Network Management Job Trends in the East of England

Network Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Network Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 138 135
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +69
Permanent jobs citing Network Management 12 41 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.29% 1.17% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.34% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8 17 2
10th Percentile £46,160 £52,750 £46,150
25th Percentile £63,103 £56,250 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £53,625
90th Percentile - - £55,050
England median annual salary £45,000 £65,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -30.77% +14.99% +13.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Network Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,114 3,050 2,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.46% 86.82% 86.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,823 1,204 1,476
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Network Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Network Management job vacancy trend in the East of England

Network Management
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Network Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Network Management

Network Management
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Network Management in the East of England

Network Management
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Management within the East of England region over the 6 months to 8 January 2026. 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
Suffolk -12 6 £72,500 -
Cambridgeshire +11 4 - - 1
Hertfordshire -10 2 £46,160 -26.14%
Network Management
England

Network Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (50.00%) AutoCAD
1 6 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) LAN
2 6 (50.00%) HSRP
2 6 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (50.00%) VoIP
2 6 (50.00%) VRRP
2 6 (50.00%) WAN
3 4 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (33.33%) Firewall
3 4 (33.33%) VPN
3 4 (33.33%) WLAN
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (16.67%) Network Security
4 2 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (16.67%) VLAN
4 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (50.00%) Retail
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Network Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) CCNA
2 4 (33.33%) CCNP
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) Avaya
2 6 (50.00%) Extreme Networks
3 4 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds