Network Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Network Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Engineer salary in Work from Home is £52,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 May 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 269 378
Rank change year-on-year -5 +109 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 367 500 660
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.08% 1.25% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.31% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 304 413 504
10th Percentile £36,325 £35,050 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,045 £41,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,724 38,299 70,013
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.14% 95.94% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,047 27,230 42,182
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Network Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Engineer.

Network Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Engineer over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Network Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 24 May 2024, 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 214 (58.31%) Firewall
2 212 (57.77%) Cisco
3 145 (39.51%) Cisco Certification
4 143 (38.96%) WAN
5 137 (37.33%) LAN
6 108 (29.43%) Network Security
7 100 (27.25%) VPN
8 95 (25.89%) CCNP
9 92 (25.07%) CCNA
10 87 (23.71%) Azure
11 82 (22.34%) Wireless
11 82 (22.34%) MPLS
12 79 (21.53%) BGP
13 75 (20.44%) Juniper
13 75 (20.44%) Palo Alto
14 74 (20.16%) SD-WAN
14 74 (20.16%) Wi-Fi
15 71 (19.35%) Social Skills
16 64 (17.44%) OSPF
16 64 (17.44%) TCP/IP
17 62 (16.89%) Data Centre
18 59 (16.08%) Meraki
19 58 (15.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 58 (15.80%) Fortinet
20 52 (14.17%) AWS
21 50 (13.62%) ITIL
22 48 (13.08%) CheckPoint
23 47 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
24 44 (11.99%) Microsoft
25 42 (11.44%) DNS

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.82%) Simulink
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 87 (23.71%) Azure
2 52 (14.17%) AWS
3 18 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.00%) Entra ID
5 7 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.63%) AWS Direct Connect
6 6 (1.63%) Datadog
6 6 (1.63%) GCP
6 6 (1.63%) Rubrik
7 5 (1.36%) SaaS
8 4 (1.09%) PaaS
9 3 (0.82%) IaaS
10 2 (0.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.54%) GitHub
10 2 (0.54%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.27%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (0.27%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.27%) Serverless
11 1 (0.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 214 (58.31%) Firewall
2 143 (38.96%) WAN
3 137 (37.33%) LAN
4 108 (29.43%) Network Security
5 100 (27.25%) VPN
6 82 (22.34%) MPLS
6 82 (22.34%) Wireless
7 79 (21.53%) BGP
8 74 (20.16%) SD-WAN
8 74 (20.16%) Wi-Fi
9 64 (17.44%) OSPF
9 64 (17.44%) TCP/IP
10 42 (11.44%) DNS
11 39 (10.63%) VLAN
12 32 (8.72%) WLAN
13 30 (8.17%) DHCP
14 28 (7.63%) Ethernet
15 26 (7.08%) IPsec
16 22 (5.99%) IPv4
17 21 (5.72%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.54%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.27%) GitLab
1 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.27%) JIRA
General
1 71 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 32 (8.72%) Finance
3 22 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.45%) Telecoms
5 19 (5.18%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.54%) Law
8 9 (2.45%) Banking
9 8 (2.18%) Retail
10 7 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.63%) Police
12 5 (1.36%) Advertising
12 5 (1.36%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.09%) Publishing
14 3 (0.82%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.82%) Military
14 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.54%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.54%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.54%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.63%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.36%) XMPP
3 1 (0.27%) ADO
3 1 (0.27%) JSON
3 1 (0.27%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (0.27%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 62 (16.89%) Data Centre
2 23 (6.27%) Driving Licence
3 15 (4.09%) PKI
4 13 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (1.91%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.09%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.09%) Replication
10 3 (0.82%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (0.82%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.54%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.54%) Hedge funds
12 1 (0.27%) CMDB
12 1 (0.27%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.27%) NHS
12 1 (0.27%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.27%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.72%) Linux
2 30 (8.17%) Windows
3 12 (3.27%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.82%) Android
4 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) CentOS
5 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.27%) Unix
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (15.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 50 (13.62%) ITIL
3 47 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (10.63%) Cybersecurity
5 34 (9.26%) Customer Service
5 34 (9.26%) Network Monitoring
6 29 (7.90%) Network Design
7 22 (5.99%) Network Management
8 19 (5.18%) Migration
9 18 (4.90%) Cloud Security
9 18 (4.90%) Mentoring
10 17 (4.63%) Computer Science
11 16 (4.36%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (4.36%) Kalman Filter
11 16 (4.36%) Presales
11 16 (4.36%) Project Delivery
12 14 (3.81%) Agile
13 13 (3.54%) Load Balancing
14 12 (3.27%) Network Architecture
14 12 (3.27%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.00%) Python
2 5 (1.36%) Java
3 4 (1.09%) C#
4 3 (0.82%) MATLAB
5 2 (0.54%) Bash
5 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.27%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 145 (39.51%) Cisco Certification
2 95 (25.89%) CCNP
3 92 (25.07%) CCNA
4 42 (11.44%) Security Cleared
5 33 (8.99%) Degree
6 28 (7.63%) SC Cleared
7 20 (5.45%) CCIE
8 13 (3.54%) CCDP
8 13 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.54%) JNCIP
9 12 (3.27%) AWS Certification
10 11 (3.00%) CISSP
11 8 (2.18%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.18%) CCSA
12 7 (1.91%) JNCIA
13 6 (1.63%) DV Cleared
14 5 (1.36%) CCSP
15 4 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 4 (1.09%) JNCIE
15 4 (1.09%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.90%) SLA
2 8 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.54%) NIST
3 2 (0.54%) QA
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (5.99%) Hyper-V
2 20 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.63%) pfSense
4 6 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.36%) vSphere
6 4 (1.09%) vCloud
7 3 (0.82%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.54%) Docker
8 2 (0.54%) Firmware
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (9.26%) FortiGate
2 17 (4.63%) Ansible
3 7 (1.91%) Grafana
3 7 (1.91%) ZABBIX
4 6 (1.63%) Terraform
5 3 (0.82%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (0.82%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.82%) Nagios
5 3 (0.82%) OfficeScan
5 3 (0.82%) WSUS
6 2 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.54%) Puppet
6 2 (0.54%) Rundeck
6 2 (0.54%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (0.54%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 212 (57.77%) Cisco
2 75 (20.44%) Juniper
2 75 (20.44%) Palo Alto
3 59 (16.08%) Meraki
4 58 (15.80%) Fortinet
5 48 (13.08%) CheckPoint
6 44 (11.99%) Microsoft
7 39 (10.63%) VMware
8 34 (9.26%) Aruba
9 31 (8.45%) SolarWinds
10 27 (7.36%) HP
11 22 (5.99%) F5
12 16 (4.36%) Nokia
13 13 (3.54%) Dell
14 9 (2.45%) LogicMonitor
15 8 (2.18%) Draytek
16 7 (1.91%) Zscaler
17 6 (1.63%) NetApp
17 6 (1.63%) Ubiquiti
17 6 (1.63%) Veeam