Senior Network Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 615 654
Rank change year-on-year +96 +39 -173
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 235 148 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.27% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 174 120 146
10th Percentile £42,948 £42,500 £41,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.65% +7.62%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,450 £71,250 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +13.64%

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 66,397 55,186 67,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.30% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,063 31,277 42,902
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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 West +71 85 £49,000 +11.36% 5
South East +26 44 £60,000 -4.00% 12
Midlands +32 40 £52,500 +16.67% 8
West Midlands +51 35 £52,500 +16.67% 4
North of England +26 30 £60,000 +14.29% 8
Wales - 22 £44,886 - 5
North West -1 17 £60,000 +14.29% 5
Yorkshire +81 9 £40,000 -27.27% 2
East of England +10 8 £52,500 -6.67%
Scotland -60 7 £65,000 +8.33% 10
East Midlands -15 5 £40,000 -15.79% 4
North East -2 4 £70,000 +42.49% 2
Senior Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 157 (66.81%) Firewall
2 153 (65.11%) Cisco
3 85 (36.17%) Security Cleared
4 82 (34.89%) WAN
5 72 (30.64%) LAN
6 71 (30.21%) Cisco Certification
7 55 (23.40%) CCNP
7 55 (23.40%) Wireless
8 49 (20.85%) DV Cleared
9 42 (17.87%) Juniper
10 38 (16.17%) Network Management
11 37 (15.74%) SC Cleared
12 34 (14.47%) CheckPoint
12 34 (14.47%) Data Centre
13 31 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (13.19%) Microsoft
14 30 (12.77%) OSPF
14 30 (12.77%) BGP
14 30 (12.77%) Cisco ASA
15 29 (12.34%) MPLS
15 29 (12.34%) CCNA
16 28 (11.91%) VPN
16 28 (11.91%) Social Skills
17 27 (11.49%) AWS
18 24 (10.21%) Incident Management
18 24 (10.21%) Aruba
18 24 (10.21%) Meraki
19 23 (9.79%) Ansible
19 23 (9.79%) Network Monitoring
19 23 (9.79%) Palo Alto

Senior 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 14 (5.96%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 27 (11.49%) AWS
2 23 (9.79%) Azure
3 2 (0.85%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (0.85%) IaaS
3 2 (0.85%) PaaS
3 2 (0.85%) SaaS
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 157 (66.81%) Firewall
2 82 (34.89%) WAN
3 72 (30.64%) LAN
4 55 (23.40%) Wireless
5 30 (12.77%) BGP
5 30 (12.77%) Cisco ASA
5 30 (12.77%) OSPF
6 29 (12.34%) MPLS
7 28 (11.91%) VPN
8 23 (9.79%) SD-WAN
9 22 (9.36%) Network Security
9 22 (9.36%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (8.51%) DNS
11 19 (8.09%) Cisco ISE
12 18 (7.66%) Cisco Firepower
13 14 (5.96%) IP Telephony
14 13 (5.53%) WLAN
15 12 (5.11%) NGFW
15 12 (5.11%) VLAN
16 11 (4.68%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 4 (1.70%) GitLab
General
1 28 (11.91%) Social Skills
2 18 (7.66%) Retail
3 16 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.96%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.53%) Finance
6 12 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.68%) Aerospace
8 10 (4.26%) Police
9 9 (3.83%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.98%) Military
11 5 (2.13%) Local Government
12 4 (1.70%) Marketing
13 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.85%) Electronics
14 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.85%) Welsh Language
15 1 (0.43%) Games
15 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.85%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.47%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.26%) Driving Licence
3 6 (2.55%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.70%) Educational Technology
4 4 (1.70%) Virtual Team
5 2 (0.85%) CMDB
5 2 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.85%) Molecular Biology
5 2 (0.85%) PKI
5 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.11%) Linux
2 5 (2.13%) Windows
3 2 (0.85%) Android
3 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (16.17%) Network Management
2 31 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (10.21%) Incident Management
4 23 (9.79%) Network Monitoring
5 20 (8.51%) Actionable Insight
5 20 (8.51%) Network Architecture
6 19 (8.09%) Business Continuity
7 18 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (6.38%) ITIL
9 14 (5.96%) Load Balancing
10 13 (5.53%) Computer Science
11 12 (5.11%) Agile
11 12 (5.11%) Customer Requirements
11 12 (5.11%) Network Design
12 10 (4.26%) Service Management
13 9 (3.83%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (3.83%) Mentoring
13 9 (3.83%) Root Cause Analysis
14 8 (3.40%) Migration
14 8 (3.40%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (9.36%) Python
2 4 (1.70%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.85%) C
4 1 (0.43%) Bash
Qualifications
1 85 (36.17%) Security Cleared
2 71 (30.21%) Cisco Certification
3 55 (23.40%) CCNP
4 49 (20.85%) DV Cleared
5 37 (15.74%) SC Cleared
6 29 (12.34%) CCNA
7 18 (7.66%) Degree
8 15 (6.38%) CCIE
9 13 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (4.26%) AWS Certification
11 9 (3.83%) JNCIA
12 8 (3.40%) CCSA
13 7 (2.98%) JNCIS
14 5 (2.13%) Azure Certification
15 4 (1.70%) CWNA
15 4 (1.70%) DBS Check
15 4 (1.70%) Master's Degree
16 3 (1.28%) HND
16 3 (1.28%) JNCIP
17 2 (0.85%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 8 (3.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (1.70%) SLA
3 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.98%) vSphere
3 6 (2.55%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.70%) Docker
5 3 (1.28%) Firmware
5 3 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (9.79%) Ansible
2 17 (7.23%) Terraform
3 13 (5.53%) FortiGate
4 7 (2.98%) Cisco Prime
5 5 (2.13%) Nagios
5 5 (2.13%) Opsview
5 5 (2.13%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.70%) Cacti
6 4 (1.70%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.28%) Icinga
8 2 (0.85%) Puppet
8 2 (0.85%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 153 (65.11%) Cisco
2 42 (17.87%) Juniper
3 34 (14.47%) CheckPoint
4 31 (13.19%) Microsoft
5 24 (10.21%) Aruba
5 24 (10.21%) Meraki
6 23 (9.79%) Palo Alto
6 23 (9.79%) VMware
7 15 (6.38%) Mitel
8 14 (5.96%) Avaya
9 11 (4.68%) Fortinet
10 10 (4.26%) F5
11 9 (3.83%) Nokia
12 8 (3.40%) HP
13 5 (2.13%) SolarWinds
14 4 (1.70%) Ruckus Wireless
15 3 (1.28%) Ekahau
15 3 (1.28%) Extreme Networks
15 3 (1.28%) MikroTik
15 3 (1.28%) TP-LINK