Senior Network Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 585 689
Rank change year-on-year +62 +104 -138
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 268 143 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.29% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 178 120 141
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,710 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,875 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £67,750 £68,750 £83,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +13.64%

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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South West +5 66 £45,000 - 5
South East -3 58 £60,000 -7.69% 16
Midlands -9 47 £52,500 +14.70% 9
West Midlands +18 43 £52,500 +14.70% 6
North of England -3 38 £60,000 +14.29% 8
Scotland -42 31 £50,000 -16.67% 5
Wales - 24 £44,886 - 4
North West -41 20 £60,000 +14.29% 3
Yorkshire +68 14 £40,000 -30.43% 4
East of England -16 5 £55,000 -8.33% 1
North East -15 4 £70,000 +42.49% 1
East Midlands -29 4 £40,000 -10.72% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 - 2
Senior Network Engineer
UK

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 139 (51.87%) Firewall
2 138 (51.49%) Cisco
3 71 (26.49%) Cisco Certification
4 64 (23.88%) WAN
5 59 (22.01%) Wireless
6 56 (20.90%) Security Cleared
7 52 (19.40%) CCNP
8 43 (16.04%) Juniper
9 42 (15.67%) LAN
10 41 (15.30%) Network Security
11 40 (14.93%) Microsoft
11 40 (14.93%) SD-WAN
12 39 (14.55%) Cisco ASA
12 39 (14.55%) Network Management
13 34 (12.69%) CheckPoint
14 33 (12.31%) CCNA
15 31 (11.57%) Data Centre
16 30 (11.19%) MPLS
16 30 (11.19%) SC Cleared
16 30 (11.19%) VMware
17 27 (10.07%) DV Cleared
17 27 (10.07%) OSPF
17 27 (10.07%) VPN
18 26 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
18 26 (9.70%) AWS
18 26 (9.70%) Meraki
19 25 (9.33%) Azure
19 25 (9.33%) Palo Alto
19 25 (9.33%) Social Skills
20 24 (8.96%) BGP

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (5.22%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 26 (9.70%) AWS
2 25 (9.33%) Azure
3 2 (0.75%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (0.75%) IaaS
3 2 (0.75%) PaaS
3 2 (0.75%) SaaS
3 2 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.37%) GCP
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 139 (51.87%) Firewall
2 64 (23.88%) WAN
3 59 (22.01%) Wireless
4 42 (15.67%) LAN
5 41 (15.30%) Network Security
6 40 (14.93%) SD-WAN
7 39 (14.55%) Cisco ASA
8 30 (11.19%) MPLS
9 27 (10.07%) OSPF
9 27 (10.07%) VPN
10 24 (8.96%) BGP
10 24 (8.96%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (8.21%) Cisco ISE
12 20 (7.46%) Software-Defined Networking
13 17 (6.34%) Cisco Firepower
13 17 (6.34%) DNS
14 14 (5.22%) IP Telephony
14 14 (5.22%) WLAN
15 13 (4.85%) NGFW
16 11 (4.10%) EIGRP
Development Applications
1 4 (1.49%) GitLab
General
1 25 (9.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (7.09%) Aerospace
3 18 (6.72%) Retail
4 15 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.60%) Finance
5 14 (5.22%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.61%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.61%) Police
8 5 (1.87%) Law
8 5 (1.87%) Local Government
8 5 (1.87%) Military
9 4 (1.49%) Marketing
10 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.12%) Welsh Language
11 2 (0.75%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.75%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.57%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.73%) Driving Licence
3 4 (1.49%) Educational Technology
3 4 (1.49%) Virtual Team
4 2 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (0.75%) CCTV
4 2 (0.75%) CMDB
4 2 (0.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (0.75%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (0.75%) Management Information System
4 2 (0.75%) Molecular Biology
4 2 (0.75%) PKI
4 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
4 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.37%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.37%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.10%) Linux
2 6 (2.24%) Windows
3 2 (0.75%) Android
3 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (14.55%) Network Management
2 26 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (8.58%) Network Monitoring
4 22 (8.21%) Incident Management
5 21 (7.84%) Actionable Insight
5 21 (7.84%) Agile
6 19 (7.09%) Business Continuity
6 19 (7.09%) ITIL
7 17 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (6.34%) Network Architecture
8 16 (5.97%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (5.60%) Network Design
10 14 (5.22%) Collaborative Working
10 14 (5.22%) Computer Science
10 14 (5.22%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 13 (4.85%) Customer Requirements
11 13 (4.85%) Mentoring
12 10 (3.73%) Project Delivery
12 10 (3.73%) Risk Management
12 10 (3.73%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.84%) Python
2 4 (1.49%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.75%) C
Qualifications
1 71 (26.49%) Cisco Certification
2 56 (20.90%) Security Cleared
3 52 (19.40%) CCNP
4 33 (12.31%) CCNA
5 30 (11.19%) SC Cleared
6 27 (10.07%) DV Cleared
7 20 (7.46%) Degree
8 14 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (4.85%) CCIE
10 9 (3.36%) AWS Certification
10 9 (3.36%) JNCIA
11 8 (2.99%) CCSA
12 7 (2.61%) JNCIS
13 6 (2.24%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.87%) CWNA
15 4 (1.49%) Master's Degree
16 3 (1.12%) HND
16 3 (1.12%) JNCIP
17 1 (0.37%) JNCIE
17 1 (0.37%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.10%) SLA
2 8 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (2.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (5.60%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.49%) Docker
3 4 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.49%) vSphere
4 3 (1.12%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.75%) Firmware
5 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (8.58%) Ansible
2 17 (6.34%) Terraform
3 14 (5.22%) FortiGate
4 7 (2.61%) Cisco Prime
5 5 (1.87%) Opsview
5 5 (1.87%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.49%) Cacti
6 4 (1.49%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.75%) Nagios
7 2 (0.75%) Puppet
7 2 (0.75%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.37%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 138 (51.49%) Cisco
2 43 (16.04%) Juniper
3 40 (14.93%) Microsoft
4 34 (12.69%) CheckPoint
5 30 (11.19%) VMware
6 26 (9.70%) Meraki
7 25 (9.33%) Palo Alto
8 21 (7.84%) Aruba
9 17 (6.34%) Fortinet
10 15 (5.60%) Mitel
11 14 (5.22%) Avaya
12 11 (4.10%) Nokia
13 9 (3.36%) HP
14 7 (2.61%) SolarWinds
15 6 (2.24%) F5
16 5 (1.87%) Dell
16 5 (1.87%) Ruckus Wireless
17 3 (1.12%) Ekahau
17 3 (1.12%) Extreme Networks
18 2 (0.75%) Snow