NOC Engineer Job Trends

Network Operations Centre Engineer
UK

The median Network Operations Centre Engineer salary in the UK is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 November 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 642 716 704
Rank change year-on-year +74 -12 +319
Permanent jobs requiring a NOC Engineer 34 26 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.067% 0.038% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.040% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 33 23 32
10th Percentile - £29,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,500 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £33,200 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -20.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £38,750 £40,625 £43,000
90th Percentile £40,000 £44,750 £43,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,000 £32,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year - -23.81% +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 45,461 64,621 51,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.20% 95.05% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 27,361 36,679 40,142
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,650
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

NOC Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'NOC Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

NOC Engineer job vacancy trend 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
Top 6 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 1 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
UK excluding London +71 27 £32,000 - 4
England +91 25 £32,250 -2.86% 4
South East +33 9 £31,000 -27.06% 3
South West - 9 £32,500 -
Northern Ireland - 9 £37,500 -
London +42 7 £40,000 +20.48% 1

NOC Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 November 2025, NOC 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 featuring NOC Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (73.53%) Firewall
1 25 (73.53%) Security Cleared
2 24 (70.59%) CCNA
2 24 (70.59%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (67.65%) Customer Service
4 18 (52.94%) SC Cleared
5 17 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
5 17 (50.00%) JNCIA
5 17 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
5 17 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 17 (50.00%) Proactive Management
5 17 (50.00%) Starlink
5 17 (50.00%) VSAT
5 17 (50.00%) Web Filtering
6 11 (32.35%) Windows
7 10 (29.41%) Cisco
8 9 (26.47%) ITIL
8 9 (26.47%) Juniper
9 7 (20.59%) LAN
9 7 (20.59%) SolarWinds
9 7 (20.59%) WAN
10 6 (17.65%) ADSL
10 6 (17.65%) Ethernet
10 6 (17.65%) Remedy
10 6 (17.65%) Service Delivery
10 6 (17.65%) SLA
10 6 (17.65%) VPN
11 5 (14.71%) Network Monitoring
11 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
12 2 (5.88%) High Availability

NOC Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (73.53%) Firewall
2 17 (50.00%) VSAT
3 7 (20.59%) LAN
3 7 (20.59%) WAN
4 6 (17.65%) ADSL
4 6 (17.65%) Ethernet
4 6 (17.65%) VPN
5 1 (2.94%) BGP
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (2.94%) OSPF
General
1 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (32.35%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) Customer Service
2 17 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 17 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 17 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 17 (50.00%) Proactive Management
2 17 (50.00%) Web Filtering
3 9 (26.47%) ITIL
4 6 (17.65%) Service Delivery
5 5 (14.71%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (5.88%) High Availability
6 2 (5.88%) Network Optimisation
7 1 (2.94%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 25 (73.53%) Security Cleared
2 24 (70.59%) CCNA
2 24 (70.59%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (52.94%) SC Cleared
4 17 (50.00%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
1 1 (2.94%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (50.00%) Starlink
2 10 (29.41%) Cisco
3 9 (26.47%) Juniper
4 7 (20.59%) SolarWinds
5 6 (17.65%) Remedy
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft