Network Engineer Jobs in the South West

Network Engineer
England > South West

The median Network Engineer salary in the South West is £49,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 172 195
Rank change year-on-year +35 +23 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 165 108 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.79% 1.56% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.86% 1.75% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 139 71 70
10th Percentile £31,150 £30,725 £24,770
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,250 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £42,500 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -10.99% +6.11%
75th Percentile £53,250 £52,500 £55,250
90th Percentile £58,500 £55,620 £56,525
England median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +8.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 8,862 6,155 7,688
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.11% 89.15% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 6,471 3,849 5,118
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,200 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the South West

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the South West

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the South West

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Wiltshire +23 57 £49,000 +32.43% 10
Gloucestershire +5 41 £50,000 +20.48% 2
Devon -7 24 £49,000 +15.29% 3
Bristol +17 18 £35,000 -26.32% 12
Cornwall - 17 £40,000 - 1
Somerset +12 8 £48,750 -7.14% 3
Dorset -41 1 £45,000 -14.29%
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 30 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 South West region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 113 (68.48%) Cisco
2 99 (60.00%) Firewall
3 86 (52.12%) Security Cleared
4 69 (41.82%) DV Cleared
5 61 (36.97%) WAN
6 52 (31.52%) LAN
7 47 (28.48%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (24.24%) CCNA
9 25 (15.15%) BGP
9 25 (15.15%) Network Monitoring
10 23 (13.94%) Cisco ASA
11 22 (13.33%) CCNP
11 22 (13.33%) Data Centre
12 21 (12.73%) ITIL
13 20 (12.12%) Wireless
14 16 (9.70%) MPLS
14 16 (9.70%) OSPF
14 16 (9.70%) Microsoft
14 16 (9.70%) VMware Infrastructure
14 16 (9.70%) VMware
14 16 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (9.70%) Social Skills
15 15 (9.09%) Fortinet
16 14 (8.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 13 (7.88%) Network Security
17 13 (7.88%) Azure
17 13 (7.88%) TCP/IP
17 13 (7.88%) Linux
18 12 (7.27%) Juniper
18 12 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Simulink
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.88%) Azure
2 7 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (3.64%) GCP
4 2 (1.21%) AWS
5 1 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 99 (60.00%) Firewall
2 61 (36.97%) WAN
3 52 (31.52%) LAN
4 25 (15.15%) BGP
5 23 (13.94%) Cisco ASA
6 20 (12.12%) Wireless
7 16 (9.70%) MPLS
7 16 (9.70%) OSPF
8 13 (7.88%) Network Security
8 13 (7.88%) TCP/IP
9 12 (7.27%) SD-WAN
10 11 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
10 11 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
11 10 (6.06%) VLAN
12 9 (5.45%) NetScaler
13 8 (4.85%) Cisco ISE
13 8 (4.85%) Cisco Wireless
13 8 (4.85%) DNS
13 8 (4.85%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (4.24%) VPN
General
1 16 (9.70%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 10 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.45%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.45%) Retail
5 7 (4.24%) Military
6 5 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.03%) Police
7 3 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.64%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.82%) CMDB
4 2 (1.21%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.88%) Linux
2 8 (4.85%) Windows
3 5 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (15.15%) Network Monitoring
2 21 (12.73%) ITIL
3 16 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (8.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (6.67%) Agile
6 11 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
6 11 (6.67%) Incident Management
6 11 (6.67%) Network Design
7 9 (5.45%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (5.45%) Load Balancing
8 8 (4.85%) Customer Service
9 7 (4.24%) Mentoring
10 6 (3.64%) Actionable Insight
10 6 (3.64%) Network Architecture
10 6 (3.64%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 5 (3.03%) Business Continuity
11 5 (3.03%) Network Virtualisation
11 5 (3.03%) Proactive Monitoring
11 5 (3.03%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.67%) Python
2 4 (2.42%) C#
2 4 (2.42%) Java
3 3 (1.82%) MATLAB
4 1 (0.61%) Bash
4 1 (0.61%) C
Qualifications
1 86 (52.12%) Security Cleared
2 69 (41.82%) DV Cleared
3 47 (28.48%) Cisco Certification
4 40 (24.24%) CCNA
5 22 (13.33%) CCNP
6 9 (5.45%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.42%) CCIE
7 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.42%) Degree
8 3 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.82%) HND
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.21%) QA
System Software
1 16 (9.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (4.85%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (3.64%) VMware NSX
4 5 (3.03%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.42%) Firmware
6 3 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (4.24%) FortiGate
1 7 (4.24%) Nagios
2 6 (3.64%) Cisco Prime
3 5 (3.03%) Ansible
3 5 (3.03%) OfficeScan
3 5 (3.03%) Opsview
3 5 (3.03%) vCenter Server
3 5 (3.03%) WSUS
4 1 (0.61%) Icinga
4 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 113 (68.48%) Cisco
2 16 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.70%) VMware
3 15 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 12 (7.27%) Juniper
5 9 (5.45%) Meraki
6 7 (4.24%) CheckPoint
7 6 (3.64%) Citrix
8 5 (3.03%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 5 (3.03%) Centreon
8 5 (3.03%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.42%) HP
9 4 (2.42%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.82%) Aruba
10 3 (1.82%) Dell
10 3 (1.82%) Ekahau
10 3 (1.82%) Forcepoint
10 3 (1.82%) Riverbed
10 3 (1.82%) Sophos
10 3 (1.82%) WatchGuard