Network Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

Network Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Network Engineer salary in Cheshire is £41,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 61 87
Rank change year-on-year -28 +26 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 12 33 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.79% 3.47% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 3.88% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 9
10th Percentile - - £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £46,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £47,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,593 £75,000 £56,250
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £42,500 £47,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.57% +10.59% -7.10%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,481 850 986
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.05% 89.29% 93.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,114 483 529
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,170 £24,925
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,824 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,375 £88,750 £72,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Cheshire

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in Cheshire

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in Cheshire

Network Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Warrington - 7 £35,000 - 2
Chester 0 1 - -
Network Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 Cheshire region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (83.33%) Firewall
3 7 (58.33%) CCNP
3 7 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (41.67%) Juniper
4 5 (41.67%) OSPF
4 5 (41.67%) BGP
4 5 (41.67%) Network Design
4 5 (41.67%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (41.67%) Azure
4 5 (41.67%) Aruba
4 5 (41.67%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (33.33%) AWS
5 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
5 4 (33.33%) DMVPN
5 4 (33.33%) Service Desk Management
5 4 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (33.33%) GCP
5 4 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
5 4 (33.33%) Network Security
5 4 (33.33%) Google
5 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) Retail
5 4 (33.33%) EIGRP
5 4 (33.33%) IPsec

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) BGP
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (41.67%) OSPF
3 4 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 4 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (33.33%) DMVPN
3 4 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 4 (33.33%) IPsec
3 4 (33.33%) Network Security
3 4 (33.33%) SSL
3 4 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (16.67%) VLAN
5 1 (8.33%) DMZ
5 1 (8.33%) LAN
5 1 (8.33%) NX-OS
5 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (8.33%) WAN
5 1 (8.33%) Wireless
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 4 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Network Design
1 5 (41.67%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 4 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Service Desk Management
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (8.33%) Security Management
3 1 (8.33%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) CCNP
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CCNA
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) JNCIA
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) Aruba
2 5 (41.67%) Juniper
3 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 4 (33.33%) Google
3 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (8.33%) Arista
4 1 (8.33%) HP
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Sun