Data Network Engineer Jobs in England

Data Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Network Engineer salary in England is £32,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 664 834 943
Rank change year-on-year +170 +109 +199
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Network Engineer 4 10 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.012% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.012% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile - - £54,250
25th Percentile £31,000 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £35,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -44.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £33,000 £51,750 £68,750
90th Percentile - £52,600 -
UK median annual salary £32,000 £35,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% -44.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 42,728 80,514 84,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 94.48% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,644 60,209 53,453
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,915 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,822 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Data Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Network Engineer in England

Data Network Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Network Engineer in England

Data 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 Data Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
London +119 2 - - 1
South West +106 2 £32,000 -8.57%
Data Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Data 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 Data Network Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) IPsec
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) CCSA
1 2 (50.00%) CCSE
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (50.00%) Meraki
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (50.00%) Runbook
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Fibre Optics
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect

Data 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) IPsec
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) MPLS
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
1 2 (50.00%) OSPF
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (50.00%) Fibre Optics
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) CCSA
1 2 (50.00%) CCSE
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Meraki
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds