Network Engineer Jobs in England

Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Engineer salary in England is £49,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 283 366
Rank change year-on-year +71 +83 -129
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 1,192 1,161 1,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.40% 1.26% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.37% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,022 838 1,053
10th Percentile £31,365 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £58,750 £64,688 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,757 £75,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £49,990 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.02% -4.76% +5.00%

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 80,599 84,573 127,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.53% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 60,280 53,577 75,684
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £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 £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 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
South East +26 303 £49,000 +3.16% 70
London +85 294 £59,500 -8.46% 85
North of England -10 189 £42,500 -9.57% 51
Midlands +84 183 £46,500 +8.45% 37
South West +20 160 £49,000 +15.29% 34
West Midlands +78 153 £46,500 +7.51% 26
North West -8 127 £42,500 -10.05% 29
East of England +10 59 £46,250 -11.90% 18
Yorkshire +48 51 £45,000 -11.74% 18
East Midlands 0 26 £31,500 -33.68% 11
North East -30 18 £39,000 -5.39% 6
Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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.

1 718 (60.23%) Cisco
2 609 (51.09%) Firewall
3 461 (38.67%) WAN
4 444 (37.25%) Cisco Certification
5 393 (32.97%) LAN
6 313 (26.26%) Juniper
7 286 (23.99%) Security Cleared
8 276 (23.15%) CCNP
9 268 (22.48%) CCNA
10 253 (21.22%) Azure
11 242 (20.30%) Wireless
12 235 (19.71%) BGP
13 234 (19.63%) VPN
14 197 (16.53%) Network Security
15 191 (16.02%) Wi-Fi
16 185 (15.52%) Social Skills
17 184 (15.44%) MPLS
18 174 (14.60%) SD-WAN
19 172 (14.43%) Microsoft
20 171 (14.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 168 (14.09%) Fortinet
22 167 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
23 164 (13.76%) Data Centre
24 163 (13.67%) OSPF
25 157 (13.17%) VMware
26 153 (12.84%) Palo Alto
27 142 (11.91%) TCP/IP
27 142 (11.91%) SC Cleared
28 135 (11.33%) ITIL
29 133 (11.16%) DNS

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 50 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.76%) IIS
3 9 (0.76%) WordPress
4 8 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.34%) Confluence
6 1 (0.084%) Apache
6 1 (0.084%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.084%) nginx
6 1 (0.084%) uWSGI
Applications
1 23 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.43%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.25%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 253 (21.22%) Azure
2 123 (10.32%) AWS
3 119 (9.98%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (2.60%) Entra ID
5 28 (2.35%) GCP
6 21 (1.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 18 (1.51%) SaaS
8 16 (1.34%) OneDrive
9 13 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (1.01%) IaaS
10 12 (1.01%) PaaS
11 11 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (0.92%) Datadog
11 11 (0.92%) Rubrik
12 10 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (0.67%) AWS Direct Connect
14 5 (0.42%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.25%) Mimecast
15 3 (0.25%) Nutanix
16 2 (0.17%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 609 (51.09%) Firewall
2 461 (38.67%) WAN
3 393 (32.97%) LAN
4 242 (20.30%) Wireless
5 235 (19.71%) BGP
6 234 (19.63%) VPN
7 197 (16.53%) Network Security
8 191 (16.02%) Wi-Fi
9 184 (15.44%) MPLS
10 174 (14.60%) SD-WAN
11 163 (13.67%) OSPF
12 142 (11.91%) TCP/IP
13 133 (11.16%) DNS
14 121 (10.15%) DHCP
15 116 (9.73%) VLAN
16 80 (6.71%) Cisco Firepower
17 77 (6.46%) Internet
18 68 (5.70%) IPsec
19 66 (5.54%) Cisco ASA
20 61 (5.12%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (1.93%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.67%) GIS
3 7 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.25%) MySQL
5 2 (0.17%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.084%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.084%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.084%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (0.59%) JIRA
2 6 (0.50%) GitLab
3 4 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.17%) Hudson
4 2 (0.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.084%) Git
5 1 (0.084%) Selenium
General
1 185 (15.52%) Social Skills
2 93 (7.80%) Telecoms
3 79 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (6.63%) Finance
4 42 (3.52%) Public Sector
5 33 (2.77%) Retail
6 32 (2.68%) Law
7 18 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 16 (1.34%) Legal
10 15 (1.26%) Police
11 13 (1.09%) Aerospace
12 10 (0.84%) Banking
13 8 (0.67%) Games
14 7 (0.59%) Marketing
14 7 (0.59%) Military
15 5 (0.42%) Advertising
15 5 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.19%) 802.1X
2 9 (0.76%) LAMP
3 7 (0.59%) HTML
4 5 (0.42%) XMPP
5 4 (0.34%) Akka
6 2 (0.17%) LDAP
7 1 (0.084%) ADO
7 1 (0.084%) EDI
7 1 (0.084%) JSON
7 1 (0.084%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (0.084%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.084%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 164 (13.76%) Data Centre
2 67 (5.62%) Driving Licence
3 34 (2.85%) PKI
4 33 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (1.68%) Replication
6 18 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
6 18 (1.51%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.17%) Public Cloud
8 13 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 12 (1.01%) Security Posture
10 11 (0.92%) Hedge funds
11 9 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (0.76%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.59%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.42%) CMDB
13 5 (0.42%) PMI
14 4 (0.34%) Educational Technology
14 4 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
15 3 (0.25%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 124 (10.40%) Windows
2 87 (7.30%) Linux
3 69 (5.79%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.76%) Windows 10
5 19 (1.59%) VyOS
5 19 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (1.43%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.76%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.76%) Debian
8 9 (0.76%) VMS
9 8 (0.67%) Android
10 7 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.084%) CentOS
12 1 (0.084%) Unix
12 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (14.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 167 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
3 135 (11.33%) ITIL
4 119 (9.98%) Customer Service
4 119 (9.98%) Network Monitoring
5 101 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
6 95 (7.97%) Network Design
7 84 (7.05%) Project Delivery
8 69 (5.79%) Mentoring
9 58 (4.87%) Disaster Recovery
10 57 (4.78%) Network Management
11 55 (4.61%) Network Architecture
12 50 (4.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (4.11%) Load Balancing
14 47 (3.94%) Migration
15 46 (3.86%) Computer Science
16 45 (3.78%) Roadmaps
17 44 (3.69%) Service Delivery
18 43 (3.61%) Agile
19 39 (3.27%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (4.95%) Python
2 35 (2.94%) PowerShell
3 23 (1.93%) Bash
4 11 (0.92%) C#
5 10 (0.84%) SQL
6 7 (0.59%) Shell Script
7 5 (0.42%) Java
8 3 (0.25%) C
8 3 (0.25%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.084%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.084%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 444 (37.25%) Cisco Certification
2 286 (23.99%) Security Cleared
3 276 (23.15%) CCNP
4 268 (22.48%) CCNA
5 142 (11.91%) SC Cleared
6 109 (9.14%) DV Cleared
7 100 (8.39%) Degree
8 50 (4.19%) CCIE
8 50 (4.19%) JNCIA
9 42 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (1.68%) JNCIP
11 20 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
12 19 (1.59%) CISSP
13 15 (1.26%) AWS Certification
14 11 (0.92%) CCSA
15 10 (0.84%) Azure Certification
16 9 (0.76%) CCDP
16 9 (0.76%) JNCIS
16 9 (0.76%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.10%) SLA
2 13 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 12 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (0.92%) GDPR
5 9 (0.76%) QA
6 8 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.50%) NCSC
8 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.084%) Accessibility
System Software
1 99 (8.31%) Active Directory
2 63 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (4.95%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.43%) VMware NSX
4 17 (1.43%) vSphere
5 12 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.84%) Firmware
7 8 (0.67%) pfSense
8 7 (0.59%) Docker
9 6 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.42%) SRDF
11 4 (0.34%) vCloud
12 1 (0.084%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.084%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 75 (6.29%) FortiGate
2 45 (3.78%) Ansible
3 28 (2.35%) Terraform
4 22 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.34%) ZABBIX
6 14 (1.17%) Nagios
7 11 (0.92%) SCCM
8 10 (0.84%) Grafana
9 8 (0.67%) Cisco CUCM
10 7 (0.59%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (0.59%) Kubernetes
10 7 (0.59%) Stealthwatch
11 6 (0.50%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.42%) Icinga
12 5 (0.42%) OfficeScan
12 5 (0.42%) Opsview
12 5 (0.42%) WSUS
13 4 (0.34%) Cacti
13 4 (0.34%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.25%) Salt
Vendors
1 718 (60.23%) Cisco
2 313 (26.26%) Juniper
3 172 (14.43%) Microsoft
4 168 (14.09%) Fortinet
5 157 (13.17%) VMware
6 153 (12.84%) Palo Alto
7 119 (9.98%) Meraki
8 114 (9.56%) Aruba
9 96 (8.05%) CheckPoint
10 86 (7.21%) SolarWinds
11 60 (5.03%) F5
12 56 (4.70%) HP
13 46 (3.86%) Nokia
14 35 (2.94%) Ruckus Wireless
15 33 (2.77%) Citrix
16 30 (2.52%) Veeam
17 23 (1.93%) Sandvine
18 21 (1.76%) Dell
19 19 (1.59%) Vyatta
20 18 (1.51%) Zscaler