Core Network Engineer Jobs in England

Core Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Core Network Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 816 908 1154
Rank change year-on-year +92 +246 -293
Permanent jobs requiring a Core Network Engineer 32 6 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.007% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.008% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 16 6 14
10th Percentile £46,875 - £48,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £77,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +52.38% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £53,750
90th Percentile - - £67,500
UK median annual salary £71,250 £80,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.94% +52.38% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Core Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Core Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Core Network Engineer in England

Core Network Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Core Network Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Core Network Engineer in England

Core Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Core Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Core Network Engineer in England

Core Network Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Core Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +119 17 £60,000 -25.00% 1
South East - 8 - - 1
North of England - 5 - - 2
Yorkshire - 3 - - 2
North West - 2 - -
East of England - 2 £45,000 -
Core Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Core 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 across the England region featuring Core Network Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (81.25%) MPLS
2 19 (59.38%) Juniper
3 18 (56.25%) BGP
4 16 (50.00%) Nokia
5 13 (40.63%) Firewall
6 10 (31.25%) TCP/IP
7 9 (28.13%) VPN
7 9 (28.13%) OSPF
7 9 (28.13%) Network Design
8 8 (25.00%) JNCIA
8 8 (25.00%) SLA
9 7 (21.88%) JNCIP
10 6 (18.75%) VPLS
10 6 (18.75%) RSVP
11 5 (15.63%) Cisco
11 5 (15.63%) Wireshark
12 4 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 4 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 4 (12.50%) Meraki
12 4 (12.50%) Mentoring
12 4 (12.50%) FortiGate
12 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
12 4 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (12.50%) DDoS Mitigation
12 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
12 4 (12.50%) VXLAN
12 4 (12.50%) tcpdump
12 4 (12.50%) Unified Communications
12 4 (12.50%) F5
12 4 (12.50%) ITIL

Core Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 26 (81.25%) MPLS
2 18 (56.25%) BGP
3 13 (40.63%) Firewall
4 10 (31.25%) TCP/IP
5 9 (28.13%) OSPF
5 9 (28.13%) VPN
6 6 (18.75%) RSVP
6 6 (18.75%) VPLS
7 5 (15.63%) Wireshark
8 4 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (12.50%) SD-WAN
8 4 (12.50%) tcpdump
8 4 (12.50%) Unified Communications
8 4 (12.50%) VXLAN
8 4 (12.50%) WAN
9 3 (9.38%) Broadband
9 3 (9.38%) Internet
10 1 (3.13%) WPA
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 4 (12.50%) Law
1 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 4 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (3.13%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Network Design
2 4 (12.50%) Application Security
2 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (12.50%) DDoS Mitigation
2 4 (12.50%) ITIL
2 4 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 4 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis
3 1 (3.13%) Network Management
3 1 (3.13%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (3.13%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (3.13%) Statistics
3 1 (3.13%) Test Automation
3 1 (3.13%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.13%) Bash
1 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) JNCIA
2 7 (21.88%) JNCIP
3 2 (6.25%) CCNA
3 2 (6.25%) CCNP
3 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.13%) CCDA
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.13%) Iperf
2 1 (3.13%) Nmap
Vendors
1 19 (59.38%) Juniper
2 16 (50.00%) Nokia
3 5 (15.63%) Cisco
4 4 (12.50%) F5
4 4 (12.50%) Meraki
5 1 (3.13%) Dell
5 1 (3.13%) Extreme Networks