Network Engineer Jobs in the East of England

Network Engineer
England > East of England

The median Network Engineer salary in the East of England is £46,250 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 169 178 202
Rank change year-on-year +9 +24 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 59 63 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.97% 1.15% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.36% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 50 26 66
10th Percentile - £35,125 £35,625
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £51,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +3.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £58,750
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 of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 5,686 4,637 5,973
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 84.28% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,338 2,300 2,889
10th Percentile £25,809 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £37,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £76,400
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the East of England

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the East of England

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

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

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the East of England

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire +35 24 £45,000 -15.09% 7
Suffolk -2 15 £55,000 +30.95% 3
Norfolk - 11 £45,000 -
Cambridgeshire +11 7 £35,000 -41.67% 5
Bedfordshire +17 2 £55,000 +4.76% 1
Network Engineer
England

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

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 of England region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (69.49%) Firewall
2 31 (52.54%) Cisco
3 24 (40.68%) LAN
4 21 (35.59%) Security Cleared
5 19 (32.20%) SC Cleared
5 19 (32.20%) WAN
5 19 (32.20%) Juniper
6 18 (30.51%) VPN
7 16 (27.12%) Azure
7 16 (27.12%) AWS
8 13 (22.03%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (20.34%) SD-WAN
10 11 (18.64%) Network Security
11 10 (16.95%) VMware Infrastructure
11 10 (16.95%) CheckPoint
11 10 (16.95%) VMware
12 9 (15.25%) DNS
12 9 (15.25%) Auto-Scaling
13 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
13 8 (13.56%) Load Balancing
13 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (11.86%) CI/CD
14 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
14 7 (11.86%) VLAN
14 7 (11.86%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (11.86%) Linux
14 7 (11.86%) Configuration Management
14 7 (11.86%) GCP
14 7 (11.86%) Driving Licence
14 7 (11.86%) DevOps

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (10.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.12%) AWS
1 16 (27.12%) Azure
2 7 (11.86%) GCP
3 6 (10.17%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.39%) IaaS
4 2 (3.39%) PaaS
4 2 (3.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (69.49%) Firewall
2 24 (40.68%) LAN
3 19 (32.20%) WAN
4 18 (30.51%) VPN
5 12 (20.34%) SD-WAN
6 11 (18.64%) Network Security
7 9 (15.25%) DNS
8 7 (11.86%) VLAN
8 7 (11.86%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (10.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 6 (10.17%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (10.17%) Wireless
10 4 (6.78%) BGP
10 4 (6.78%) MPLS
10 4 (6.78%) TCP/IP
11 3 (5.08%) DMZ
11 3 (5.08%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (5.08%) IPsec
11 3 (5.08%) OSPF
11 3 (5.08%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) GitLab
1 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.69%) Selenium
General
1 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.17%) Finance
3 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.69%) Law
4 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Driving Licence
2 6 (10.17%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.08%) PKI
4 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.69%) IoT
5 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Linux
2 6 (10.17%) Debian
2 6 (10.17%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.39%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (15.25%) Auto-Scaling
2 8 (13.56%) Load Balancing
2 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (11.86%) CI/CD
3 7 (11.86%) Configuration Management
3 7 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (11.86%) DevOps
4 6 (10.17%) Network Monitoring
4 6 (10.17%) Roadmaps
5 5 (8.47%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (6.78%) Computer Science
6 4 (6.78%) Line Management
6 4 (6.78%) Project Delivery
7 3 (5.08%) Customer Service
7 3 (5.08%) High Availability
7 3 (5.08%) Network Design
7 3 (5.08%) Presales
7 3 (5.08%) Reverse Engineering
8 2 (3.39%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.17%) Shell Script
2 2 (3.39%) Bash
2 2 (3.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (35.59%) Security Cleared
2 19 (32.20%) SC Cleared
3 13 (22.03%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (10.17%) CCNA
4 6 (10.17%) CCNP
5 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.78%) DBS Check
5 4 (6.78%) Degree
6 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) JNCIA
System Software
1 10 (16.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.78%) vSphere
4 1 (1.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) ZABBIX
2 4 (6.78%) FortiGate
3 2 (3.39%) Ansible
4 1 (1.69%) Iperf
4 1 (1.69%) Nmap
4 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.69%) Puppet
4 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (52.54%) Cisco
2 19 (32.20%) Juniper
3 10 (16.95%) CheckPoint
3 10 (16.95%) VMware
4 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
5 7 (11.86%) F5
6 6 (10.17%) Aruba
6 6 (10.17%) Fortinet
6 6 (10.17%) Red Hat
7 4 (6.78%) Palo Alto
8 3 (5.08%) Meraki
9 2 (3.39%) Blue Coat
9 2 (3.39%) Infoblox
9 2 (3.39%) Riverbed
10 1 (1.69%) Nokia
10 1 (1.69%) SolarWinds