Network Management Jobs

Network Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Network Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Network Management over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 594 846
Rank change year-on-year +207 +252 -186
Permanent jobs citing Network Management 696 346 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.37% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.39% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 242 230 334
10th Percentile £32,050 £34,000 £30,802
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,219 £41,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% +16.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Network Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,730 89,109 165,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.44% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 62,034 53,947 83,947
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Network Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Management.

Salary trend for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Management over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Management in the UK

Network Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
UK excluding London +142 560 £51,500 -6.36% 71
England +132 485 £60,000 +4.35% 77
North of England +96 130 £50,000 - 18
South East +16 121 £60,000 -7.69% 12
London +107 93 £70,000 +21.74% 19
North West +58 87 £50,000 - 11
South West +9 77 £42,500 -37.04% 7
Scotland +5 69 £52,750 +50.71% 15
Work from Home +6 68 £67,000 +29.87% 31
Wales +65 61 £44,886 -38.09% 2
Midlands -29 50 £50,000 -20.00% 11
Yorkshire +88 42 £70,000 +37.25% 5
Northern Ireland +56 40 £47,500 -9.52%
East Midlands -4 34 £50,000 +34.74% 4
West Midlands -25 15 £57,500 -8.00% 7
East of England -38 12 £60,000 +13.21% 6
North East -17 1 £32,500 -19.50% 3

Network Management
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 19 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.01%) Skype for Business
3 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.57%) Confluence
4 4 (0.57%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 31 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 71 (10.20%) Azure
2 39 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (5.32%) AWS
4 14 (2.01%) Entra ID
5 12 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (1.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (1.44%) IaaS
8 9 (1.29%) Datadog
8 9 (1.29%) OneDrive
8 9 (1.29%) Rubrik
8 9 (1.29%) SaaS
9 8 (1.15%) PaaS
10 7 (1.01%) AWS Direct Connect
10 7 (1.01%) GCP
11 4 (0.57%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.43%) Mimecast
13 2 (0.29%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.29%) OCI
13 2 (0.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (0.29%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 368 (52.87%) VSAT
2 110 (15.80%) Firewall
3 92 (13.22%) WAN
4 66 (9.48%) LAN
5 65 (9.34%) Wireless
6 59 (8.48%) MPLS
7 55 (7.90%) Network Security
8 49 (7.04%) BGP
9 47 (6.75%) SD-WAN
10 43 (6.18%) DNS
11 42 (6.03%) TCP/IP
12 41 (5.89%) VPN
13 40 (5.75%) OSPF
14 37 (5.32%) SNMP
15 35 (5.03%) VLAN
16 29 (4.17%) DHCP
17 27 (3.88%) Wi-Fi
18 20 (2.87%) EIGRP
19 18 (2.59%) IPsec
20 17 (2.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.87%) MySQL
1 13 (1.87%) Relational Database
2 4 (0.57%) Metabase
2 4 (0.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.29%) Big Data
4 1 (0.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (1.87%) Eclipse
2 4 (0.57%) JIRA
2 4 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (0.43%) GCC
3 3 (0.43%) GitLab
3 3 (0.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 68 (9.77%) Social Skills
2 63 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
2 63 (9.05%) Finance
3 33 (4.74%) Law
4 32 (4.60%) Telecoms
5 28 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (3.02%) Banking
7 20 (2.87%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.87%) Local Government
9 12 (1.72%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.29%) Legal
10 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.72%) Police
13 3 (0.43%) Automotive
13 3 (0.43%) Back Office
13 3 (0.43%) Retail
14 2 (0.29%) Billing
14 2 (0.29%) Marketing
14 2 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 410 (58.91%) Architect
2 368 (52.87%) Software Architect
3 93 (13.36%) Network Engineer
4 82 (11.78%) Senior
5 58 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
6 29 (4.17%) Network Architect
7 26 (3.74%) Network Manager
7 26 (3.74%) Support Engineer
8 25 (3.59%) Analyst
9 19 (2.73%) Technical Support
10 18 (2.59%) IT Manager
11 16 (2.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 16 (2.30%) Technical Engineer
12 15 (2.16%) Technical Support Engineer
13 14 (2.01%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
13 14 (2.01%) Senior Technical Engineer
14 13 (1.87%) IT Engineer
14 13 (1.87%) IT Support
14 13 (1.87%) Senior Technical Support
14 13 (1.87%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.02%) HTML
2 20 (2.87%) XML
3 18 (2.59%) 802.1X
4 13 (1.87%) Ajax
4 13 (1.87%) AngularJS
4 13 (1.87%) CSS
4 13 (1.87%) JDBC
4 13 (1.87%) ODBC
4 13 (1.87%) REST
4 13 (1.87%) SOAP
4 13 (1.87%) Web Services
4 13 (1.87%) XHTML
5 5 (0.72%) NETCONF
6 4 (0.57%) Middleware
7 2 (0.29%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.91%) Data Centre
2 45 (6.47%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.16%) Cyber Threat
4 16 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.16%) CMDB
5 15 (2.16%) IoT
6 12 (1.72%) Driving Licence
7 11 (1.58%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.29%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.01%) Cyberattack
9 7 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.86%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (0.57%) Raspberry Pi
11 4 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.57%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.43%) IVR
12 3 (0.43%) PKI
13 2 (0.29%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.29%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 66 (9.48%) Windows
2 49 (7.04%) Linux
3 25 (3.59%) Unix
3 25 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.15%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.57%) VMS
6 4 (0.57%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.43%) CatOS
7 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.29%) Solaris
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (54.17%) Network Architecture
2 375 (53.88%) Requirements Management
3 369 (53.02%) Validation
4 368 (52.87%) Model Validation
5 366 (52.59%) Technical Architecture
6 365 (52.44%) TOGAF
7 333 (47.84%) Actionable Insight
8 59 (8.48%) Cybersecurity
9 58 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (6.61%) ITIL
11 41 (5.89%) Mentoring
12 38 (5.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (5.17%) Project Management
14 34 (4.89%) Network Design
14 34 (4.89%) Presales
14 34 (4.89%) Roadmaps
15 33 (4.74%) Disaster Recovery
15 33 (4.74%) SIEM
16 31 (4.45%) Computer Science
17 29 (4.17%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 47 (6.75%) Python
2 29 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 15 (2.16%) Java
4 14 (2.01%) Perl
5 13 (1.87%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.29%) SQL
7 3 (0.43%) Bash
8 2 (0.29%) C#
9 1 (0.14%) Ruby
9 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 78 (11.21%) Degree
2 59 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 44 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
4 39 (5.60%) SC Cleared
5 26 (3.74%) CCNA
6 19 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.59%) CCNP
8 11 (1.58%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.58%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.01%) CCIE
10 6 (0.86%) CISSP
11 5 (0.72%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.72%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.72%) PMP
12 4 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.57%) CCSP
12 4 (0.57%) CRISC
12 4 (0.57%) GIAC
13 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (2.87%) SLA
3 11 (1.58%) NIST
4 10 (1.44%) GDPR
5 8 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 6 (0.86%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.57%) NCSC
9 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.29%) COSHH
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.14%) GxP
11 1 (0.14%) QA
System Software
1 36 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.01%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.01%) Firmware
5 5 (0.72%) vSphere
6 4 (0.57%) pfSense
7 3 (0.43%) KVM
7 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 25 (3.59%) Ansible
2 14 (2.01%) Terraform
3 13 (1.87%) WMI
4 12 (1.72%) Progress Chef
4 12 (1.72%) Puppet
5 10 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.15%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.86%) Endace
8 2 (0.29%) CASB
8 2 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.29%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.29%) Nessus
8 2 (0.29%) PaperCut
8 2 (0.29%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.29%) WhatsUp Gold
8 2 (0.29%) WSUS
9 1 (0.14%) CFEngine
9 1 (0.14%) SCCM
9 1 (0.14%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 115 (16.52%) Cisco
2 94 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 47 (6.75%) SolarWinds
4 32 (4.60%) VMware
5 29 (4.17%) Juniper
6 28 (4.02%) Palo Alto
7 27 (3.88%) Meraki
8 25 (3.59%) Fortinet
9 24 (3.45%) Aruba
10 19 (2.73%) Veeam
11 16 (2.30%) Mitel
12 15 (2.16%) Oracle
13 14 (2.01%) Avaya
14 13 (1.87%) Splunk
15 12 (1.72%) HP
16 11 (1.58%) F5
17 10 (1.44%) CheckPoint
17 10 (1.44%) Dell
17 10 (1.44%) LogicMonitor
17 10 (1.44%) NetApp