Network Engineer Jobs in Blackburn

Network Engineer
Lancashire > Blackburn

The median Network Engineer salary in Blackburn is £60,000 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 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackburn 0.74% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £55,750 - -
25th Percentile £56,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £64,375 - -
90th Percentile £66,250 - -
Lancashire median annual salary £60,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +41.18% +6.25% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Blackburn

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Blackburn. 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 Blackburn with a recognized job title 272 73 26
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 79.35% 92.86%
Number of salaries quoted 225 73 20
10th Percentile - £22,489 £36,125
25th Percentile £47,683 £23,000 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £32,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.01% -35.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £54,793 £45,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £58,943 £63,000 £61,625
Lancashire median annual salary £50,055 £45,249 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.62% -4.74% +11.11%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackburn

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Blackburn

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Blackburn

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in Blackburn

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 Blackburn region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Synology
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blackburn 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Sophos
2 1 (50.00%) Synology
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) VMware