Network Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Network Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Network Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £31,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 151 166
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 -52
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 26 24 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.60% 0.84% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.95% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 21 15 27
10th Percentile - £37,549 £34,242
25th Percentile £24,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.68% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £50,000 £51,393 £52,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £61,250
England median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 4,083 2,521 3,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 88.05% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,982 1,379 2,205
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,100
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the East Midlands

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the East Midlands

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the East Midlands

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Leicestershire -13 10 £25,000 -52.36% 2
Derbyshire +19 8 £35,750 -35.00% 3
Northamptonshire -3 4 £40,000 -15.79% 3
Lincolnshire -15 4 £50,000 +17.65%
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 28 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 East Midlands region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (65.38%) Firewall
2 16 (61.54%) Windows
2 16 (61.54%) Windows Server
3 15 (57.69%) Active Directory
3 15 (57.69%) Azure
4 14 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
7 10 (38.46%) Migration
7 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Management
8 9 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (34.62%) Driving Licence
8 9 (34.62%) GDPR
9 8 (30.77%) Preventative Maintenance
9 8 (30.77%) ITSM
9 8 (30.77%) Service Management
9 8 (30.77%) Service Delivery
10 7 (26.92%) VPN
11 6 (23.08%) TCP/IP
11 6 (23.08%) Cisco
11 6 (23.08%) CCNA
11 6 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (19.23%) DNS
12 5 (19.23%) WAN
12 5 (19.23%) DHCP
12 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 4 (15.38%) Proactive Monitoring
13 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
13 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) Azure
2 14 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
4 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.69%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (65.38%) Firewall
2 7 (26.92%) VPN
3 6 (23.08%) TCP/IP
4 5 (19.23%) DHCP
4 5 (19.23%) DNS
4 5 (19.23%) WAN
4 5 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (15.38%) VLAN
6 3 (11.54%) MPLS
6 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
6 3 (11.54%) VoIP
7 2 (7.69%) LAN
7 2 (7.69%) NAS
7 2 (7.69%) WLAN
8 1 (3.85%) BGP
8 1 (3.85%) Network Security
8 1 (3.85%) OSPF
General
1 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (61.54%) Windows
1 16 (61.54%) Windows Server
2 2 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Management
2 10 (38.46%) Migration
3 9 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (30.77%) ITSM
4 8 (30.77%) Preventative Maintenance
4 8 (30.77%) Service Delivery
4 8 (30.77%) Service Management
5 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Proactive Monitoring
7 1 (3.85%) Analytics
7 1 (3.85%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (3.85%) CI/CD
7 1 (3.85%) Customer Experience
7 1 (3.85%) Customer Service
7 1 (3.85%) Decision-Making
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (3.85%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) Bash
1 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) CCNA
1 6 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) CCNP
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
2 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.69%) pfSense
4 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Cisco
3 4 (15.38%) VMware
4 3 (11.54%) Citrix
5 2 (7.69%) Draytek
5 2 (7.69%) ESET
5 2 (7.69%) Synology
5 2 (7.69%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (3.85%) F5
6 1 (3.85%) Google
6 1 (3.85%) Juniper
6 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto