Network Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Network Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Network Engineer salary in the City of London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 191 212
Rank change year-on-year +60 +21 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 43 40 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.28% 0.83% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 0.86% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 41 36 49
10th Percentile - £32,500 £50,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -18.75%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £81,250 £80,125
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -11.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,214 4,633 6,733
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.77% 96.54% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,576 3,905 5,638
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,136 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,220 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in the City of London

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Network Engineer in the City of London

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in the City of London

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 City of London region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (69.77%) Firewall
2 29 (67.44%) Wireless
3 28 (65.12%) LAN
3 28 (65.12%) WAN
4 27 (62.79%) Azure
5 22 (51.16%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (48.84%) Cisco
7 19 (44.19%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (41.86%) DNS
8 18 (41.86%) Palo Alto
9 17 (39.53%) Network Security
10 16 (37.21%) CCNA
10 16 (37.21%) VPN
11 15 (34.88%) DHCP
12 14 (32.56%) IPv4
13 13 (30.23%) IPsec
13 13 (30.23%) SolarWinds
14 12 (27.91%) Aruba
14 12 (27.91%) PKI
14 12 (27.91%) IPv6
15 11 (25.58%) Microsoft
16 10 (23.26%) Veeam
17 9 (20.93%) Meraki
17 9 (20.93%) Windows
17 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
17 9 (20.93%) Data Centre
18 8 (18.60%) Rubrik
18 8 (18.60%) NetApp
18 8 (18.60%) HP
19 7 (16.28%) CCNP

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.65%) IIS
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (9.30%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (62.79%) Azure
2 8 (18.60%) Rubrik
3 6 (13.95%) Datadog
4 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (9.30%) AWS
5 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.65%) GCP
6 2 (4.65%) OneDrive
6 2 (4.65%) PaaS
6 2 (4.65%) SaaS
7 1 (2.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (69.77%) Firewall
2 29 (67.44%) Wireless
3 28 (65.12%) LAN
3 28 (65.12%) WAN
4 19 (44.19%) Wi-Fi
5 18 (41.86%) DNS
6 17 (39.53%) Network Security
7 16 (37.21%) VPN
8 15 (34.88%) DHCP
9 14 (32.56%) IPv4
10 13 (30.23%) IPsec
11 12 (27.91%) IPv6
12 5 (11.63%) NetScaler
13 4 (9.30%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (9.30%) PBX
13 4 (9.30%) SAN
13 4 (9.30%) SD-WAN
14 2 (4.65%) BIG-IP
14 2 (4.65%) MPLS
14 2 (4.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Law
5 2 (4.65%) Japanese Language
5 2 (4.65%) Legal
5 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) 802.1X
1 2 (4.65%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) PKI
2 9 (20.93%) Data Centre
3 6 (13.95%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.65%) Replication
5 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Windows
2 7 (16.28%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
4 4 (9.30%) Windows 10
5 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.65%) Linux
6 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.65%) VMS
7 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (13.95%) Network Management
1 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (13.95%) Project Management
2 5 (11.63%) Change Control
2 5 (11.63%) DevOps
2 5 (11.63%) Load Balancing
3 4 (9.30%) Change Management
3 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (9.30%) ITIL
3 4 (9.30%) Time Management
4 3 (6.98%) Customer Service
5 2 (4.65%) Computer Science
5 2 (4.65%) ITSM
5 2 (4.65%) Mentoring
5 2 (4.65%) Service Delivery
5 2 (4.65%) Service Management
6 1 (2.33%) Agile
6 1 (2.33%) Network Design
6 1 (2.33%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
2 5 (11.63%) Bash
3 1 (2.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (51.16%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (37.21%) CCNA
3 7 (16.28%) CCNP
4 4 (9.30%) Degree
5 3 (6.98%) CCIE
6 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) vSphere
3 1 (2.33%) Docker
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (4.65%) SCCM
2 1 (2.33%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (48.84%) Cisco
2 18 (41.86%) Palo Alto
3 13 (30.23%) SolarWinds
4 12 (27.91%) Aruba
5 11 (25.58%) Microsoft
6 10 (23.26%) Veeam
7 9 (20.93%) Meraki
8 8 (18.60%) HP
8 8 (18.60%) NetApp
9 6 (13.95%) LogicMonitor
9 6 (13.95%) Remedy
9 6 (13.95%) Riverbed
10 5 (11.63%) Citrix
11 4 (9.30%) Fortinet
11 4 (9.30%) Mitel
12 3 (6.98%) F5
12 3 (6.98%) VMware
13 2 (4.65%) Juniper
13 2 (4.65%) ProCurve
13 2 (4.65%) Synology