Network Engineer
UK

The median Network Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 285 385
Rank change year-on-year +60 +100 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 1,330 1,230 1,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.30% 1.26% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.38% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,104 915 1,251
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,500 £32,306
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the UK

Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the UK

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the UK

Network Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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
England +63 1,206 £49,000 -2.00% 264
UK excluding London +40 996 £47,500 +5.56% 211
Work from Home -14 370 £52,250 +4.50% 107
South East +36 315 £49,000 +3.16% 61
London +92 292 £59,750 -8.08% 89
North of England 0 196 £42,500 -9.57% 28
Midlands +73 190 £46,500 +3.33% 37
West Midlands +72 157 £46,500 +3.33% 30
South West +5 145 £45,000 +7.14% 31
North West -4 130 £42,500 -15.00% 16
East of England -6 66 £47,500 -8.21% 16
Yorkshire +62 55 £43,750 -12.50% 11
Scotland -30 53 £65,000 +27.49% 31
Wales +32 40 £44,886 -0.25% 10
East Midlands -5 29 £31,500 -30.00% 7
North East -32 17 £40,750 -4.12% 2
Northern Ireland +14 3 £32,500 -29.73% 3

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 job ads featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 744 (55.94%) Cisco
2 645 (48.50%) Firewall
3 454 (34.14%) Cisco Certification
4 453 (34.06%) WAN
5 383 (28.80%) LAN
6 318 (23.91%) Juniper
7 294 (22.11%) Security Cleared
8 290 (21.80%) CCNP
9 280 (21.05%) Azure
10 270 (20.30%) CCNA
11 259 (19.47%) Wireless
12 255 (19.17%) VPN
13 253 (19.02%) Network Security
14 243 (18.27%) BGP
15 203 (15.26%) MPLS
16 200 (15.04%) Social Skills
17 196 (14.74%) Wi-Fi
18 192 (14.44%) Data Centre
19 191 (14.36%) Microsoft
20 186 (13.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 185 (13.91%) SD-WAN
22 177 (13.31%) Fortinet
23 170 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
24 165 (12.41%) SC Cleared
25 163 (12.26%) VMware
26 162 (12.18%) OSPF
27 159 (11.95%) Palo Alto
28 146 (10.98%) DNS
28 146 (10.98%) TCP/IP
29 141 (10.60%) ITIL

Network 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:

Application Platforms
1 45 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.05%) Skype for Business
4 9 (0.68%) IIS
5 8 (0.60%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.28%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 280 (21.05%) Azure
2 132 (9.92%) AWS
3 115 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (2.78%) GCP
5 32 (2.41%) Entra ID
6 26 (1.95%) SaaS
7 22 (1.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 20 (1.50%) IaaS
9 19 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.13%) OneDrive
10 15 (1.13%) PaaS
11 12 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (0.90%) Datadog
11 12 (0.90%) Rubrik
12 10 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (0.60%) AWS Direct Connect
14 5 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (0.38%) Nutanix
15 3 (0.23%) Mimecast
16 2 (0.15%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 645 (48.50%) Firewall
2 453 (34.06%) WAN
3 383 (28.80%) LAN
4 259 (19.47%) Wireless
5 255 (19.17%) VPN
6 253 (19.02%) Network Security
7 243 (18.27%) BGP
8 203 (15.26%) MPLS
9 196 (14.74%) Wi-Fi
10 185 (13.91%) SD-WAN
11 162 (12.18%) OSPF
12 146 (10.98%) DNS
12 146 (10.98%) TCP/IP
13 126 (9.47%) VLAN
14 121 (9.10%) DHCP
15 84 (6.32%) Cisco Firepower
16 80 (6.02%) Internet
17 78 (5.86%) IPsec
18 75 (5.64%) Cisco ASA
19 61 (4.59%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (2.03%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.60%) GIS
3 7 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.15%) MySQL
4 2 (0.15%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.075%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (0.60%) GitLab
2 6 (0.45%) JIRA
3 4 (0.30%) Git
3 4 (0.30%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.15%) Hudson
4 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.075%) Selenium
General
1 200 (15.04%) Social Skills
2 95 (7.14%) Telecoms
3 90 (6.77%) Finance
4 81 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (3.38%) Public Sector
7 41 (3.08%) Retail
8 30 (2.26%) Law
9 22 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.50%) Aerospace
11 18 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.28%) Police
13 14 (1.05%) Legal
14 12 (0.90%) Marketing
15 9 (0.68%) Banking
16 6 (0.45%) Local Government
16 6 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.38%) Advertising
17 5 (0.38%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.78%) 802.1X
2 8 (0.60%) LAMP
3 5 (0.38%) ADO
3 5 (0.38%) HTML
3 5 (0.38%) XMPP
4 4 (0.30%) Akka
5 1 (0.075%) CSS
5 1 (0.075%) EDI
5 1 (0.075%) JSON
5 1 (0.075%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.075%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 192 (14.44%) Data Centre
2 68 (5.11%) Driving Licence
3 38 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (2.48%) PKI
5 22 (1.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 22 (1.65%) Management Information System
6 19 (1.43%) Replication
7 17 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (0.98%) Security Posture
9 10 (0.75%) Public Cloud
10 6 (0.45%) Hedge funds
10 6 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.38%) CMDB
11 5 (0.38%) PMI
11 5 (0.38%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.30%) Educational Technology
12 4 (0.30%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.30%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 129 (9.70%) Windows
2 98 (7.37%) Linux
3 75 (5.64%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.35%) VyOS
5 17 (1.28%) Ubuntu
5 17 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (1.13%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.60%) Android
8 8 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.60%) VMS
9 7 (0.53%) Debian
10 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.23%) CatOS
12 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.23%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.075%) CentOS
14 1 (0.075%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (13.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 170 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
3 141 (10.60%) ITIL
4 120 (9.02%) Customer Service
5 117 (8.80%) Network Monitoring
6 111 (8.35%) Cybersecurity
7 104 (7.82%) Network Design
8 90 (6.77%) Project Delivery
9 84 (6.32%) Network Management
10 74 (5.56%) Mentoring
11 65 (4.89%) Disaster Recovery
12 61 (4.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (4.29%) Computer Science
14 56 (4.21%) Agile
15 53 (3.98%) Migration
16 49 (3.68%) Network Architecture
17 45 (3.38%) Incident Management
17 45 (3.38%) Service Delivery
18 43 (3.23%) Roadmaps
19 42 (3.16%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (4.36%) Python
2 34 (2.56%) PowerShell
3 15 (1.13%) Bash
4 11 (0.83%) Shell Script
5 9 (0.68%) SQL
6 8 (0.60%) C#
7 5 (0.38%) Java
8 4 (0.30%) C
9 3 (0.23%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.15%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.075%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 454 (34.14%) Cisco Certification
2 294 (22.11%) Security Cleared
3 290 (21.80%) CCNP
4 270 (20.30%) CCNA
5 165 (12.41%) SC Cleared
6 123 (9.25%) Degree
7 98 (7.37%) DV Cleared
8 53 (3.98%) CCIE
9 52 (3.91%) JNCIA
10 49 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (2.26%) JNCIP
12 23 (1.73%) CISSP
13 17 (1.28%) Azure Certification
14 16 (1.20%) AWS Certification
15 15 (1.13%) CCDP
16 13 (0.98%) JNCIS
16 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
17 12 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
18 11 (0.83%) CCSA
19 10 (0.75%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (3.08%) SLA
2 16 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 12 (0.90%) GDPR
5 11 (0.83%) QA
6 8 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.53%) NCSC
8 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.15%) NIST
12 1 (0.075%) Accessibility
System Software
1 98 (7.37%) Active Directory
2 68 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (4.36%) Hyper-V
4 26 (1.95%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (1.13%) vSphere
6 9 (0.68%) Firmware
7 8 (0.60%) pfSense
8 7 (0.53%) Docker
8 7 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.38%) SRDF
10 4 (0.30%) vCloud
11 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.075%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 78 (5.86%) FortiGate
2 50 (3.76%) Ansible
3 30 (2.26%) Terraform
4 23 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.20%) ZABBIX
6 11 (0.83%) Nagios
7 10 (0.75%) SCCM
8 9 (0.68%) Kubernetes
9 8 (0.60%) Cisco Prime
9 8 (0.60%) Grafana
10 7 (0.53%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.38%) OfficeScan
11 5 (0.38%) Opsview
11 5 (0.38%) WSUS
12 4 (0.30%) Cacti
12 4 (0.30%) Nessus
12 4 (0.30%) Puppet
12 4 (0.30%) Stealthwatch
13 3 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 744 (55.94%) Cisco
2 318 (23.91%) Juniper
3 191 (14.36%) Microsoft
4 177 (13.31%) Fortinet
5 163 (12.26%) VMware
6 159 (11.95%) Palo Alto
7 127 (9.55%) Meraki
8 109 (8.20%) Aruba
9 98 (7.37%) CheckPoint
10 96 (7.22%) SolarWinds
11 70 (5.26%) F5
12 59 (4.44%) HP
13 53 (3.98%) Nokia
14 36 (2.71%) Citrix
15 34 (2.56%) Ruckus Wireless
16 33 (2.48%) Veeam
17 26 (1.95%) Dell
17 26 (1.95%) Mitel
18 22 (1.65%) Sandvine
19 20 (1.50%) Zscaler