Network Engineer
UK

The median Network Engineer salary in the UK is £49,745 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 289 384
Rank change year-on-year +65 +95 -133
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 1,284 1,242 1,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 1.22% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.34% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,082 906 1,190
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,038 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,745 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the UK

Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the UK

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the UK

Network Engineer
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 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
England +62 1,172 £49,000 -2.00% 275
UK excluding London +27 953 £47,500 +5.56% 213
Work from Home -12 359 £50,500 +1.00% 110
South East +26 299 £49,000 +3.16% 67
London +84 290 £59,500 -8.46% 82
North of England -10 189 £42,500 -5.56% 49
Midlands +78 179 £46,500 +9.41% 36
South West +11 151 £49,000 +15.29% 28
West Midlands +71 149 £46,500 +7.51% 25
North West -8 126 £42,500 -10.53% 29
East of England +8 61 £46,250 -11.90% 16
Yorkshire +55 51 £45,000 -10.00% 17
Scotland -41 44 £65,000 +62.50% 18
Wales +33 38 £44,886 -0.25% 3
East Midlands -7 26 £31,500 -30.00% 11
North East -28 18 £39,000 -5.39% 5
Northern Ireland +21 2 £32,500 -23.53% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 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 featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 755 (58.80%) Cisco
2 657 (51.17%) Firewall
3 476 (37.07%) Cisco Certification
4 471 (36.68%) WAN
5 403 (31.39%) LAN
6 317 (24.69%) Juniper
7 301 (23.44%) CCNP
8 296 (23.05%) Security Cleared
9 281 (21.88%) CCNA
10 273 (21.26%) Azure
11 255 (19.86%) Wireless
12 253 (19.70%) VPN
13 243 (18.93%) BGP
14 228 (17.76%) Network Security
15 203 (15.81%) Social Skills
16 199 (15.50%) MPLS
17 192 (14.95%) Microsoft
17 192 (14.95%) Wi-Fi
18 191 (14.88%) Data Centre
19 182 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
20 181 (14.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 175 (13.63%) SD-WAN
22 167 (13.01%) VMware
22 167 (13.01%) Fortinet
23 165 (12.85%) OSPF
24 159 (12.38%) SC Cleared
25 155 (12.07%) DNS
26 154 (11.99%) Palo Alto
27 148 (11.53%) TCP/IP
28 141 (10.98%) ITIL

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 51 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.09%) Skype for Business
4 10 (0.78%) IIS
5 9 (0.70%) WordPress
6 7 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 273 (21.26%) Azure
2 127 (9.89%) AWS
3 119 (9.27%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (2.41%) GCP
5 30 (2.34%) Entra ID
6 23 (1.79%) SaaS
7 21 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 17 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (1.32%) IaaS
9 16 (1.25%) OneDrive
10 13 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (0.93%) PaaS
12 11 (0.86%) Datadog
12 11 (0.86%) Rubrik
13 10 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (0.62%) AWS Direct Connect
15 5 (0.39%) Azure Sentinel
16 3 (0.23%) Mimecast
16 3 (0.23%) Nutanix
17 2 (0.16%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 657 (51.17%) Firewall
2 471 (36.68%) WAN
3 403 (31.39%) LAN
4 255 (19.86%) Wireless
5 253 (19.70%) VPN
6 243 (18.93%) BGP
7 228 (17.76%) Network Security
8 199 (15.50%) MPLS
9 192 (14.95%) Wi-Fi
10 175 (13.63%) SD-WAN
11 165 (12.85%) OSPF
12 155 (12.07%) DNS
13 148 (11.53%) TCP/IP
14 129 (10.05%) VLAN
15 123 (9.58%) DHCP
16 86 (6.70%) Cisco Firepower
17 76 (5.92%) Internet
18 71 (5.53%) Cisco ASA
18 71 (5.53%) IPsec
19 60 (4.67%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (2.18%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.62%) GIS
3 7 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.23%) MySQL
5 2 (0.16%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.078%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.078%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.078%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.55%) JIRA
2 6 (0.47%) GitLab
3 4 (0.31%) Git
3 4 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.16%) Hudson
4 2 (0.16%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.078%) Selenium
General
1 203 (15.81%) Social Skills
2 94 (7.32%) Telecoms
3 89 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (6.78%) Finance
5 49 (3.82%) Public Sector
6 43 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (2.88%) Retail
8 29 (2.26%) Law
9 21 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 19 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (1.48%) Police
11 17 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.17%) Legal
13 14 (1.09%) Aerospace
14 10 (0.78%) Banking
14 10 (0.78%) Marketing
15 6 (0.47%) Games
15 6 (0.47%) Local Government
15 6 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.39%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.88%) 802.1X
2 9 (0.70%) LAMP
3 7 (0.55%) HTML
4 5 (0.39%) ADO
4 5 (0.39%) XMPP
5 4 (0.31%) Akka
6 1 (0.078%) EDI
6 1 (0.078%) JSON
6 1 (0.078%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.078%) LDAP
6 1 (0.078%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 191 (14.88%) Data Centre
2 70 (5.45%) Driving Licence
3 39 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
4 35 (2.73%) PKI
5 21 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 21 (1.64%) Replication
6 19 (1.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 18 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.09%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.01%) Security Posture
11 11 (0.86%) Hedge funds
12 10 (0.78%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.47%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.39%) CMDB
14 5 (0.39%) PMI
15 4 (0.31%) Educational Technology
15 4 (0.31%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 137 (10.67%) Windows
2 96 (7.48%) Linux
3 78 (6.07%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.48%) Windows 10
4 19 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (1.40%) VyOS
6 16 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.70%) VMS
9 8 (0.62%) Android
9 8 (0.62%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.55%) Debian
10 7 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.23%) CatOS
12 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.078%) CentOS
14 1 (0.078%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
2 181 (14.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 141 (10.98%) ITIL
4 127 (9.89%) Customer Service
5 123 (9.58%) Network Monitoring
6 108 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
7 105 (8.18%) Network Design
8 89 (6.93%) Project Delivery
9 83 (6.46%) Network Management
10 71 (5.53%) Disaster Recovery
11 70 (5.45%) Mentoring
12 59 (4.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (4.52%) Network Architecture
14 52 (4.05%) Migration
15 50 (3.89%) Computer Science
15 50 (3.89%) Load Balancing
16 49 (3.82%) Service Delivery
17 47 (3.66%) Agile
18 46 (3.58%) Incident Management
19 44 (3.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 58 (4.52%) Python
2 36 (2.80%) PowerShell
3 19 (1.48%) Bash
4 11 (0.86%) C#
4 11 (0.86%) SQL
5 10 (0.78%) Shell Script
6 5 (0.39%) Java
7 3 (0.23%) C
7 3 (0.23%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.078%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.078%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 476 (37.07%) Cisco Certification
2 301 (23.44%) CCNP
3 296 (23.05%) Security Cleared
4 281 (21.88%) CCNA
5 159 (12.38%) SC Cleared
6 115 (8.96%) Degree
7 102 (7.94%) DV Cleared
8 57 (4.44%) CCIE
9 51 (3.97%) JNCIA
10 46 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (2.10%) JNCIP
12 22 (1.71%) CISSP
13 17 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (1.25%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
15 15 (1.17%) Azure Certification
16 14 (1.09%) CCDP
17 11 (0.86%) CCSA
18 10 (0.78%) JNCIS
19 9 (0.70%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.80%) SLA
2 14 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 12 (0.93%) GDPR
5 10 (0.78%) QA
6 8 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.47%) NCSC
8 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.078%) Accessibility
System Software
1 101 (7.87%) Active Directory
2 70 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (4.75%) Hyper-V
4 20 (1.56%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.32%) vSphere
6 15 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.78%) Firmware
8 8 (0.62%) pfSense
9 7 (0.55%) Docker
10 6 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.39%) SRDF
12 4 (0.31%) vCloud
13 1 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (5.76%) FortiGate
2 48 (3.74%) Ansible
3 30 (2.34%) Terraform
4 24 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (1.17%) ZABBIX
6 14 (1.09%) Nagios
7 11 (0.86%) SCCM
8 9 (0.70%) Grafana
9 8 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (0.62%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (0.55%) Kubernetes
10 7 (0.55%) Stealthwatch
11 6 (0.47%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.39%) Icinga
12 5 (0.39%) OfficeScan
12 5 (0.39%) Opsview
12 5 (0.39%) WSUS
13 4 (0.31%) Cacti
13 4 (0.31%) Puppet
14 3 (0.23%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 755 (58.80%) Cisco
2 317 (24.69%) Juniper
3 192 (14.95%) Microsoft
4 167 (13.01%) Fortinet
4 167 (13.01%) VMware
5 154 (11.99%) Palo Alto
6 126 (9.81%) Meraki
7 113 (8.80%) Aruba
8 103 (8.02%) CheckPoint
9 87 (6.78%) SolarWinds
10 60 (4.67%) F5
11 58 (4.52%) HP
12 51 (3.97%) Nokia
13 34 (2.65%) Ruckus Wireless
14 33 (2.57%) Citrix
15 31 (2.41%) Veeam
16 26 (2.02%) Mitel
17 23 (1.79%) Sandvine
18 22 (1.71%) Dell
19 21 (1.64%) Zscaler