Senior Network Engineer Job Trends in Belfast

Senior Network Engineer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in Belfast is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 51 -
Rank change year-on-year +19 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 0.71% 0.25% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.26% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 -
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

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 254 386 275
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 98.22% 97.17%
Number of salaries quoted 135 203 210
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,500 £35,781
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £79,613 £68,688
90th Percentile £83,896 £92,500 £77,500
County Antrim median annual salary £53,750 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.42% +20.00% +3.09%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Network Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Senior Network Engineer job vacancy trend in Belfast

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in Belfast.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Network Engineer job vacancies in Belfast

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, Senior Network Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Belfast region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Python

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

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