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 £53,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 November 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 148 168
Rank change year-on-year -120 +20 +123
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 287 788 634
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.65% 2.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.74% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 223 468 558
10th Percentile £37,700 £34,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.44% +6.32% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £57,188
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,565 £65,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 32,986 45,395 29,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.68% 94.81% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 20,445 24,466 22,021
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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
South East -98 79 £55,000 - 84
North of England -52 60 £50,000 +5.26% 16
Midlands -3 59 £50,000 +4.71% 33
West Midlands -2 45 £45,000 -10.00% 26
South West -22 30 £55,000 +29.41% 10
North West -28 25 £48,500 -3.00% 8
Scotland -39 25 £70,000 +40.00% 21
East of England +9 20 £60,000 +4.35% 20
Yorkshire -12 20 £67,500 +35.00% 5
North East -3 15 £48,750 +15.38% 3
East Midlands +13 14 £55,000 +57.14% 7
Northern Ireland +10 7 £57,500 -4.17% 6
Wales -11 6 £49,750 +13.07% 9
Isle of Man +9 1 £60,000 +53.85%
Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 November 2025, 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.

1 195 (67.94%) Cisco
2 151 (52.61%) Firewall
3 108 (37.63%) WAN
4 103 (35.89%) LAN
5 102 (35.54%) Cisco Certification
6 82 (28.57%) Azure
7 73 (25.44%) CCNP
8 68 (23.69%) Security Cleared
8 68 (23.69%) VPN
9 67 (23.34%) Network Security
10 65 (22.65%) Fortinet
11 62 (21.60%) CCNA
12 58 (20.21%) Microsoft
13 55 (19.16%) Juniper
14 53 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
15 52 (18.12%) Palo Alto
16 51 (17.77%) SD-WAN
17 49 (17.07%) BGP
18 48 (16.72%) Wireless
19 47 (16.38%) Meraki
20 44 (15.33%) SolarWinds
21 40 (13.94%) SC Cleared
22 39 (13.59%) OSPF
23 38 (13.24%) DV Cleared
24 37 (12.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
24 37 (12.89%) Network Monitoring
25 36 (12.54%) CheckPoint
26 35 (12.20%) VLAN
27 33 (11.50%) Wi-Fi
28 32 (11.15%) Network Design

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 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.79%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 82 (28.57%) Azure
2 22 (7.67%) AWS
3 14 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.83%) GCP
5 6 (2.09%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.74%) OCI
7 3 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.70%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 151 (52.61%) Firewall
2 108 (37.63%) WAN
3 103 (35.89%) LAN
4 68 (23.69%) VPN
5 67 (23.34%) Network Security
6 51 (17.77%) SD-WAN
7 49 (17.07%) BGP
8 48 (16.72%) Wireless
9 39 (13.59%) OSPF
10 35 (12.20%) VLAN
11 33 (11.50%) Wi-Fi
12 32 (11.15%) TCP/IP
13 28 (9.76%) Cisco Firepower
13 28 (9.76%) DNS
14 27 (9.41%) MPLS
14 27 (9.41%) WLAN
15 24 (8.36%) DHCP
16 23 (8.01%) Cisco IOS
16 23 (8.01%) Cisco ISE
17 22 (7.67%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.88%) GIS
2 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.39%) JIRA
2 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.35%) GitLab
General
1 64 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.76%) Finance
3 17 (5.92%) Telecoms
4 15 (5.23%) Manufacturing
5 14 (4.88%) Fire and Rescue
5 14 (4.88%) Legal
5 14 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.09%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.09%) Automotive
8 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.74%) Retail
9 3 (1.05%) Advertising
9 3 (1.05%) Law
10 1 (0.35%) Military
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Police
10 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.09%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.05%) Middleware
2 3 (1.05%) REST
3 1 (0.35%) LDAP
3 1 (0.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (15.33%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.57%) Driving Licence
3 14 (4.88%) SCADA
4 13 (4.53%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.83%) PKI
6 6 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.09%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.09%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.39%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.05%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.05%) iPad
9 3 (1.05%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.70%) CCTV
10 2 (0.70%) CMDB
10 2 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.70%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.76%) Windows
2 18 (6.27%) Windows Server
3 13 (4.53%) Linux
4 6 (2.09%) Unix
5 5 (1.74%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.05%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (12.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (12.89%) Network Monitoring
3 32 (11.15%) Network Design
4 30 (10.45%) Change Management
5 29 (10.10%) Customer Service
6 27 (9.41%) Load Balancing
7 23 (8.01%) Network Virtualisation
8 21 (7.32%) ITSM
9 20 (6.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (6.62%) ITIL
10 19 (6.62%) Roadmaps
10 19 (6.62%) Service Management
11 18 (6.27%) High Availability
12 17 (5.92%) Asset Management
12 17 (5.92%) Incident Management
12 17 (5.92%) Network Management
13 16 (5.57%) Agile
13 16 (5.57%) Mentoring
13 16 (5.57%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (6.97%) Python
2 10 (3.48%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.05%) Bash
3 3 (1.05%) VB
4 1 (0.35%) C
4 1 (0.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (35.54%) Cisco Certification
2 73 (25.44%) CCNP
3 68 (23.69%) Security Cleared
4 62 (21.60%) CCNA
5 40 (13.94%) SC Cleared
6 38 (13.24%) DV Cleared
7 15 (5.23%) Degree
8 10 (3.48%) JNCIS
9 9 (3.14%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.79%) CCIE
10 8 (2.79%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (2.09%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.74%) JNCIA
13 2 (0.70%) CCDA
13 2 (0.70%) CCDP
13 2 (0.70%) CCSP
13 2 (0.70%) CWAP
13 2 (0.70%) CWDP
13 2 (0.70%) CWNA
13 2 (0.70%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.09%) GDPR
2 6 (2.09%) SLA
3 4 (1.39%) NIST
4 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.70%) QA
5 1 (0.35%) GRC
5 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 19 (6.62%) Firmware
2 14 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.53%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.70%) KVM
5 2 (0.70%) RHEV
5 2 (0.70%) vSphere
5 2 (0.70%) Xen
6 1 (0.35%) NFS
Systems Management
1 30 (10.45%) FortiGate
2 27 (9.41%) Ansible
3 13 (4.53%) Terraform
4 11 (3.83%) vCenter Server
5 9 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.44%) Nagios
7 3 (1.05%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (1.05%) Grafana
7 3 (1.05%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.05%) SCCM
8 2 (0.70%) CASB
8 2 (0.70%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.35%) Nessus
9 1 (0.35%) VxRail
9 1 (0.35%) WMI
9 1 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 195 (67.94%) Cisco
2 65 (22.65%) Fortinet
3 58 (20.21%) Microsoft
4 55 (19.16%) Juniper
5 52 (18.12%) Palo Alto
6 47 (16.38%) Meraki
7 44 (15.33%) SolarWinds
8 36 (12.54%) CheckPoint
9 23 (8.01%) F5
10 22 (7.67%) VMware
11 17 (5.92%) Aruba
12 10 (3.48%) Broadcom
12 10 (3.48%) Zscaler
13 7 (2.44%) HP
13 7 (2.44%) ServiceNow
14 6 (2.09%) Citrix
14 6 (2.09%) Dell
15 5 (1.74%) Splunk
16 4 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
16 4 (1.39%) Veeam