Senior Network Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Network Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 207 264 269
Rank change year-on-year +57 +5 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 35 9 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 25 9 11
10th Percentile £45,650 £42,325 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +8.91%
75th Percentile £58,750 £47,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £59,500 - £61,250
England median annual salary £54,000 £62,500 £59,742
% change year-on-year -13.60% +4.62% +8.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,759 6,072 6,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.93% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,145 3,346 4,793
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
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% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,117 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Senior Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Network Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
Staffordshire -7 8 £55,000 +19.57%
Warwickshire +54 7 £57,500 +27.78%
Birmingham - 7 £60,000 - 1
Worcestershire -15 5 £52,500 +14.70% 1
Coventry - 3 £51,300 -
Senior Network Engineer
England

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 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 West Midlands region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (88.57%) Cisco
2 24 (68.57%) CheckPoint
3 22 (62.86%) Firewall
4 15 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (42.86%) Palo Alto
5 14 (40.00%) CCNA
6 13 (37.14%) CCNP
6 13 (37.14%) Wireless
6 13 (37.14%) Finance
6 13 (37.14%) Azure
6 13 (37.14%) AWS
6 13 (37.14%) Meraki
7 11 (31.43%) ITIL
8 10 (28.57%) VPN
8 10 (28.57%) Juniper
8 10 (28.57%) Service Management
8 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
8 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
8 10 (28.57%) SD-WAN
9 9 (25.71%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (22.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 8 (22.86%) Retail
10 8 (22.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (22.86%) CCSA
10 8 (22.86%) Programme Management
10 8 (22.86%) Project Delivery
10 8 (22.86%) AWS Certification
10 8 (22.86%) Driving Licence
11 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (17.14%) Network Monitoring

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (37.14%) AWS
1 13 (37.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 22 (62.86%) Firewall
2 13 (37.14%) Wireless
3 10 (28.57%) SD-WAN
3 10 (28.57%) VPN
4 9 (25.71%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (17.14%) OSPF
5 6 (17.14%) WAN
6 5 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (14.29%) LAN
6 5 (14.29%) NGFW
6 5 (14.29%) WLAN
7 4 (11.43%) MPLS
7 4 (11.43%) Network Security
7 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.86%) BGP
8 1 (2.86%) DNS
8 1 (2.86%) GPON
8 1 (2.86%) PPP
General
1 13 (37.14%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Retail
3 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.71%) CMDB
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) ITIL
2 10 (28.57%) Service Management
3 8 (22.86%) Programme Management
3 8 (22.86%) Project Delivery
4 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (17.14%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 5 (14.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.29%) Migration
7 4 (11.43%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (5.71%) Asset Management
8 2 (5.71%) Change Control
8 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (5.71%) ITSM
8 2 (5.71%) Network Architecture
8 2 (5.71%) Use Case
9 1 (2.86%) Data Security
9 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 1 (2.86%) Network Design
9 1 (2.86%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) C
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (40.00%) CCNA
3 13 (37.14%) CCNP
4 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 8 (22.86%) AWS Certification
5 8 (22.86%) CCSA
6 5 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (14.29%) Degree
7 4 (11.43%) Azure Certification
7 4 (11.43%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 8 (22.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Nagios
2 1 (2.86%) Icinga
Vendors
1 31 (88.57%) Cisco
2 24 (68.57%) CheckPoint
3 15 (42.86%) Palo Alto
4 13 (37.14%) Meraki
5 10 (28.57%) Juniper
6 5 (14.29%) Aruba
6 5 (14.29%) HP
7 2 (5.71%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.86%) MikroTik
8 1 (2.86%) Snow
8 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.86%) TP-LINK
8 1 (2.86%) ZyXEL