Switch Engineer
UK

The median Switch Engineer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 890 986 1194
Rank change year-on-year +96 +208 -291
Permanent jobs requiring a Switch Engineer 6 2 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.002% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.002% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £33,100 £44,025 £36,213
25th Percentile £33,250 £44,813 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,750 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +16.07% -16.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,813 £49,375
90th Percentile £81,500 £55,275 £56,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,500 £48,750 £42,000
% change year-on-year -18.97% +16.07% -

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 93,176 95,124 149,724
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,877 59,832 85,287
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,507
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Switch Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Switch Engineer in the UK

Switch Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Switch Engineer in the UK

Switch Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Switch Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Switch Engineer in the UK

Switch Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Switch Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
England +131 6 £42,500 -12.82% 3
Work from Home +85 5 £39,500 -18.97% 1
UK excluding London -20 5 £39,500 -18.97% 3
South East +23 4 £36,500 -18.89% 1
Midlands - 1 £42,500 - 1
London - 1 £85,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £42,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Switch 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 Switch Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (66.67%) Change Control
3 3 (50.00%) Information Security
3 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (50.00%) Wireless
3 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Juniper
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco
5 1 (16.67%) CCNP
5 1 (16.67%) CCNA
5 1 (16.67%) VPN
5 1 (16.67%) DNS
5 1 (16.67%) LAN
5 1 (16.67%) WLAN
5 1 (16.67%) WAN
5 1 (16.67%) DHCP
5 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
5 1 (16.67%) OSPF
5 1 (16.67%) BGP
5 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 1 (16.67%) VRRP
5 1 (16.67%) VMware
5 1 (16.67%) Banking

Switch 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (50.00%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) BGP
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
4 1 (16.67%) HSRP
4 1 (16.67%) IGMP
4 1 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (16.67%) Multicast
4 1 (16.67%) OSPF
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) VRRP
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Change Control
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (16.67%) Ultra-Low Latency
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) JNCIA
2 1 (16.67%) JNCIE
2 1 (16.67%) JNCIP
2 1 (16.67%) JNCIS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Arista
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) VMware