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 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 263 193
Rank change year-on-year +154 -70 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 1,016 313 1,086
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.49% 1.03% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 1.16% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 548 264 851
10th Percentile £35,699 £35,125 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,188 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +7.53% +3.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,774 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £65,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -

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 64,481 26,973 75,169
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.51% 88.89% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,723 14,723 53,904
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,985
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +127 289 £50,000 -5.44% 64
South East +53 238 £58,000 +16.00% 60
Midlands +96 221 £60,000 +24.35% 37
West Midlands +72 159 £60,000 +22.45% 14
North West +119 139 £52,500 -0.71% 37
Yorkshire +42 121 £50,000 -13.04% 20
South West -4 94 £60,000 +9.09% 32
East of England +34 68 £50,000 - 37
East Midlands +28 62 £57,500 +21.05% 23
Scotland +53 53 £54,000 -18.63% 26
Wales -3 48 £50,000 +11.11% 14
North East -34 29 £55,000 +11.39% 7
Northern Ireland -26 12 £36,412 -30.64% 14
Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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.

1 518 (50.98%) Cisco
2 448 (44.09%) Cisco Certification
3 399 (39.27%) Azure
4 377 (37.11%) CCNA
5 366 (36.02%) Microsoft
6 336 (33.07%) Network+ Certification
7 326 (32.09%) Azure Certification
8 324 (31.89%) ForeScout
9 194 (19.09%) Firewall
10 170 (16.73%) WAN
11 145 (14.27%) LAN
12 127 (12.50%) VPN
13 126 (12.40%) Security Cleared
14 106 (10.43%) Network Security
15 104 (10.24%) CCNP
16 78 (7.68%) SC Cleared
17 75 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 73 (7.19%) BGP
18 73 (7.19%) Fortinet
19 66 (6.50%) Wireless
20 65 (6.40%) Problem-Solving
21 64 (6.30%) VLAN
22 60 (5.91%) OSPF
23 59 (5.81%) SD-WAN
24 54 (5.31%) Python
25 53 (5.22%) AWS
26 48 (4.72%) DV Cleared
27 47 (4.63%) VMware
28 46 (4.53%) High Availability
29 44 (4.33%) Network Monitoring

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 7 (0.69%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.39%) Confluence
4 1 (0.098%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 399 (39.27%) Azure
2 53 (5.22%) AWS
3 27 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 11 (1.08%) GCP
6 10 (0.98%) OpenShift
7 9 (0.89%) Entra ID
8 8 (0.79%) Cloudflare
9 5 (0.49%) Apigee
9 5 (0.49%) Kong
10 4 (0.39%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.20%) GitHub
11 2 (0.20%) OCI
12 1 (0.098%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 194 (19.09%) Firewall
2 170 (16.73%) WAN
3 145 (14.27%) LAN
4 127 (12.50%) VPN
5 106 (10.43%) Network Security
6 73 (7.19%) BGP
7 66 (6.50%) Wireless
8 64 (6.30%) VLAN
9 60 (5.91%) OSPF
10 59 (5.81%) SD-WAN
11 42 (4.13%) Cisco ASA
12 41 (4.04%) TCP/IP
13 38 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
14 37 (3.64%) DNS
15 34 (3.35%) WLAN
16 28 (2.76%) DHCP
16 28 (2.76%) EIGRP
17 23 (2.26%) MPLS
18 22 (2.17%) Cisco Firepower
19 20 (1.97%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 10 (0.98%) GitLab
2 8 (0.79%) Git
3 4 (0.39%) JIRA
4 2 (0.20%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 400 (39.37%) Social Skills
2 65 (6.40%) Public Sector
3 40 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (3.74%) Telecoms
5 18 (1.77%) Law
6 15 (1.48%) Finance
7 14 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (1.38%) Manufacturing
8 11 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (0.69%) Retail
10 6 (0.59%) Marketing
11 5 (0.49%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.49%) Back Office
11 5 (0.49%) Banking
11 5 (0.49%) Military
11 5 (0.49%) Police
12 4 (0.39%) Welsh Language
13 2 (0.20%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.098%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.28%) Jinja
2 10 (0.98%) JSON
2 10 (0.98%) YAML
3 8 (0.79%) YANG
4 5 (0.49%) 802.1X
4 5 (0.49%) REST
4 5 (0.49%) XML
5 4 (0.39%) ModSecurity
6 3 (0.30%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (0.30%) gRPC
6 3 (0.30%) NETCONF
6 3 (0.30%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 60 (5.91%) Data Centre
2 23 (2.26%) Driving Licence
3 20 (1.97%) PKI
4 15 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (0.98%) Security Posture
7 8 (0.79%) Operational Technology
8 7 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (0.59%) CMDB
9 6 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (0.59%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.49%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.39%) CCTV
11 4 (0.39%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.39%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (0.39%) Life Science
11 4 (0.39%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (0.30%) Clustering
12 3 (0.30%) FlexPod
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.74%) Windows
2 35 (3.44%) Linux
3 14 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.49%) Unix
5 1 (0.098%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 65 (6.40%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (4.53%) High Availability
4 44 (4.33%) Network Monitoring
5 42 (4.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (3.35%) Mentoring
7 32 (3.15%) Cybersecurity
8 31 (3.05%) ITIL
8 31 (3.05%) Network Design
9 29 (2.85%) Project Delivery
10 28 (2.76%) Load Balancing
11 25 (2.46%) Customer Service
12 24 (2.36%) ITSM
13 23 (2.26%) Service Management
14 20 (1.97%) CI/CD
14 20 (1.97%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (1.87%) Network Architecture
15 19 (1.87%) SIEM
16 18 (1.77%) Computer Science
16 18 (1.77%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 54 (5.31%) Python
2 17 (1.67%) PowerShell
3 8 (0.79%) Bash
4 5 (0.49%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.39%) SQL
6 1 (0.098%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 448 (44.09%) Cisco Certification
2 377 (37.11%) CCNA
3 336 (33.07%) Network+ Certification
4 326 (32.09%) Azure Certification
5 126 (12.40%) Security Cleared
6 104 (10.24%) CCNP
7 78 (7.68%) SC Cleared
8 48 (4.72%) DV Cleared
9 30 (2.95%) CCIE
10 21 (2.07%) Degree
11 15 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.79%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.69%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.30%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.30%) CISSP
16 2 (0.20%) CCIE Data Center
17 1 (0.098%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 14 (1.38%) SLA
3 12 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.69%) NIST
4 7 (0.69%) QA
5 6 (0.59%) GDPR
5 6 (0.59%) PMO
6 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.098%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.098%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 36 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (2.17%) VMware NSX
3 18 (1.77%) Active Directory
4 16 (1.57%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.18%) Firmware
6 8 (0.79%) KVM
6 8 (0.79%) vSphere
7 6 (0.59%) ProxySG
8 4 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (2.07%) Ansible
1 21 (2.07%) Terraform
2 12 (1.18%) FortiGate
3 9 (0.89%) Proxmox
4 8 (0.79%) Graylog
4 8 (0.79%) ZABBIX
5 6 (0.59%) Grafana
6 5 (0.49%) Nagios
7 4 (0.39%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.20%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.20%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.20%) vRealize
10 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.098%) OpenView
10 1 (0.098%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 518 (50.98%) Cisco
2 366 (36.02%) Microsoft
3 324 (31.89%) ForeScout
4 73 (7.19%) Fortinet
5 47 (4.63%) VMware
6 42 (4.13%) Palo Alto
7 28 (2.76%) Aruba
7 28 (2.76%) Juniper
8 27 (2.66%) SolarWinds
9 24 (2.36%) F5
10 21 (2.07%) CheckPoint
11 14 (1.38%) Veeam
11 14 (1.38%) Zscaler
12 13 (1.28%) Avaya
13 11 (1.08%) Dell
13 11 (1.08%) Meraki
14 10 (0.98%) Infoblox
14 10 (0.98%) Red Hat
15 8 (0.79%) HP
15 8 (0.79%) ServiceNow