Network Engineer Jobs in Belfast

Network Engineer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Network Engineer salary in Belfast is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 66 79
Rank change year-on-year +36 +13 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 2 1 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 1.07% 0.17% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 0.18% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £47,250 - £32,250
25th Percentile £48,750 - £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +41.18% -12.82%
75th Percentile £56,250 - £55,625
90th Percentile £57,750 - £59,500
County Antrim median annual salary £52,500 £32,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +61.54% -23.53% -10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Belfast

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Belfast. 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 Belfast with a recognized job title 161 558 695
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.10% 95.88% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 50 297 380
10th Percentile £42,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £74,815 £70,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £90,375 £88,500 £75,000
County Antrim median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +5.26%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Belfast

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in Belfast

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, 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 Belfast region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) SNA
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba