Network Engineer Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Network Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Network Engineer salary in Cambridgeshire is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 93 76
Rank change year-on-year +33 -17 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 7 11 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.10% 0.68% 1.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 0.73% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 15
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,188 - £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -33.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -14.41% +11.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 598 1,515 876
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 93.98% 84.15%
Number of salaries quoted 395 1,160 474
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,950 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,468 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £72,000 £85,000 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £47,683 £47,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +0.39% -12.04% +8.00%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Network Engineer
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 13 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
St Neots - 3 £60,000 -
Huntingdon +5 2 £42,500 +6.25% 1
Network Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 2 (28.57%) Mimecast
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) Server Building
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Apache
3 2 (28.57%) IIS
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (28.57%) Nutanix
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Product Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) CATAPAN
4 1 (14.29%) C
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (14.29%) IPsec

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
1 2 (28.57%) Mimecast
1 2 (28.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) CATAPAN
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) IPsec
3 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
3 1 (14.29%) Multicast
3 1 (14.29%) OSPF
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) SNMP
3 1 (14.29%) SSH
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) VoIP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
1 1 (14.29%) POSIX
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
1 1 (14.29%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Smartcard
2 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 2 (28.57%) Server Building
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Product Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Management
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
2 1 (14.29%) Nessus
2 1 (14.29%) WMI
2 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
2 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam
3 1 (14.29%) VMware