Network Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Network Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Network Engineer salary in Work from Home is £51,300 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 276 376
Rank change year-on-year -21 +100 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 356 499 614
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.05% 1.21% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.26% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 293 408 470
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,175 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.60% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,875 £83,000
UK median annual salary £49,995 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.01% -4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,448 39,583 66,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.97% 95.98% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,900 28,176 41,784
10th Percentile £33,127 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Network Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Engineer.

Network Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Network Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 10 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 219 (61.52%) Firewall
2 218 (61.24%) Cisco
3 150 (42.13%) Cisco Certification
4 146 (41.01%) WAN
5 138 (38.76%) LAN
6 99 (27.81%) VPN
7 98 (27.53%) CCNP
8 92 (25.84%) CCNA
9 91 (25.56%) Network Security
10 87 (24.44%) Azure
11 84 (23.60%) Wireless
12 81 (22.75%) MPLS
13 75 (21.07%) BGP
13 75 (21.07%) Wi-Fi
13 75 (21.07%) Juniper
14 74 (20.79%) SD-WAN
15 73 (20.51%) Palo Alto
16 70 (19.66%) Social Skills
17 63 (17.70%) TCP/IP
18 61 (17.13%) OSPF
19 60 (16.85%) Data Centre
20 59 (16.57%) Meraki
21 56 (15.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 56 (15.73%) Fortinet
22 51 (14.33%) AWS
22 51 (14.33%) CheckPoint
23 50 (14.04%) ITIL
24 48 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
25 44 (12.36%) DNS
25 44 (12.36%) Microsoft

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.84%) Simulink
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 87 (24.44%) Azure
2 51 (14.33%) AWS
3 20 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.09%) Entra ID
5 7 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.69%) AWS Direct Connect
6 6 (1.69%) GCP
7 5 (1.40%) Datadog
7 5 (1.40%) Rubrik
7 5 (1.40%) SaaS
8 4 (1.12%) PaaS
9 3 (0.84%) IaaS
10 2 (0.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.56%) GitHub
10 2 (0.56%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.28%) Route 53
11 1 (0.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 219 (61.52%) Firewall
2 146 (41.01%) WAN
3 138 (38.76%) LAN
4 99 (27.81%) VPN
5 91 (25.56%) Network Security
6 84 (23.60%) Wireless
7 81 (22.75%) MPLS
8 75 (21.07%) BGP
8 75 (21.07%) Wi-Fi
9 74 (20.79%) SD-WAN
10 63 (17.70%) TCP/IP
11 61 (17.13%) OSPF
12 44 (12.36%) DNS
13 39 (10.96%) VLAN
14 33 (9.27%) WLAN
15 31 (8.71%) DHCP
16 26 (7.30%) Ethernet
17 25 (7.02%) IPsec
18 22 (6.18%) Cisco ASA
18 22 (6.18%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.56%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.28%) JIRA
General
1 70 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 30 (8.43%) Finance
3 21 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.62%) Telecoms
5 19 (5.34%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.65%) Law
8 9 (2.53%) Banking
9 8 (2.25%) Retail
10 7 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.69%) Police
12 5 (1.40%) Advertising
12 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.12%) Publishing
14 3 (0.84%) Military
14 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.56%) Billing
15 2 (0.56%) Front Office
15 2 (0.56%) Games
15 2 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.69%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.40%) XMPP
3 1 (0.28%) ADO
3 1 (0.28%) JSON
3 1 (0.28%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (0.28%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.85%) Data Centre
2 27 (7.58%) Driving Licence
3 15 (4.21%) PKI
4 13 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (1.97%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.40%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.12%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.12%) Replication
10 3 (0.84%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (0.56%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.56%) Hedge funds
12 1 (0.28%) CMDB
12 1 (0.28%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.28%) NHS
12 1 (0.28%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.28%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.27%) Windows
2 30 (8.43%) Linux
3 12 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.84%) Android
4 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.28%) CentOS
6 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.28%) Unix
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (15.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 50 (14.04%) ITIL
3 48 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (10.11%) Customer Service
5 34 (9.55%) Network Monitoring
6 32 (8.99%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (7.30%) Network Design
8 21 (5.90%) Network Management
9 19 (5.34%) Migration
10 18 (5.06%) Cloud Security
11 17 (4.78%) Load Balancing
11 17 (4.78%) Mentoring
12 16 (4.49%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (4.49%) Kalman Filter
12 16 (4.49%) Presales
12 16 (4.49%) Project Delivery
13 14 (3.93%) Computer Science
14 13 (3.65%) Agile
14 13 (3.65%) Service Delivery
15 12 (3.37%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.81%) Python
2 5 (1.40%) Java
3 4 (1.12%) C#
4 3 (0.84%) MATLAB
5 2 (0.56%) Bash
5 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.28%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.28%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 150 (42.13%) Cisco Certification
2 98 (27.53%) CCNP
3 92 (25.84%) CCNA
4 41 (11.52%) Security Cleared
5 30 (8.43%) Degree
6 29 (8.15%) SC Cleared
7 20 (5.62%) CCIE
8 13 (3.65%) CCDP
9 12 (3.37%) AWS Certification
9 12 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (3.37%) JNCIP
10 11 (3.09%) CISSP
11 8 (2.25%) CCSA
12 7 (1.97%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.97%) JNCIA
13 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
14 5 (1.40%) CCSP
14 5 (1.40%) DBS Check
15 4 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 4 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.78%) SLA
2 8 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 8 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.56%) QA
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (5.90%) Hyper-V
2 20 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.69%) pfSense
4 6 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.69%) vSphere
5 4 (1.12%) vCloud
6 2 (0.56%) Docker
6 2 (0.56%) Firmware
6 2 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (9.55%) FortiGate
2 16 (4.49%) Ansible
3 7 (1.97%) Grafana
3 7 (1.97%) ZABBIX
4 6 (1.69%) Terraform
5 3 (0.84%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.84%) Nagios
5 3 (0.84%) OfficeScan
5 3 (0.84%) WSUS
6 2 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.56%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.56%) Puppet
6 2 (0.56%) Rundeck
6 2 (0.56%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (0.56%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.28%) OpenNMS
7 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 218 (61.24%) Cisco
2 75 (21.07%) Juniper
3 73 (20.51%) Palo Alto
4 59 (16.57%) Meraki
5 56 (15.73%) Fortinet
6 51 (14.33%) CheckPoint
7 44 (12.36%) Microsoft
8 41 (11.52%) VMware
9 35 (9.83%) Aruba
10 29 (8.15%) SolarWinds
11 27 (7.58%) HP
12 22 (6.18%) F5
13 15 (4.21%) Nokia
14 11 (3.09%) Dell
15 8 (2.25%) Draytek
15 8 (2.25%) LogicMonitor
16 7 (1.97%) Zscaler
17 6 (1.69%) Ubiquiti
18 5 (1.40%) Extreme Networks
18 5 (1.40%) Veeam