Network Systems Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Systems Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Systems Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £51,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 722 718 834
Rank change year-on-year -4 +116 -154
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Systems Engineer 53 36 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.062% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.070% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 52 27 24
10th Percentile £37,550 £31,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £34,000 £32,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% +14.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £62,000 £56,500
UK median annual salary £52,000 £51,750 £35,000
% change year-on-year +0.48% +47.86% -22.22%

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 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
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 Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Network Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Systems 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 Systems Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
East of England +10 20 £52,500 -0.94%
South East -2 10 £45,000 -14.29% 4
South West -27 8 £52,000 +30.00%
North of England +48 7 £50,000 +51.52%
Midlands - 5 £55,000 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £55,000 - 1
North West +9 4 £50,000 -
North East -9 3 £35,000 +6.06%
Scotland - 3 £52,500 - 1
Network Systems Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Network Systems 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 Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (39.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (32.08%) Azure
3 15 (28.30%) VMware
4 14 (26.42%) Windows
4 14 (26.42%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (24.53%) Auto-Scaling
6 12 (22.64%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (22.64%) Linux
6 12 (22.64%) Active Directory
7 10 (18.87%) Telecoms
7 10 (18.87%) AWS
7 10 (18.87%) Windows Server
7 10 (18.87%) GCP
8 9 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (16.98%) Hyper-V
8 9 (16.98%) Configuration Management
8 9 (16.98%) LAN
8 9 (16.98%) WAN
8 9 (16.98%) VPN
9 8 (15.09%) Firewall
9 8 (15.09%) Systems Engineering
10 7 (13.21%) CI/CD
10 7 (13.21%) Roadmaps
10 7 (13.21%) Entra ID
10 7 (13.21%) Network Monitoring
10 7 (13.21%) DevOps
10 7 (13.21%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (13.21%) OpenStack
10 7 (13.21%) ZABBIX
10 7 (13.21%) PowerShell

Network Systems 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 7 (13.21%) OpenStack
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) Azure
2 14 (26.42%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (18.87%) AWS
3 10 (18.87%) GCP
4 7 (13.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.98%) LAN
1 9 (16.98%) VPN
1 9 (16.98%) WAN
2 8 (15.09%) Firewall
3 7 (13.21%) SAN
3 7 (13.21%) Software-Defined Networking
3 7 (13.21%) VLAN
4 6 (11.32%) Wireless
5 4 (7.55%) Network Security
6 3 (5.66%) 4G
6 3 (5.66%) 5G
6 3 (5.66%) NAS
6 3 (5.66%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (5.66%) Tactical Data Link
6 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
6 3 (5.66%) WLAN
7 2 (3.77%) VoIP
8 1 (1.89%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) MySQL
1 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (18.87%) Telecoms
2 7 (13.21%) Finance
3 5 (9.43%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Military
6 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
1 3 (5.66%) PKI
1 3 (5.66%) Replication
2 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.89%) CCTV
3 1 (1.89%) Clustering
3 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.42%) Windows
2 12 (22.64%) Linux
3 10 (18.87%) Windows Server
4 7 (13.21%) Debian
4 7 (13.21%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.53%) Auto-Scaling
2 9 (16.98%) Configuration Management
2 9 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (15.09%) Systems Engineering
4 7 (13.21%) CI/CD
4 7 (13.21%) DevOps
4 7 (13.21%) Network Monitoring
4 7 (13.21%) Roadmaps
5 5 (9.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (9.43%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 4 (7.55%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (7.55%) Task Automation
7 3 (5.66%) Agile
7 3 (5.66%) ITIL
7 3 (5.66%) Migration
7 3 (5.66%) Presales
7 3 (5.66%) PRINCE
7 3 (5.66%) Scrum
7 3 (5.66%) Security Hardening
7 3 (5.66%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.21%) PowerShell
1 7 (13.21%) Shell Script
2 3 (5.66%) MATLAB
3 2 (3.77%) SQL
4 1 (1.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.32%) CCNA
3 5 (9.43%) Degree
4 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.77%) MCSE
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.89%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) SLA
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (22.64%) Active Directory
1 12 (22.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (16.98%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) ZABBIX
2 1 (1.89%) Backup Exec
2 1 (1.89%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 21 (39.62%) Microsoft
2 15 (28.30%) VMware
3 7 (13.21%) Red Hat
4 4 (7.55%) Cisco
5 3 (5.66%) Citrix
5 3 (5.66%) MikroTik
5 3 (5.66%) Riverbed
5 3 (5.66%) Ubiquiti
6 2 (3.77%) Aruba
6 2 (3.77%) Dell
6 2 (3.77%) EMC
6 2 (3.77%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.77%) Juniper
6 2 (3.77%) SonicWALL
6 2 (3.77%) Sparx
7 1 (1.89%) Splunk
7 1 (1.89%) Veritas