Network Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Network Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Network Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £66,367 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 90 135
Rank change year-on-year +5 +45 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 5 19 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.56% 1.27% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.33% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 3
10th Percentile £53,724 - £43,270
25th Percentile £57,810 £55,000 £44,425
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,367 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% +27.27% +28.50%
75th Percentile £68,114 £75,000 £61,560
90th Percentile - £77,500 £65,124
Scotland median annual salary £50,890 £65,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -21.71% +62.50% -36.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 816 1,429 1,961
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 95.84% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 390 1,010 1,166
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,616
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,750 £89,852
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £56,868
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.68% +8.32%

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in Edinburgh

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in Edinburgh

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 Edinburgh region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (40.00%) Network Management
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) SNA
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) zOS
2 2 (40.00%) Tivoli NetView
2 2 (40.00%) JCL
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Planview
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript

Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) SNA
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Network Management
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JCL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Planview
2 1 (20.00%) Symantec