Senior Network Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Senior Network Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior Network Engineer salary in Birmingham is £44,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 137 139
Rank change year-on-year +24 +2 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 4 8 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.28% 0.29% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.31% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile - £51,250 -
25th Percentile £43,250 £57,188 £46,214
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,750 £60,000 £47,236
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% +27.02% -14.12%
75th Percentile £58,625 £65,625 £48,258
90th Percentile £80,450 £68,125 -
West Midlands median annual salary £48,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% -18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,360 2,608 1,813
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.51% 94.29% 93.41%
Number of salaries quoted 790 2,124 1,387
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in Birmingham

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Senior Network Engineer in Birmingham

Senior Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Network Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Acronis
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (50.00%) Meraki
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Okta
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) IOS XR
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Robot Framework
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Jinja
1 1 (25.00%) OpenConfig
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Coaching
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Acronis
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Meraki
2 2 (50.00%) Okta
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) WatchGuard