12%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.12%) OpenView
8 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 489 (57.60%) Cisco
2 361 (42.52%) Microsoft
3 324 (38.16%) ForeScout
4 51 (6.01%) Fortinet
5 40 (4.71%) VMware
6 36 (4.24%) SolarWinds
7 35 (4.12%) Palo Alto
8 34 (4.00%) Juniper
9 28 (3.30%) CheckPoint
10 27 (3.18%) F5
11 16 (1.88%) Meraki
12 15 (1.77%) Zscaler
13 14 (1.65%) Avaya
14 13 (1.53%) Aruba
14 13 (1.53%) Infoblox
15 10 (1.18%) Blue Coat
15 10 (1.18%) Red Hat
15 10 (1.18%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.94%) Dell
16 8 (0.94%) Motorola