Network Engineer Jobs in the North East

Network Engineer
England > North East

The median Network Engineer salary in the North East is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 66 72
Rank change year-on-year -31 +6 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 20 48 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 1.10% 3.70% 2.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 4.65% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 18 47 43
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 -
25th Percentile £33,500 £34,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,517 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.39% +10.71% +4.17%
75th Percentile £63,750 £47,112 £43,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £48,750 £45,700
England median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 1,739 1,033 1,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.60% 79.71% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,411 607 995
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £35,920 £36,341 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,610 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% +19.02% -9.86%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,325 £70,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the North East

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the North East

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the North East

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Tyne and Wear -11 15 £39,000 -8.24% 2
Durham -11 5 £70,000 +86.67%
Network Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 North East region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (55.00%) Cisco
2 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (50.00%) Firewall
3 8 (40.00%) VMware
3 8 (40.00%) LAN
3 8 (40.00%) SLA
3 8 (40.00%) SAN
4 7 (35.00%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (35.00%) CCNA
4 7 (35.00%) WAN
4 7 (35.00%) Presales
4 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (30.00%) Network Architecture
5 6 (30.00%) VPN
6 5 (25.00%) DNS
6 5 (25.00%) Windows
6 5 (25.00%) Juniper
6 5 (25.00%) OSPF
6 5 (25.00%) Migration
6 5 (25.00%) JNCIA
6 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (25.00%) Network Security
6 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
7 4 (20.00%) SD-WAN
7 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (20.00%) Hyper-V
7 4 (20.00%) Cacti

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) Firewall
2 8 (40.00%) LAN
2 8 (40.00%) SAN
3 7 (35.00%) WAN
4 6 (30.00%) VPN
5 5 (25.00%) DNS
5 5 (25.00%) Network Security
5 5 (25.00%) OSPF
6 4 (20.00%) MPLS
6 4 (20.00%) NAS
6 4 (20.00%) SD-WAN
6 4 (20.00%) WLAN
7 3 (15.00%) BGP
7 3 (15.00%) DMZ
7 3 (15.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (15.00%) IPsec
7 3 (15.00%) SSL
8 2 (10.00%) DHCP
8 2 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Replication
2 3 (15.00%) PKI
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
1 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Presales
1 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) Network Architecture
3 5 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (20.00%) CRM
4 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Reverse Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) ITIL
7 1 (5.00%) Coaching
7 1 (5.00%) Configuration Management
7 1 (5.00%) Customer Service
7 1 (5.00%) ITSM
7 1 (5.00%) Kalman Filter
7 1 (5.00%) Project Management
7 1 (5.00%) Service Delivery
7 1 (5.00%) Service Management
7 1 (5.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) CCNA
1 7 (35.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (25.00%) JNCIA
3 3 (15.00%) CCNP
4 2 (10.00%) Degree
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (5.00%) JNCIE
5 1 (5.00%) JNCIP
5 1 (5.00%) JNCIS
5 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Cacti
2 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Cisco
2 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (40.00%) VMware
4 5 (25.00%) Juniper
5 4 (20.00%) SolarWinds
6 3 (15.00%) Fortinet
7 2 (10.00%) Aruba
7 2 (10.00%) CheckPoint
7 2 (10.00%) Meraki
8 1 (5.00%) Draytek
8 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
8 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow