Core Network Engineer Jobs in England

Core Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Core Network Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 816 943 1131
Rank change year-on-year +127 +188 -304
Permanent jobs requiring a Core Network Engineer 28 4 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.004% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.005% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 17 4 14
10th Percentile £47,250 - £48,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £77,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +52.38% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £53,750
90th Percentile - - £66,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.75% +52.38% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,507 84,319 127,438
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,203 53,445 75,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,799 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,761 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Core Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Core Network Engineer in England

Core Network Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Core Network Engineer in England

Core Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Core Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Core Network Engineer in England

Core Network Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Core Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
London +140 16 £60,000 -25.00% 3
South East - 7 - -
North West - 3 £65,000 -
North of England - 3 £65,000 - 2
East of England - 2 £45,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £65,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 - 2
Midlands - 1 £65,000 -
Core Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Core 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 England region featuring Core Network Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (82.14%) MPLS
2 17 (60.71%) Juniper
3 16 (57.14%) BGP
4 14 (50.00%) Nokia
5 12 (42.86%) Firewall
6 9 (32.14%) Network Design
6 9 (32.14%) TCP/IP
6 9 (32.14%) VPN
7 8 (28.57%) OSPF
7 8 (28.57%) SLA
7 8 (28.57%) JNCIA
8 7 (25.00%) JNCIP
9 6 (21.43%) VPLS
9 6 (21.43%) RSVP
10 5 (17.86%) Cisco
10 5 (17.86%) Wireshark
11 4 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 4 (14.29%) Meraki
11 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
11 4 (14.29%) tcpdump
11 4 (14.29%) Unified Communications
11 4 (14.29%) F5
11 4 (14.29%) VXLAN
11 4 (14.29%) FortiGate
11 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
11 4 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (14.29%) DDoS Mitigation
11 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
11 4 (14.29%) Telecoms

Core Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 23 (82.14%) MPLS
2 16 (57.14%) BGP
3 12 (42.86%) Firewall
4 9 (32.14%) TCP/IP
4 9 (32.14%) VPN
5 8 (28.57%) OSPF
6 6 (21.43%) RSVP
6 6 (21.43%) VPLS
7 5 (17.86%) Wireshark
8 4 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (14.29%) SD-WAN
8 4 (14.29%) tcpdump
8 4 (14.29%) Unified Communications
8 4 (14.29%) VXLAN
8 4 (14.29%) WAN
9 1 (3.57%) DHCP
9 1 (3.57%) DNS
9 1 (3.57%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Selenium
General
1 4 (14.29%) Law
1 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 4 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Network Design
2 4 (14.29%) Application Security
2 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (14.29%) DDoS Mitigation
2 4 (14.29%) ITIL
2 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis
3 1 (3.57%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (3.57%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (3.57%) Test Automation
3 1 (3.57%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) Bash
1 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) JNCIA
2 7 (25.00%) JNCIP
3 1 (3.57%) CCNA
3 1 (3.57%) CCNP
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.57%) Iperf
2 1 (3.57%) Nmap
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Juniper
2 14 (50.00%) Nokia
3 5 (17.86%) Cisco
4 4 (14.29%) F5
4 4 (14.29%) Meraki
5 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto