Network Engineer Jobs in Cardiff

Network Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Network Engineer salary in Cardiff is £41,067 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 62 87
Rank change year-on-year +4 +25 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 8 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.22% 0.70% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 0.77% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 7
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,175 £44,250
25th Percentile £35,075 £34,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,067 £38,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -19.47% +23.38%
75th Percentile £52,813 £41,813 £48,750
90th Percentile £54,875 £43,725 £49,250
South Wales median annual salary £44,886 £38,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year +17.35% -10.00% +10.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 615 522 824
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.47% 90.78% 96.71%
Number of salaries quoted 535 396 618
10th Percentile £27,157 £31,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £40,000 £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,086 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% -4.60% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,383 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £46,604 £45,496 £49,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% -7.15% +8.89%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Cardiff

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in Cardiff

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 across the Cardiff region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 6 (75.00%) Network Security
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
3 5 (62.50%) AWS
3 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 5 (62.50%) LAN
3 5 (62.50%) WAN
3 5 (62.50%) DNS
4 4 (50.00%) Linux
4 4 (50.00%) CCNA
4 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
5 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (37.50%) Network Management
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Analysis
5 3 (37.50%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (37.50%) VoIP
5 3 (37.50%) DHCP
5 3 (37.50%) VPN
5 3 (37.50%) Wireless
5 3 (37.50%) CCNP
5 3 (37.50%) VMware
6 2 (25.00%) VLAN
6 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (25.00%) Welsh Language
6 2 (25.00%) SonicWALL
6 2 (25.00%) Migration

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (12.50%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) Network Security
3 5 (62.50%) DNS
3 5 (62.50%) LAN
3 5 (62.50%) WAN
4 3 (37.50%) DHCP
4 3 (37.50%) VoIP
4 3 (37.50%) VPN
4 3 (37.50%) Wireless
5 2 (25.00%) BGP
5 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
5 2 (25.00%) IPsec
5 2 (25.00%) MPLS
5 2 (25.00%) VLAN
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Welsh Language
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
1 3 (37.50%) Network Management
1 3 (37.50%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (37.50%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Line Management
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
3 1 (12.50%) Security Patching
3 1 (12.50%) SIEM
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CCNA
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (37.50%) CCNP
3 1 (12.50%) CISMP
3 1 (12.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (25.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) SonicWALL
4 1 (12.50%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft