Network Engineer
UK

The median Network Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 286 381
Rank change year-on-year +56 +95 -121
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 1,275 1,250 1,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 1.25% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.36% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,073 916 1,200
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,225 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% -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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 14 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 14 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 +58 1,163 £49,000 -2.00% 262
UK excluding London +25 947 £47,500 +5.56% 224
Work from Home -14 355 £51,300 +2.60% 106
South East +24 300 £49,000 +3.16% 63
London +79 287 £58,850 -9.46% 71
North of England -11 190 £42,500 -9.57% 46
Midlands +75 177 £46,500 +7.51% 43
West Midlands +61 148 £46,500 +7.51% 28
South West +5 145 £49,000 +15.29% 30
North West -16 126 £42,500 -15.00% 30
East of England -1 61 £47,500 -9.52% 13
Yorkshire +65 52 £45,000 -10.00% 13
Scotland -36 44 £65,000 +62.50% 25
Wales +37 38 £44,886 -0.25% 6
East Midlands -11 25 £31,500 -30.00% 15
North East -32 18 £39,000 -5.39% 4
Northern Ireland +23 2 £32,500 -23.53% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 745 (58.43%) Cisco
2 646 (50.67%) Firewall
3 469 (36.78%) Cisco Certification
4 462 (36.24%) WAN
5 394 (30.90%) LAN
6 319 (25.02%) Juniper
7 299 (23.45%) CCNP
8 294 (23.06%) Security Cleared
9 277 (21.73%) CCNA
10 272 (21.33%) Azure
11 249 (19.53%) VPN
11 249 (19.53%) Wireless
12 247 (19.37%) BGP
13 229 (17.96%) Network Security
14 203 (15.92%) Social Skills
15 201 (15.76%) MPLS
16 191 (14.98%) Wi-Fi
16 191 (14.98%) Data Centre
17 190 (14.90%) Microsoft
18 182 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
19 179 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 177 (13.88%) SD-WAN
21 169 (13.25%) OSPF
22 168 (13.18%) Fortinet
23 164 (12.86%) VMware
24 161 (12.63%) SC Cleared
25 153 (12.00%) DNS
26 151 (11.84%) Palo Alto
27 150 (11.76%) TCP/IP
28 140 (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 48 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.10%) Skype for Business
4 9 (0.71%) IIS
5 8 (0.63%) WordPress
6 7 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.33%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.24%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 272 (21.33%) Azure
2 124 (9.73%) AWS
3 116 (9.10%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (2.51%) GCP
5 31 (2.43%) Entra ID
6 23 (1.80%) SaaS
7 21 (1.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 18 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (1.33%) IaaS
10 15 (1.18%) OneDrive
11 13 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (0.94%) PaaS
13 11 (0.86%) Datadog
13 11 (0.86%) Rubrik
14 10 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (0.63%) AWS Direct Connect
16 5 (0.39%) Azure Sentinel
17 3 (0.24%) Mimecast
17 3 (0.24%) Nutanix
18 2 (0.16%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 646 (50.67%) Firewall
2 462 (36.24%) WAN
3 394 (30.90%) LAN
4 249 (19.53%) VPN
4 249 (19.53%) Wireless
5 247 (19.37%) BGP
6 229 (17.96%) Network Security
7 201 (15.76%) MPLS
8 191 (14.98%) Wi-Fi
9 177 (13.88%) SD-WAN
10 169 (13.25%) OSPF
11 153 (12.00%) DNS
12 150 (11.76%) TCP/IP
13 127 (9.96%) VLAN
14 123 (9.65%) DHCP
15 88 (6.90%) Cisco Firepower
16 77 (6.04%) Internet
17 74 (5.80%) Cisco ASA
18 72 (5.65%) IPsec
19 59 (4.63%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (2.12%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.63%) GIS
3 7 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.24%) 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%) GitLab
1 7 (0.55%) JIRA
2 4 (0.31%) Git
2 4 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (0.24%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.16%) Hudson
4 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.078%) Selenium
General
1 203 (15.92%) Social Skills
2 92 (7.22%) Telecoms
3 89 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (6.75%) Finance
5 49 (3.84%) Public Sector
6 43 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (2.98%) Retail
8 30 (2.35%) Law
9 21 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 19 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (1.49%) Police
11 17 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.18%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.18%) Legal
13 10 (0.78%) Banking
13 10 (0.78%) Marketing
14 6 (0.47%) Local Government
14 6 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.39%) Games
15 5 (0.39%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.90%) 802.1X
2 8 (0.63%) LAMP
3 6 (0.47%) 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%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 191 (14.98%) Data Centre
2 71 (5.57%) Driving Licence
3 39 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (2.67%) PKI
5 21 (1.65%) Management Information System
6 20 (1.57%) Replication
7 19 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 17 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (1.02%) Security Posture
10 12 (0.94%) Public Cloud
11 10 (0.78%) Hedge funds
11 10 (0.78%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.47%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.39%) CMDB
13 5 (0.39%) PMI
14 4 (0.31%) Educational Technology
14 4 (0.31%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 131 (10.27%) Windows
2 95 (7.45%) Linux
3 75 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.41%) VyOS
4 18 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (1.25%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.25%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.63%) Android
7 8 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.63%) VMS
8 7 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.47%) Debian
9 6 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.24%) CatOS
10 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.16%) CentOS
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.078%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
2 179 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 140 (10.98%) ITIL
4 124 (9.73%) Customer Service
5 122 (9.57%) Network Monitoring
6 107 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
7 106 (8.31%) Network Design
8 89 (6.98%) Project Delivery
9 85 (6.67%) Network Management
10 70 (5.49%) Mentoring
11 69 (5.41%) Disaster Recovery
12 59 (4.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (4.55%) Network Architecture
14 52 (4.08%) Computer Science
14 52 (4.08%) Migration
15 49 (3.84%) Agile
15 49 (3.84%) Load Balancing
16 48 (3.76%) Service Delivery
17 46 (3.61%) Incident Management
18 44 (3.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 58 (4.55%) Python
2 33 (2.59%) PowerShell
3 19 (1.49%) Bash
4 10 (0.78%) C#
4 10 (0.78%) Shell Script
4 10 (0.78%) SQL
5 5 (0.39%) Java
6 3 (0.24%) C
6 3 (0.24%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.078%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.078%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 469 (36.78%) Cisco Certification
2 299 (23.45%) CCNP
3 294 (23.06%) Security Cleared
4 277 (21.73%) CCNA
5 161 (12.63%) SC Cleared
6 117 (9.18%) Degree
7 99 (7.76%) DV Cleared
8 56 (4.39%) CCIE
9 51 (4.00%) JNCIA
10 47 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (2.12%) JNCIP
12 22 (1.73%) CISSP
13 16 (1.25%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.25%) Azure Certification
14 14 (1.10%) CCDP
14 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (0.86%) CCSA
17 10 (0.78%) JNCIS
18 9 (0.71%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (2.90%) SLA
2 15 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 12 (0.94%) GDPR
5 10 (0.78%) QA
6 8 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.47%) NCSC
8 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.078%) Accessibility
System Software
1 99 (7.76%) Active Directory
2 68 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (4.71%) Hyper-V
4 21 (1.65%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (1.10%) vSphere
7 10 (0.78%) Firmware
8 8 (0.63%) 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%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 76 (5.96%) FortiGate
2 48 (3.76%) Ansible
3 30 (2.35%) Terraform
4 23 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (1.18%) ZABBIX
6 14 (1.10%) Nagios
7 10 (0.78%) SCCM
8 9 (0.71%) Grafana
9 8 (0.63%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
10 7 (0.55%) Kubernetes
11 6 (0.47%) 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%) Puppet
12 5 (0.39%) WSUS
13 4 (0.31%) Cacti
14 3 (0.24%) Nessus
Vendors
1 745 (58.43%) Cisco
2 319 (25.02%) Juniper
3 190 (14.90%) Microsoft
4 168 (13.18%) Fortinet
5 164 (12.86%) VMware
6 151 (11.84%) Palo Alto
7 125 (9.80%) Meraki
8 110 (8.63%) Aruba
9 100 (7.84%) CheckPoint
10 88 (6.90%) SolarWinds
11 60 (4.71%) F5
12 58 (4.55%) HP
13 51 (4.00%) Nokia
14 34 (2.67%) Ruckus Wireless
15 33 (2.59%) Citrix
16 30 (2.35%) Veeam
17 26 (2.04%) Mitel
18 23 (1.80%) Sandvine
19 22 (1.73%) Dell
20 21 (1.65%) Zscaler