NOC Engineer Job Trends

Network Operations Centre Engineer
UK

The median Network Operations Centre Engineer salary in the UK is £32,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 637 761 712
Rank change year-on-year +124 -49 +379
Permanent jobs requiring a NOC Engineer 33 25 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.032% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.034% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 32 22 57
10th Percentile - £29,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £33,200 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -19.02% +2.50%
75th Percentile £33,838 £39,688 £43,000
90th Percentile £39,875 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,000 £33,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year -6.06% -21.43% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 44,026 73,874 58,090
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 95.25% 93.95%
Number of salaries quoted 25,758 44,964 44,983
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

NOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NOC Engineer in the UK

NOC Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for NOC Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for NOC Engineer job vacancies in the UK

NOC Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NOC Engineer over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for NOC Engineer in the UK

NOC Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NOC Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 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
UK excluding London +108 30 £31,000 -6.06% 8
England +123 28 £31,000 -6.63% 3
South West +87 14 £32,000 -1.54%
South East +48 11 £31,000 -22.50% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £37,500 - 5
London +81 3 £40,000 +20.48%
Work from Home +79 1 £47,500 +2.70%
Scotland - 1 £47,500 -

NOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, NOC 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 featuring NOC Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (87.88%) Cisco Certification
1 29 (87.88%) Firewall
1 29 (87.88%) Security Cleared
2 28 (84.85%) CCNA
3 27 (81.82%) Customer Service
4 25 (75.76%) SC Cleared
5 24 (72.73%) VSAT
5 24 (72.73%) JNCIA
5 24 (72.73%) Starlink
5 24 (72.73%) Kalman Filter
5 24 (72.73%) Mentoring
5 24 (72.73%) Web Filtering
5 24 (72.73%) Proactive Management
5 24 (72.73%) Commercial Awareness
6 6 (18.18%) Cisco
7 5 (15.15%) ITIL
7 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
8 4 (12.12%) Windows
8 4 (12.12%) LAN
8 4 (12.12%) VPN
8 4 (12.12%) Juniper
8 4 (12.12%) SolarWinds
9 3 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
9 3 (9.09%) Law
9 3 (9.09%) Remedy
9 3 (9.09%) Service Delivery
9 3 (9.09%) SLA
9 3 (9.09%) WAN
9 3 (9.09%) Ethernet
9 3 (9.09%) ADSL

NOC Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 29 (87.88%) Firewall
2 24 (72.73%) VSAT
3 4 (12.12%) LAN
3 4 (12.12%) VPN
4 3 (9.09%) ADSL
4 3 (9.09%) Ethernet
4 3 (9.09%) WAN
5 1 (3.03%) BGP
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (3.03%) OSPF
5 1 (3.03%) Wireless
General
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (81.82%) Customer Service
2 24 (72.73%) Commercial Awareness
2 24 (72.73%) Kalman Filter
2 24 (72.73%) Mentoring
2 24 (72.73%) Proactive Management
2 24 (72.73%) Web Filtering
3 5 (15.15%) ITIL
4 3 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (9.09%) Service Delivery
5 2 (6.06%) ITSM
6 1 (3.03%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 29 (87.88%) Cisco Certification
1 29 (87.88%) Security Cleared
2 28 (84.85%) CCNA
3 25 (75.76%) SC Cleared
4 24 (72.73%) JNCIA
5 1 (3.03%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
1 1 (3.03%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (72.73%) Starlink
2 6 (18.18%) Cisco
3 4 (12.12%) Juniper
3 4 (12.12%) SolarWinds
4 3 (9.09%) Remedy