Network Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 242 279
Rank change year-on-year +23 +37 -82
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 950 854 912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.34% 1.43% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 1.60% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 782 602 725
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,275 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £63,750
UK median annual salary £49,995 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.01% -4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,288 53,426 67,910
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.15% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,613 30,415 42,495
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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 +29 298 £49,000 +3.16% 64
North of England 0 189 £42,500 -9.57% 45
Midlands +57 178 £46,500 +7.51% 37
West Midlands +59 149 £46,500 +7.51% 24
South West +16 149 £49,000 +15.29% 31
North West -12 126 £42,500 -15.00% 29
East of England +14 62 £47,500 -9.52% 17
Yorkshire +63 51 £45,000 -10.00% 13
Scotland -41 44 £65,000 +62.50% 23
Wales +31 38 £44,886 -0.25% 3
East Midlands -10 25 £31,500 -30.00% 13
North East -32 18 £39,000 -5.39% 4
Northern Ireland +15 2 £32,500 -23.53% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -
Network Engineer
UK

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 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 UK excluding London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 569 (59.89%) Cisco
2 480 (50.53%) Firewall
3 349 (36.74%) Cisco Certification
4 293 (30.84%) WAN
5 288 (30.32%) Security Cleared
6 253 (26.63%) LAN
7 251 (26.42%) Juniper
8 217 (22.84%) CCNA
9 214 (22.53%) CCNP
10 178 (18.74%) Azure
11 172 (18.11%) BGP
12 155 (16.32%) Wireless
12 155 (16.32%) SC Cleared
13 150 (15.79%) VPN
14 140 (14.74%) Social Skills
15 136 (14.32%) Microsoft
15 136 (14.32%) VMware
16 131 (13.79%) MPLS
17 130 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 125 (13.16%) Network Security
19 124 (13.05%) Wi-Fi
19 124 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
20 122 (12.84%) OSPF
21 114 (12.00%) Fortinet
22 107 (11.26%) Data Centre
23 106 (11.16%) Windows
24 105 (11.05%) Microsoft 365
25 104 (10.95%) SD-WAN
26 100 (10.53%) TCP/IP
27 97 (10.21%) DV Cleared

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 35 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.47%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.74%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.53%) IIS
6 4 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.32%) Simulink
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 178 (18.74%) Azure
2 105 (11.05%) Microsoft 365
3 89 (9.37%) AWS
4 29 (3.05%) Entra ID
4 29 (3.05%) GCP
5 15 (1.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 11 (1.16%) OneDrive
6 11 (1.16%) SaaS
7 7 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (0.53%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.32%) IaaS
11 2 (0.21%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (0.21%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.21%) PaaS
11 2 (0.21%) Twilio
12 1 (0.11%) GitHub
12 1 (0.11%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.11%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 480 (50.53%) Firewall
2 293 (30.84%) WAN
3 253 (26.63%) LAN
4 172 (18.11%) BGP
5 155 (16.32%) Wireless
6 150 (15.79%) VPN
7 131 (13.79%) MPLS
8 125 (13.16%) Network Security
9 124 (13.05%) Wi-Fi
10 122 (12.84%) OSPF
11 104 (10.95%) SD-WAN
12 100 (10.53%) TCP/IP
13 95 (10.00%) DNS
14 81 (8.53%) VLAN
15 73 (7.68%) DHCP
16 62 (6.53%) Cisco ASA
17 45 (4.74%) Cisco Firepower
17 45 (4.74%) IPsec
18 40 (4.21%) Internet
19 39 (4.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.84%) GIS
3 6 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.32%) MySQL
5 1 (0.11%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.11%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.74%) JIRA
2 6 (0.63%) GitLab
3 4 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.32%) Git
5 2 (0.21%) Hudson
5 2 (0.21%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.11%) Selenium
General
1 140 (14.74%) Social Skills
2 50 (5.26%) Finance
3 49 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (5.16%) Telecoms
4 36 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (3.79%) Public Sector
5 34 (3.58%) Retail
6 21 (2.21%) Manufacturing
7 17 (1.79%) Police
8 15 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (1.47%) Aerospace
10 8 (0.84%) Law
11 7 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.63%) Legal
12 6 (0.63%) Marketing
13 5 (0.53%) Advertising
13 5 (0.53%) Local Government
13 5 (0.53%) Military
14 4 (0.42%) Automotive
15 2 (0.21%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.63%) 802.1X
2 4 (0.42%) Akka
2 4 (0.42%) LAMP
3 3 (0.32%) ADO
4 1 (0.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 107 (11.26%) Data Centre
2 66 (6.95%) Driving Licence
3 24 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 15 (1.58%) Replication
6 12 (1.26%) Security Posture
7 11 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.05%) Public Cloud
9 8 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.74%) PKI
11 6 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (0.63%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.53%) CMDB
12 5 (0.53%) PMI
13 4 (0.42%) Educational Technology
13 4 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.32%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 3 (0.32%) IoT
14 3 (0.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 106 (11.16%) Windows
2 77 (8.11%) Linux
3 57 (6.00%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.89%) VyOS
5 11 (1.16%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.16%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.84%) Android
6 8 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.63%) Debian
8 6 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.42%) VMS
10 3 (0.32%) CatOS
11 2 (0.21%) CentOS
11 2 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 124 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (9.37%) Customer Service
4 84 (8.84%) Network Monitoring
5 75 (7.89%) ITIL
6 66 (6.95%) Cybersecurity
6 66 (6.95%) Project Delivery
7 62 (6.53%) Network Design
8 52 (5.47%) Network Management
9 50 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (4.84%) Network Architecture
11 45 (4.74%) Computer Science
11 45 (4.74%) Disaster Recovery
11 45 (4.74%) Migration
12 40 (4.21%) Mentoring
13 35 (3.68%) Agile
13 35 (3.68%) Incident Management
14 34 (3.58%) Configuration Management
15 31 (3.26%) Change Management
15 31 (3.26%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 42 (4.42%) Python
2 17 (1.79%) PowerShell
3 9 (0.95%) Shell Script
4 7 (0.74%) Bash
5 5 (0.53%) Java
6 4 (0.42%) C#
6 4 (0.42%) SQL
7 3 (0.32%) C
7 3 (0.32%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.11%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 349 (36.74%) Cisco Certification
2 288 (30.32%) Security Cleared
3 217 (22.84%) CCNA
4 214 (22.53%) CCNP
5 155 (16.32%) SC Cleared
6 97 (10.21%) DV Cleared
7 80 (8.42%) Degree
8 43 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (4.11%) CCIE
9 39 (4.11%) JNCIA
10 15 (1.58%) CISSP
11 13 (1.37%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
12 12 (1.26%) CCDP
13 10 (1.05%) Azure Certification
13 10 (1.05%) JNCIP
13 10 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.95%) CCSA
15 8 (0.84%) JNCIS
16 7 (0.74%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.00%) SLA
2 13 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 12 (1.26%) GDPR
4 8 (0.84%) QA
4 8 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 83 (8.74%) Active Directory
2 55 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (5.47%) Hyper-V
4 18 (1.89%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (1.16%) vSphere
7 10 (1.05%) Firmware
8 8 (0.84%) pfSense
9 6 (0.63%) Docker
9 6 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.53%) SRDF
11 4 (0.42%) vCloud
12 1 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (5.58%) FortiGate
2 41 (4.32%) Ansible
3 20 (2.11%) Terraform
4 17 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (1.37%) Nagios
5 13 (1.37%) ZABBIX
6 8 (0.84%) Cisco Prime
7 7 (0.74%) Grafana
8 6 (0.63%) Kubernetes
8 6 (0.63%) SCCM
8 6 (0.63%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.53%) OfficeScan
9 5 (0.53%) Opsview
9 5 (0.53%) WSUS
10 4 (0.42%) Cacti
10 4 (0.42%) Icinga
10 4 (0.42%) Puppet
11 3 (0.32%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 569 (59.89%) Cisco
2 251 (26.42%) Juniper
3 136 (14.32%) Microsoft
3 136 (14.32%) VMware
4 114 (12.00%) Fortinet
5 82 (8.63%) Aruba
5 82 (8.63%) Palo Alto
6 77 (8.11%) Meraki
7 64 (6.74%) CheckPoint
8 38 (4.00%) F5
9 34 (3.58%) Nokia
10 31 (3.26%) Ruckus Wireless
11 30 (3.16%) HP
12 27 (2.84%) SolarWinds
13 23 (2.42%) Citrix
14 20 (2.11%) Avaya
14 20 (2.11%) Mitel
15 18 (1.89%) Dell
15 18 (1.89%) Vyatta
16 12 (1.26%) Draytek