Network Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Network Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Network Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 143 147
Rank change year-on-year +47 +4 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 18 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.18% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 0.49% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 16 3 6
10th Percentile - £43,270 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £44,425 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £42,803
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +28.50% -22.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,560 £61,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £65,124 £68,750
Scotland median annual salary £63,500 £40,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +58.75% -36.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,457 2,032 2,299
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.86% 95.49% 97.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 1,201 1,443
10th Percentile £32,700 £36,250 £33,098
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Edinburgh

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in Edinburgh

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 across the Edinburgh region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 8 (44.44%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
1 8 (44.44%) Firewall
1 8 (44.44%) LAN
1 8 (44.44%) WAN
2 7 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (33.33%) SaaS
3 6 (33.33%) Network Design
3 6 (33.33%) CCNP
3 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 6 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 6 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (27.78%) Ansible
4 5 (27.78%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (27.78%) BGP
4 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (16.67%) Python
5 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 3 (16.67%) CCNA
5 3 (16.67%) ADO
5 3 (16.67%) Git
5 3 (16.67%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) GCP
5 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
6 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
6 2 (11.11%) Puppet

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) SaaS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) Firewall
1 8 (44.44%) LAN
1 8 (44.44%) WAN
2 5 (27.78%) BGP
3 2 (11.11%) IPsec
3 2 (11.11%) OSPF
3 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.11%) VPN
3 2 (11.11%) WLAN
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (5.56%) DNS
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
General
1 6 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 7 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 6 (33.33%) Network Design
4 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (27.78%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 3 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
7 1 (5.56%) ITIL
7 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
7 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Python
1 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) CCNP
1 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (16.67%) CCNA
3 2 (11.11%) JNCIP
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) ForeScout
1 1 (5.56%) Meraki