Network Engineer Jobs in England

Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Engineer salary in England is £49,000 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 213 286 366
Rank change year-on-year +73 +80 -133
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 1,195 1,154 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.41% 1.24% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.35% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 821 1,056
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,757 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +6.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 26 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
South East +27 299 £49,000 +3.16% 69
London +107 294 £59,500 -4.80% 70
North of England -7 191 £42,500 -9.57% 46
Midlands +80 184 £46,500 +9.41% 36
South West +21 165 £49,000 +14.62% 30
West Midlands +88 154 £46,500 +9.67% 28
North West +1 129 £42,500 -9.57% 27
East of England +20 59 £46,250 -10.63% 12
Yorkshire +66 52 £45,000 -11.74% 15
East Midlands -15 26 £31,500 -33.68% 8
North East -27 18 £42,500 - 6
Network Engineer
UK

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

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 England region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 726 (60.75%) Cisco
2 613 (51.30%) Firewall
3 470 (39.33%) WAN
4 447 (37.41%) Cisco Certification
5 409 (34.23%) LAN
6 313 (26.19%) Juniper
7 287 (24.02%) Security Cleared
8 275 (23.01%) CCNA
9 272 (22.76%) CCNP
10 251 (21.00%) Azure
11 245 (20.50%) Wireless
12 236 (19.75%) BGP
13 234 (19.58%) VPN
14 194 (16.23%) Network Security
15 192 (16.07%) Wi-Fi
16 184 (15.40%) Social Skills
17 183 (15.31%) MPLS
18 173 (14.48%) SD-WAN
19 172 (14.39%) Microsoft
20 168 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 168 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
21 165 (13.81%) Data Centre
22 164 (13.72%) Fortinet
23 162 (13.56%) OSPF
24 159 (13.31%) VMware
25 155 (12.97%) Palo Alto
26 143 (11.97%) TCP/IP
27 139 (11.63%) SC Cleared
28 133 (11.13%) DNS
28 133 (11.13%) ITIL

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 49 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.75%) IIS
3 9 (0.75%) WordPress
4 8 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.33%) Confluence
6 1 (0.084%) Apache
6 1 (0.084%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.084%) nginx
6 1 (0.084%) uWSGI
Applications
1 25 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.25%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 251 (21.00%) Azure
2 122 (10.21%) AWS
2 122 (10.21%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (2.59%) Entra ID
4 27 (2.26%) GCP
5 20 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 17 (1.42%) SaaS
7 16 (1.34%) OneDrive
8 14 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (0.92%) Datadog
9 11 (0.92%) IaaS
9 11 (0.92%) PaaS
9 11 (0.92%) Rubrik
10 9 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (0.59%) AWS Direct Connect
12 5 (0.42%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (0.25%) Mimecast
13 3 (0.25%) Nutanix
14 2 (0.17%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 613 (51.30%) Firewall
2 470 (39.33%) WAN
3 409 (34.23%) LAN
4 245 (20.50%) Wireless
5 236 (19.75%) BGP
6 234 (19.58%) VPN
7 194 (16.23%) Network Security
8 192 (16.07%) Wi-Fi
9 183 (15.31%) MPLS
10 173 (14.48%) SD-WAN
11 162 (13.56%) OSPF
12 143 (11.97%) TCP/IP
13 133 (11.13%) DNS
14 122 (10.21%) DHCP
15 120 (10.04%) VLAN
16 80 (6.69%) Cisco Firepower
17 75 (6.28%) Internet
18 68 (5.69%) IPsec
19 64 (5.36%) Cisco ASA
20 61 (5.10%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (1.92%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.67%) GIS
3 7 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.25%) MySQL
5 2 (0.17%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.084%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.084%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.084%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.59%) JIRA
2 6 (0.50%) GitLab
3 4 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.17%) Hudson
4 2 (0.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.084%) Git
5 1 (0.084%) Selenium
General
1 184 (15.40%) Social Skills
2 96 (8.03%) Telecoms
3 81 (6.78%) Finance
4 80 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (3.43%) Public Sector
6 31 (2.59%) Law
7 30 (2.51%) Retail
8 19 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.34%) Legal
12 15 (1.26%) Police
13 12 (1.00%) Aerospace
14 10 (0.84%) Banking
15 8 (0.67%) Games
16 7 (0.59%) Marketing
16 7 (0.59%) Military
17 5 (0.42%) Advertising
17 5 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.10%) 802.1X
2 9 (0.75%) LAMP
3 7 (0.59%) HTML
4 5 (0.42%) XMPP
5 4 (0.33%) Akka
6 2 (0.17%) LDAP
7 1 (0.084%) ADO
7 1 (0.084%) EDI
7 1 (0.084%) JSON
7 1 (0.084%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.084%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 165 (13.81%) Data Centre
2 67 (5.61%) Driving Licence
3 34 (2.85%) PKI
4 33 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (1.67%) Replication
6 19 (1.59%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
8 14 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 12 (1.00%) Security Posture
11 11 (0.92%) Hedge funds
12 10 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (0.75%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.59%) Onboarding
15 5 (0.42%) CMDB
15 5 (0.42%) PMI
16 4 (0.33%) Educational Technology
16 4 (0.33%) Enterprise Software
16 4 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
17 3 (0.25%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 130 (10.88%) Windows
2 87 (7.28%) Linux
3 70 (5.86%) Windows Server
4 25 (2.09%) Windows 10
5 19 (1.59%) VyOS
5 19 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (1.42%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.75%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.75%) Debian
8 9 (0.75%) VMS
9 8 (0.67%) Android
10 7 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.084%) CentOS
12 1 (0.084%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 168 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
2 133 (11.13%) ITIL
3 123 (10.29%) Customer Service
4 117 (9.79%) Network Monitoring
5 101 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
6 93 (7.78%) Network Design
7 84 (7.03%) Project Delivery
8 67 (5.61%) Mentoring
9 60 (5.02%) Disaster Recovery
10 56 (4.69%) Network Architecture
11 55 (4.60%) Network Management
12 52 (4.35%) Load Balancing
13 48 (4.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (4.02%) Migration
14 47 (3.93%) Roadmaps
14 47 (3.93%) Service Delivery
15 46 (3.85%) Computer Science
16 41 (3.43%) Agile
17 39 (3.26%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (4.85%) Python
2 35 (2.93%) PowerShell
3 23 (1.92%) Bash
4 11 (0.92%) C#
5 10 (0.84%) SQL
6 7 (0.59%) Shell Script
7 5 (0.42%) Java
8 3 (0.25%) C
8 3 (0.25%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.084%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.084%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 447 (37.41%) Cisco Certification
2 287 (24.02%) Security Cleared
3 275 (23.01%) CCNA
4 272 (22.76%) CCNP
5 139 (11.63%) SC Cleared
6 111 (9.29%) DV Cleared
7 97 (8.12%) Degree
8 52 (4.35%) JNCIA
9 50 (4.18%) CCIE
10 42 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 26 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (2.01%) Network+ Certification
13 20 (1.67%) JNCIP
14 19 (1.59%) CISSP
15 15 (1.26%) AWS Certification
16 13 (1.09%) MCITP
17 11 (0.92%) CCSA
18 9 (0.75%) Azure Certification
18 9 (0.75%) CCDP
18 9 (0.75%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.10%) SLA
2 13 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 12 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (0.92%) GDPR
5 8 (0.67%) QA
5 8 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.50%) NCSC
7 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.084%) Accessibility
System Software
1 99 (8.28%) Active Directory
2 65 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (5.10%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.42%) vSphere
5 16 (1.34%) VMware NSX
6 12 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.84%) Firmware
8 8 (0.67%) pfSense
9 7 (0.59%) Docker
10 6 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.42%) SRDF
12 4 (0.33%) vCloud
13 1 (0.084%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.084%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (6.19%) FortiGate
2 45 (3.77%) Ansible
3 28 (2.34%) Terraform
4 22 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.34%) ZABBIX
6 14 (1.17%) Nagios
7 11 (0.92%) SCCM
8 10 (0.84%) Grafana
9 8 (0.67%) Cisco CUCM
10 7 (0.59%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (0.59%) Kubernetes
10 7 (0.59%) Stealthwatch
11 6 (0.50%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.42%) Icinga
12 5 (0.42%) OfficeScan
12 5 (0.42%) Opsview
12 5 (0.42%) WSUS
13 4 (0.33%) Cacti
13 4 (0.33%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.25%) Salt
Vendors
1 726 (60.75%) Cisco
2 313 (26.19%) Juniper
3 172 (14.39%) Microsoft
4 164 (13.72%) Fortinet
5 159 (13.31%) VMware
6 155 (12.97%) Palo Alto
7 118 (9.87%) Meraki
8 113 (9.46%) Aruba
9 95 (7.95%) CheckPoint
10 84 (7.03%) SolarWinds
11 59 (4.94%) F5
12 55 (4.60%) HP
13 46 (3.85%) Nokia
14 35 (2.93%) Ruckus Wireless
15 33 (2.76%) Citrix
16 30 (2.51%) Veeam
17 23 (1.92%) Sandvine
18 21 (1.76%) Dell
19 19 (1.59%) Vyatta
20 18 (1.51%) Zscaler