Network Engineer Job Trends in County Antrim

Network Engineer
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median Network Engineer salary in County Antrim is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 6 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 1.58% - 4.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% - 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile £31,875 - £35,625
25th Percentile £37,969 - £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £63,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.50%
75th Percentile £59,313 - £69,500
90th Percentile £59,500 - £69,875
Northern Ireland median annual salary £57,500 - £63,250
% change year-on-year - - +26.50%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
County Antrim

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in County Antrim. 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 County Antrim with a recognized job title 353 323 258
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 98.18% 96.63%
Number of salaries quoted 192 130 196
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,250 £29,994
25th Percentile £41,750 £47,500 £33,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +27.50% -
75th Percentile £79,092 £80,000 £67,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £77,500
Northern Ireland median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% +10.00% +3.09%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Network Engineer job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in County Antrim.

Salary distribution trend for Network Engineer job vacancies in County Antrim

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in County Antrim

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in County Antrim over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in County Antrim

Network Engineer
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Belfast - 6 £57,500 - 13
Network Engineer
Northern Ireland

Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, 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 County Antrim region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
2 4 (66.67%) CCNP
2 4 (66.67%) Change Control
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (66.67%) MPLS
2 4 (66.67%) MS Visio
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 4 (66.67%) WLAN
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Wireless
4 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (33.33%) Aruba
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) CCSP
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
4 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Internet

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (66.67%) MS Visio
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
2 4 (66.67%) MPLS
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 4 (66.67%) WLAN
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 3 (50.00%) Wireless
4 2 (33.33%) Internet
4 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (33.33%) SNA
5 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Change Control
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Network Management
3 2 (33.33%) Network Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Time Management
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CCNP
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCSP
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Fortinet
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) Aruba
4 2 (33.33%) Juniper