Network Engineer Jobs in England

Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Engineer salary in England is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 212 273
Rank change year-on-year -116 +61 +100
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 426 1,204 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.88% 1.36% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.44% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 342 1,023 843
10th Percentile £40,075 £32,500 £33,800
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,375 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,950 £72,450 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%

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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Network Engineer in England

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Engineer in England

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 Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East -23 149 £51,500 +5.10% 64
London -20 123 £65,000 +9.24% 161
North of England -76 57 £55,000 +29.41% 56
Midlands -74 38 £48,750 +4.84% 34
South West +16 36 £55,000 +18.92% 42
Yorkshire +40 32 £55,000 +22.22% 28
West Midlands -46 29 £49,443 +6.33% 27
North West -108 17 £55,000 +29.41% 23
East of England -11 12 £42,500 -10.53% 17
East Midlands +20 9 £45,000 +42.86% 7
North East +38 8 £57,500 +47.44% 7
Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 England region featuring Network Engineer in the job title.

1 318 (74.65%) Cisco
2 244 (57.28%) Firewall
3 168 (39.44%) WAN
4 162 (38.03%) BGP
5 153 (35.92%) VPN
5 153 (35.92%) Security Cleared
6 152 (35.68%) Cisco Certification
7 151 (35.45%) OSPF
8 142 (33.33%) Network Security
9 127 (29.81%) Juniper
10 125 (29.34%) Fortinet
11 117 (27.46%) SC Cleared
12 113 (26.53%) Azure
13 110 (25.82%) LAN
14 104 (24.41%) CCNP
15 99 (23.24%) CCNA
16 90 (21.13%) DV Cleared
17 89 (20.89%) Social Skills
18 79 (18.54%) SolarWinds
19 76 (17.84%) SD-WAN
20 74 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
21 72 (16.90%) Data Centre
21 72 (16.90%) AWS
22 69 (16.20%) EIGRP
23 66 (15.49%) TCP/IP
24 64 (15.02%) Degree
24 64 (15.02%) Python
25 63 (14.79%) MPLS
26 58 (13.62%) CheckPoint
27 56 (13.15%) Wireless

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.70%) Apache
2 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.47%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (5.87%) MS Visio
2 19 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.23%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (0.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 113 (26.53%) Azure
2 72 (16.90%) AWS
3 22 (5.16%) GCP
4 19 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (3.52%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (2.58%) SaaS
7 8 (1.88%) AWS Direct Connect
7 8 (1.88%) IaaS
8 7 (1.64%) PaaS
8 7 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (1.41%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.41%) OCI
10 4 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.47%) Akamai
11 2 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.47%) Cloudflare
11 2 (0.47%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.47%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.47%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 244 (57.28%) Firewall
2 168 (39.44%) WAN
3 162 (38.03%) BGP
4 153 (35.92%) VPN
5 151 (35.45%) OSPF
6 142 (33.33%) Network Security
7 110 (25.82%) LAN
8 76 (17.84%) SD-WAN
9 69 (16.20%) EIGRP
10 66 (15.49%) TCP/IP
11 63 (14.79%) MPLS
12 56 (13.15%) VLAN
12 56 (13.15%) Wireless
13 55 (12.91%) DNS
14 46 (10.80%) Wi-Fi
15 45 (10.56%) Cisco ASA
16 42 (9.86%) DHCP
17 41 (9.62%) IPsec
18 40 (9.39%) Cisco Firepower
19 31 (7.28%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.23%) MySQL
2 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (3.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (1.41%) Git
3 3 (0.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.70%) JIRA
4 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.23%) GitLab
4 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
General
1 89 (20.89%) Social Skills
2 49 (11.50%) Finance
3 37 (8.69%) Banking
4 30 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (6.10%) Telecoms
6 23 (5.40%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.58%) Police
8 10 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.35%) Retail
9 9 (2.11%) Local Government
9 9 (2.11%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.11%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.64%) Advertising
10 7 (1.64%) Mandarin Language
11 6 (1.41%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.70%) Aviation
14 3 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.70%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.76%) 802.1X
2 7 (1.64%) YAML
3 6 (1.41%) JSON
4 5 (1.17%) Jinja
4 5 (1.17%) REST
4 5 (1.17%) RESTful
5 2 (0.47%) Middleware
5 2 (0.47%) YANG
6 1 (0.23%) .NET
6 1 (0.23%) LAMP
6 1 (0.23%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (0.23%) Node.js
6 1 (0.23%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.23%) POSIX
6 1 (0.23%) SAML
6 1 (0.23%) XMPP
6 1 (0.23%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 72 (16.90%) Data Centre
2 18 (4.23%) Driving Licence
3 17 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 8 (1.88%) PMI
4 8 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.41%) IPTV
6 5 (1.17%) Fibre Optics
6 5 (1.17%) Mobile Computing
6 5 (1.17%) Operational Technology
7 4 (0.94%) PKI
7 4 (0.94%) Public Cloud
7 4 (0.94%) Self-Driving Car
8 3 (0.70%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.70%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.47%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.47%) IoT
9 2 (0.47%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.75%) Windows
2 29 (6.81%) Linux
3 16 (3.76%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.94%) Unix
5 2 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.23%) CentOS
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Rocky
6 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (12.91%) Network Monitoring
3 48 (11.27%) Network Design
4 38 (8.92%) Network Management
5 37 (8.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (7.51%) ITIL
7 27 (6.34%) Change Management
8 26 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (6.10%) Network Architecture
9 25 (5.87%) Mentoring
10 24 (5.63%) Load Balancing
11 23 (5.40%) High Availability
12 21 (4.93%) Agile
12 21 (4.93%) Computer Science
12 21 (4.93%) Project Delivery
13 20 (4.69%) Root Cause Analysis
13 20 (4.69%) Task Automation
13 20 (4.69%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 19 (4.46%) Network Virtualisation
15 17 (3.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 64 (15.02%) Python
2 21 (4.93%) Bash
3 11 (2.58%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.47%) C
4 2 (0.47%) SQL
5 1 (0.23%) C++
5 1 (0.23%) Java
5 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.23%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.23%) R
5 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 153 (35.92%) Security Cleared
2 152 (35.68%) Cisco Certification
3 117 (27.46%) SC Cleared
4 104 (24.41%) CCNP
5 99 (23.24%) CCNA
6 90 (21.13%) DV Cleared
7 64 (15.02%) Degree
8 22 (5.16%) CCIE
9 13 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.82%) JNCIA
11 9 (2.11%) JNCIS
11 9 (2.11%) Network+ Certification
11 9 (2.11%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.41%) CCSA
12 6 (1.41%) CCSE
13 5 (1.17%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.17%) Check Point Certification
14 4 (0.94%) CCDP
14 4 (0.94%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.88%) GDPR
3 6 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 6 (1.41%) QA
3 6 (1.41%) SLA
4 5 (1.17%) NIST
5 3 (0.70%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 44 (10.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (4.93%) Firmware
3 13 (3.05%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.58%) VMware NSX
5 10 (2.35%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.64%) Docker
7 4 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.47%) KVM
9 2 (0.47%) vSphere
10 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (11.97%) Ansible
2 36 (8.45%) FortiGate
3 21 (4.93%) Terraform
4 12 (2.82%) Nagios
5 7 (1.64%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.94%) CASB
8 3 (0.70%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (0.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.47%) Puppet
10 1 (0.23%) CFEngine
10 1 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.23%) SCCM
10 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 318 (74.65%) Cisco
2 127 (29.81%) Juniper
3 125 (29.34%) Fortinet
4 79 (18.54%) SolarWinds
5 58 (13.62%) CheckPoint
6 56 (13.15%) Meraki
7 52 (12.21%) Palo Alto
8 49 (11.50%) VMware
9 46 (10.80%) Microsoft
10 30 (7.04%) F5
11 26 (6.10%) Arista
12 20 (4.69%) Citrix
13 19 (4.46%) HP
14 16 (3.76%) Zscaler
15 14 (3.29%) Aruba
16 12 (2.82%) Veeam
17 8 (1.88%) Dynatrace
17 8 (1.88%) Infoblox
18 7 (1.64%) Extreme Networks
19 6 (1.41%) Refinitiv